.......... One Photo Per Day For The Coming Year.........
..........Started January 23th, 2009..........
..........Ending January 23th, 2010..........

29.3.09

March 23 to 29, 2009

Good evening
Well another week has gone by and a perfect score once again... I guess I just don't want to feel like a failure on something that I know that can do....
This week I actually adventured outside of the house and actually carried my camera with me... of course there were reasons for that... there was things that were going on... Like tonight my first mother-in-law's birthday which we celebrated in a local restaurant... so of course there were plenty of photos taken...

March 23, 2009


Actually this one doesn't count since it was taken by someone else but thought I would put it in anyway... we were are Carl's sister's for dinner and I asked Opa to take a photo of us since one of my sons ( not saying which one but they know who they are) was complaining that day that I didn't send him a photo yet...




A photo of a photo something I am actually getting better at... there is a lot of photos that Carl's Aunt Rita has and they are old and in frames and I really don't want to take them out of her house to my house to scan them so I snap a photo of it... this one is of Carl's great great grandmother Christie on his mother's side... so you know where we spent a good part of our afternoon that day....

March 24, 2009

This one is to tell you two things.. .the snow is slowly melting around the house and that Mr. Nutty who has not been around for a few days is back... and still has not found his way up to the big feeder yet... I am hoping I am around the day he does....

March 25, 2009


My niece's first page ever of scrap booking... and of course I had to snap a shot of it... she is making a book for her son for when he grows up...

March 26, 2009

Well after all these months he has finally found a way to get into the large feeder ...and I tell you he spent most of the morning eating away until the puppies were put outside...

March 27, 2009

Carl and his Aunt Rita ... Carl being in 7th heaven as he looks through the many books of history and photos on the family.... we go in thinking that we will be there for a bit and the bit turns into hours... the man is hooked on family history...

March 28, 2009

The other day I was coming home from the Walmart and as I drove down what we call Branch's Hill... because there is only Branches that live on that hill I happen to look over and noticed the Church sticking out so clearly with all the trees bare of leaves so Saturday as we were heading home I went back up and snapped a few photos...

March 29, 2009


My first Father and Mother - in-laws... this was this evening at dinner while we were celebrating her birthday... they both don't look too bad for 82 years old... and Pa still has that mischievous looking look in his eye... I have decided to get it printed and framed for them... I am sure they don't have a recent photo of themselves...

Have a good one all I am off to crawl into bed put the television on before going to la la land... Joanne

22.3.09

March 14 to 22, 2009

The average is a lot better this time... 9 out of 9....now if I would actually put my camera in my new camera case I got for my birthday and grab it when I walk out the door in the morning maybe I would have more photos of other places then here... but I don't remember... I blame that on old age... and many mornings it sits on my computer desk waiting for me to pick it up some times through out the day to snap a photo or two....

March 14, 2009

This is what I have been seeing all winter from my window in the hall.. it is my clematis... it is the first time I didn't cut them down in the fall... though they are going to be planted else where come the spring...

March 15, 2009

Mr. Nutty enjoying the sun and a snack outside my window... actually it was a quiet day at the bird feeders... so he got to spend a lot of time there alone and not fighting off the other 5 that are usually around...

March 16,2009
A few weeks ago when we went down to pick up my son we stopped in a place that I now call my favorite little place to stop at when we travel down that way.... because they always have the most interesting things... I picked up this wind chime but when I got it home and looked at it... I decided that it would never last the winds around here so it was placed in my dining room window so come spring it will chime within the house... and it does that very easily with the little spring on it...
March 17, 2009

My little red bike that has been covered all winter because someone forgot to pick it up in the fall is finally uncovered... but as I took the photo I see the shape that the old feeder that the boys' father built and still wonder how I am going to repair it so it will still continue to have its place in my garden....
March 18, 2009
It is totally amazing how thick the ground is with seeds... now if I can talk Carl into not mowing around the feeder for a while maybe we will have a few sunflowers this year... a few hundred that is he he....
March 19, 2009
On February 27th, I snapped a photo of my little cowboy at the tree and it was almost covered... since then it has been but Thursday as I was looking out the window I noticed that it was almost showing its whole self... not saying that the snow is almost gone... now that would be a miracle but it is a sure sign that spring is on the way... the chimes also lasted the winter... something else I forgot to pick up before the snow covered the lawn...

