Round Robin Challenge: The Creative Side Of You

The challenge this week is The Creative Side Of You! Creative, eh? I always say I'm not very creative...except with cooking, so I guess a picture or two of something I made will have to do!


First up is a blueberry shake! I picked the blueberries and added them along with some sugar to vodka to make a lovely blueberry infused alcohol. For a special drink, I mixed some of the blueberry vodka with some Bailey's...yum!


Here are some scallops I panfried, along with some cherry tomatoes I grew in my garden, with some swiss chard & pasta. Delish!

My Knight in Shining Armor

Lots of bikers dressed up for Halloween in Salem, MA yesterday.

Books and a new look!

How do you like the new template? Heather did it for me, she's so dang talented!

This would be a perfect headstone for me, don't you agree?

Round Robin Challenge: Very Scary

The challenge this week is Very Scary! Another easy one for me; I love Halloween photos, and Halloween is scary, so voila!


Took this shot in Salem, MA last Halloween. I'm 95% sure this was all an act...but it still creeped me out. I felt such sad vibes from the 'pet'. It's hard to tell in the photo, but he had a huge rack of tree branches decorated with leaves and pieces of torn black cloth. Very strange. If you view this picture at the original size, you can see many more details, like how the 'pet' is looking at the girl, and the X on his forehead...very creepy!

Here are some others:

Dead girls on a pumpkin bed (not really dead!)


My dog, Wolf and my friend, Diana, dressed in a camoflage suit


Someone went all out on their Halloween decorations this year!


This was taken up in Mason NH at a house where Elizabeth Jones illustrated her version of the book, Little Red Riding Hood. That's the wolf in grannie's clothing in the bed!


Saw this in the basement of my friend's condo...it was a girls school before it was a condo and a jail before that!


Same condo basement...see the hand peeking out around the door?


Great topic, Julie!!!

The Challenge Linking List:

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Clouds over a sand dune

A beautiful day at the beach!

Blazing glory

This is what autumn looks like to me...beautiful foliage, pumpkins and blue skies. What does autumn look like to you?

Hunter's Moon

It was a night made for werewolves and ghouls, shadows in cemeteries and black cats...

Round Robin Challenge: ABCs of Autumn

The challenge this week is ABCs of Autumn. Ahhhh, Autumn! My favorite season, which has my favorite holiday! If think if I went through all my pictures, autumn shots would far outnumber anything else...well...ocean pictures would come close! Here we go!

J is for Jack-o-lantern!

Poor lil vampire girl looks like she had one too many pints of blood, eh?

S is for Sunflower!

Sunflowers might be considered a summer flower, but this one is entering autumn in a blaze of glory!

Great topic, T.J.!!!

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Waiting...

Newburyport, MA

Pink dog

Someone left their toy doggie behind...

Comfort

I went to Peaks Island in Maine this past weekend to photograph a wedding. It was a gorgeous day! We took a ferry over from Portland to the wedding and back. On the way back, I snapped this picture:

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Round Robin Challenge: Nostalgia

The challenge this week is Nostalgia. What's more nostalgic than a college reunion??? This one took place at Union College in Schenectady NY the weekend of May 19th, 2006.


Class of 1951


The wives of the Class of 1956


Class of 1966


Class of 1971


Class of 1986


From left: Diane, Cherie, Mo & Betsy, who graduated from Union College in 1986. Betsy had joined ROTC in college, and I met her soon after her graduation and subsequent stationing as a 2nd Lt. at Hanscom AFB, where I was worked. Through her, I met and becamse good friends with Diane & Mo.

Leaves are falling all around...

Its time I was on my way.
Thanks to you, Im much obliged
For such a pleasant stay.

But now its time for me to go,
The autumn moon lights my way.
For now I smell the rain,
And with it pain,
And its headed my way.
Ah, sometimes I grow so tired,
But I know Ive got one thing I got to do,

Ramble on

Dr. John, The Night Tripper

Pink Petunias

Sunset at Waukewan Lake, Meredith, NH

Rudy's, Teele Sq., Somerville, MA

Great Mexican restaurant, yummy margaritas!

Round Robin Challenge: Transportation

The challenge this week is Transportation. What a great theme! I had quite a few pictures to choose from and could not make up my mind, so I thought I'd share a few different modes of transportation!

Ship(s)

A cruise ship is such a fun form of transportation! I took this shot from the cruise ship I was on, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL at the end of our cruise.

Fishing boat and bridge

I took this shot from an airplane window, it's a fishing boat going under the Cheasepeake Bay Bridge that spans Maryland and Virginia (it's a loooooong bridge and tunnel!)

Airplane

This shot was taken at Castle Island in Boston, MA. Logan Airport is across the water, and you can see many planes landing and taking off from there. Wolf hates this place just for that reason; I think seeing such big things overhead bothers him!

Train

There's something so interesting about watching a train go by; I love to hear the plaintive whistle waaaaay off in the distance. This one, of course, is little and mainly decorative. I took this shot in Meredith, NH.

Horse and rider

A very old style of transportation, that is now mostly done for pleasure! Took this one at Salisbury Beach, MA.

The automobile. It makes life much more convenient, but also pollutes our atmosphere something wicked. When I was searching for photos I'd taken of cars, I noticed these two were the same type of car!

unkempt (Marblehead, MA)

well kept! (Union College, Schenectady, NY)

Get that thing out of my face!

Wolf has learned to not like the camera because of the flash; with this lens no flash is necessary, so he stopped squinting and I could get a decent shot!