Catch Up… Or Ketchup… Or Catsup???

Sorry I have been away. Life has been dragging me in all sorts of directions.  I promise I will get caught up soon.  XOXO

Not a 365 View Today

It is almost 5 am now and I have to be up for work in 2 hours. SIGH… My insomnia has been giving me hell the past few nights and so last night (Thursday), I came home, ate dinner, and was in bed by 7 thinking I could get some sleep.  I slept until 12:30 and then sat straight up in bed and have not been able to get back to sleep since.  ARGH!!!  So I thought I would share an older image since I didn’t shoot for my 365 today…One of my favorite places to go when I visit downtown OKC…

013/365 D is for D00R

and one of my favorite doors at that.  The first time I ever laid eyes on this door I was in love.   I know how silly that sounds but I love all the tones, the rust, the bars… sigh… I would love to take it home with me. But this is as close as I can get. 

012/365 C is for cartouche

So this is really becoming more of an overall learning process for me. I have started looking up architecture (or is it architectural?) designs to see what I am going to look for for each letter… Today’s letter (yes just like on Sesame Street only the words are bigger… LOL) is the letter C.  Letter C is for cartouche. More about the cartouche here

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011/365 B is for Bricks & Blues

So I decided to have a little fun with the A is for architecture and do B is for bricks and blues today. This is one of those places that everytime I pass it I have to glimpse over and see if it is still there. I love the contrasting colors.

010/365 A is for ARCHITECTURE

Today was Worldwide Photo Walk Day.  I took the Norman, OK walk with about 30 others. I had considered doing the OKC walk but I thought this would be a great opportunity for me to really discover Norman since I just moved to the area. Although I lived just down the road for 10 years in Moore, it was still a delight to discover all of the amazing architecture here in Norman. This is probably one of my faves from the day.  Although I did not finish the whole route, I will definitely be visiting more of the historic district.

009/365 OKC Regatta Festival

10-01-11 Oklahoma City Regatta Festival  2011

I have been waiting “forever” to get to capture the guys/girls in their boats. Several times I have come over the river at sunset and they were out doing their training. I always wanted to stop and get a picture from the overpass.  It seems that would have been my best bet.  I did not realize how hard it was to get a good picture.  Of course these guys are going at like 70 strokes per MINUTE too.  And then I discovered  even though I had my 75-300mm lens with me, the guys coming to the finish line were on the south side of the river and it was still hard to capture them. When I get the few “good ones” edited, I will post a link here…

Nonetheless it was a great day overall.  I got to enjoy my day out, spend time with a great friend, and now I must get back up and prepare to do it all over again for World Photowalk here in Norman tomorrow.  Cannot wait!!!

008/365 Pick A Number

Picture of the day today is:  PICK A NUMBER (old railroad nails from my personal collection)

007/365 Sewing the Seeds of Love

Sewing the seeds of love… All I could think about today at work was what was I going to shoot when I get home this evening? Then the song comes on “Sowing the Seeds of Love” by Tears for Fears and there it was… I expected it to be simple to get the thread spools to line up.  These are mini threads from a personal sized kit.  Yeah, not so easy.  They kept trying to roll even on a flat surface.  Anywho, carry on my dears.

006/365 The Fence Down the Lane

 

092811 This is a little house not too far from me.  I have been wanting to get a picture of it so today I did a “drive by shooting”… that is what we called them in school when the students showed up with shitty images taken from their car because they were too lazy to get their ass out of the car.  I did it today because I was in a hurry to get home and I was a little afraid of getting caught. Next time I will stop and ask permission.   Love the blurriness of it… But I will definitely be going back to get a better pic don’t you worry.