March 20, 2009

Friday we went out looking for a special album that Carl wanted to put some special photos in... and as we travelled along ... I came across several hats that I liked... of course I am a hat nut not having all that many of them... but love to buy ones that I am actually going to wear... and this was one I picked up this week... a spring hat which was a good idea since Friday was the first day of spring...
March 21, 2009


A cup for you and a cup for me... just don't put coffee in mine... I still love my tea...
March 22, 2009


And as usual as I am working away at the computer my puppies are on the bed having a lie down... lay down ... which ever one is right... but are not always sleeping as Kodak is watching as I am clicking at the keys... he always has at least one eye on me...
I did take yet another photo of my calendar the other day ... it is still not changed... actually I was going to do that and realized that it was in a very bad place since I have another table with the scanner/printer and a ton of stuff on it for the photo project that I am working on for Carl's parents so until I get that cleaned up ... the calendar remains on January... I am glad that it is not my appointment calendar I would have missed a heck of a lot in the last months...
Well I will be back... hopefully sooner.. have a great one Joanne

13.3.09

3 of 8 Not A Good Average

It has been 8 days since I have posted and I can actually say that I have failed in this project as of March 7th... it seems that I have been consumed with photos all day long with the ones I have been working with on the computer for Opa that I have not taken time to pick up my own camera to snap some for this project... but I will try and continue it though there are 5 days missed at the moment...

March 6, 2009

I recieved this in the mail on my birthday from my baby brother and his girlfriend.... it is made by Judith Horkoff... it is Raku pottery... Ancient Japanese Pottery Style...

March 9, 2009

For some reason I love watching men shave... don't ask... and I have been watching Carl shave since we have known each other... on this morning I decided to finally snap a few photos of him doing so...

March 11, 2009

Early morning and I was having a battle with this little lady bug that kept getting in my way when I wanted to type something... I kept taking a business card and putting it somewhere else since I really didn't want to kill it...but it kept returning to the keys.... when I finally decided to snap a few photos of it and it took off from the keyboard and onto my desk...

6.3.09

March 5, 2009

March 5, 2009Kodak is not as nosie as Maggie is... the second I turn in my chair her head is up and looking to see what is going on....

3.3.09

February 23 to March 4

Another 10 days have come and gone and once again I am not up to date with my photos... I think of putting them in and then get into the 7300 photos I have been working on for Opa and forget what I should be doing... Maybe after they are done I will be more faithful to both my blogs... The Melanson News is no better...

February 23, 2009


I got a call from my friend Flora asking me to take some photos of my cattails in the field... I actually have quite a few of them around in the fall but these are the only ones that remain standing this winter...

February 24, 2009


The red breasted gross beak came to the feed a few weeks ago and decided that it likes it here.. so I have many chances to snap photos of them...

February 25, 2009

Okay there is a little arrow here on this photo and it is the reason why I snapped the shoot...there is a tunnel that a squirrel uses to get to our feeders and since I was too lazy to go outside in the weather we are having I took it from the window... Mother Nature was nice to the little fellow leaving the snow drift around it... I am sure it will not matter if Maggie notices it going into it.. it will be covered as she goes after it...

February 26, 2009


One of my favorite photos I like to take in the winter are icicles and this one showed up on our storm drain....


February 27, 2009
My poor cowboy is getting closer and closer to being buried this winter... I am going to have to go out and see how much he is covered now that we had another bunch of snow...
February 28, 2009
My little feed the birds lady has been hit hard this winter...actually I forgot to take her in .. her little feeder is gone and her sign is about to fall off... I guess I will have to do some work on her come the spring...

March 01, 2009

A photo through the feeder ....

March 02, 2009


I put the calendar holder up in January.... even fixed the problem with the calendar and the hole lining up... with a cute little button... and yet it is March 2nd and it is still on January... the funny part I actually take a look at it every once in a while to see what the date is... the date may be right but the day is surely not... lol

March 03, 2009

My puppies on the first day of Carl being away from the house.. not a happy bunch of puppies I have to say.... Carl is away helping out a friend for the week.. and they are not pleased with him at all...

March 04, 2009

More snow came down yesterday ... and a little flakes are showing up this morning was trying to get a photo of them but they just came out blurry... oh well...
Well that is it for now... with luck I will take the time sooner to post photos... Have a great one Joanne