What is guaranteed to distract you? What is your “Ooh, shiny!”?
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I didn’t know what to do for ‘Shiny’ and then today my daughter and I took a ride to Jersey City, NJ to have coffee and enjoy the view. Talk about shiny. The shiny glass buildings reflecting the sky and other buildings, definitely shiny.
The Freedom Tower in New York City
The 30 Hudson Street building in Jersey City, New Jersey
For this week’s challenge, explore the classical elements of earth, air, water, and fire.
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Earth
Air
Water
Fire
This week, focus on the tactile element of the objects you shoot, whether it’s one distinct quality — softness, smoothness, graininess, or any other texture you find interesting — or a combination of several within one frame.
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My daughter’s straw hat with roving in it which she then spun and turned into beautiful yarn.
From freshly shorn from the sheep, to roving, to spinning, to yarn.
This week, share a photo of something that brings you satisfaction.
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I thought about this for awhile and although there are quite a few things that bring me satisfaction on a regular basis I decided to post on something I did that brought me extreme satisfaction because I only did it once… and probably won’t do it again. It wasn’t anything exciting or daring, like skydiving, no, it was simply baking a cake for my daughter’s birthday a few years ago FROM SCRATCH. I’m not a baker even in the loosest sense of the word so this was to me a big accomplishment. Just so I had proof that I did it I took pictures along the way and turned them into a blog post.
I decided to make a pound cake in a bundt pan.
I mixed all ingredients, well, except for one which I couldn’t find in the pantry and figured it wasn’t all that important … how much of a difference could a tsp of baking powder make anyway. Whirr, whirr, scrape, pour… it was actually looking pretty good… I felt encouraged.
I even melted some chocolate to add to the pound cake… thought it would give it some oomph and who doesn’t like at least of dash of chocolate in a cake.
Got the cake in the pan and polished off what was left of my coffee…by then I was exhausted.
I only peeked at the cake once during the hour it was in the oven. It was rising and browning so I was encouraged. Tah dah… it was done… now to see if it would come out of the cake pan in one piece ! Tah dah again… yay… it did. Applause, applause.
Look at that, isn’t it beautiful…. see how happy and pleased I am with myself.
It was another hour or so until Debbie came home… it was hard for me to control my anxiety. I knew she’d be surprised but would she like it ? Time would tell.
She did look surprised. A beautiful cake yet to be tasted but certainly making a good impression. Looks like a birthday cake now that it had candles on it. And finally, the taste test ! The consensus was that it was good… maybe could have been a little taller but I like to think of it as a petite pound cake.
It was a success and, don’t tell anyone, but I might even do it again. I said might 🙂
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Ah, collages, what to do, what to do !
A random assortment of some of my favorite photos….
And of course my beloved Martha’s Vineyard
I couldn’t choose just one, so….
Brooklyn Bridge
Mid Hudson Bridge – George Washington Bridge
New Hampshire covered bridge – bridge of a ship – tourists on a bridge 🙂
Frenchtown Bridge (NJ) – Dingman’s Ferry (PA) bridge – foot bridge
New England bridge – Mid Hudson bridge.
