For the Birds…

You may have noticed that the Wordsmith Studio prompt for this week is Birds.

The first one is a turkey vulture. I think they look cool cause they are big and have red heads.

The next one is a hummingbird. If you’ve ever had hummingbird feeders, you know what they sound like. Every time I hear one, I duck for cover. They sound like the loudest, biggest bee you’ve ever heard in your life. But they look awesome, with their wings flapping so fast that they can hover in place and dart around. Some of them, like the one above, also have pretty ruby throats.

The last photo was a total fluke. I was taking a picture of a squirrel stealing seed from the bird feeder (you can just see him on top of the feeder), and a grackle flew right through my line of sight. Of course, with the camera up to my face, I never saw the bird. It was a little scary when I looked back through the photos I had taken of the squirrel. 

We love birds here at my house. We have more than 15 feeders and regularly see finches, hummingbirds, doves, titmice, woodpeckers, grackles, robins, bluebirds, cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, and probably others that I just can’t think of right now. The birds are just starting to come out and I’m looking forward to watching them all summer.

Happy Writing and Photo Fun!

Becca♥

 

Color

For the Weekly Photo Challenge at DailyPost.WordPress.com.

Happy Writing and Photo Fun,

Becca ♥

Check out more colorful photos:

1. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color « Life&Ink
2. I’m a Tweaker | Beyond the Brush
3. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Writing Reveries
4. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | The Land Slide Photography
5. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color « Trail of Crumbs
6. Weekly Photo Challenge:Color | My Visual Arts
7. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | North of Park
8. Weekly Photo Challenge – Colour | Tvor Travels
9. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Isadora Art and Photography
10. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | efenerr
11. Weekly photo challenge: Color | Connie’s World
12. 1 day in my life | the terrain of symmetry
13. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Travel. Garden. Eat.
14. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color 3 (Tulips and a little Windmill) | What’s (in) the picture?
15. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour | A Little British Pea …
16. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Playing for Time
17. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | My Elegantly Cluttered Chamber
18. :: Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Belo Horizonte daily photo
19. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Long delays possible
20. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color – Fresh Whitewash and Silk | Humbled Pie
21. Weekly Photo Challenge: Primary Colors | Slam on the Brakes, Pull Over, Take the Picture
22. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Living the Bliss
23. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour | The Serenity Space
24. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | A Number of Things
25. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | cancerinmythirties
26. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | fingerprintwriting
27. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | joy cannis photography
28. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Mlissabeth’s Musings
29. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Researching San Diego
30. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | huntprayerpoems
31. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color – Pink & Red | Private Mixture
32. weekly photo challenge: color | my sweetpainteddreams
33. Weekly Photo Challenge : Colour | Memories are made of this
34. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | acieartikulasi
35. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color (One Image, Different Moods) | A drifter off to see the world
36. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Peanut Jelly Sandwich
37. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | MissAdventure
38. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour … Red | Me ‘n’ Henry Lee
39. Weekly Photo Challenge: The Power of COLOR | Serendipity 13
40. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour … Orange | Me ‘n’ Henry Lee
41. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour … Yellow | Me ‘n’ Henry Lee
42. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour … Green | Me ‘n’ Henry Lee
43. Weekly and CBBH Photo Challenge: Color | travels with toby
44. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour … Blue | Me ‘n’ Henry Lee
45. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Efrata Denny Saputra Yunus
46. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour … Indigo | Me ‘n’ Henry Lee
47. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Click Fifty-Two
48. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour … Violet | Me ‘n’ Henry Lee
49. Colour | Artifacts and fictions
50. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color – Flowers, Plants, Grass | My.Vivid.Visions
51. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Writing Prompts from Life
52. Challenge Photo Hebdo – Couleurs | Paris en photographies
53. Colourful Planet Earth – Farbige Erde | OFRADIX
54. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Twisted Muses
55. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Learning to See Light
56. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour (Orange) | Postcards from Scotland
57. Weekly Photo Challenges: Pale Colour | Canadiantravelbugs’s Blog
58. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color/Colour | Gobetween Flames
59. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Here & Abroad
60. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | why so serious?
61. Weekly Photo Challenge – Colour
62. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | No Fixed Plans
63. weekly photo challenge: color (one image different moods) | blogagaini
64. weekly photo challenge: color | bob’s wife
65. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | isabellamari
66. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour | Omnia’s World
67. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | SC Surf Butler
68. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color 4 (Weather Blues) | What’s (in) the picture?
69. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Learning, Running, and Creating
70. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color of Japan’s Geisha | Janaline’s world journey
71. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Last Train to QVille
72. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Traveller soul
73. Weekly Photo Challenge : Color | Lieshadie’s Blog
74. Rainbow Coloured Highland Village | breathofgreenair
75. tartan | yi-ching lin photography
76. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | The World Is a Book…
77. Caymanian Spring Colours at the Beach | My Caymanian Life
78. The Colors of the Rainbow – A WordPress Photo Challenge | Life in the Foothills
79. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Pishikera
80. Mother Likes them in Multicolor « Fly for Icarus
81. First Photo Challenge: Colors | Some Silly Alien
82. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | A Nature Mom
83. Rock Candy | Good2begone

Spring has Sprung… I guess

What? This isn’t what you think of when you hear “Spring”? Just let me say, “Me neither.”

