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Day 7/365: Vintage Christmas Tree Ornaments

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Decorating with Vintage Christmas Tree Ornaments

Choosing today’s picture was tough, I have so many memories of my Christmas tree. While many have a color theme and coordinating bulbs and garland, my tree tells a story. Every ornament has a special meaning.

Vintage Christmas tree ornaments

So I’ll start the story with this vintage ornament.

When my parents first got married they bought a box of bulbs for their tree. Although their 40-year marriage had it’s ups and downs, this gold bulb is a reminder of my Mom and Dad who passed away in 1995. Both are gone now, but my Mom gave me their vintage Christmas Tree ornaments.

I have only two, just a few survived over 50 years. When I was a child there was a certain order to placing the ornaments and stories that went with each one. As children, my brother and I weren’t allowed to handle these vintage ornaments, for fear of breaking them.

Now I hang them, out of reverence, and tradition.

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Project 365: Days 1-5

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Since I took pictures everyday for 5 days, THEN decided to start this project, I thought I would post the first 5 days all together. I’ll try and update one day at a time next.

Chocolate covered pretzels
Day 1: Kick off to the Christmas Season
Day 2: Peanut Putter Kiss Cookies
Day 3: A tree for my Marine
Day 4: Chili for the Big Game
Day 5: Blackberry Jam Cookies

The 365 Day Photo Challenge

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A Favorite from Last year

This is it. I’m officially starting the Project 365 project. That means everyday for the next 365 days I will be taking a photograph representing a day in the life in Nebraska.

Why? Why stress myself out? Add one more thing to my day? Many reasons, and I’m going to list them, just for the simple fact that I’m justifying this project.

  1. I love photography.
  2. Improve my photography skills. (hopefully)
  3. Expand my “daily box” outside of work.
  4. Expand my creativity and eye for art
  5. It will be fun, I hope, … (remind me on day 300)
  6. Widen my social media circle and skills.
  7. I love a good challenge me. (Ask me again at day 200)
  8. Give me a vast array of entries for the County Fair (smirk)
  9. Give me a reason to carry my camera with me all the time (I often miss great pictures, because it’s sitting at home)
  10. Improve my Photoshop skills.
  11. Give me a reason to update my blog and use the quick update function.
  12. Create a calendar theme for next year.
  13. Did I say I love photography?

Flickr has various Project 365 groups and here is my 365 Photos- A Day in the Life, Nebraska Style album. I’m sure that when day 30 hits I’m going to be wondering why I started this endeavor. So, comments, hints, tips and encouragement is welcome.

Project 365: Day 6

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A window into Christmas, that’s what this scene reminded me of as I walked by the house from getting my mail this evening. We decorated the tree this weekend, I love Christmas by the way, and I just love my tree. There will be pictures of that to come, you can count on it!

Day 6: A Window into Christmas

Pet Photography

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Professional photographers bring out the envious side of me. As I have been chronically pet photographers on the Dog411 blog I write for Pet and Kennel Supply, I get lost for hours in the  everyday snapshots of life which are turned into photographic works of art.

I love photography and think I have a pretty good eye, but have resigned myself to still life and landscapes because they don’t move. My attempts at capturing my dog Brody ends up in a session of frustration as he moves too fast for my camera to capture the best candid moments. A better camera would definitely help.

But until then here are a few of my favorites of dogs that make me smile. (Click on the picture for a larger view)