We need some place to put our pics that we take of anything that interests us.
I'll start with the full moon this morning. I thought it was pretty, but I don't think my camera work did it justice.




and heres a pic of my present that bloomed already!

Good idea, WVD!

That moon was absolutely beautiful this morning, I got to see it before the sun was anywhere near coming up. (had to go to work this morning) It was like daylight out at 4:30am.

The amyrillis (I know my spelling's off) is gorgeous! Looks almost like a giant orchid.

Crappy, in the dark camera phone pic taken just now while I'm half in the bag from Sam Adams and semi-decent California wine.



Merry Christmas or whatever you may be celebrating!

Christmas morning on the Wicomico River.








Merry Christmas!

Crap! I just realized that part of my livingroom was in the back ground in the one pic. Oh well. Yes, I don't live in a sterilized enviroment, so there!

Ew. Sman, you mixin your booze? Beer AND wine? Nice tree tho.

Anyone happen to see the afternoon sky yesterday around 2-ish? The clouds were pink and turquoise. I didn't have my camera for once of course.

oooooooh, pretty Iddie! That your toy in the picture?

Dang Idiot that could be a screen saver!

I don't know if it's just the angle of the picture, but that tree looks huge, SMan. How tall is it??

That amaryllis is gorgeous! Looks like you have two in full bloom. (I like you peacock too!) My house has the "lived in" look too. We like it that way. Most days, anyway!

And it seems like we have been having lots of beautiful full moons lately. Wish I could have seen that pink and turquoise sky. That's a way to de-stress, for me. The sky.... so soothing.

Everyone enjoy your day!

I think Sman was hammered and was on the floor when he took that! It's really only 4ft tall!

I rarely drink wine and hadn't really planned to last night until a house guest gifted us a bottle. I paid for it this morning.

The tree is a 9 foot Wal Mart fakie, but a pretty decent quality fakie.

Sunrise the other morning. We're getting some mighty pretty ones lately.

Dragon- this is a hell of an idea! This is now my favorite thread. I got a new camera for xmas so I'll have to post some pics

Yea. I get good ideas once in a while Lucky fella gettin a new toy like that. Post away! I'd like to get a new camera. Mine came as a package with a HP printer. It's 5MP, but I'd like to go up to 6MP. What did you get? I'd also LOVE to get a video camera! But, I have no idea what to get and what to look for.

I got a kodak 8.1 mp with the 10X zoom. Its pretty sweet but I have to read the manual. there are so many settings and assorted crap that i have to figure out. Santa was very good to me this year

Holy crap! they're up to 8 mp's now? geesh. where the he!! have I been? Gotta go check out the toys.

Actually, unless you're going to be blowing up your pics to poster size, 5mp or 6mp is quite adequate, if not overkill for even an 8X10 glossy; that is, if you set all the options to maximum. There are 12 and I think 14mp cameras out there now, but still a little on the salty priced size.

The things I personally would look for in a digital still camera, would be features and particularily battery life. The cam I have now, really eats thru batts, even the highest rechargeables. 8mp would even be the highest i would consider.

The Canon Powershot 1000 is supposed to be an excellent camera, rendering colors accurately and avoiding the purple tint that some cams have. And it's under 200 dollars.

Dragon. The Christmas card you sent was beautiful. Since you have youtube now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClUBNI8H7_E

XOXO

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My fur babies:



God shot a rainbow through my basketball hoop




Me 1987

Whoops. Lemme fix that.




Me and Higgins. I think we were probably reading Tiger Beat.

Why the long face?


j/k H.

Ahhh yes. The 80's furniture.With the end tables and coffee table made out of 2x4s.
Bishop is one biggie boy ain't he?( with those cute little booties on his feet) And Cello looks so sweet( even tho theres a devilish look in her eyes in that pic)

I know I posted these some where else, but I think they're pretty so I'm posting them here. I plan on making the one a card for next year unless something else comes up better.

There......we finally have some snow to speak of here.............

Yay. Snow for New Years. Nice house. Yours?

Yes.....that's my house. With the Brady Bunch lifestyle, it seems like we have already outgrown it.

Nice place sir. I love the windows.

Ty......I am rather fond of the windows, too.

Tried out the new camera over the weekend at the relatives house.

Best picture I ever took. Outer Banks last year. check out the dragonfly in the background. Total luck

Cool samy! How far away were you when you took the close up of the black capped chickadee? I've never been to the OB. Got any more pics of the place?

Um, Bent....what the He!! am I looking at besides a big plane? where is that at?

Where did you snap that pic, Bentcorner?

Photochopped a bit with some blue filtering.

Tropical area though with the palms in the background.

ok cant resist...

