Day 43

another beautiful morning

Day 7.1

Enhanced Beautiful Morning

Day 7

Beautiful Morning

Day 341

I stopped to capture this gorgeous sunset on my way home from work this afternoon.

Day 306

There's a strange thing that happened when we set back the clocks on Saturday night. All of a sudden, when I go to work super early in the morning, the sun is starting to come up instead of it feeling like I'm driving in the middle of the night.

As I was driving this morning, I was watching the windows of a building in front of me and they were a brilliant red color. It took me a moment to realize they were reflecting back an amazing sunrise.

Then late this morning, I couldn't resist taking this picture of the same street with these great clouds.

Day 282

There was this amazing sunset this evening, but I missed the very best part by about five minutes while I switched lenses on my camera. Still managed to get a pretty good shot of the show.

Day 276

I was driving around this evening during this beautiful sunset that was begging to be shared.

Day 267

This evening I was shopping at the pre-sale for the consignment sale I posted about a few days ago. I didn't find much in the way of clothing for the boys, but I scored big time on toys.

I wanted to get a picture of the sale for today and when I looked back at the clothing racks, I discovered that there was a beautiful sunset going on in the background, so I had to make sure I caught that as well.

Day 253

The boys and I met up with auntie and cousins at the park today. We couldn't pass up on one of the last days of summer. Since Matt has no fear, he requires constant supervision to make sure he doesn't try anything dangerous, so most of my pictures are of him.

I especially liked this one because I realized I accidentally captured an image of myself taking the picture in the reflection of the plastic dome.

Day 252

Grandma and I took my youngest to the park for a bit after I got off work. It was such a nice day, it would have been a waste to not spend at least some time outside. We were pushing Matt in one of the swings. A few times, I'd catch the swing and hold him in place for a few seconds, which he thought was hysterical. It also gave me the opportunity to catch his little eye peeking out at me through the openings in the back.

I thought it made for a kind of artistic, creative photo.

Day 227

We took a little road trip today out to Dayton, Oregon for my cousin's wedding. It was at a winery and a gorgeous venue. The view was amazing. I took this picture looking out into the valley as the sun was getting ready to set. I really like how it turned out.

Day 224

The excessive heat from a few weeks ago has done a real number on our front yard. I was surveying the damage this afternoon and found this cute little flower poking up through the browned out leaves in our center planter. Maybe if we get some good rain in the fall, some of the plants will make a recovery.

Day 210

Hottest day on record.

This is a picture of the weather widget on my co-worker's computer at about 3pm this afternoon. It made me super excited to get into my husband's car about an hour later with no air conditioning.

Not the kind of weather we love here in the Pacific Northwest.

Day 209

To say it's been a little hot today is like saying the Pacific Ocean is a good sized pond. It is excessively hot here and there seems to be little relief in sight. We decided to take a trip out to the mall and were surprised that Cold Stone wasn't packed, so we stopped in for a cool treat to share.

Day 208

I sitting on the couch, looking out the window this evening and thought this view made a nice picture for the day.

Day 187

I took the boys to the beach today, and all three of us thought the sand in our toes was pretty cool. It was a really nice beach, and it was fantastic to have some fun in the sun.

Day 178

We went to the Strawberry Festival today and ate

Washed it down with


And I got


sunburned shoulders

Day 160

For the first time, I was able to accompany my husband on one of his school trips as a chaperone, and I picked a good one. We left for Lake Chelan this morning and spent the afternoon at the water park. This evening we took Matt on a walk around town (Paul is staying with my parents), and this was the view of the lake from the park.

Day 159

The sunset tonight was gorgeous. The sun was almost red. All I had with me was the point-and-shoot, but I think it got closer to capturing what I saw than I thought it would.

Day 135

Lately, I seem to have a thing or two or three about clouds.

As I was driving to my church book group this evening, I noticed this really unusual cloud formation. I'm not sure what caused it, but it's probably something man-made. I thought it looked pretty cool in the pre-sunset sky.