Alas, it is officially Spring here in WV and this is the weather. It actually makes me tear up a bit. *Sniff, sniff*

Well, I guess I’ll just have to look at the photos of others’ Spring over on WordsmithStudio.org for the prompt this week, and dream of warmer days…

Happy Writing and Photo Fun,

Becca ♥

Phoneography: My Neighborhood

This week’s challenge over at WordPress’s Daily Post is: Phoneography: My Neighborhood. The challenge is to take some pictures of your neighborhood, using your phone. There’s not much of a “neighborhood” where I live, but I took my phone for a walk around my house. Here, I’ll show you.

My Driveway

The driveway of my closest neighbor to the left and their house. Look harder, there’s a white house there behind the trees.

My closest neighbor to the right. Again, look closer, there’s a red house behind the trees this time.

My backyard

Check out some others’ neighborhoods (or neighbourhoods, if you like 😉 ):

1. Weekly Photo Challenge: My Neighborhood | Bams’ Blog
2. Weekly Photo Challenge: My Neighbourhood | A Little British Pea …
3. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | Moving Notion
4. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | Shail’s Nest
5. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | Gobetween Flames
6. Weekly Photo Challenge: Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | cupcaketravels
7. a walk in my neighborhood | Wondering Rose
8. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | Pictures for Froghopper
9. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | MaanKind
10. Phoneography Challenge: My (new) neighborhood | I Am an Afterschool Special
11. Weekly Photo Challenge: my neighborhood | Eat, travel, photograph
12. Weekly Photo Challenge: There Goes My Neighborhood | Serendipity 13
13. Tigers in the neighbourhood | Travel with Intent
14. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | My Life Afterglow
15. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | TantienHime’s Blog
16. Weekly Photo Challenge : My Neighbourhood | ~Castle of Words~
17. Weekly Photo Challenge: My Neighbourhood (canal 3) | What’s (in) the picture?
18. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | blogagaini
19. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | unexpectedincommonhours
20. Weekly Photo Challenge: My Neighborhood | To Mother Earth, with Love
21. Weekly Photo Challenge: My Neighborhood | Living Wonderously
22. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | The Neophyte Photographer
23. Phoneography Challenge: My Fracking Town | angieinspired
24. Phonography: My Neighborhood | Jelliefishie
25. Weekly Photo Challenge: My Neighborhood | North of Park
26. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | West Coast Kayaker
27. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | Lillie-Put
28. Weekly Photo Challenge – My Neighbourhood
29. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | Bams’ Blog
30. My neighbourhood – some more amore! | Ranjit Gaind
31. Weekly Photo Challenge: Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | rodocarda
32. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighbourhood | northumbrian : light
33. Weekly Photo Challenge: My Neighborhood | Learning, Running, and Writing
34. This is my neighborhood | Le Drake Noir
35. Weekly Photo Challenge: My Neighborhood | Jinan Daily Photo
36. Weekly Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | West Coast Kayaker
37. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | Photography Journal Blog
38. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | Joe’s Musings
39. English neighborhood – The Fried Eggs Blog
40. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | The World Through My Camera Lens
41. Weekly Photo Challenge: My Neighborhood | Pics from Cell Phone Blog
42. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighbourhood | s1ngal
43. Phoneography Challenge | Giving Thought | Giving Sight
44. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | Wings to Fly
45. Phoneography Challenge: My neighbourhood | Dory’s World
46. Welcome to Newport, Part 2: My Phoneographic Journey | Sam’s Online Journal
47. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | Travel. Garden. Eat.
48. Weekly Photo Challenge: Phoneography – My Neighborhood | Children’s Books & More
49. Weekly phoneography challenge: My neighborhood | The (Urban-Wildlife) Interface
50. Not-Quite Phoneography Challenge: My Neighbourhood | Two Cents
51. Walking By Faith in My Neighborhood – Weekly Photo Challenge | Prayers and Promises
52. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | Moments
53. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | belgradestreets
54. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | The Panama Adventure
55. Weekly Photo Challenge: My Neighborhood | Oh Snap
56. Weekly PHoto Challenge: My Neighborhood | MythRider
57. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | A Face from the Crowd
58. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | Not the Family Business!
59. In da hood (aka Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood) | One Not Alone.
60. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | MY FUTURE BOOK
61. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | So You Think You Can Think
62. 52 Bolivian Sundays [week 10, ‘My Neighborhood’]. | 3rdculturechildren
63. The Birds of my Neighbourhood… WPhotoC | Ouch!! My back hurts!!
64. Weekly Photo Challenge: Our Neighborhood | Wind Against Current
65. Weekly Photo Challenge: My Neighborhood | marsocmom
66. Phoneography Challenge – My Neighborhood | Journeying with Joy
67. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | The Ladyboy Mirror
68. Come for a walk where I live | The Daily Dilly Dally
69. Weekly Photo Challenge: My Neighborhood | Natsukashi Kansai
70. Weekly Photo Challenge: My Nieghborhood | picture-bandit
71. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | A Nature Mom
72. Weekly Photo Challenge: My Neighborhood | My Kind of Happiness
73. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighbourhood | My Tropical Home
74. Photo Challenge: My Neighborhood | LooknWalk
75. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighbourhood | Across the Bored
76. Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | Geophilia

