Weekly Winners – 2011 So Far Edition

by Sarah | Jun 26, 2011 | Photography, Weekly Winners

All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS or Canon Rebel XTi.

I failed to use my camera this week…so I thought I’d go back and find my favorites so far for 2011. Trying to keep the list small is my biggest challenge ;).

The courage to imagine otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. ~Daniel J. Boorstin

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. ~Blaise Pascal

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. ~Jalal ad-Din Rumi

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. ~Kahlil Gibran

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. ~Lord Byron

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. ~Joseph Conrad

Weekly Winners – Outdoors Edition

by Sarah | Jun 19, 2011 | Photography, Weekly Winners

All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS.

The weather this week has been gorgeous so I’ve been outdoors most of it. Unfortunately many of my pictures did not come out. Still struggling to get used to my new camera and lens. However, I did manage to get a few I was happy with.

Look at you, madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water. ~Kabir

“O Tiger-lily,” said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, “I wish you could talk!”
“We can talk,” said the Tiger-lily. “When there’s anybody worth talking to.” ~Lewis Carroll

His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star. ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Jellicle cats come out tonight, Jellicle cats come one come all, the Jellicle moon is shining bright, Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball. ~T.S. Eliot

The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. ~George Eliot

When I am happy, a sparrow’s chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet. ~John Ruskin

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. ~Mark Twain

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Weekly Winners – Curves Edition

by Sarah | Jun 12, 2011 | Photography, Weekly Winners

All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS.

Our neighbor asked us to store another car for a few days, one that he’s going to be painting. As long as this gorgeous car is hanging around, I figured I should get some pictures. It’s a ’67 Camaro. One car I would kill to have.

Weekly Winners – Summertime Edition

by Sarah | Jun 5, 2011 | Photography, Weekly Winners

All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS.

One week after my complaints about rain and cold, we got summertime. We played outside, drank kool-aid, and got dirty. Welcome to summertime!
And of course was my sons high honor of a batallion coin.

Jump Rope?

Roses

My Riley – ANTM cycle 22 will be hers.

My Angel – ANTM won’t be calling w/ her on-camera antics

KOOL-AID

Homemade Lemonade

Honorable
*Given to Brandon by a Scout Leader (also an army Colonel).

Weekly Winners – Rain Rain Go Away Edition

by Sarah | May 29, 2011 | Photography, Weekly Winners

All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS.

So ready for it to feel more like summer than spring. Much rain and horrendous storms this week. Hail, tornadoes, all sorts of craziness. Oh, and we had a long day at the hospital thrown in there for good measure.
Have I mentioned? OY.

Budding Toward Summer

Seedlings
My Dill seedlings taking hold and growing faster than any of my other seedlings…

Drops

Favorite Activity

Already Done
We were only waiting on the FIRST test of a very long day here. Angel was already VERY done.

You can find more pictures over at my flickr account.

That’s all for this week. Head on over to Lotus‘ digs to see more!!