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Happy Friday! - Hope you all enjoy your visit here today. So let's get started with the fun. - Click to enlarge photos.
CAPTION THIS: Last weeks winner is.........
Annie from McGuffy's Reader who came up with this fun caption. Congrats Annie you will be in the running for the monthly prize.
Here is this weeks photo
You'll have until Thursday 12:01 PM (7/3) to send in your caption. Leave in the comment section please. Have fun. - Thanks again to everyone who sent in some really fun captions.
Last week I did 5 photos with a particular theme. I asked you to guess what it was. For those who guessed, (Light) you were correct. There were a few who thought it was (Texture). This week it's really "obvious" what my theme is.
1. We haven't seen much of this this summer. In fact we probably won't see any of it for several more weeks. We are having a "heat wave" here right now. (Photo from Archives)
For your listening pleasure here is a song that I heard a lot as a child.
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Waves in Lincoln City - (Photo from Archives)
Check out these movies that deal with today's theme. How many of them have you seen?
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One of the fountains from the new Splash Pad that opened here earlier this month.
Check out these water parks: I went to one once and went down one of those tube things and vowed...."Never Again."
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Small water fall at Bonneville Dam (Archive Photo) - For more waterfall fun check out this sight for the top 100 Water Falls in the US.
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Another shot of the water fountain at Whitman College (Archive Photo)
Check out this video of the Fountains at Longwood Gardens. I had the pleasure of visiting here many years ago and getting "kicked out" of one of the fountains. You can't wade in them!
Bonus shot: I've been trying to keep the lawn green this summer so have been running the sprinkler a lot. I decided to shoot this in BW just for the fun of it.
If you guessed....WATER today you would be correct. If you guessed anything else you must not be paying attention!
Oh for FELINE ART today I took an old photo of our sweet departed Eric and cartoonized it and added a frame. I still miss him very much.
Notice it also fits the "water" theme.
I sure wish those of you who've had rain (not floods) but rain would send a little our way.
Can you see those temps? - I think I'll go take a cool bath.
Welcome! - Okay let's get started on the fun. Make not that there are several Memes featured here so if you don't see the one you are looking for keep scroll down.
CAPTION THIS - This is my own little "thing" that I've started doing. Each week I post a photo and ask people to give it a Caption (you do this in the comment section) - Then next week I post the name of the person who gave the best caption. At the end of the month those 4 winner go into a Poll to pick the winning caption for that month. That person will receive a prize from me.
I had a hard time picking a winner so I ended up cutting up the captions and picking a winner by having someone draw one of the captions out. They were all so good this time (way to go people).
So here is this weeks Caption This photo:
You have until 12:00 am on Thursday (25th) to leave your caption. Have fun.
Today will be a bit different for me. I generally include links about the stuff I post but that will not be the case today for all the photos. Instead I have a little "theme" going on with the photos. You get to see if you can guess what it is. (No prize though for the correct guess) :o(
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The neighbors house across the street - Yes I (spy) on people. Just kidding.
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Feathers from one of the colorful Phesant in our Parks Aviary.
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Green maples leaves
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Clematis vines in a neighbors yard (Yep, I'm spying again.)
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Power pole lines in front of my mom's house.
6. - Bonus photo - Same theme though.
Another neighbors trees.
Okay what do you think I was going for with these photos?
It's Friday and for Coleen the last day of school (Hallelujah!) - Yes I actually look forward to summer and having her home. It's also time for some Willy-Nilly Friday Five (Hosted by Tanya from Around Roanoke) so let's get started with the fun.
1. Coleen was playing with her Lego Friends the other night and I just had to snap a picture of her playing with them. I was looking for stuff about Legos this morning and found several different websites but thought this one was pretty cool. Check it out: HERE What a good way to help the environment and have fun doing it.
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I love flowers of all kinds and have been super busy this summer trying to keep up with the care of my flowers and my mom's as she just isn't able to do that much gardening now. This is one of the pretty poppies in her garden. So once again I like to try and include something about my photos that is interesting and I found THIS ARTICLE about a poppy display at the tower of London from 2014 that is super cool. I didn't know about it but now I'm glad I researched poppies because this was so interesting.
