Summing it up

Here are 31 photos from the month of January, 2010. Click on the image so that you can see it full sized and do it justice! The moon photo I promised you is the second one up, on the far right. I promise that I did not download that picture off the web! It was shot by me at 11 o'clock at night and my fingers are still frozen enough to prove it.

In broad nightlight....

There was a great moon out last night. According to SpaceWeather, it was 14% wider and 30% brighter then your average moon. It was also much, much colder than the average tempature this week so I took this photo from the living room window.
I used a 15 second exposure, but this is really what it looked like. I also took a picture of the moon on an 80x zoom, which you can see tomorrow.

Frozen wonder

I took this photo the day after I got my new camera. I love how the water frothed and bubbled beneath the ice of a stream.

Fairy house

Doesn't this look like a fairy lives beneath the turkey tails? A little home for a little person

Magical flora

Decided to go random tonight. This is the ninth photo of my tenth folder which has lots of photos modified to have focal Black & White

Angels we have heard on high...

An angelic sunset over a clock tower

Dragon/Rat/Kangaroo guards snow fort

At this time, 0 years ago...

Playful helped me read a book by the fireside

At this time, 1 year ago...

I went to buy fabric

At this time, 2 years ago...

The bookshelf was a mess (it still is)

At this time, 3 years ago...

I went to visit family in Colorado. Here is inside the Denver airport.

At this time, 4 years ago...

We had a third cat named Grundoon. She disappeared a year ago into the back woods.

At this time, 5 years ago....

I lived in Utah, where it is always sunny after a snow storm

At this time, 6 years ago....

I was taking pictures of the family quilts for record keeping purposes. This one was made for me before I was born. The middle square shows my mom and two aunts with fabric from dresses they used to wear.

Upsy-Daisy!

Hazy day

Another saturated sunset. It was really hazing in town, rather ugly really...

Happy Presents Day!

Ellie (a service dog in training who stays in the prison five days a week, but has been in there for a month due to several factors) came home today and got to unwrap her Christmas gifts late. Very late. Oh well!

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Door will open......

Went and visited the neighbor's Springer Spaniels today. Bailey (pictured above) sits at the door and seems to think that he can make it open by staring at it.

Atrium Watching

The library has a glass pyramid roof in the Atrium that makes for an excellent mirror after dark. You can see everything and everyone, reading books, looking through the shelves, watching computer screens, etc

Saturated sunset

I got this shot of a wonderful sunset today, and saturated it for good measure

Infestion

Last year the garden was infested with slugs. Even now, in the dead of winter the cat's wheatgrass has been plagued by polymer clay slugs, a gift from wonderful neighbors across the street. (We are good friends, I assure you)

Thinking of summer.....

Fixings

Checkmate

Tootin' her horn

Another cat pic :)

True Silver

Lazy

Boo (one cat from a family of two) stretches out after a long and exhausting nap

High flying

I watched this hawk land in a tree at a local shopping mall parking lot. I didn't have my new camera then, alas, so it a very poor quality zoom. I used the focal black and white feature in Picasa to tone down the trees so the hawk was more visable

Bringing in the harvest

Morning beauty

I woke up this morning to a thick blanket of snow. When I took this photo, I didn't even realize that it was still snowing until the flash lit up the flakes! It remains a dreamy winter wonderland out there....

Iced over