Feline Friday - Shadow on canvas

I actually have 3 cat photos in a row here, just couldn't wait - however, this one is probably my favorite.   

I simply love the effect that I came up with in editing.  

Visit Steven and Pickle here.

 

Genavieve

I *HEART* this photo!   Look at my baby girl kitty!!!

Our old baby...

This photo was in my private journal the other day, but I was just looking over there again and realized that alot of you couldn't see it there...so I am posting it here as well.  I did an oil painting effect on this photo in my fabulous program.  I love the way it makes his fur look!  Makes him look younger, too.

I'm waiting on Steven to do his Feline Friday entry, I've got lots of kitty pictures ready and waiting!   Got some good ones this week.  Hum, de dum dum...

 

  

The day after Christmas

 

Ok, so Beau just told me he hates the top photo here, and he was not having fun, because Allen was copying everything he said and teased him for 1/2 hour.  

 

Now, isn't that what big brothers are famous for ?  

 

Shortly after they got up from the floor, Beau kicked Allen in the crotch.  Heheh.   That's what LITTLE brothers are for !!!   

  

Beau

My son, looking slightly tipsy with happiness over his abundance of board game gifts.  Ha.

Happy kid on Christmas morning!!!

I always look up.

  I do believe that there is a Heaven.

    
Christmas Eve

12/24/05

Outside the local grocery store.

Glad I always carry the camera.

    

Noelle turned 21...

I have to back-track a bit before I go on to Christmas photos, since I was totally too busy and skipped this event...

My niece Noelle turned 21 a couple of weeks ago, and we went out to McKinnon's Irish Pub to celebrate.  They host karaoke on Monday nights. 

This is Noelle, in her element - singing!  With her first Raspberry Cosmopolitan, too.  It was a fun evening.  She sang an Evanescence song for me, 'My Immortal'  ~  I was moved to tears!!  

 

Feline Friday~Christmas Eve Edition!!!

I have funny cats.

They try to blend in, I guess.  Or are they trying to hide?  Teehee.    

Kashmir has taken to this side table in the dining room.  When I put the gift basket of chocolates there, he still insisted on finding room for himself.  He's old, and not feeling very well. 

Oh, wait, were you distracted by that basket full of Ghirardelli??

       

Prue enjoys laying on the hutch.  She will squeeze in just about anywhere.  She does, however,  know that her catnip stash is kept in that drawer...  

Check out Steven's Feline Friday journal entry, and say Merry Christmas to Pickle!

 

On Frozen Pond...

I have been SOOOOOO busy lately, not enough time in the days to do everything.  I have cleaned, shopped, wrapped, decorated, and yes, taken photos...however, haven't had time to fix them up fancy and post.  ACK!     

Here are a couple I took today of 'my' pond.  Ready for ice skating??  But, no, I don't skate. 

 

Enjoy!  And if I don't get back here by the weekend, I wish everyone a very happy holiday!!!                  

Peace!!

December 18

I saw a rainbow in a cloud again yesterday.

It looks like a giant smile. 

The first photo is as it was seen by me;

in the second photo, I changed the look.

Lights all aglow!

Awwww, didn't this come out pretty!? 

I took this photo a few nights ago, while driving home with Beau. This is at a neighbor's house, every year they put out this wonderful sleigh full of gifts and shine a spotlight on it. The wreath on the house looks so nice, too.  The packages are filled with bricks, haha, so don't try stopping by to take a box or two! 

Getting into the Holiday spirit this week!  We'll be out looking for the perfect tree today.

Yes, there will be photos !!!!

 

 

Awwww.

On Sunday, my son decided to be a snow artist. He made

many wonderful things for his mom.

This was my fave!

Something different

A Silent Night Movie  <~~click

No matter what you believe, this is a little

movie worth seeing for the photos alone.

The words are moving, the music - a bonus.

Thanks for passing this on, Mom.

 

Just for me.

 

             bought myself a present...

This happened on Friday!!!

