I got my picture today! Also, I'm an insufferable nerd...

Jan 11



I snapped this on Deer Island. My husband and I were there not to take advantage of the pretty lighting or watch the beautiful sunset. No, we didn't even look as the sun set at our backs. And I snapped this picture on a whim as we bolted back to the car. We weren't even there for the brisk walk we ended up taking. With no coats I might add - It was freaking freezing. Wind off the water in January is not something to be toyed with. But toy we did and why? Because we saw windmills!! Two of them! We saw them from a few miles away and got so excited that we drove there right away and immediately agreed to walk the mile+ that it was to see the windmills up close. Then we stood there out in the open until our ears were burning and we couldn't feel our legs. We would have left earlier but the windmills kept starting and stopping so we had to stand there and watch them feather the blades. Duh. And I'm only being a little sarcastic here because I was all for it. Which leaves me with the lesson I learned today. My husband and I are nerdy enough to walk over a mile there and back, without coats, in 20 degrees with a serious wind coming off the atlantic to stare at windmills for fifteen minutes. And be excited about it. And while we will probably bring coats next time, it won't be the last time we go and watch the windmills. I'm grateful for my husband. Plenty of guys would have thought I was crazy. Apparently I'm lucky I found someone as nerdy as myself :)

Ain't they perty?

Project 300 and some odd....

So I'm going to try to take a picture a day. If I'm motivated they might even be any good. Since I rarely motivated this may not bode well for anyone watching. Here are the rules I'm setting down for myself. Since I tend to get discouraged and give up if I fall behind on things I'm going to Aim Low and shoot for 300 days of photos taken that day. On any days I miss I've decided I have to go back and see if I have a picture taken that day the year before. If so, that goes up. If not, then I have to go through and pick a random photo. Or I can steal one from someone else, but only if it's from an event I was at. So if I go out with a friend and they take pictures but I don't, I can steal :) But those won't count toward my 300. So in the end I'll have 365 photos and hopefully 300 of them will be done right. :D

Here's what I've got so far.

January 1
Nothing

January 2
Nothing

January 3
Nothing

January 4
Random Gas Station giving away free apples for "Customer Appreciation Day"


January 5
The birds around our new feeder. I need a longer lens to really get a good one of them.


January 6
Nothing

January 7
A photo of a photo of my husband and his mom :D This is thankfully after he had outgrown his droopy dog jowels. Our children have little hope of being cute babies...


January 8
Nothing

January 9
My husband and our friend standing out on the patio at Sonic as we freeze to death waiting for 3 Rt 44 Ocean Waters :D


January 10
My leftover from the sundaes we got last night. Just ignore that cookbook in the background....


I'll have to fill in the missing ones later since I have no idea where my external hard drive is. :D