Focus On Life - Week 45 - Industrial Photography

Good morning all!  Let me first say...I am sorry if I haven't been as active as I usually am.  I have decided to take an online Jackson Hewitt Tax course and it has really taken up a lot of my time.  Plus I have decided to take the NaNoWriMo challenge and write a novel in Nov.  So I have been working on that also.  And ....my jewelry, and crocheting for Christmas, and making more healthy from scratch food items, even healthy dog biscuits for my dog.  Add that to taking care of my hubby and helping my son with his college work and I am lucky to get a good night sleep.

SOOOOOO without being too long winded....if I seem absent from the posts...I do apologize and promise to try and do better....

When Sally posted this weeks FOL...I was a little taken aback as Industrial Photography was a new concept to me.  And so it kinda got shoved to the back burner....until last night.....lol.  I haven't been outside or gone anywhere to have taken any pictures so I had to go back through my stash and make a call to my daughter for help....Once I got going though...it all seem to click and I realized what a great medium we were missing out on in life.

So below is my interpretation of our prompt for this week...and before you ask...the picture in the upper left hand corner are barnacles from a beach trip we took a few months ago. The buildings are from Kissimmee and Orlando Florida. The car with the caution tape is from a show in Dunnellon and the car in bottom left is a picture taken in 1940 outside my grandparents house in Orlando Florida.  The bottom two on the right are of the beach and the power plant here in Dunnellon...thanks for looking and for being patient with me.

For more great pictures hop around to those shown below...

Focus On Life - Week 44 - Saints, Souls, Sugar Skulls, and Scares

What a title...and ...Halloween IS ONE of my favorite holidays....so much

stuff and so much 

 stuff!!!!!

We didn't go anywhere this year...and we live in the country..so no cute kids came here. BUT my daughter and her bff did a photo shoot and she sent me some of those. Then she took some pictures of

  stuff in the stores. AND my daughters bff worked Halloween Horror Nights at Universal, so I "borrowed" some pics her mom took. AND then of course the pictures of the cute little witches are my granddaughter, my great grand cousin....and my grand niece....AND then the picture of the three kids in a living room are my son, my nephew, and my niece...mother of the cutie in orange, in the late 1980's....(hehehehe),  I think that covers it...

Oh yeah, the one in red with red hair is my daughter...the guy next to her is just an extra at Halloween Horror Nights that we had a pic of.

Anyway I put them all

in a collage...enjoy...

For more

 pictures hop over to the blogs below and 

 they might be scary toooooooo!

Focus On Life - Week 43 - In The Shadows

Well...I don't think this weeks prompt needs any intro.  I just took pictures of the shadows around the house.....Didn't go anywhere this week, so I just used my yard.  Enjoy...and thanks for stopping by.

For more shadowy pictures search no further than down below.....

PS..For those of you that know how multifaceted Miss Sally is, she is listed in my jewelry blog about teaching those of us how to bead cabochons... www.veradesigns.blogspot.com

Focus On Life - Week 42 - All In A Day....

Wellllllll.....I don't have anything exciting to report this week, no ducks, or wild animals attacking me.....wow, I must be boring....lol

But yesterday..I was very busy so I am reporting on it.  Cringing at the price of food these days, I decided to make my own granola bars...they turned out really well, but took me most of the day to bake since I doubled the recipe. I ended up with 6 sandwich bags full of my bars.  Definitely cost less than if I had bought them. AND I know WHAT  went into them!  So there is a picture of my "bars"

I also worked on one of my challenge pieces that is due next week. I had to pixel it so you can't really tell what it is before I post it.  It is the orange picture.  I also finished my grand daughter's Cinderella doll for her 2nd BD.  The black looking clothing piece is a sweater I crocheted and finished up yesterday also for her BD.  It is black with multicolored metallic thread in it. It was hard to take a picture of but I tried.

After supper, I went outside to relax and got a picture of a squirrel in one of my trees and then the picture of the bird, was taken from several hundreds yard away...it was a hawk. But his back was to me.

So this was my day, my 24 hours.....I hope you enjoy it.

To see what everyone else did, check out below.

Focus on Life - Week 41 Connected

When I first saw this my mind immediately went to all the "stuff" I am connected too. I have always said I feel like the hub of a wheel.  If I break or stop working, the wheel don't work.....So I put together a collage (imagine that) of what I am connected to.  Since my parents have passed, that is one spoke I don't have to worry about.  Though I am thinking this week we will see bunches of "wheels".  Enjoy!

For more Great Connections check out the links below. 

Focus On Life - Week 40 - Smile!

This week, Sally challenged us to get pictures of smiles.  I was busy this week with jewelry making and really didn't see anyone with smiles....so I decided to go back into my horde of pictures and came up with a collage of smiles of my family...The black and white one is a picture of my brothers and myself as kids.  The baby is one of my granddaughters, and the one in the upper right is my other granddaughter. The older people are my parents, the rest are my kids....

For more smiles...check out the links below...and thanks for looking. 

Focus on Life - Week 39 - Your Best Shot

This week Sally gave us the challenge of giving our best shot.  I pondered on it all week.  I have lots of amazing shots.....But instead of going back through the innumerable "stack" of pictures I just went out into my yard and snapped away.  I put the pics into a collage because I couldn't just pic one....

Since I know I would be asked, I will tell you what they are.  The one in the top left and else where that look fuzzy are the beginnings of seed pods from a Magnolia Tree. I have two in my yard and I love the blooms.  Hate the pods once they drop and the leaves once they drop...but while in the tree...they are pretty.  The next one and the one in the right corner and in the bottom row is from flowering bromeliads that grow in my yard. I have several varieties. The one with the purple seed pods is a Callicarpa americana (American beautyberry). I have several of them in my yard also.  They are really pretty. The purple really stands out!  There are two kinds of mushrooms in here also. The one middle bottom has some really cool colors that would look killer in clay and the other one is red in coloration. They are  Polyporus squamosus. Then there is one at the base of a stump that is called Laetiporus sulphureus.  Interesting to look at.  Then I have a couple of pictures with a small butterfly. The bright orange one in the left bottom corner is a flower from a Canna Lily plant.

So there you have it, My Best Shot.   Using the links below, hop around and see what other great pictures are in store for you.  I am sure they will be a wonderful treat.