Brrrrr.  There was no school Friday.  We were soooo happy!  The day before had been such a busy day, and we were also sick.  Still sick!  Trying to shake the ends of our terrible head colds, Beau and I.

This is my car, Friday night.  It stayed this way until today, when someone was finally nice enough to brush it off for me and shovel around it.  

So, I hope all of you who don't get any snow enjoy looking at my snow.  Ya know, you can have it, too!

Lights of Love

Paper candles decorated by the children at school.  Hung up by me and my friend Rebecca.  This is only a small amount of the 400 pretty candles that were all over the windows and doors in the school hallway.

Friday, December 2, 2005

Raised money for Ronald McDonald House, (New Haven, CT) Lights of Love.  The kids paid $1.00 to wear their wacky hat that day, and we raised $214 to mail to the charity. 

Beau's candle is the one right above my name.  =)

Time.

Majestic Trees.

Poor Goose!

I do think I just found out why this one did not walk into the water, but flew instead.  Notice anything about him?  I didn't see it when I was standing there, I wasn't this close, but was using my telephoto lens!  Oh, my!  The poor dear.

Lovely crowd

Ok, yeah, some more geese! 

I walked through so much goose poopie today to get these

wonderful shots, I am going to post as many as I want to ! 

Teeheehee.  I hope you enjoy them all !!!

*OOOH~!  I think I just noticed that they are not all geese!?  Looks like some of them are mallard ducks, or do I need new glasses??  Cool!

 

 

Honk!!

This one fella closest to me here had just flown from the grass and landed on the water.  I think his leg hurt, he was standing on just one, and didn't walk down to the water's edge with the rest of the gang.  He flew!  I caught him here just after he landed.  See how the water is rippled so pretty ??   Makes me smile!

 

Canada Geese

Martha Hart Park

New Britain, CT

10:30 this morning.

Walk on December 1st

I went to a pond that I sometimes drive by, but I never stop there. 

Today I stopped.  This is not in my town, it's one town East of me.

I can hardly believe that it is December.  Seems just a month ago we

were at the beach!  Swimming in the pool! 

Savor every MOMENT, they go by too quickly.

 

Martha Hart Park

New Britain, CT

December 1, 2005

Paris in the Spring

 

Photo taken by my 16 year old niece Holly

Paris, France - April 2005.

 

 

Is this a dream?

Wild, Wild Life

 

 

Time to forget about the cold weather for just a moment and go back in time.

These photos are by Dave, my oldest stepson.

Last summer at his grandparents' house.

Feline Friday entry - starring Mom's cat!

Mom's cat Mitzie on Thanksgiving Day.

She spent most of the evening under this skirted table in the living room, avoiding the noisy comings and goings of family people. 

Mitzie is one of two white cats in my parents home.  She showed up one day out of nowhere years ago, and just stayed.  Their other cat is Moses.  I will try another time to get a photo of him.  I wasn't feeling like crawling under the bed last night to find him!

 

play along with Feline Friday at Steven's place.

My Oak Tree

 

Thanksgiving Day 2005

More than frost

 

Happy Thanksgiving from Connecticut!!!

photo by Phinney,

taken from my front porch

uhh...er.

Thankful

I give thanks for all that I have.

Today I will not mourn what I do not have.

I will keep close to my heart loved ones

who can't be with us today.

Have a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Star Wars collection...

My first thought when I saw this kitty back in May was to name him Darth Vader.

I was over-ruled by the other inhabitants of my home.  Amy, Maggie and Marty, formerly of Yuppieville, got a black kitty and named him Baby Darth.

Now, I ask you, wouldn't that have been the proper name for Jinx? 

He seems to be a fan.

Leaves!

Quinnipiac River

River right by my house;

Wonderful reflections!

Taken November 8, 2005

Yes, I took this!

 

It's very interesting how much this new photo editing

program can do.  I created this last night. 

From the photo posted above.  Wow.

Looking Up

Yesterday afternoon I walked out my front door, put the

camera on zoom and macro settings - and looked up.

Our oak tree was splendid in the sunlight,

and the sky was exactly this color.  I didn't enhance it at all.

