Leanne the Photographer
We’re back!
We spent the weekend at Wasserbahn, which is basically a Holiday Inn with an indoor waterpark, restaurants and bar. It was FUN! It truly felt like we were on an expensive’ish vacation for a couple of days. We are waterlogged after spending about 20+ hours or something over the whole weekend submerged in pools, fountains, waterslides, a hot tub and our own sweat!
200+ photos later, these are my weekend pics that I want to share:
I thought this was a unique capture, usually the foreground is the focal point. I chose to do the opposite and reverse focus to the background, and it plays a little trick on my eyes when I view it.
I don’t think I’ve shared this pic with you! Of all the poppies growing in my wildflower garden, me likes this one the best. I think it likes me, too, because it seems to keep coming back in the same spot, reincarnating itself. I know that I’ll be painting this one, some day over the rainbow, it’s on my list of things I want to paint.
Ooh I know! This will be the one I paint when I try out that linen canvas I mentioned yesterday! 
(Gotta finish my other projects first. Yes. I’m working on those!)
What a b e a u t i f u l morning! It’s HOT. That’s okay by me, the pool water is a balmy 84 degrees, so it’s allll good. We’ll have a dip in the pool in a little while.
I have some bad news. I tried to grow food. I know. That was my first mistake. Sugar snap peas though? I had to at least try! Well, I did it. And I had results, I swear! I had a itty bitty baby pod, and in the right light you could see the little peas inside. It was beautiful. I held it in my hand, it was barely the size of my pinkie. I was so proud. :sniff:
It’s gone. :sniff-sniff:
Someone ate my baby pea, and it wasn’t me! 😥
Oh well. Maybe next year.
I have some lovelies to show you!! All of these pics were taken in my very own yard. I am so excited, and I can’t decide which I like best, so I am just going to have to show you all three. You decide for me okay? I would wait, and just show you one a day, but honestly. I can’t wait. I’m bad that way, I could just unload my camera’s memory right here, right now, and let you sort it all out. It’s a tough job. (Okay, I’ll stop tooting my own horn now. Jeez. Not like I do that very often!)
I’m going to hide them though. So you have to close your eyes, and count to three, and then click, then count to three again, and open your eyes! Doesn’t that sound like fun? If anyone actually does it, I have to know. You better tell me. hehe!
(And if you’re still on dial-up, click, go get coffee, come back.. you know the drill!)
Okay, ready?
One…. Two…. THREE!
We watched the sunset tonight over Arsenal island. It was magnificent, and I don’t want to detract from it with too many words. Enjoy.
I didn’t realize until I started cropping and resizing this morning that all of the photos I took in my wildflower garden lastnight, although each a different flower, are very much alike. I’m wondering if I was attracted to them photographically because of their common color scheme? Regardless, I took all three lastnight without a conscious thought about how well they all go together. I was more inclined to get photos of my sunflowers so that I could have a little record of how they bloom, as I’ve wanted to paint a sunflower for quite some time.
The bug, well, he was just a well-positioned guest in my eyes. Hey there! Don’t jump! It’s not worth it!
What a display. We’ve gone to this spot for around 6 years now I think, and it gets better and better every year. I promised that I would do my best with these photos, and out of 100+ pics, these are my postworthy shots. The grand finale can be detected by it’s sheer brightness, explosion on top of explosion until it was so bright you could see the green of the trees below.
I had hoped to see a yellow ribbon firework, and I was not disappointed. On a more grandeur scale, I will forever look to my husband as one of the thousands of prominent reasons why we will continue to enjoy such beautiful fireworks, and freedom in this Country. I’m proud to have such a tangible and meaningful reminder of that in my life every day.
For those of you who may be overseas right now and linked here through Mudville, I did record last year’s fireworks on our camcorder for my hubby while he was in Iraq. You are more than welcome to view that live show here! (note: long load time, full 19 minutes or so video.)
Click “read more” for more pics of this year’s show!
For the first time ever, I’m growing poppies! It’s been over a month since I put seed down to grow a “humminbird and butterfly” garden. We built up this giant mound in the backyard, put a birdbath near it, and everything is growing like crazy. It looks like a bit of prairie snuck into the backyard! I just wish I had as many hummingbirds and butterflies as we have bumblebees. Argh.
Regardless, I have some beautiful poppies blooming, so I took a couple of pics for you. Aren’t they pretty? If I water them, they’ll fall apart. They seem so fragile, and they make me want to buy rice paper and paint a watercolor or something. Wierd. But hey, any inspiration is a good inspiration, I say!
