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My Favorite Photos - October 2022
During October, my favorite photos centered around birds, flowers, spending time with my younger daughter at college, and spending time with my sister doing genealogical "field trips." In early...
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Homemade Salted Nut Rolls
Back in August, I entered Homemade Salted Nut Rolls at the county fair. I saw the recipe on Pinterest that led to Shugary Sweets. My entry received first prize in the candy category.Would I make this...
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Scavenger Hunt #3
This is a swap on Swap-Bot that I'm participating in that I thought looked fun. The goal is to take five photos (from a list of ten items) and give some information about them - where did I take it, is...
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Clouds
One of the things that I enjoy taking photos of are clouds and the sky - especially during sunsets and sunrises. I'm going to work backward in time, with the first image from November 25th - the day...
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My Favorite Photos - November 2022
This month I started a new position with a local museum to do their marketing/PR work. One of my favorite parts of the job is photographing items in the gift shop and the museum's artifacts. Below are...
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House Plants
It seems like each year the number of house plants grows. Partly this is a result of starting new plants from existing plants. I have two main areas where my plants are located - by the south-facing...
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Christmas Decorations 2022
This year, with both girls in college, I didn't decorate as much for Christmas as I have in the past. That being said, there are things I do enjoy putting up each year. One of the things I put on the...
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Gratitude List
As I look back on 2022, I am grateful for the following:PEOPLE- My family - Paige, Sophia, and Olivia. My life is so rich because of what each one has contributed to it. I am so thankful that both...
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Winter Walk at Gammelgarden Museum
Last month I went to Gammelgarden Museum of Scandia to attend the Lucia Dagen service at the oldest Lutheran church in Minnesota. As I entered the parking lot at about 6:50 a.m.,, the buildings were...
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ESG: My Favorite Photos - December 2022
Here are some of my favorite photos from December:At the beginning of December, we attended the Festival of Christmas. Olivia is on the tech team, so she was operating a camera. She worked with the...
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My Favorite Photo - January 2023
January was perhaps the month that I have taken the fewest photos on my camera in decades. Most of the photos I took were on my iPhone. As I look back on the month, the photos I took were basically...
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Photo Scavenger Hunt
There's a photography swap on Swap-bot that I thought would be fun to do. There are words or phrases that are provided and participants take a photo or find an image from the photos they have taken....
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Nature in Black and White
For this photography swap on Swap-Bot, I chose to focus on nature in black and white. All of the images were originally taken in color, but I felt like the color detracted from the pattern and detail...
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My Favorite Photos - February 2023
This month I have a very small number of photos compared to past months. I'm working about 50+ hours a week between three jobs now that the girls are both in college, so my free time is limited as is...
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Outdoor Photo Challenge
On Swap-Bot, there was a swap which focused on an outdoor photo challenge. When I signed up, I thought that April was a long way off and I could easily capture all of the items on the list. As it turns...
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Focus on a Color
On Swap-Bot there is a swap that focuses on color. The goal is to choose a single color and create three images with that color. So, I picked blue and found five photos that I took recently that had...
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Favorite Photos from April 2023
Below are some of my favorite photos from April...or at least ones that I want to remember what happened in April. On April 1st, there was a major snowfall. The snow, by this point, covered half of the...
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Photo Scavenger Hunt
On Swap-bot there is a photo challenge to find five items on a list of ten. I was able to find eight of the items from my current and past photos. A Pet - this is Aspen with one of her favorite stuffed...
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Field Trip to the Minnesota Zoo
There's a swap on Swap-bot that I signed up for with a focus on sharing photos of three animals. As I went back on my photos over the past month, I realized I didn't take any pictures of our dogs or...
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Birds - At Home and at the Minnesota Zoo
For this swap on Swap-Bot, the focus is on birds and photographing three images of birds in the wild or in captivity. The first image is of a red-winged blackbird at one of our suet feeders. The...
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My Favorite Photos - May 2023
This month I didn't take nearly as many photos as I have in past months. It's felt like I've been working a lot and have little time to take photos of things beside work (with the exception of...
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Early-Summer Flowers at the Farm
Below are some of the flowers that are blooming now at our farm. Irix x germanicaAnemonastrum canadenseSome type of iris. It was gifted to me by someone who was getting rid of a lot of...
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My Favorite Photos - June 2023
Many of my favorite photos are of flowers that I took in June. Since I already did a post about the flowers, I will not be including them in this one. One of the projects I started at Gammelgården...
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My Favorite Photos - July 2023
July seemed to fly by...most of spent working, though. So, I am happy to have had at least some quality time with family. The highlight of July was that my niece and her family moved back to Minnesota...
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My Favorite Photos - August 2023
Another month passed and it feels like the majority of it was spent at work. The good thing is that many of the activities were ones that made me happy. One of the first ones of the month was...
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