Phinney - November 20, 2005

Moon in the Afternoon

Monday ~ 

November 14, 2005

Moonrise from my front yard.

 

a mother's love

My talented friend Cameron

enhanced my photo

of Lisa and Autumn in PSP.

::Bowing to Cameron::

I think it's incredibly lovely.  

A quiet moment...

My sister and her daughter

Thursday, November 17, 2005

First Grade Thanksgiving Feast

Elementary School 

Feline Thursday, I suppose.

I had this ready, was saving it for Feline Friday.

I'm thinking there probably won't be one this week.

Maybe never again. 

Well, here's Shadow.  I like the look of this photo.  It was fun

taking it, and fun editing it!   I hope you like it.  

~Phinney

At the water's edge

Hamlin's Pond

Plainville, CT

Mid-morning / November 14, 2005

 

Pond on Monday morning

I did my errands and little bit of running around

this morning, tending to things I was

responsible for.  On the way home,

I stopped once again at the little pond

across the street. 

It's another beautiful day in central

Connecticut.  To just be outside, breathing in

the fresh Autumn air, watching the calm blue

water was enough to fill my insides, at least

for now, with peace.

Feline Friday

Jinx, doing what Jinx does best.

Hanging out in the boondocks of the backyard. 

Perhaps he's interested in helping get that deck finished?

Steven's Feline Friday

 

Me.

 

 

My high school yearbook photo.

 

not your average tree

photo by Phinney

November 7, 2005

 

I took a photograph...

While driving Beau to school on Monday, I turned left 

out of our driveway and this sky was right before

 my eyes ~ !  I had to stop for a second and get

this shot.  I do not leave home anymore

without the camera.  See why? 

    

 I just played with my new photo editing program,

and am proud to say I made this second image

all by myself.  Just can't figure out how to

add my signature on it, the font comes out

HUGE and I don't know how to change it. 

Will practice more!

Autumn 'Glory'

Last week we had one VERY blustery day.  I was leaving my son's school, and looked up to admire the clouds (as usual!) and I noticed that the flag in front of the school was flying and flapping with glee!  I stopped and took a few shots, and this is my favorite. I like the curl at the bottom of the flag, and the leaves on the old tree.  Last week and most of this week the weather has been AMAZING!  Autumn in Connecticut at its absolute peak. 

 

A Round Robin Photo Challenge

Until yesterday, I had no idea what I was going to do about this latest Round Robin topic, Wabi-Sabi.  I planned on skipping this round, too.  Then I saw this ~ a tiny sprout on an old tree, with two hopeful leaves still hanging on.  The beginning of a new branch, I believe ~ simple, rustic, incomplete. 

~Phinney, November 8, 2005

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Nancy http://journals.aol.com/nhd106/Nancyluvspix/  

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Deb http://journals.aol.com/SassyDee50/SassysEYE/  

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Tess http://journals.aol.com/tc01hm/FirstDigitalPhotos/  

 

Kashmir

Kashmir, age 13 years

taken November 7, 2005

edited by Phinney

in Photo Explosion

House

Old birdhouse in my parent's maple tree

taken by Phinney

November 3, 2005

November

taken November 3, 2005

my mother's front yard

early afternoon

Tree huggers

taken November 3, 2005

Maple tree at my parents home

by Phinney

Nope, those are not ducks =)

The pond 2 blocks from my house.  Don't ask me why I never took photos of it before now.   I don't know!!

Kinda-sorta forget it's there.  Indeed, Kat, you should kick me!  LOL!  Anyway, yeah, central Connecticut, a little pond tucked away near my house, and floating around on a sunny November afternoon are...seagulls. 

 

photo taken by Phinney

November 2, 2005

Sweet season

taken November 2, 2005

mid-afternoon

 

Halloweenie Toes!

Tee Hee!

It was so warm tonight! 

T-shirt and bare feet!

Well, okay, Birkenstocks, but I took them off

to pose my toes for the photo!   =)

It's almost time!

     Happy

           Haunting!!

Gnarly!

