PAD 2011: March 2011

03/30/11 - Lori

Peace
Here's an example of a PAD that was NOT taken for photographic technique. There are so many other things I love about this photo, taken from my bedroom upstairs looking down at my fur-babes sunbathing. I sometimes watch Cassie sleep and find Peace in doing so; I found myself watching these two this afternoon and feeling Peace as well. A few other comments:

- Let's address the obvious: the first flowers of Spring!
- I am very proud of our decision (aka, MY decision) to bring Dixie into our lives when we did so that our Coop would have a companion once the baby came. I am so happy these fur-babes love spending time together.
- I love that despite living on a busy street in a small house with many issues, I have a fenced-in yard where my fur-babes can be free to enjoy themselves without restraint.

There were about 4-5 more reasons I had in mind when I snapped the photo, but it's tired and my head is blank.

03/29/11 - Amy

"Viking Dinner"
Guess who made me dinner tonight? And it was AWESOME.

03/29/11 - Lori

Improvising
I decided to hook my laptop (which has LR) to my monitor. It's amazing, the difference in the display - I need to transition my photo work to my desktop so I can use a real monitor and not just my laptop.

03/28/11 - Lori

Crossing Guards

03/27/11 - Lori

We are working on portion control.

03/26/11 - Lori

DRIVE

03/28/11 - Amy

"Spring"
I was so happy to see this tree blossoming outside my apartment building. And I was even more happy to see the blossoms reflecting in Minnie when I went out to photograph it!

03/25/11 - Paul

Independence

03/24/11 - Paul

03/23/11 - Paul

Pulled Over to Puke

03/22/11 - Paul

Shelley and the Sandcastle Playground in Lincoln City, OR

03/21/11 - Paul

Shelley, Jack, and a TBM Avenger

03/20/11 - Paul

Anne and Tim

03/27/11 - Amy

"New Coffee Maker"
I got a new coffee maker this weekend, at the half-off sale! Even better - it has this lovely REFLECTIVE surface. I wasn't sure if I should get it, but I knew it was meant to be when I saw that it fit in with my PAD theme.

03/26/11 - Amy

"Amy in Art"
Today the Viking and I invaded the local art museum. He quite enjoyed it, which made me enjoy it even more. This is me, reflecting in one of the sculptures.

03/25/11 - Amy

"Forgotten Photo"
I was brushing my teeth when I remembered that I forgot to PAD today! So I grabbed my camera and looked for a cool shot. It's just my phone, one of those antique-looking ones, but with push-buttons. Not the coolest shot in the world, but at least I didn't forget! ;-)

03/24/11 - Amy

"Hitting the Books"
This was my Thursday...working on a paper that I will be presenting at Cambridge in another week or so!

03/23/11 - Amy

"Leaving Work"
How did I get 4 days behind in PAD??? It has been a crap week, of little sleep, and, well, crap. The good news is, it is much better now, especially after a record 13.5 hours of sleep last night! :)

I took this one as I was leaving work on Wednesday. The clouds made me think of Lori...you call them 'decorative clouds' or something like that? Well, not exactly these - I think you call them that when they're more puffy, but anyway, they made me think of you. It was a gorgeously sunny and warm day that day, and the sky was beautiful as I was leaving work.

03/25/11 - Lori

Story Time

03/24/11 - Lori

When I visit the dentist, I sit for about 30-45 minutes chatting with Dr. Cambria (Nicole) and Rachel, sharing baby pics & stories before going under the pick. It's like visiting old friends who happen to stick sharp pieces of metal into your mouth.

03/23/11 - Lori

Gratuitous Kid Shot

03/21/11 - Lori

This is the only photo I took today. Couldn't even balance my white in LR. :(

03/20/11 - Lori

Alice

Future PAD-er maybe?

03/19/11 - Lori

When did I get 5 days behind on PAD?? Oh yes, it was when I stayed up all night with teenagers only to come home and find my Lightroom to be corrupt.

(no Paul, there is no back-up - stop winking at me!)

I shall have to post unedited pictures for a while here - WOW it's like that dream where your high school is looking at you naked.

Speaking of high school, this is our High School Youth, bonding at midnight over The Princess Bride and a game called Quelf which is essentially a drinking game -- luckily we had hot chocolate to drink! ;)

03/22/11 - Amy

"More Reflections"
Not as good as I would have liked the image to be (I wanted the reflection of the desktop to be clearer/brighter), but I got tired of playing...

03/21/11 - Amy

"Where's Amy?"
I originally started to take this picture to send to my parents, to show them the new dress I got in the latest Monsoon sale, and I noticed how I kind of blended in with all of my books, like on the pages of Where's Waldo?. OK, maybe not, but that's what it looked like to me!
And the image has been overexposed in the post-edits on purpose, for effect :)

03/20/11 - Amy

"Supermoon"

03/19/11 - Paul

Princess!

03/18/11 - Paul

Carrots and The Hand!

03/17/11 - Paul

Pilgrims

03/16/11 - Paul

The Boys and the Ladies

03/15/11 - Paul

Key

03/19/11 - Amy

"Blurry Chocolate Chip Pancake"
Blurry, but oh well. It's the only picture I took today. Sorry to be a bore with yet another food photo! But I think that any day that starts with a smiley-faced pancake staring back at you has to be good, so I thought I'd share! :)

03/18/11 - Amy

Flat Maia and Flat Mekai spend the day doing History of Art at the University of Aberdeen.

03/18/11 - Lori

Sanity

We all have things that keep us sane at work, for Carmen it's music & her hubby Jake.

I saw this PAD opportunity as I was at Carm's desk today. She was just working away with this set-up to keep her going. Thank you Carmie for letting me use your Droid Incredible for this PAD, since my cameras were at home and my Palm Pre takes yucky photos.

(ahem, notice my Sharpie instructions in the back ~ my peep's desks are covered with those)

03/17/11 - Lori

Corned Beef & Cabbage

It was my first time making it, and Jim said it came out great.
Bleh, I'll take his word for it!

03/17/11 - Amy

"Lunch"
Yesterday ended with a Sundae, and today began with one...well, two, actually :)

03/16/11 - Amy

Look who I thought of last night! :)

03/16/11 - Lori

Looking Up

03/15/11 - Lori

Fizzy Tub Colors

Amy, if these are not sold in Scotland I will be happy to ship some to you just for the PADs that might come from them on your end!!

03/14/11 - Paul

This is how I feel.

03/15/11 - Amy

"Tea for Two"
Well, coffee for one, tea for one. Guess who has a big presentation tomorrow? And guess who is being a supportive girlfriend (or trying to be :) ?

03/13/11 - Paul

Yogurt, Anyone?

03/14/11 - Lori

The End Is Near .... on Friday we FINALLY switch from Dish Network to DirectTV. Although we are going from one Satellite to another, we are optimistic that our service will be better. In the spirit of Gratitude, we've had terrible/spotty/no service since January and we've discovered that we really do not need to watch TV as often as we used to! We often opt to keep the radio on instead of TV. Cassie is at the age where a lot of parents plop the kids in front of the TV and so far, she has no regular TV-routine. She'll watch Elmo videos online but that's about it.

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