2015 Project 365 – Week Twenty-six

What a week! And I’m not talking about what has happened on a national scale (but I’m pretty darned happy about most of it). It’s the time of year when I start apologizing for posting too many pictures. And the sad thing is that they’re often pictures of the same things (lilies, daisies, moon…). That is especially true this week because I am too sleepy to be discriminating (and after I finish this I have to go gazelle because we were travelling today so I didn’t walk).

Sunday, June 21^st  

I noticed our first daylily this morning as I was leaving for church.

Dr. M captured this fabulous shot. We thought it was pretty special, but apparently these butterflies love our daisies, as you’ll see later in the week.

The moon!

Monday, June 22^nd   

Lilies and Rosie…

Tuesday, June 23^rd             

Lilies again. Love that Easter lily!

Dr. M stalked some water fowl.

A toad!

Wednesday, June 24^th     

For some reason this doe and rabbit make me think of a Disney movie.

See? Lovely!

Lilies (those are the last ones this week).

We had Relay for Life luminaries at work. I couldn’t do one for everyone in my life, but I picked five people to honor this year.

The moon!

Thursday, June 25^th     

Last night I finished square #4 of pattern #12, but waited until today to take its picture.

After work Dr. M & I headed up to Lake Erie. I caught him mid-lecture :)

When we got there I took a quick walk around the motel.

Friday, June 26^th

Today I finished up square #4.2 of pattern #12 (I had skipped one of the patterns for this particular blanket so I made two different versions of pattern #12. Isn't it wild how the same pattern looks so different when you add another color?).

We headed to one of our favorite lakeside parks to sit and crochet (me) & take pictures (Dr. M). But there was a roadblock.

I took a walk before I settled in to crochet. I noticed that it was pretty windy & the lake was very splashy (technical term). Cue sinister music!

After hanging out there for a while we visited “our” lighthouse at Marblehead.

Here are a handful of Dr. M’s pictures from the day.

It was a good day!

And I finished square #1 of pattern #13!

Saturday, June 27^th                

We knew that it was going to rain today & had planned to do some shopping & indoor activities. But there was a LOT of rain and a LOT of wind & there ended up being flooding & power outages.

We decided to drive out to some of our favorite wetland areas since it was already so wet. Of course, I went charging off down the path only to find it blocked. But it was a beautiful drive – lots of birds and dramatic skies.

When we got back to our motel we discovered that our parking lot was ankle deep in water! Dr. M dropped me off & then parked the Bugly in a dry(ish) spot & slogged back to our room (thanks sweetie!). And we spent the night listening to the wind & being grateful for our 2^nd floor room. (Side note: The hotel actually called our home phone at 9:00 p.m. to say they were relocating folks, but we had checked our voicemail earlier in the evening & didn’t get the message until we got back home. And then when Dr. M checked out this morning, the person at the front desk said that they’d checked us out last night. So we were squatting! Ha! But we were warm & dry & the view of the crazy lake was well worth the slog through the parking lot). 

               

To be continued...

Hope everyone has a great week!

2014 Project 365 – Week Thirty-five

Two major things happened this week. I got my hair chopped off (!!!) and we drove up to Lake Erie for the Labor Day weekend. There might be a few more pictures than usual. And even at that I didn’t include any pictures of black ducks (Dr. M you’ll just have to do your own post from our day at Kelley’s Island – ha!).

Sunday, August 24^th  

Finished another prayer shawl. I think I’m ready to try something different now.

My daily walk.

Monday, August 25^th  

I did it! Or, rather, Carrie at A Cut Above did it. Contrary to what one might expect, my head took about a week to get used to the lack of hair. I had headaches! Very weird. Oh, and no Locks of Love or similar program for me – my highlights were bleached & those programs won’t accept bleached hair. :(

My daily walk.

Tuesday, August 26^th            

This picture is a portent of a future Wordless Wednesday. Stay tuned!

My daily walk – the accidental cul-de-sac edition. Yes, I was reading a book on my phone, and no, I wasn’t paying attention where I was going.

Wednesday, August 27^th

My daily walk – a little surreal because it was dusk & my cell phone camera isn’t happy then. Ha!

Thursday, August 28^th

We harvested a bunch of tomatoes today. Gave a bunch away & STILL have a table full.

My daily walk – the mowing edition.

Friday, August 29^th

We drove up to Port Clinton today. Our motel is right on the water – lovely!

My daily (very brief) walk. I mostly just stretched my legs.

Saturday, August 30^th    

We went to Kelley’s Island today – lots of pictures! These are from the ferry. I was fascinated with the water spray – I kept imagining that it was some sort of Chihuly instillation – The Ferry’s Passage – or some such.

