O' Christmas Tree

Michael and I worked for 3 hours to put the tree up tonight....

2 beers ( I drank those), 1 cup of spilled orange juice (yes on the tree), 1 broken glass oranament (Vacuum the floor for the 2nd time), and a container of spilled orange juice in the kitchen (had to mop the floor)...The Christmas tree is officially up!!

I just snapped a few photos as I am whipped...I'll play later with the camera and tree...and hopefully get some photos of Michael and Jake in front of it!

The tree is a 7 footer and really to big for our house so I had a hard time getting the whole tree in the photo...here are the photos!!

This is the first time I have ever put multi-colored lights on a tree...Fred requested them!! And since I love my husband I thought I'd try it this year.

Sorry I just love the blurred light look!!

A bit of a close up!

If you click on the photos you can see the photos a bit better...

But it's up and I am off to bed...Yea!!

Merry Christmas!

Working Hard & Hardly Working

This Big Guy is "Working Hard"...

This little guy is "Hardly working"...
He's running around looking busy...

He's has a very serious look on his face...and he really thinks he is working hard!

He does a fine job of making it look good doesn't he?

But digging holes, (oh excuse me they are not holes they are traps), to supposedly capture dragons and hogs doesn't count as "Working Hard"...His father and I think he is "Hardly Working"...but we won't tell him!! What he doesn't know won't hurt him and at least he is leaving us alone and having fun!

Peak Autumn Colors in South Texas...(LOL)

Yes it is South Texas but we do manage to get a few Autumn colors. Not until the end of November...and not like the Northern states but still pretty to look at...

For the past week I've been watching this little Oak tree out in the pasture...It's leaves have turned and it stands out from all the other trees surrounding it...My eye always catches it as I go down the driveway and this morning I finally decided to get a photo!

Soon our trees will lose thier leaves (except for the live oaks) and we will be in the dole drums of winter...ugh!! But Spring (hopefully) won't be far off and I can hardly wait for the beautiful wildflowers...Now time to start praying for some rain too!!

Did y'all know...

My Dear~Sweet friend (Aussie) Helen ROCKS!!!

She's done it again...

She just has way too much fun creating these beautiful digital layouts!

I LOVE THEM!!

Thank you HELEN!!

You can go check out her other work on all of her blogs...

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Photo Challenge # 27 ~ In Motion

After Ms. Helen decided to borrow (cough~cough) a few of my photos for the challenge I was more or less high and dry...I couldn't go to my files for my hummingbird photos as she had already borrowed (snort~snort) those...I had to come up with something else...and when I saw the bees swarming the soda cans I thought YES perfect!!

So what do you think Ms. Helen....I think these are a bit better than my Hummer photos!!!

Na Na Na....

A few Misc. Macro shots

I took a few Misc. photos today too....

The boys were outside playing and I thought I would try for a few portraits...NOT....They wouldn't stop being silly and goofing around...

Zeke enjoying life!

Michael and Zeke, cousins!

Ahhh here she is...My Mother In Law, Criste!!

Good thing she doesn't get online either or she'd probably clip me upside the head, lol...I love her smile and her laugh! She just had a total knee replacement and doesn't she look good!!

A flower bud...Yes this was a RAW file and I almost tossed it but decided to work with it...It was totally washed out and no detail what so ever but I played with it and loved the results!

This was my first RAW photo...not the greatest but as you can see I've learned a lot since I took this one...just thought I'd share the first one!! I am not sure what the bloom is but it's on a succulent type of plant...

Well that was the last of my photos from the day...I really had fun and was tickled with how my RAW photos turned out...Thank you for stopping by and hope y'all have a good weekend!

Soda Can attractant

While I was outside taking photos I noticed a few soda cans laying around the yard...I asked Michael and his cousin Zeke to pick them up but they informed me that they were full of bees....Wow a photo OP!!

Once again I shot these in RAW file format and had just as much fun with the bees as I did the flys that were on the cans...I am sure everyone that drove by wondered what that crazy lady was doing taking photos of soda cans but you can see I wasn't crazy but having fun!!

So if you ever want to attract bees or flys for a photo op put out a soda can and have fun!