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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Thousand Word Thursday usually focuses on meaningful photos to you. Maybe it's the warm, spring day, but today I feel more like posting something humorous than sentimental.

Some days you just feel like that white fish in the middle. But you know what, I thoroughly enjoyed eating everything I did :)

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Wordless Wednesday

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Thousand Word Thursday

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Earlier this week while looking for some photos I found some from a trip to Canada a couple of years ago. While I'm a tried and true country girl, I can appreciate landscapes of a different nature. The city lights and setting sun make this a photo favorite.

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Sunday Stills: The Color Red

Sunday, April 12, 2009

This week's challenge for Sunday Stills was the color red. An interesting challenge and I think I found some interesting photos this week.

Here's some red paint and moss on our barn-barns are some of my favorite photos.

These other two photos I took right after a spring snow here. Bleeding hearts in my front yard-

and snow snow on our fence.

Have a great Easter everyone!

Thousand Word Thursday

Thursday, April 9, 2009

The Smoky Mountains are one of our favorite places to visit. We'd love to take a trip during the spring and see the trees starting to turn green and the wildflowers in bloom.

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Thousand Word Thursday

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Spring 2008 - Planters will soon be rolling across central Illinois. This is one of my favorite photos from last spring.

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Then...

Now...

...baby girl turns 2 on Sunday!

Wordless Wednesday

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Sunday Stills Leftovers

Monday, March 23, 2009

I had a few photos I took last week that I didn't post for , but wanted to share them anyway-- the first is a photo of the Millenium Hotel

and also a grove of ash trees..

Sunday Stills: Water

Sunday, March 15, 2009

I haven't been posting regularly at Sunday Stills, but I'm back this week..

The challenge this week - water. And despite all the rain we got over the last week, this is the photo I chose to use. I just love the little drops of water on the pine needles.

My New Addiction

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Those of you that know me, know I love to craft - embroider, quilt, crochet, flower arranging, basket making....... I just can't help myself! I've done a little scrapbooking, but not a lot. I also love to design, and I'm learning more and more about web pages and photoshop. Well now I've found a great way to combine a few of these things into one - DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING

I've only just started but here are two pages I worked on while watching the vice presidential debate. Don't worry, I can multi-task. I learned a lot Thursday night, now I only need to read the fact checker to see what was true.

But back to my new favorite thing to do --

This is a screen saver for my computer. I love that I found templates for each month.

And here's Madison. She just had some photos taken, what better way to show them off?

Fun with Maddy

Monday, June 2, 2008

The weekend wasn't all work and no play. We got plenty of quality time in with Madison. She's growing so fast! She loves to play outside and will take every chance she gets to go to her swingset or sandbox. She definitely understands when you tell her to get her shoes so we can go play outside -- no need to ask twice!

Lots of Maddy photos from the weekend --

We also got to see her follow along with Barney singing the "Itsy-bitsy Spider Song". She's getting it - not to bad for a 14 month old! Sorry its sideways -- I have to figure out how I can rotate it.

Happy Birthday Melissa!

Friday, May 30, 2008

Happy Birthday to the middle Cook girl.....my lil' sis!

She's going to kill me for putting this photo on the blog, but hey....she looks good! It was quite the evening at the World's Toughest Rodeo a few years ago and after-hours was even better.

Lunch Scenery

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Heading off to the "field" for work isn't too bad. In fact, we get to check out a lot of fun and cool places around the state. Not to mention beautiful places too. In fact, we can often time our day trips so we can stop for lunch and enjoy the scenery.

After trudging through some firewood dealers, industrial parks, and pallet recyclers, its always nice to be able to have traps at or near a park. For instance...Kickapoo State Park near Danville.

There's lots of pretty places to sit and enjoy the view and also cast your fishing line.........maybe we'll have to bring the fishing poles along one of these days.

Yesterday, we spent time in southeastern Illinois. Olney, to be more precise. Do you know what Olney's claim to fame is? WHITE SQUIRRELS....yep, you heard me right, white squirrels. Unfortunately, we didn't see any white squirrels yesterday, but I did share one of my potato chips with this little guy.

We spent today on the road as well. Nothing too exciting, but I have to share this photo with you. I'm probably the only one who gets a laugh from this (maybe AJ too), but have you ever seen anyone fishing from a boat onshore?