Lunch! I ate one of the perch filets, but ALL of the sweet potato fries. They had brown sugar dipping sauce & it was fabulous! Dr. M had a perch basket & one of the house brews.

My daily walk – around the glacial grooves. Fascinating!

Seagulls.

Relaxing by the lake – the water was so clear!

We stopped by the winery, but am I sharing pictures of the glass of wine I almost drank? No! I’m sharing a picture of the ducks out back. Ha!

The quarry…

On our way home we stopped for a treat – it was good ya’ll!

Seagulls going after bread in the water. It was a lovely day! And there’s more weekend to come. You’ll just have to wait until next week.

Have a great week!

2013 Project 365 – Week Twenty-Seven

As I promised last week there are a lot of pictures this week. And there would have been twice as many if Dr. M had not used a bunch in his own post from today. We took a short trip up to Lake Erie for the 4^th and naturally took a bluemillion pictures (except that my camera died Thursday night – the horror! – so there aren’t as many pictures as there could have been - & only one of Dr. M).

We saw a lot of different birds on our trip – barn swallows, red winged black birds, egrets, herons, ducks, geese, swans… If you want to see those pictures go to Dr. M’s post.

Sunday, June 30^th

Dr. M & I enjoyed our annual church picnic. It’s held at the lake-side home of two church members. Nice!

Monday, July 1^st  

Daylily – I wonder if the novelty of having our very own lilies will ever wear off?

I went to flip my calendar to July & saw something very strange.

Can you see it now? Since when is there a 31^st of June? I was afraid that the numbering of all the remaining months would be off, but July started on a Monday like it was supposed to. Ha!

Tuesday, July 2^nd           

Dr. M passes fields like this all the time – ditch lilies & corn :)

Why, it’s a robin taking a bath!

Papa cardinal looks like he’s trying to remember where he left something…

Wednesday, July 3^rd   

We drove up to Port Clinton, Ohio today – it’s about 3 ½ hours north of where we live. On the way we listened to Jimi Hendrix & I worked on a new shawl.

The condos next to our motel had the prettiest flowers along the fence.

We stayed at the Travelodge – very economical. The room was huge, and I loved that we were able to park right outside the door. It’s not a Four Star joint by any stretch, but suited us to a T.

Plus, this was our view!

Thursday, July 4^th    

We drove out to Fort Meigs today. It's the site of a War of 1812 battle. Every year they reenact the July 4, 1813 celebration. They have an 18 gun salute (for the then 18 states) and 18 toasts. We wanted to be there for the 200^th anniversary & were thrilled that it did NOT rain while we were there – score!

This was one of the three toastmasters. That’s tea in his glass – not sherry – so he gets a minus point for historical accuracy. Ha! But doesn’t he look dapper? Here’s an example of one of the toasts: “To the Day of our Freedom – Its blessings to all the world. It should admonish our ancient and inveterate enemy, Great Britain, that what was purchased by the blood of our fathers their sons will be ever ready to maintain.” No offense to my British readers :)

Dr. M enjoyed all the cannon fire.

I also “enjoyed” it. Heh.

As we were leaving Dr. M took pictures of some of the flowers near the visitor’s center – lovely!

That evening we ate perch dinners at a local tavern & then I had the strawberry shortcake – delicious!

Friday, July 5^th   

Today we took the ferry out to Kelley’s Island.

We watched one of our favorite mainland lighthouses on our way out – Marblehead Lighthouse.

The island is the site of some glacial grooves which are pretty interesting.

If you look closely in this picture you can see the shorts I was wearing – I got quite a number of looks with these babies on. They’re actually Dr. M’s swim trunks. When we were packing I realized that I only had one pair of shorts to take on the trip & I was NOT going to go shopping at that late date. I really have reached the age where I just don’t care what other people think – ha! (Although I did take the trouble to find a shirt that matched.)

We drove around the island quite a bit – passed this house several times. I think the flowers are gorgeous! Kelley’s Island always has a lot of nice flowers.

One of the things we did was to rent bicycles! It’s on my 50x50 list (I promise to update you on that soon!) – glad to check that off. I had a blast. Unfortunately there aren’t any pictures because my camera battery had died the night before – and we weren’t going to lug the big one along on a bike ride! So instead, here’s this picture of me on the ferry as we’re headed back to Port Clinton. I was one sweaty chick!

Sunset on our last night there.

Saturday, July 6^th     

On our way home we stopped for dinner. I nearly fell asleep before the food arrived! The State of the Bug - blissed out!

We were glad to find that apparently our flowers continue to grow just fine in our absence. Whew!

[Note: I haven’t read any blogs since Tuesday. It might be a while before I get caught up!]

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!