September 10th - Snapshot

My apologies for the snapshot, I woke up with a really bad sinus infection this morning, and this is all I have energy for. Will try much harder tomorrow.

September 4th - Twister and a bonus bug

Twister and a bonus bug on my arm. I did say I was shooting randomly this month, didn't I? ;)

August 31st - Track

An abstract of the track, and the track. I went walking today.

August 27th - Plums

Plums. Lots and lots of plums. Not sure what I'm going to do with them all.

August 25th - Hot Dogs

Hot dogs in a cafeteria. No, I didn't eat one. Especially not one of the ones from the right side. Ick!

August 17th - Door and truck

A skinny door in the tunnel in New Monterey, CA. The tunnel is very yellow. The tile is yellow, the door is painted yellow, and the lights are yellow. But sometimes it pays to get stuck in traffic, when it means you get to take a nifty picture. Lol. :)

The second picture is of what appears to be an older fire truck. I liked the way it looked.

August 16th - Pepper plant

Some sort of pepper plant. If you know what kind it is, please tell me. :)

September 29th - Portrait of a "Gurl"

Here's a female seagull. I seem to always shoot photos of the boys, because they're so pretty. She let me get really close before she started to look a bit nervous, too. :)

Here's a shot of Dennis the Menace park, at Lake El Estero, in Monterey, as seen from the other side of the lake.

And because I seem to like to do this, lately, here's a "watercolor" of a rose.

September 28th - Beginner Ballerinas

Beginner Ballerinas:

I made it into a watercolor, partly to hide the identity of those in the picture, and partly because it was just asking me to do so. I adjusted one girls foot that wasn't in exactly the right position, and added a skirt onto another for continuity.

Bonus shots:
This tripped me out. I was walking down the sidewalk, and saw the word, "tree" spray painted here. I'm wondering if the city is planning on putting a tree there, or if someone thinks there should be a tree there and is making a suggestion? So strange...

This is one my child took, of a lamp. I cropped it, adjusted the levels, and put a thin border on it. I think it turned out rather well.

September 25th - Still Life and Starbucks

Here's a still life of some cherry and plum tomatoes. The large red and yellow ones were picked yesterday, at my mother in law's house, in 90 degree weather. The itty bitty red one was grown in my front yard. It rarely goes over 65 degrees here. See the difference a little sun can make?! My kid says the tiny one was the best tomato she's ever tasted. :) Since the lighting wasn't the best, I turned it into a watercolor again. :P Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket. I'm going to blame the lighting...




This other shot is of a Starbuck's on the peninsula. I was driving by and started craving a decaf white chocolate mocha, soy, with lots of whipped cream on top. Since I didn't have time to stop, and really didn't need to drink it, I took the photo instead. Even in broad daylight, my cell phone camera takes grainy shots. I feel I've gotten lucky a few times this month, but mostly I am not very happy with the quality of pictures I get with this phone. Oh, well. Next 30 day challenge, I'll use my regular camera again. :P

Oh, and those boxes on the sidewalk are newspaper and adverts boxes.

September 23rd - Area Rug Patterns

Here's a section of an area rug I liked, from the local Home Improvement store:

September 16th - Abstract Circles and Squares

These are tile samples from the local Home Depot. I thought they were pretty. :)

January 27th - Bottle brush

This is a bottle brush plant. I used to live in a house when I was 7 that had a front yard lined with these. Bees love these bushes, and that's when I learned how to hold perfectly still when a bee lands on you. I've still never been stung (knock on wood). :) I love these flowers, they're so pretty. If you pull out a bit of the red "petals" sometimes you can get some nectar. Yum. ;)

January 17th - Saucer Plant, again, this time in the rain!

Yes, I did a picture of the saucer plant already, but it's raining today and it looked pretty to me, so here's another one.

January 13th - Paper clips

Not just a random pile of paper clips, but they denote the amount of weight I'd lost on Weight Watchers. Each silver one is one pound, and there's a colored one every 5 pounds. This only shows about 55 pounds, but I've lost a total of 85 so far! :D Still working on it, though. I have about another 60 to go! I've been stuck on that number for about a year, now. :P

January 21st - Look what I found!

This is what I saw at school today:


So, of course I had to stop to take pictures:

I mean, look how many flowers there were! And this is only one tiny part of what was there!

I found a red one among all the yellow:

There were some tiny purple ones, too. They're hard to see among all the vast yellow-ness! I thought it was so pretty, I just had to share it! :)