Showing posts with label The Hunger Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Hunger Games. Show all posts

Thursday, March 29, 2012

A picture a day keeps the doctor away. (I wish!)


Aaaaaaaand now for another update on this year’s Project 365. Because of recent events, I am WAAAAYYYYYYYY behind schedule on posting these. I’m going to try to catch up today, so hold on. Here we go!


Day 74 (2012-03-14) ~ It’s not easy being…. well…. you know….




Day 75 (2012-03-15) ~ It was St Patrick’s Day this week, so I painted a shamrock (well, kinda!) with a flashlight in the dark.




Day 76 (2012-03-16) ~ Hey, I like crude humor too, alright? But not enough to go writing it on a door! Some graffiti just baffles me. ????




Day 77 (2012-03-17) ~ We went downtown to watch the Chicago River dyed green in honor of St Patrick's Day. It's a big, BIG deal around here and thousands upon thousands of green clad people line the river banks watching the dye being poured into the water and then mixed in by a speed boat zooming through it. It was an unusually warm day with bright, blinding sunshine and temperatures at about 80 degrees. Unlike last year when everyone was bundled up in their winter coats, this year everyone was in shorts, tank tops and flip-flops! AWESOME!!!! As the river was in the process of being colored, I was busy snapping pictures of the boat zipping by when I noticed how cool and swirly the water looked in the glare of the summery sun and I quickly shot a picture of it.




Day 78 (2012-03-18) ~ The bangles.




Day 79 (2012-03-19) ~ *sigh* I would love to tell you the story behind this picture, but the censors (as I told you about yesterday) won’t let me. You’ll just have to invent your own description of this one. Sorry.




Day 80 (2012-03-20) ~ My poor, poor kiddo came down with the flu. We spent the morning at the doctor's office and then I spent all the rest of the day hovering over her on the couch, trying to bring her fever down. *sad sigh*




Day 81 (2012-03-21) ~ All of a sudden--*BOOM!*--Spring has sprung. There are blossoms everywhere and the air is fragrant, sweet and delicious. *le sigh*




Day 82 (2012-03-22) ~ A shortcake in the making. We have had temps in the 80's and suddenly my strawberry plants started to come back to life. Yay!




Day 83 (2012-03-23) ~ I forgot to eat before we got to the movie theater.... so my stomach was growling all through The Hunger Games! :-( The kiddo had only just started recovering from the flu and was feeling very shaky, but she tolerated my taking her picture anyway. Because she’s AWESOME!!




Day 84 (2012-03-24) ~ A mini storm was a-brewin’ while I was up on my rooftop trying to get a picture of the sunset.




Day 85 (2012-03-25) ~ One way or another, I’m gonna find ya, I’m gonna getcha getcha getcha getcha…. I dunno, it just kind of sums up the week in a way, right?




Day 86 (2012-03-26) ~ Twiggy!




Day 87 (2012-03-27) ~ She’s a brick…. house! Only had time for a quickie picture this day. I shot it while waiting for my kiddo by a wall.




Day 88 (2012-03-28) ~ Tulip Sniper!! The tulips are out in full force now.




And, there! Now we’re caught up. *whew!* I’m about 24% of the way through the project so far. More on the way soon!




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Friday, March 16, 2012

Springiness!


Aaaaaaaand now for another update on this year’s Project 365….


Day 70 (2012-03-10) ~ A hint of Spring! Wheeeeeeeeeeee!




Day 71 (2012-03-11) ~ Over the past week or so, Wednesday has been reading The Hunger Games books out loud to my hubby and me, a couple of chapters each night. In the beginning, I wasn't sure I would like the stories because I had heard how bleak, dismal and dark they were. But I was sooooooooooo wrong. The books are fantastic and I am glued--GLUED--to her every word. We are about a third of the way through the second book and I can hardly stand waiting to find out what happens next. In fact, most nights now Scope and I fall asleep discussing our Hunger Games theories and predictions in the dark!




Day 72 (2012-03-12) ~ Warp speed! Eh. I wasn't feeling very well, so the only picture I felt like taking this night was this long exposure of traffic driving by below our balcony. I didn't exactly like the coloring of the image with all the orange street lights making everything look kind of sickly and gross, so I was playing around with colors in Photoshop when I discovered I like the picture much, much more in shades of blue. I dunno, somehow it reminds me of space or a sci-fi movie now. :-)




Day 73 (2012-03-13) ~ While waiting for Wednesday this afternoon, I sat under a tree admiring the gorgeous blue sky and the cozy 70 degree temp which, I'm told, is most unusual for March in Chicago. Just beautiful.



And there we go for now. I’m about 19% of the way through the project. Woo-hoo!



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