Random Spotlighted Flowers

While I was wandering aimlessly through the long grass(see previous post) there were some pretty flowers that I took pictures of. Zeke was looking over my shoulder as I edited them and commented," Abby, you use spot-light waaaaay to much!" As I looked back over my pictures I discovered that I do use it a lot. But, in my opinion, it makes the pictures look soooooooo much better! Anyways...........Here are some amazing, spot-lighted pictures!=)

Flowers

I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've either been too busy or too tired.=) The Hike was so much fun!! I am finally un-sore!!! Still pretty tired though. Anyways........for those of you who don't know, I play trumpet in Miss Kay's homeschool band.......Last night we had our Star Wars band concert. It was.......interesting. The band played ok. Miss Kay dressed up as Yoda! It was pretty funny. Kinda hard to hear her through the mask though. They were going to show some Star Wars clips on the side of her house w/ a projector, but it wasn't dark enough. So.........we had a 10 min. break to wait for the sun to go down. Kinda strange, but I guess that's Missouri for ya.=) At one point, some of the kids(dressed up as Jedi and other stuff) had a battle. I think everyone ended up dead. It was................indescribable. We carpooled w/ the Hickles though(all 12 seats taken) and that was fun. Except for Zeke and Isaac yelling in my ear the whole way home. But other than that the ride was enjoyable. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures at the concert. O well.

At the cast party(which was really fun), we got the audio CD of PoP(Pirates of Penzance). We've pretty much been listening to it non-stop. Elizabeth loves it! Now she and Isaac have something to dance to and sing along with.

Dad and I have been running almost every morning, but he hurt his calf or something, so we haven't run lately. We did go for a walk in the woods Mon. morning(we jogged part of it). I didn't take my camera that time because I was w/ Dad and wouldn't be able to keep up w/ him. One thing I discovered is that I am terrible at walking(for exercise). I have short legs so I'm super slow. I jog/run slow too, but it's easier to change speed and keep up if you're running or jogging.

Whenever I walk in the woods and around our property(and I'm not trying to keep up w/ someone), I try to remember my camera, because you never know what you'll see! Here are some flower and animal pictures I've taken over the last month or so. Hope you enjoy them!=)

This is a dragonfly I found on our pond.

As I was wandering aimlessly through the long grass in our backyard(don't ask me why, it is kinda fun though), there were a whole lot of butterflies and I finally got an ok shot of one. I love butterflies!=)

Tadpoles!

Just Some Random Pictures

I think Becky must have taken this picture on one of her walks...... I love the colors!

These are some flowers from our trip to New York when we toured Monticello.

OK, yeah this was a long time ago but......

There was a street mall thingy somewhere along our trip and I thought this display(if you can see it) was kinda neat.

This is in front of a hotel we stayed at in Kentucky.

Zeke in the car........

A King snake......I think.

Flowers and blossoms and.........random, o my!=)

It was so nice today that I decided to go outside and take some pictures of all the beautiful flowers and buds on the trees. There's also a few random pics in there....=)

This is a crabapple tree we have in our yard which is, as you can see, in full bloom. I thought the blossoms were gorgeous!

Here's some daffodils that Mom and Becky planted last year. The other ones, well I don't really know where they came from......

These are just random flowers/blossoms I found around.......

Sorry guys, I know this is a lot of pictures but thanks for sticking w/ it so long.=)

For some reason, my camera did not want to focus on the flower but on the leaves. I tried a whole bunch of times but this is the best I could get.=( Oh, well. I thought the back looked kinda cool.

I have a few more pics, but I'll have to post them another day. I have to go to bed now. Good night!=) Hope you enjoyed the pics!