At 12 noon I was working on matting some humming bird shots I got a while back.  I keep switching matts and frames back and forth, unable to make up my mind.  I put my watch there to show the time but it is not very clear.  At least I remembered.  LOL. undecided

Hello everyone.  It has been a while since I was here due to illness.  I think I am on the road to recovery at last.  I have learned to take life in baby steps.  After a rain the other day I was able to snap a couple of photos before it started again.
Here is a wet rosebud.  These ones look like a mirror image but they are two  white roses.
   It looks like I made it back just in time for the scynchronized challenge again.  Fun stuff.

Hello everyone.  Thank you so much for all the birthday wishes yesterday.  My family really pulled one on me by coming from out of town with cake, gifts, and flowers for me.  They brought our 87 year old mom with them. I was thrilled.
We had sunshine at last and I was able to get a couple of pics that fit the theme of Natural Light.
The first is an  old fence post.  We are finally at the stage of cherry blossoms, leaves and green grass. This blossom was taken at 7 a.m.  Then this morning I saw the light coming through the patio door on my   birthday flowers.  It is not as sharp as I thought it would be.  However, that is my contribution to the theme.

Wow I actually did it!!!!  First I brought up the Time Zone chart to make sure I had the correct time.  I even thought of aiming at the computer so I did a trial run with this result.Time Chart.
Then I still had a while to go so I went and started getting some tatting shuttles ready for a new project.  Some of my threads had gotten tangled in my tatting bag so I worked on straightening them out and all of a sudden the warning alarm was going off just before twelve.  I ran into the computer room, grabbed my camera, and forgot all about my plan to take a photo of the time chart, counted down the seconds with the clock and snapped my work table instead.Synchro shot

Can't wait to see the others.
I was using my Minolta Dimage camera set on automatic.  That was fun.
Maggie

Anyone lose a muffler?
Make of this what you will.  I liked the oval on the rectangle of the bricks.safe lubrication.
This last one is on my fridge.  It was sent to me my an internet friend with whom I have been corresponding for ten years now.  We have never met.  
Hope you are all having a good day.magnet

Sun is shining, snow is melting, so with a "spring" in my step I set out to find some signs.  The first one is one that friends and neighbours see when they open my door.Entry sign
   When I saw the next one I figured I had found out where Moosey went.  Moose Crossing?
   Seagullchuck and I were down by our old school digging up  memories.  When we were kids, we had to walk to school, through sleet and snow and cold and...
I figure this sign is older than I am.  Loading zone My paint is not peeling as badly though ;-)
   We have a population of approximately 400 people counting cats and dogs, but I swear, right now we have at least 400 electric company trucks in town... at least...I wouldn't exaggerate...well maybe just a tad...but  they are marking old poles with this sign. hydro pole I guess they figure the tape will hold them together for another hundred years.
Lastly, I finally got to mileage zero..or in our case Kilometer zero...but where the heck am I? Am I coming or going?  Heck, at my age it doesn't matter anymore, as long as I am moving.
in the bush somewhere
That is my contribution for today.

Hello again.  Due to winter and other circumstances, this theme just wasn't meant to be for me.  The artistic brain would not kick in for some reason.  I thought I would get in under the wire with this little reflection.  Seagull and I were out one day, when we thought it was going to be a wonderful spring shoot.  Well, we darn near froze our shutters off in the North wind.  However, we did find evidence of spring, as shown in this small river that has opened up some.  This little lighthouse is in the middle of the Blanche River in a park called Firemen's park, in a town near here.  That is it for my theme contribution.  Aw well, there is always the next one.

Has any one every lost their bookmarks while using Mozilla Firefox?  I have lost mine twice and it is getting annoying.  They are there one day and the next day they are not.  If they are hiding somewhere I cannot find them.  I had a great list of photography sites and now they are in cyberspace somewhere.

Yesterday my brother came to visit me.  We don't get together often enough to suit either of us so we jumped in the car and made the most of the day.  He has posted on here before as SeagullChuck, I believe.
Anyway we drove down a rural road and found thisbarn, that had seen better days.  Later we found this  one that we would have loved to have gotten closer to.  Neither of us had snowshoes and the snow is much to deep to walk across the field.  Then I took this red barn which had a electric pole dead center of it but I took out the pole and wires.
Later on we came to a little park in a town near here.  This shelter caught my eye with its overhang of snow.  Then through the trees I spotted some red.  It was this look out with sun shining through the ice on the roof.  Late in the afternoon we came back to my home and I wanted to show you this shed but the snow got in the way.  SIGH.  Spring is coming, spring is coming, spring is coming...

Okay, here goes my attempt at the theme.  This is definitely not sky scrapers or beautiful bridges and buildings.  I was standing on a bridge (where I wasn't supposed to be) trying to take a decent photo of this old bridge, when  I felt the bridge I was on start to shake and suddenly the blast of the horn of a logging truck let me know the driver was not happy with where I was. I scrunched myself as far to the side as I could. (No easy feat)  When he went past me I got off of there asap.  Later I went to the place known as Floating Bridge.  When I first moved here as a child, we actually crossed over a bridge that floated.  It was tippy and the scariest thing I had ever done in my short life.  Now this Baily Bridge has replaced the old floating one; it was built as a temporary bridge in the fifties and is still there.  
   In the afternoon I discovered another kind of architecture.  A man, who was fed up with the snow, built a snow fort all around his house. He said he has no more room to put the snow so he had to go up.
   I stopped to have coffee at a camp  restaurant and this old log cottage was one of the first buildings built in town.  It is too bad they painted over the logs and modernized the windows from what they were.
Well that is it for today.  I tried.

Now that I am starting to understand how to use Lomo a bit, I would like to know if  the word Lomo is an acronym?  If so what does it stand for?
Thanks
Maggie

Well, here is my attempt.  I am not too artisic when it comes to arranging things for a still life.  Not knowing really where to start, I happened upon a loose weave basket that I used for a backdrop.  Then I decided on some brass, pewter, jade along with shiny material and gauzy stuff.
 I throw it out to you.
 still 1
still 2
still 3

I can really learn from this.  Will try more another day.

This is the second time I have written this little story.  I royally messed it up the first time.  I think that the snowbanks are getting to me. My neighbours' house is back there somewhere.
    Yesterday afternoon I walked up to the lookout to show you what our little town looks like nestled in the valley amongst the hills.  Well, this
     bank of snow was in my way.  I am almost five foot ten and could not see over it.  The town is down there somewhere.
     I decided to walk on the snowmobile trail  (which is not allowed) sign.  I braved the wrath of snowmobilers so I could show you a picture of a pretty creek which is gorgeous in winter.  Well guess what?  Even though it was fast moving, it has been too cold and the creek froze .  I gave up and went home.  Not good pictures I know, but I will find SOMEthing this winter that is photo worthy.

I have been experimenting with various hints I have been reading about,  what do you think?
Thanks for all the learning we can do here.
birds of a feather at sunrise
I think I brightened up the birds too much, it was sunrise but they are not quite that dark.

spider tunnel
I didn't know spiders made tunnels.  I spied this one last fall.  The colours I used around the edges are not quite what I had in mind but I am too tired to change it.  

We got hit with a blizzard during the night.  Over one foot of snow has fallen with another foot expected.  I snapped a picture of the grader ploughing in front of my place.  Then I took a picture of the  school across the road.  You can hardly see it for the snow.
Guess I had better start shovelling.