10/28/05

Big sky

This beauty is less than a 15 minute drive from my house.  I made a split-second decision to drive up there yesterday afternoon.  I truly was about to turn into my street and at the last instant thought of driving up to the lake and the apple orchards. 

photo taken Friday, October 28, 2005

 

Over the little grassy hill...

Crescent Lake!

And someone was out in a little boat today!  It was sunny before I got here - it was sunny for most of my ride up the mountain - but only around 48 degrees.  It was 1:45 this afternoon.  Chilly!  Then more clouds came and the sun wasn't so bright anymore. 

Brrrrrr!

Autumn in Connecticut

I took a short ride today and this is one thing that I saw.  Can you guess what's right over this little grassy hill? 

Expect more photos soon!

Old?

I love this tree! 

It was appealing enough to make me turn around and go back down the road, turn around again, and park to quickly snap a photo of it.  I think it's pretty cool.

I may be taking a ride in the next couple of days to take new photographs.  Gotta go charge up those camera batteries!

Mums and more.

Loving the sweet little pumpkins all in a row!!!

Reaching

I took this picture the other day - believe

it or not - when I walked out of CVS. 

On the way to my car I simply had to look up.

I truly am a cloud watcher. 

The quote is on a new pendant that I bought

that same day.  It's a helpful reminder.

 

I spy...

...two Canada Geese.

 

This is just a little place at the Northern

edge of town.  I never stopped here before,

but decided to take a peek the other day.  I

like the fluffy tall things there, don't know

what they are called.  Seeing the geese was

an added surprise.

 

October 20, 2005

a pretty display

One of my fave shops here in town. 

I would love to work there!!

 

Purple!!

I simply had to do it!  Couldn't resist.

   -----------------------------------------------

Here's what they really looked like...

You should see how they looked in red, turquoise, fuschia and lime green!  What fun! 

Wow, simple things surely amuse me these days...

Sunflower Farms...Pumpkins!

Aren't they cute, all lined up and waiting for someone to take them home!

I took some time driving around town yesterday and I hope you enjoy seeing what I saw!!  :)

This farm market sells something every season, from flowers and veggies in the summer to Christmas trees and wreaths starting in November!  It's a great little place.

 

Sunflower Farms

October 20, 2005

One more, then I'll have to take another ride.

Nae said keep 'em coming.

So, another for tonight.

Tomorrow I'll try to get a little further

out of my neighborhood before I have

to go open the Book Fair!!! 

Hope for bright sun and blue skies!!

Catching them while I can - -

This house is about a block over from mine. 

Gotta catch these colors before they're gone!

Guess I may not travel all over Connecticut

taking photos, but I'll spend five minutes

driving around my neighborhood on a sunny

afternoon - which is just what I did today.  

Things that look like...October

Someone's display, teehee, not mine -

this house is about four houses from me.

 

COLORS!

Finally found some trees with Autumn

colors on them this afternoon.

I just had to pull over and snap some.

Right around the corner from my house~!

Insane blue.

Interesting old tree at the old axe factory

Collinsville Center, CT

October 12, 2005

 

I just thought of something to share.  I asked the guide at Roaring Brook Nature Center the other day about the lack of pretty colored leaves this year on the trees.  I said are they just late in changing because it's been too hot, what's the deal?  He said the leaves always have all those pretty reds, oranges and yellows underneath the green, which is just chlorophyl - um, yeah, not feeling like looking up the spelling there, you get my drift - anyway -  the cool Autumn weather makes the green 'fall off' and that exposes the pretty colors we are all waiting for.

I asked him if he thought they would turn pretty colors soon.  Like next week.  Or after this danged rain stops.  He said this: " I think that next week, after one good windy day, all the leaves are going to just fall to the ground because it'll be time, and I don't think we'll see much color this year." 

Needless to say, I was devastated!  I was looking forward to driving around one day, up into the Northwest hills of Connecticut and taking lots of pictures of lots of trees of lots of colors.  I guess that may not happen.  Drats.

Been raining for about a week...