My lil cutie:

Webbie-

Looks like you might have a professional shopper on your hands. Very cute She does look like you

It wasn't me. I look for B-52 pics every once in a while and recently found it on Flickr. I know it was taken on Andersen Air Force Base on Guam. It's a memorial dedicated to the Arc Light missions flown over Vietnam. I used to be stationed on Guam.

Wow! She looks just like her Oma!

Man! Did she grow!! holy smoke!

Look what I made for my family's graves.



my bows turned out good

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I sure hope I did this right. Our Red Neck Gag to our son and his woman. Along with our Fakie Tree. Yes our Christmas stuff is down an packed away.

are those the lights that have the pointsettias around them there on your tree? I saw them in a store a few years back.

WVDragonlady
No those aren't light's if you're speaking of the Mauve colored ornament's. Their victiorian antquie ornament's we have, 4 each of a different type, tear dropped, round, and light bulb design. The pine cones (you can only see one) we have 4 of them. They weigh less then an ounce and they came from Italy. Their hand blown and yes the ornament's we wire to the tree. Our tree has over 3000 light's on it so needless to say at night time we use no lamps. It took us 12 year's to get what we have on the tree and my wife was a floral designer for 12 years so the flower stuff comes from her. Me I just look for something unique to add. Since the tree has been done the only thing we change from year to year is the ribbon color. Back a few year's ago we did inside and out side in Lavender ribbon's and bow's to bring awarness to Alzheimer's due to my Mother. The following year we did all Pink in honor of Cancer awarness due to my sister in law. When we done the house in honor of Alzheimers we was pictured in the lacal newspaper. We normally put up over 175,000 light's outside. This was the first year we didn't do anything outside due to my health and back. We try to pick a theme every year and stick with it. I start looking right after christmas for something unique and then the wife takes over with the floral stuff from there.
We started a Bell Collection for my sister in law that left us due to Cancer. The set of Bells are complete and Ed never got to see the last Bell. The bells are from Fenton and hand done and numbered YES THEIR INSURED. I tried to get it to upload but it's saying it's too big to upload. If you know how I can get it to copy and paste I'll post it. But that too won't let me do it on here. I cant' copy and paste Tell me how to do that and I'll show you the bells.

Well, I use my Microsoft Picture It! that came on my computer when I bought it. I upload the pics from camera to a file, and then I make a copy of them and then I use the Picture IT! program to resize them. I then upload them to my Photobucket account and then on Photobucket you can copy the code to link it to your posts. It sounds complicated but it's not. Believe me! IF I can do it, you can do it! Before I got a digital camera, I use to take my film to Walmart and check the box to get them on a CD. Then all I had to do was put the CD in my drive and go from there. I rarely use the upload option on here. It's too small anyways

Thank you WvDragonLady
Now let me see if I did this right. Here is the bell's I mentioned along with the Angel and 1 on the chrystal pine cones.
I like this WvDragonlady

Ok So I have to brag. This is our newest Grandson. The next one is on the way will arrive in July we're hoping for a girl this time.

Only quoting our WVD to show some people, that despite the title of the topic, it was originally started to post photos that we took.

If I understand it correctly.

WVD, correct me if I misunderstood your intent.

those pinecones are awsome dodgeman! like those!

and the little man is a cutey. you can hope all ya want to get a girl, but......

Thank you. Yeah you're right He's a keeper. Those eye's just melt me. Ok I give in I say yes!!! He calls me Pop. Hunter just turned a year old. But we so much want a little girl this time around We have 3 other Grandson's in addition to Hunter. We love them dearly. Their eyes are dark chocolate brown.
The pine cones came as a gift to us, and there is a set of 4, 2 small one's and 2 large ones like you see. Their hand blown and they came from Italy. Man I love my friends. Don't worry we returned only from other countries. It's a big thing to each of us to share a unique gift every 5 year's. Heck that's all we can afford. But the Pine Cones are insured and we wire them to the tree like many of our other ornament's that are valuble. That way if someone comes in even by just looking they can't hurt a thing. BTW, you may call me Brian. Yes I'm die hard Dodge, ok you got me My wife Drives a Chrysler.
The little tree you see is filled with everything that our son and daughter either bought or made for us that set's in the dinning room. We normally have a ton of things up for the holdiday's but this year my back just said NO!!!

Here's a picture of my new granddaughter. I like this one because it looks like she is doing the "I love you" sign with her fingers!


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OMG! she's getting so big!

Yeah, she is a little Miss Piggy!!

I'm hoping that both she and my granson will learn some sign language. My three yr old grandson is so cute. When I can't understand his words, he starts moving his hands all over the place like his dad does thinking this will solve my lack of understanding!

So cute.