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Sometimes as I'm walking around I spot things that just catch my eye. This vine covered house was just such a thing. I like the patterns of the house, the curtains and the way the vines seem to be taking over. So what could I find that would be interesting about vines? I looked up: Vine Covered Houses and found this LINK - I hope you check it out.
4.Speaking of vines....
Coleen and I spotted these berry vines on growing in someone's yard on one of our walks. She thought they were Blackberries but I told her they were actually raspberries and she wanted to know why they were turning black then. Of course I had to look it up and discovered these are actually Black Raspberries (often called, Black Caps). Here's a brief article about them that has some interesting facts.
5. Speaking of berries.... I recently purchased a half-flat of Blackberries that we have been enjoying. I wanted to do something different with them so check out Gina Kleinworth's blog, (Kleinworth & Co.) and found this awesome recipe for Blackberry White Chocolate Buckle and decided to give it a try. Below is my photo of the dessert but Gina is way better at food photography then I am so do check out her photo's and the recipe. It was scrumptious!
It's time now for CAPTION THIS: Last weeks winner is.........
Marie from A Colorful World - I had Coleen look through the captions people left since she was the subject of the photo and she liked Marie's the best so here it is:
Now here is this weeks photo for you to caption.....
Get creative and send in those captions. At the end of the month we'll have a poll for all the winners and the winning photo/caption will receive a $10 Gift Certificate to Zazzle where you can find all kinds of neat stuff and even create using your own photos.
These are two of our cats, Captain Cuddles (L) and Spooky-boo (R) enjoying a nice little nap in the back window perch. I edited the photo on BeFunky and PicMonkey.
Here is the original (I'm using for Feline-Friday) with a quote I thought was appropriate:
I haven't done Fill-In Friday for awhile so today I'm joining in on the fun:
The statements:
___ tastes like ____
___ makes everything _____
If ____ then ____
One word to describe _____ is _____
My answers:
1. Watermelon tastes like something awful to me. It makes me sick if I eat it.
2. Bacon makes everything taste better! Well not everything but it sure makes a lot of things taste better.
3. If I could win the lottery then I would be able to travel more. I'd like to visit a few places but I do love where I live as well.
4. One word to describe summer here is HOT We've already had a record breaking 102 for June and it's expected back into the upper 90's again next week. Oh goodie! (That was me being sarcastic) I really don't like the heat at all.
First off it's time to announce the winner of the CAPTION THIS contest.
Drumroll.............
Theresa (The Run-a-round Ranch Report) had the most votes for Option C - Tulips. Congratulations Theresa. You will win a $10 Gift Certificate to Zazzle I'll be contacting you for your information in the next couple of days.
Thanks to all who participated. It was a very close race. The new Caption This is below:
Just leave your best caption in the comment section. I'll pick out a winner and announce them on my blog next Friday. At the end of the month I'll put up a Poll again with all 4 photos and choose a Grand Prize winner. Have Fun!
One of these things is not like the other. Can you pick it out? - I drained some macaroni for a salad I was making and found an intruder in the mix. Couldn't pass up taking a photo of it.
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Just another shot of the Whirlygigs that are on the campus at Walla Walla Community College. I think they are fun and colorful.
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We went for a Picnic over Memorial Day and on the way back I snapped this photo. There use to be some sort of a water system that piped water to the town of Milton-Freewater years ago. All that is left now are broken pieces of the trestle lines. I wish I could find more information on it but after search for some time this morning I gave up. It's still a really cool photo.
4. Belly-Dancers performing in the park last weekend.
Here is something you probably didn't know but when I was much younger (in my 30's) I actually took a few Belly Dancing lessons from this very group. I wasn't great at it and I didn't take the lessons very long but it was fun. Check out this gal: Now that is talent.
5. Some colorful puppets we saw at the Craft Fair in the park last weekend. Coleen didn't buy one of these but she did purchase a little tiger puppet.
It's WILLY-NILLY FRIDAY FIVE time now. 
Oh for FELINE ART today I took an old photo of our sweet departed Eric and cartoonized it and added a frame. I still miss him very much.