Collinsville Center

Off Rt. 4 by the Farmington River

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

 

Early October Sun

The last of the best.  I love these. 

They were right next to our water fountain

out in the front yard.  Beautiful, yes?

September Harvest Moon

I finally got the photos of that wonderful Harvest moon that happened at the end of September.  The photo does not do it justice, believe me, it was far more beautiful than my camera could capture.  But I wanted to show you anyway. 

when he was three...

 

Caught!

Look who's caught with the feathers in her whiskers!  No, thank you, Gena - we've already had our pancakes!  Not that I think she planned on sharing...

 

 

 

Autumn leaves?? Not yet!

 

Yesterday morning.  The fog was lifting.

The afternoon did end up very sunny! 

Hills in the Northeast corner of my town.

No leaves changing colors yet. 

Played around with an older photo ~

 

Round Robin Photo Challenge: Secrets

 

Secrets.   A closed journal, a letter peeking out.   Hmmmm...      

 

And one of life's ultimate secrets  ~~

                A woman's pocketbook.

 

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Summer fades...

It's officially Autumn.   Ahhhhhh...

Alone.

sunflower

Late summer sky

 

Round Robin Photo Challenge: HEROES

My two previous entries were prelude to

today's photo challenge entry.  

From little boys to grown-up soldiers.

 

My family's personal heroes.

Allen

 

Eric

 

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superhero

My middle stepson, Allen.  Seems a lifetime ago.

littlest hero

my youngest stepson Eric - oh, many years ago.

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Cats or Feet!

**(probably my first ever Monday Photo Shoot=??)

Be aware I am feeling quite daffy today, and this is reflected in today's Photo Shoot:

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Take a picture of your feet or a picture of your cat. Naturally, if you can get a picture of your feet and your cat, so much the better.

Be aware that for this Photo Shoot I want never-before-seen pictures of your cats, if you go in that direction of things. No recycling your previous cat shots. No recycling previous feet shots either, although something tells me that will be less of an issue.         - John Scalzi

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Phinney's feet -

seen before, in other places,

but not in this photo,

on this beach,

surrounded by

all of the seagull feetprints.

i'm just sayin'...

Spacious

 

"Nothing makes the        

    Earth so spacious

       as to have friends           

         at a distance;             

     They make the        

Longitudes and the latitudes."

               -Henry David Thoreau

 

moonlight on the ocean

hampton beach, new hampshire

august 24, 2005

10:30 p.m. by Phinney

Cape Hatteras

Ocracoke Island Lighthouse

Little Feet

My son's footprints, on an early morning walk.

Get your Coppertone at the Rexall Drug

I've always loved these signs.  I hope

they never change them. 

I wonder how long the Rexall Drug has

been there on Ocean Blvd. and just how old

is that Coppertone clock, anyway? 

I'll bet my mom will ask Jeeves.

She asks him everything. 

 

Flashback?

nope, not the 4th of July.

just the weekly fireworks

on Hampton Beach.

yep, every week, all summer long.

 

Surf

A wonderful, peaceful afternoon, spent

with my son.  At the ocean. 

Anything better??

Seagull walking

This cutie was hanging around me for a little while, so I took his photo a few times. 

The sun was shining just right, and I think he was pretty happy. 

Hampton Beach, New Hampshire

August 27, 2005

Snorkeling for treasure!

What's down there? 

Money! 

(oooh, and feet!)

Throwing quarters in the pool - QUARTERS that were so desperately needed for the Funorama Arcade!!! - made for good underwater swimming practice. 

It was quite a lovely pool. 

Hotel Balcony Feet

come on, you know i had to.

late, our last night there.

 

:)

 

 

Absolute beauty needs no words.

Round Robin Photo Challenge - "Labor"

LABOR: hard work.  (someone ELSE, not me, hahaha!!)

I found this very adorable man pulling taffy and feeding it into the machine to be cut and wrapped.  You should have seen the big white blob this salt water taffy was before he started pounding it into shape.  He didn't want me to take his photo, kept hiding under his BoSox hat brim. 

