9-Bad Habit

How 'bout 2? At the risk of incriminating myself...this was not a 40 mph zone, as well as the fact that I don't dust my car dash often enough.

6-Feel Good

My baby holding my brother and sister-in-law's baby--the 2 youngests in my husband's family (for now, my husband's little sister is due in August). My kids love their baby cousin.

5- Letter E

This is kind of an inside joke...with my sister--and I drew/photographed it before I realized I needed a letter e for the day. 10 points for anybody who can tell me where the name "Sweet Suzy" comes from...Hint: My sister's name is not Suzy.

4-Four

It's hard to see, but there are 4 eggs in this nest. It was built in the "Christmas tree" next to our front door by a lovely pair of Sparrows who like to buzz out of the tree and freak us out every time we come in or out of the house...

3-Showers

This is the flag at our grocery store. I'd taken lots of rainy pictures before this one. I just had to grab a couple things for dinner on our way home, but when I turned the corner and saw it flapping, I had to take it--even with my iTouch. Love when that happens and turns out. :)

2-Blue

Here are a few that I felt fit the bill for blue. Top was taken at a fish pond through the block from where we live--by the USU Space Dynamics Lab. Bottom was taken with my iTouch again--from the end of my driveway looking down the cul-de-sac at the sunset. I thought it was cool, a little eery and sort of unique.

Photo-A-Day 1 Fool

This is my adorable daughter, she's not a fool, but I thought this could fit into the fool category, right? If not, you could say we're fools for Hobby Lobby ;) Sorry...some of my photos have been taken on my lovely iTouch camera.

Photo A Day Challenge--April

Like I said at the end of the last post, I got out of the habit--I guess it's a habit? of taking pictures while I was down and out and I hate that. I love taking pictures of the things around me--simple and mundane as somethings can be, the world is beautiful and you can find beauty in a lot of the simple things in life, too. So here is my attempt at this Photo A Day Challenge that I ran across on Pinterest.


I know they like you to post on their tumblr page or whatever (I don't know the in's and out's of that one, I've limited myself to the main social time wasters), but I wanted to do this for myself more than anything else. So I hope as I share them, they're likeable--and not crap. :) I have a bit of catching up to do, so if anyone actually pays attention to this blog, sorry if you feel spammed here at first. :)

Exuses, excuses...

Okay, okay...so I know it's been said [by me] a million times that I intended to keep this current [and then apologizing for not doing so]. I have legit reasons for the last about 6 months, but it's a long story that I'd rather not get into--at least not right now. Let's just say it's been more than hectic and if I feel like I can, I'll explain more later, but I will say this was a major contributing factor. (This was taken 1 week post-surgery. I still had the steri-strips and stitches at this point. I saw my leg/foot for about 10 min. before it was back in the compression wraps, etc.)

It wasn't an injury incurred at the time, it was fixing a 17 year old problem that had become debilitating and would eventually leave me completely debilitated unless I had surgery. That choice wasn't a hard one, but the recovery wasn't easy either. Anyways...that's part of my excuse--Diagnosis: Accessory Navicular with posterior tibial tendon enthesopathy of the right foot. Basically, I broke my foot jumping out of a tree (instead of climbing down to a lower limb, I jumped out from upper branches) when I was 11 and I never went to the doctor--aside from the chiropractor. It healed wrong--actually, it didn't heal completely. The bone that I broke (navicular) is right in the arch and it's where the tendon (posterior tibial tendon) hooks into your foot. It's a stabilizing tendon so it's always working whether you're walking or standing or whatever, so it kept pulling on the broken bone which kept it from healing and also stretched the tendon out, AND, since the bone was continually trying to heal itself it kept building extra bone, SO...had to have the extra/ossified bone and the broken bone removed and then the tendon reattached. It was a good time [/font=sarcastica] Anyways...I won't go on about it any longer. The recovery was long, but there were a lot of other things going on that contributed besides surgery/recovery/physical therapy. The good news is that the surgery was successful--after almost 20 years of taking the maximum amount of ibuprofen that a person can take in a day, most days, I never take it for my foot now. If I do take ibuprofen, 2 of them take care of it--and it's usually for a headache or something like that--not my foot. It's pretty amazing/liberating and I'm able to do a lot of things that I hadn't even realized I'd shied away from doing over time. One thing I got out of was taking photos. I'm, by no means, any kind of photographer, but I love taking pictures. The world is a beautiful place and I love the colors and vibrancy of the things around me--even mundane every day things, so on Pinterest, I ran across a photo-a-day thing and decided I wanted to do one. I don't know that it'd work out this way on here, but I'd love to have a photo group for more people than just me, to post on. For now it's just me, so I really should be keeping this thing updated while I stick to this. :) That's what my next post(s) will be about.