Wordsmith Studio Weekly Photo Prompt- Seasonal Songs: Deck the Halls

If you guys haven’t been over to WordsmithStudio.org to see the latest photo prompt, go now! Here is my contribution for your viewing pleasure.

We love Christmas around my house. We love spending time with family. We love the excitement of shopping. (Okay, that’s probably just me.) But, most of all, we love decorating the house. The kids are 2, 3, and 13 this year. The little ones are just getting old enough to enjoy the season and anticipate Christmas morning. This excitement is contagious, and so we might have possibly went just a tad bit overboard with the decorations this year. You tell me…

Our House

Front Door

Christmas Scene

Stockings on the Mantle

Decorations in the Hall

Lights on the Handrail

Lights on the Kitchen Cabinets

Frosty on the Front Path

Santa from the Front Porch

Front Porch and Tree through the Window

All Is Bright

Kissing Mickey and Minnie

Blurry Tree Lights

Christmas Tree with Train

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carousel from the Scene

Mickey Doorknob Bells

Glass Stickers

Jingling Bells

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why don’t you join me in some photo fun? Take a shot that represents a holiday song of your own and link to it over at WordsmithStudio.org. I’d love to see what you get.

Also there is a craft article (written by yours truly) on shutter speed over there. Check it out, you might learn something. Or, even better, leave a comment and teach me something. 😛

Love and Photo Fun!

Becca♥

Wordsmith Studio Weekly Photo Prompt- Out the Window!

If you guys haven’t been over to WordsmithStudio.org to see the latest photo prompt, go now! Here is my contribution for your viewing pleasure.

I took this photo through the windshield as we were driving down the road. It was sprinkling a little and you can see the drops as blurry spots.

Why don’t you join me in some photo fun? Take a window shot of your own and link to it over in the comments at WordsmithStudio.org. I’d love to see what you get.

Also there is a new craft article (written by yours truly) on shutter speed over there. Check it out, you might learn something. Or, even better, leave a comment and teach me something. 😛

Becca♥

Wordsmith Studio Weekly Photo Prompt- Shadows

If you guys haven’t been over to WordsmithStudio.org to see the latest photo prompt, go now! Here are my contributions for your viewing pleasure.

Why don’t you join me in some photo fun? Take a shadow shot of your own and link to it over at WordsmithStudio.org. I’d love to see what you get.

Also there is a craft article (written by yours truly) on aperture over there. Check it out, you might learn something. Or, even better leave a comment and teach me something. 😛

Becca♥

Wordsmith Studio Weekly Photo Prompt- Jump Shot

If you guys haven’t been over to WordsmithStudio.org to see the latest photo prompt, go now! Here is my contribution for your viewing pleasure.

Why don’t you join me in some photo fun? Take a jump shot of your own and link to it over at WordsmithStudio.org. I’d love to see what you get.

Also there is a new craft article (written by yours truly) on aperture over there. Check it out, you might learn something. Or, even better leave a comment and teach me something. 😛

Becca♥

October Photo Challenge Day 23: The View From Here

This is my favorite place to sit and read. And it has a great view. ♥

It needs more pillows and cushions though. 😉

Reading nook window seat

October Photo Challenge Day 22: In My Town

This is pretty good timing. I just participated in the Scott Kelby Annual Worldwide Photowalk on October 13. Here are 10 photos I took while walking around downtown Huntington, WV, last Saturday.

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Do you have any photos of your town? Show me!!