 

Surf Sweet Shop

Ocean Boulevard

Hampton Beach, New Hampshire

by Phinney 8/28/05

 

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*took me many, many hours of LABOR to get this one photo posted.  another story for another time.  that's why no vacation pics are up yet. 

goin' on vacation...

will be away for a bit, back with all new photos next week. 

wishing a bit of delight for all of us.

blue

Playing !

On my hutch

"The way to know life is to love many things."

                - Vincent Van Gogh

my best desk

A little peek at where I create all kinds of stuff. 

 

round robin photo challenge

'Who I Am' in black and white.

 

other round robin participants here.

 

 

 

sunflower in sepia

I wonder.

Dreaming

 

Who were you before you put yourself last?

 

 

dance by the light of the moon

It's not hard work

    that wears you out

But the repression of your

              true personality.

colors

You Finally do have to Give Something

      Terribly Intimate and Secret of yourself

to the world and Not Care because You Have to

          Believe that what you have to Say

                   is Important Enough.

                          -May Sarton

sandcastle girl

I don't know this little girl.  She was playing

all day near where my son and my niece were

playing, by the water's edge.

She just had this look...I took her picture

because I think she looked like how I felt.

little digger

"the wisest follow their own direction."

                             -euripides

waiting...

beach.

yes, the first one was B&W.

i decided i didn't like it without color, so i played some more with it.

i like it grainy.  goes with the sand.

Genavieve

 

postcard

postcard from Aunt Nub.

framed and hanging in my - ahem, powder room!

don't we all feel this way at least once in awhile!

 

pale

wow.  i really love how this came out.

Courage.

 

Life

"True happiness is not to be found

outside life...it does not brood above as the sky

              broods over the earth.

   It is in life.  

       It is life itself...full life with all its heroic

                struggles and sublime joys."

                     ~Jeanne De Vietinghoff

Illuminate

starting to get really addicted

to this camera.  took this photo

on that bright, sunny day. 

resize, crop, change to greyscale,

add text...

illuminating.

playing with pink

An angel.

Nothing is so personal as happiness...each soul is fitted for a joy entirely individual...often a whole life is required to discover it.               

      - Jeanne De Vietinghoff

 

Where

Negative.

I checked outside today.  These flowers are no longer there.  Done. 

Gone.

From the front porch

One more from yesterday.

Can you tell I was really liking the rain??

When it rains...

...it takes the humidity away!

It did this time, anyway.  Thank goodness. 

This was a booming thunderstorm that came through here about 5 hours ago.  The temperature has since dropped from the high 90's to the low 70's.  YES!

Here's another, see how hard it was raining!  I love to stand on the front porch during thunderstorms. 

Greyscale

We are the hero of our own story.

Sunshine

The Fancy Five

Our other five pets. 

We have five cats and five fish.

Try getting fish to pose for a photo!  There really are five in there, see the two swirly images up near the top left? 

My next feat will be getting all five cats in one photo.  Heh.

Sky

 

in the cubby under the stairs

beautiful stuff

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.   The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." 

               -Ray Bradbury

 

 

Large moon...

dark of night

 

I took my camera outside in the middle of the night and looked at the full moon.  It wasn't that impressive, so I started taking pics of other things.

I'm starting to get weird.

 

Fading Radiance

 

What through the radiance which was once so bright

Be now for ever taken from my sight,

      Though nothing can bring back the hour

Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;

  We will grieve not, rather find

  Strength in what remains behind;

  In the primal sympathy

  Which having been must ever be;

  In the soothing thoughts that spring

  Out of human suffering;

  In the faith that looks through death,

In years that bring the philosophic mind.

 

                                    ~William Wordsworth

 

Round Robin Challenge ~~ Moods

My first entry in the Round Robin Challenge ~  Moods...

Subject chosen by Babyshark. 

The corner of my parent's living room, a cozy chair that beckons - my photo mood is 'Comfort'.

Please visit the Round Robin Journal for a list of links to the other participants and enjoy their photos as well. 

A new adventure.

Searching for the joy.

 

           ~Phinney