This week is all about the moon,
of course!
Sunday,
October 13th
Dr. M took the history club on their annual outing to the
Renaissance Festival. He left at the crack of dawn so I didn’t get a picture of
him in all his pirate glory. I may have another opportunity this next week… If
you’d like to see more pictures from the festival (and read his hilarious tale
of trying to get to the Willow
Manor Ball) go here.
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| They were wearing pink for Breast Cancer Awareness |
Monday,
October 14th
The moon!
Our zinnias are still lovely…
The Great Banana Experiment, Day
1. You will notice that I left a control banana with its stem unwrapped.
Tuesday,
October 15th
Dr. M’s school took pictures for
the NOH8 campaign.
Our tomatoes haven’t figured out
yet that it’s October.
Wednesday,
October 16th
The Tax
Time Pig is ready for Halloween!
The moon!
Thursday,
October 17th
Dr. M took some gorgeous fall foliage
shots!
I spent some time this evening
organizing a sack full of Ellery Queen books – had to get them in the right
order before I could start reading them.
Friday,
October 18th
The moon!
Saturday,
October 19th
We’re babysitting a couple of houseplants for our neighbors.
This violet made me think of my grandmother, who always had African Violets
growing in her kitchen windowsill.
Great Banana Experiment, Day 5: the remaining two
bananas. As far as I can tell they look and feel exactly alike. So maybe what
really helps is just separating them & you don’t need to bother with
plastic wrap & tape. Hmmm…
The moon!
Go to Mamma Fran’s blog here
to see the blogs of all the other Project 365 participants. Have a great week!
Most of our photos are taken with a 12
megapixel Nikon D5000 DSLR, using a 55-200mm zoom lens. This is the camera that
Dr. M takes with him most days. He also takes pictures with our old reliable 7
megapixel Canon Powershot A710. The Bug uses our new Nikon Coolpix S6200 most of the
time. If you’re interested in which camera was used for a particular shot, just
ask!
I'm jealous of your fall foliage! When we were up in New York a few weeks ago, the colors hadn't quite peaked yet.
ReplyDeleteYour tomatoes are just as confused as the weather in Florida. It was 90º here yesterday. A gorgeous August day!
I think you should do another banana experiment now. Two bunches of them; one separated, the others attached. Please report your findings, complete with pictures, next week. :-p
Well duh - I SHOULD do that with the bananas. It's too late for the bunch I bought yesterday - I'll try it NEXT week :)
DeleteI've got to agree with you...the bananas look the same. Nice followup!
ReplyDeleteWow...crazy moon pics! Avery just studied all the phases so now its often a topic of conversation around here.
Dr. M is pretty good at capturing the moon. It's funny because we lose interest after it starts waning again - I have almost no pictures of it heading toward new.
DeleteYour autumn colors are gorgeous. I'm still waiting for our fall foliage. :( .....still waiting.
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DeleteThat's interesting about the bananas... Do you really think they ripen any slower separating them? They still look pretty ripe.
ReplyDeleteLove the moon photos. Again I say, I think you should consider selling some of your photos (or Dr. M's), they are really good!
See my exchange with PP above - I'll do that experiment next week :)
DeleteLa Bella Luna always comes to mind when I see your moon photos, and I've been waiting for Halloween shots of the tax pig so now I'm happy!
ReplyDeleteWhew! Glad I thought to swing by to get that picture for you!
DeleteCaution! Sending us to read the pirate, er, renaissance blog may lead to us forgetting to come back and comment on yours! Nonetheless, his was funny and yours, as usual, was full of beautiful photography. I saw a girl with her mouth covered with red tape that said "LIFE" on it. I'm not sure if she was pro-life, pro-choice, or just didn't want to talk about it...hmmmm
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you enjoyed the diversion :)
DeleteThank you, friend! Glad you made your way back from the realm of pirates and knights. During the Renaissance, of course, "pirate" was in the eye of the beholder. One of the characters at the Ren Fest was Francis Drake, a pirate to the Spanish, a privateer and national hero to the English :-)
DeleteYou know...I have never read an Ellery Queen book. Not one. I'll have to do something about that.
ReplyDeleteThe first one was written in 1926 or so & definitely has a distinct style.
DeleteGreat Banana Experiment
ReplyDeleteBill Nye the Science Guy would be extremely proud!
Ha! And that would make ME proud to have the Great Nye notice me:)
Deletemaybe a follow up is to leave the bananas attached, or to try it with kiwis - love the black and white moon shot
ReplyDeleteDid you know that it was the failure of Ellery Queen the TV series to sell and get ratings led to the creation of Murder, She Wrote??
I did NOT know that! I didn't even know there was an Ellery Queen series (or maybe, in the dim recesses of my mind I DO know - & I guess that's why it didn't succeed).
DeleteI remember when they tried the series on TV. Didn't realize it led to Murder, She Wrote!
DeleteLove the joust, love the flowers (especially the zinnia), loved the moon shots. It was a wicked moon this week (the small black and white is my favorite). Love Tax time pigs costume. The banana experiment solved my questions. I did not see a huge difference. Hope you have a wonderful week.
ReplyDeleteA wicked, beautiful moon, befitting the season!
Deletelove your pictures of the moon. my mother always had african violets. she gave me a couple but they didn't survive.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ellen! The moon enchants me. African violets can be very fickle. This one may not survive, as it was overwatered before it came to us. We'll see.
ReplyDeleteLove zinnias. I pick some still every week at our community farm, Victory Acres.
ReplyDeleteAmazing moon shots.
Always much to enjoy and learn from your blog.
Have a delightful week.
Thanks! I never bring our flowers indoors (well, except for when I accidentally deadhead a non-dead daisy). I don't know why - I really should!
DeleteHi. I just looked at your moon pictures and they are great. I love the moon too.
ReplyDeleteThanks! My husband takes the moon pictures - he's a wizard :)
DeleteI think the moon is a jawbreaker sucked clean of its candy coating.
ReplyDeleteYes! It surely is!
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