Reading Material, originally uploaded by needlepointernc.
SOMETHING BORROWED, something blue. The library books are borrowed, the chair is blue. Okay, I cheated and had posted this picture under day 340, but realized that I needed a photo for this topic. Now, which one should I read first?
Goal, originally uploaded by needlepointernc.
The GOAL of this hawk is to find dinner and to scare away the birds from my friend’s bird feeders. We were sitting in the car in front of her house and all of a sudden a flurry of birds took off from behind a bush and this hawk appeared. We were sitting pretty close to the hawk and I had my camera because we just came from the quilt exhibit at the Clayton Center.
Reading Material, originally uploaded by needlepointernc.
The library always has a lot of READING MATERIAL. I found four books today that I haven’t read yet! They keep writing new ones and I will never be able to read them all. I love the little chairs in the Children’s Reading Section.
I took a Digital Photography class a few years ago. The goal of the class was to take pictures that did not need to be Photoshopped! Well, this was one of my favorite shots of the fountain at the mall. This lesson was about using the Tv option on the camera to stop the action.
Sentimental, originally uploaded by needlepointernc.
You can find many SENTIMENTAL things on headstones. This one is sad:
“They Shall Mourn
For Him As One
Mourneth For His
Only Son And Shall
Be In Bitterness For
Him As One That Is
In Bitterness For His
First Born”
Tilt, originally uploaded by needlepointernc.
This picture was taken in the oldest Jewish Cemetery in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is in Hope Cemetery. Many of the headstones TILT! They tilt because they are old and no one is taking care of them, or they tilt because vandals push them over.
The weather has been crazy and I am going back into the archives so I can catch up on my photos. I have run out of steam for now. I hope to get out and about and get some new shots to close out the challenge!
Big Events, originally uploaded by needlepointernc.
There were two BIG EVENTS tonight at The Clayton Center in Clayton, NC. The Undercover Quilter’s Bee have a quilt show in the Gallery (I have 6 quilts in the show) and the Clayton Fire Department had their annual graduation ceremony. It is a nice quilt show and there was a bag piper playing for the graduation.
Quilts on Display
Quilt on left by Linda Creech, Top Right ? and Bottom Right is one of mine…
Nostalgia, originally uploaded by needlepointernc.
Today is an appropriate day to use the NOSTALGIA theme. This is a picture of my grandparents Lee and Ben and my Dad and Mom. It was probably taken around 1951 when they met. They got married in 1952. Only my Mom is still around. Mom has dementia and was doing well until Sunday.
Mom fell on Sunday in her room and really banged her knee and elbow. She takes coumadin so that caused a lot of bleeding into the bruise on her right thigh. Luckily she didn’t break anything. But she was a few quarts low on blood by Tuesday. She wasn’t being a very good patient (she is a nurse) and ripped out her IVs. So, they had to get a baby sitter for her! By today she was finally herself. But it was a fight to get the insurance to agree to pay for short-term rehab and to get the short-term rehab to take her cause she was “confused”. Well, she was confused 
but was much better by yesterday. They just wouldn’t listen to me. Finally they ditched the baby sitter and the rehab screener came back today and presto chango they had a bed for her.
I used a Lightroom preset called Sepia Sugar and Spice. Then I used one of my Shutterfreaks frames. I didn’t crop the white kitchen chair out because we had those chairs forever in our house that we moved to in 1959.
Custer State Park Lake, originally uploaded by needlepointernc.
We went to South Dakota when we were living in Omaha, Nebraska. I think this picture was taken in 1999 on Labor Day Weekend. This lake is in Custer State Park. The park is beautiful and I wish we had stayed in the park. You can drive through the park and see buffalo and prairie dogs, and the Needles. The Needles are these spikey rock mountains that are part of the Black Hills. They are very cool.
Used a Lightroom preset (EFF Dragan) to make the needle darker and more textured.
Out West, originally uploaded by needlepointernc.
If you want to go OUT WEST from Boston, you can take Interstate 90 all the way to Seattle Washington. In Massachusetts, I-90 is called the Mass Pike. It is a toll road and has been a toll road forever. It was supposed to stop being a toll road at some point, but that never happened.
We drove on Interstate 90 across the State of South Dakota. Nothing but sunflowers for miles and miles and miles!
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