Good day all! A beautiful blue sky mild temp day in South Dakota!

I found this Sumi-e type photo today. It is grasses poking through snow that I did a high contrast adjustment on years ago.
Have a good weekend!

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TGIF, folks.

Wednesday was one of those fine "after the rain" days when things look and small clean and the light has a special quality - a good situation for outdoor photography.

A few houses down the street...

   

Have yourselves a safe, happy, and productive weekend.

Well, our rains stopped yesterday and by late morning we had sunny skies. But more will arrive on Monday in my area.

It was nice to get out to experience the special light that comes with a sunny day after the rains. I took lots of photos, but few turned out worth keeping.

But here's one, taken around 6:45 yesterday morning...

   

Good morning and welcome to hump day.

This morning we will be taking DS auto to have the automatic transmission essentially rebuilt. $$$. Having to replace the clutch assembly. So I will probably be taking him to work and back for the next few days.

A few more from the Texas trip.

A  Whooping Crane with a tasty crab, a red bloom, and three Brown Pelicans.

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Good morning all. Good to see so much activity here while I have been gone. We recently returned from a week in Texas where we attended the Laredo Birding Festival and then on to Corpus Christi for some additional birding.

Here are a few diverse photos from the trip. Green-wing Teal landing (Aransas Pass near Corpus Christi), someone sitting on a park bench in Laredo, and a colorful wall, also Laredo.

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"Monday, Monday, so good to me..."

A rather colorful succulent taken yesterday morning...

   

You all have yourselves a good week.

Happy Weekend All! We had a little snow and wind the last couple of days but not enough for the Condo snow removal crew to mess with so we are driving over it. Nature will take care of it next week.

Here is a Valentines Photo I forgot I had. Happy Belated Valentines Day to all the Ladies and Wives of members on Foto Friends!

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Wow, it's Thursday already.
We am having fun down here on AMI.  Enjoying our company and looking forward to today's activity.  My SIL and I are going to a Painting class where you use a real DEAD fish for contours to create a painting.  I did this years ago and probably showed you a photo of the fish that I created.  So hopefully this one will come out as well as the last and I can hang it up in my PHOTO/SEWING ROOM when we return home.  My walls in that room are a dark burgundy.  I am having a bit of a problem determining the color scheme for my fish to go along with BURGUNDY.

Here is another photo that I submitted for tonight's photo club meeting that I will be missing.  It is also for the MONOTONE category.  Another silhouette shot looking up into the sun.  By the way, this is practically SOOTC with the exception of adding a little bit of glow.  The pelican at the top was PURE LUCK, as was the sunburst under its week.

As they say, it is better to be lucky than good!

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Good Morning. 
Our company got in late from California so they are still sleeping due to jet lag.
We were up late chatting, it was so much fun.  My husband and brother are both super funny, so there was tons of laughter last night.  

So, instead of posting another B&W photo this morning.  Here is another that I sent in for our monthly Photo Club meeting.
A cooperative pelican picture.
Have a terrific Tuesday.
LORELL

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Good After The Superbowl Monday, 

I hope the team you were rooting for won last night and that you enjoyed the games, commercials, and halftime.

In the game, I was rooting for the 49ers. But, it was a good game and ended for the 49ers like it did for the LIONS when we played them in the playoffs, although they lost in overtime. 
The halftime show was a great production but I did not recognize a single song.
The commercials were the best thing of all.  I laughed so many times.  I think it was so good that they brought laughter to the breaks and lifted the spirits of everyone.  Laughter is so important and they succeeded overwhelmingly.

If I were home this week, I would attend our Thursday night photo club meeting.  
But I will still send in some photographs that I will share with you first.

This month's assignments are MONOTONE and Maro/Closeup.

Have a great Monday, everyone.
LORELL

PS. Starting this afternoon, we will have company for the next 12 days.  We will be busy for a while.

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