Weekly Winners (April 8 – 14)

Started by the lovely Lotus, Weekly Winners is a fun little thing bloggers do to showcase some of their favorite photos from the previous week.

Visit Lotus’ site and check out her various entries, and find other participants. See some amazing photos brought to you by bloggers around the world. Leave a little love when you do — its like food for the soul!

 

Photos taken using my Droid Razr or a Sony DSLR A230.
View all of my photos on my Flickr stream.

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I’ve been so busy that it’s been a chore to get WW’s up this week! But I refuse to let my blog slide THAT far, no matter how busy I may be. This week marks the end of tax season, and this coming Saturday is Aggie Muster. After all of that, life can go back to “normal” and hopefully my  blog will jump back to life.

Anyway, as my blog has fallen somewhat dormant… my photography is alive and kickin’. I had a lot of photos to edit to get this post up, but it got done and here we go!

Butterfly
Butterfly
Hidden egg
Hidden egg
Hidden egg
Waiting to be found
Abandoned
Abandoned

 

Ledbetter Park
Reflected
Feather
Fenced Feather
Wooden heart
Abandoned
152: Petunia
Pretty petunia
155: Sandwich Shop
Sandwich Shop
Dosey Doe
Bulbed
156: Joe Diffie @ Dosey Doe
An acoustic night
Brenham, TX
Follow that sign!
Opening Day
Bats waiting
157: Opening Day
Suh-wing!
Opening Day
Sunset through a chain-link fence

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Your own backyard

From time to time, I lament not going anywhere to take photos. I just run out of things to be creative with photographing around the house.

Then… then I have a day when I go, “I’d really like to have a photo of this to remember.” Or perhaps suddenly I see something in a way I never saw it before.

Yesterday was Easter, and as we usually do, my parents and I went to my brother’s house. (My husband had a show on Good Friday that pretty much rendered his flying down for Easter pointless. He could have made it, but… logically I felt it didn’t make much sense. It was our first Easter to NOT be together in 6 years.) Afterwards, we did something else that has sort of become a tradition… we just drove around my small hometown so I could take some pictures.

I’m all about photographing towns I visit, but I miss the beauty in the town I call my hometown.

Today, though, I embraced it… and garnered myself 84 photos added to Flickr. One thing I finally shot was the old grainery… the one I’ve been wanting to get photos of for about 8 years.

Milam Grain

Milam Grain-2

And then a look back at town from the railroad tracks…

Cameron, TX

Then over to the park on the edge of town…

 Ledbetter Park

I see me...

Ledbetter Park

Then finally, right in my parent’s backyard, a bush full of butterflies…

Butterflies
How many do you see?

Butterfly

151: Butterfly

Nice to find beauty right where you are… Just think, where you are right now, someone else probably would travel to see. Why  not take a moment to see it through their eyes?