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It's been almost 4 weeks since I posted about the family photo challenge.  Both Grad Girl and I struggled with the photo challenge for week 108.  

My knee problems were limiting my mobility, so it was hard to get out to walk.  As Grad Girl was a bit time strapped due to lab work, we extended this challenge for another week.  During our trip to Texas, we visited the Monument Hill/Kriesche Brewery historic site.  My Guy hiked the trails, I found a bench to hang out on finally found my bird shot. 

Kate: Soaring

This week's photo challenge had both My Guy and I debating if a trip to Tulsa was necessary as we weren't sure there were many of these in town. 

We did make the trip to Tulsa, but I found my image in town on one of my rambles.  

Kate: Where the Buffalo Roam?

Oklahoma is one of the places where the buffalo used to roam. So it's not surprising that our community decided to put bison statues all over town.  This one is called "Tree of Life", it's in front of the Presbyterian Church downtown. As ...

So far we've been spared the strong storms that have slammed so many.  Hope everyone is doing well and wasn't impacted by the midweek storms.  We have family in St. Louis. They are all fine, their cars are not doing quite as well.  

When we pulled last week's card, I mentally scratched my head thinking how was I going to get an interesting photo of the chosen subject.  

I've been cleaning out the closet in Grad Girl's room and found a couple of interesting objects with locks.  After playing with both, the more challenging one ...

It's been rainy and cold the last couple of days.  Definitely not weather conductive to getting a good photo for this week's challenge.  

Well, I should have said getting photo of a bike in motion.  We have a garage, not full of, but with a decent number of potential subjects.  It wasn't hard for me to choose a subject, but it was much harder to get a good photo.  

Kate: My Grad School Buddy

We took two weeks for this challenge since I couldn't walk much of the week before and I hurt so badly, getting a photo just wasn't one of my priorities.  This last challenge was another one requiring a good deal of interpretation.  

I struggled a bit with this one.  True Love is serious stuff.  My Guy and I had a conversation about love languages a couple of weeks ago.  I don't think we each have just one, but a big one for both of us is acts of service.  When I was working, if I had all ...

We are in for another chilly weekend.  Thankfully it was nice enough early in the week to get out and about to look for potential subjects for  last week's challenge. 

Kate: Mini Stairs

  

We are in for another dreary and chilly weekend, with a chance of snow Sunday night.  So it's definitely a great sewing weekend.  Though it doesn't make for fun photography, I'm not a fan of walking in the cold. It doesn't seem to bother My Guy.  Thankfully it was warmer early this week and it was more enticing to get out and find a photograph for this week's prompt. 

I don't have much time to get this week's photo challenge post together. Both My Guy and I are judging at the science fair this morning.  All of us struggled with this week's challenge.  

Both My Guy and I agreed that there are numerous ways to interpret last week's prompt.  Interestingly, we both picked the same approach.  

Kate: Light and Dark = Good and Evil

White representing good, while black represents evil is a long standing convention in many cultures.  White has long been associated with purity, cleanliness and innocence in may cultures. White light is a ...

It's been cool and rainy here all week. Grad Girl has had pretty much the same conditions in Texas.  Add in the fact that it's January, the atmospheric conditions for this week's photo challenge limited all but one of us in finding natural subject matter. 

There are several avenues one can pursue if outdoor flowers aren't a real option.  I found my option on my way to the Walmart check out lane.  

Kate: Textures

I ended up with a lot of "nice" flower photos, but nothing really exceptional.  It's been overcast and raining, not the ...

We are back to the deep freeze again this weekend, with the possibility of freezing rain early Monday.  Thankfully, this week's challenge photo was one the didn't require outdoor shooting. 

It's another card that can be interpreted visually lots of ways.  I had one idea that sorta worked, but my favorite photo was one that just happened to catch my eye as I was walking by with the camera. 

Kate: The Coat Rack

It's the combination of coat rack, jacket and hat that just says outdoor guy to me, like a farmer/rancher.  Of course this ...

Not sure what happened that first week of January, but everyone struggled with the week 98 photo card. 

Kate: Mr. Mojo Jojo

At the request of Grad Girl, we extended this photo challenge for another week.  She'd been so busy trying to get things done before she came home for a 2 week vacation, that she just didn't get a chance to tackle the week 97 challenge. 

Considering it was the week of Christmas, we all had lots of potential photo opps. I took lots of photos, but kept coming back to this one. 

Kate: Holiday Decorations

The moon and stars ornament is one that My Guy got for Grad Girl when she was fairly young.  Grad Girl and I ...

This year has been one of transition.  I retired late in 2022, so 2023 was the first year since I was 16 without a work schedule.  At least a work schedule outside the house. So it's been a year of adjustments and discovery as to what one does when there is not a demanding job requiring daily attention.  Spending time in the sewing room has gone up, but not as much as I thought it would. There are still days I have to remind myself to get my 15 minutes of stitching time in. I've certainly posted more ...

We've all had a busy week. Grad Girl's been working on new experiments. It was My Guy's last work week of the year. I made the trip back to my Mother's to drop off the family Christmas gifts. So all of us were a bit last minute with our photos for the week's challenge. 

I found my subject by staring off into space trying to think of a photo and realizing it was literally just sitting (floating) there.  

Kate: Balanced Birdie

With My Guy out on the road this week, I wasn't sure he'd have the opportunity to get a photo this week.  But he got home a day earlier than planned and so was able to play with his camera a bit.  This week's challenge was on the surface pretty straight foward. 

Since we've not had a little one in quite a while, the blow up ballons just aren't as common in our house as they once were.  So we all decided to be creative this week and prehaps stretch the meaning just a bit ...

The Thanksgiving holiday threw us all off on our photography efforts, so there was no post last week. We caught up this week.The challenge for week 93 was an easy one. 

We did a lot of grocery shopping the week of Thanksgiving so this one was pretty easy.  Especially since we got to shop at HEB.  We really miss HEB, groceries stores in Oklahoma just don't compare. 

Kate: Cartoon Fruit?

Dragon fruit looks like it's a made up fruit from one of those Japanese anime shows doesn't it?

My Guy went the artsy approach with his ...

It's been almost a month since the last photo challenge post. So this post is going to be a bit long and photo heavy.  

Everyone has been busy, Grad Girl especially.  She was trying to finish up a NSF grant proposal then went right into preparation for her chemistry department seminar.  All three of us struggled with getting a photo for the Week 91 challenge. 

So many of our photos are of trips and family stuff, it was just difficult to recreate something each of us was happy with. With Grad Girl being so far from home and away ...

We'll hit week 100 of our photo challenge right at the end of the year, assuming we pull challenge cards for each week.  There's a bunch of stuff going on between now and the end of the year for all of us, so no telling if we'll hit that milestone in 2023 or not.  

At any rate it's time to look the photos we came up with for last week's photo card. 

We all had very different interpretations of the challenge this week. 

I literally went simple. 

Kate: Simply Colors

Most of my photo is ...

The photo challenge took a few of weeks off while me and My Guy were on vacation. Grad Girl has been neck deep in finishing up a NSF grant proposal, so getting a set of photos collected proved challenging for all of us. The last photo card was pretty wide open as to subject matter. 

The photos just need to show symmetry, which is defined as "the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis" (at least that's the Google definition).  We have a bit of both types in this weeks ...

The weather here has been more spring like then fall like this week, at least in terms of the magnitude of the thunderstorms that have rolled through the last couple of days.  But the storms have brought cooler weather and higher winds.  Oklahoma is known for being windy, but during the hottest days, we had almost no wind this summer.  Wind and water were dominate subjects for this week's challenge. 

Kate: Floating Past the Sun