Ohhhh I have some simply adorable pictures for you! I tagged this post with “EXTREME CUTENESS ALERT,” so you have been warned. XD
*Ahem* Violet the barn cat had kittens again! They are the sweetest, cutest things, and very tame too. I only took pictures of two out of the five kittens, but here they are…
I looove the color of kittens’ eyes.
Aww!HA HA! He was getting tired here which makes him have such a hilarious condescending expression on his face. XDAnd there he goes…
AWWWWW!
I looove this picture! It looks like she posed for this shot. XD
So sweet. ♥
ARE THEY NOT THE CUTEST?
Here’s Violet, the mama cat. She doesn’t seem impressed with my photographing abilities… In fact, she looks rather mad at me. XD Maybe she doesn’t like having her picture taken…
Oh, and we found this sweet kitty in the barn the other day! She seems awfully tame for a barn cat, so we don’t quite know where she came from. Anyway, she is such a nice cat – when I was taking pictures of her she jumped up on my lap and settled right in. ♥ I love it when cats do that!
She looks kinda grumpy in this picture, but she was just about to fall asleep. XD
Are you overloaded with cuteness yet? Maybe I’d better stop before you… oh bother, it’s too late.
Oh my goodness, spring is such a beautiful, wonderful thing. ♥ I have taken SO many pictures lately, like I always do in spring and fall; too many to fit in one post, even though you guys said you didn’t mind long posts. It would be a VERY long post. XD Heh heh.
Anyway, today I’m going to post some landscape photos of our farm. I hope you enjoy!
Sometimes we take a little walk/run up this hill before school to get some exercise. 🙂 It’s a beautiful spot!
Our house and surroundings. 🙂 Several of the trees are green(ish) by now.
I love how fluffy and soft alfalfa looks.
Triticale doesn’t look the same, but it’s still really pretty!
AHH I LOVE THESE PICTURES SO MUCH! I DIDN’T EDIT THEM! *Ahem* It’s just the lighting was absolutely perfect, and the scenery, and… ahh. It’s easy to take these views for granted when I see them every day, but sometimes it’s impossible to ignore their beauty. I’m so glad God gave me all this to enjoy! ♥
I kind of like the effect of the sun through dust. 🙂
Can you see why I love spring so much? AHH IT’S SO GORGEOUS! Do you love spring too? Do you have a favorite of these photos?
HA HA HA! How’s that for a title, hmm? Oh dear, it makes me smile. XD
Anyway, as you can tell, I’m going to post some animal pictures today. I shall start with the happy pup, namely our lab, Maggie. 🙂 She’s always so happy and energetic – and cute!
And a B&W version, just for fun. 😉
Now for some fuzzier subjects. Or in Willow’s case FLUFFIER subjects. AHH SHE’S MY FAVORITE FLUFFBALL I JUST WANT TO SQUISH HER! 😀
AWW SHE’S SO ADORABLE! 😀
Okay guys, now this next photo makes me laugh so hard. XD XD XD Is it not HILARIOUS?! She was stretching and yawning (did you know bunnies do that like cats?), and I quick snapped a picture. HA HA HA! She looks like a mixture between ferocious and super happy. XD Which do you think?
OH DOSE WITTLE TEETH!
Olaf and Diamond are best friends, I think. 🙂
Oh my goodness, Snickers is also SO adorable and photogenic! Don’t you think?
HIS CHUBBY CHEEKS!
Clemmie, of course, had to run away and hide to make me use flash. 😡 XD Hee hee!
Oh my, this picture of Lily makes her look HUGE! That’s because she is.
And lastly but not leastly, we have a bunch of rather puzzled cows. XD I remembered I hadn’t really taken many pictures of cows even though we live on a dairy farm (but Dad rents the dairy to someone else so we don’t actually have much to do with the cows). So I took some pictures. 😉
The ear tags tell you who the cow’s father and grandfather (or sire and grandsire) was. Sometimes the names are pretty funny! “Twist” isn’t too bad, though. 😉
It’s so funny how they have topknots. XD
The cows are actually pretty shy, but very curious.
“Hey, look at this! There’s a girl human over here with a strange black clicking thing. What do you s’pose it is?”
“I dunno. Give it a sniff test, will you? It could be dangerous.”
“D-dangerous? Weeell, alright. *Sniff, sniff*”
“And?”
“Blech, it smells like human to me. AHH! IT CLICKED AT ME! IT’S GOING TO HURT ME ANY TIME NOW! RUN AWAAAAAYYY!”
*Shuffle, shuffle* *Nudge, nudge* “Hey, is it safe now?”
“I dunno. You go check.”
“No you go!”
“Uh… she looks pretty friendly to me. A few straws short of a haybale, maybe, but pretty friendly. As for that clicking thing, though…”
“What clicking thing? I want to see the clicking thing! MAKE WAY, MAKE WAY.”
“COMING THROUGH.” *Push*
“EXCUSE ME.” *Shove*
“Okay, let me in, guys. I’ll figure out what it is…”
“Hmm. Hmmmmmm. It looks like a… you know, that thing that clicks, it’s called…”
OH MY WORD ISN’T THIS PICTURE HILARIOUS?! XD XD XD
“*Sniff, sniff* AHA! It says NI-KON. What’s a NI-KON? Do you know, girls? AHH IT CLICKED AGAIN!”
“Wait. Wait, look!”
“Guys, she’s holding something. IT’S GREEN! Green is yummy. Mmm, I want some.”
“But what if it’s dangerous? Maybe it clicks too?”
“Well I, for one, am going to try some. You just watch me.”
“OH MY GOODNESS GUYS IT’S DELICIOUS! MORE, MORE! GIRL HUMAN, CAN I PLEASE HAVE SOME MORE?”
“Oh great. I knew it. It probably has some terrible powder in it to make you hungry for more or something. Sheesh. Humans.”
Hee hee! That was a fun post to write. 🙂 I hope it was fun to read too! Did you like the cow story thing? XD Which was your favorite photo from this post?
Guys, buckle up for a TON of pictures! This may be one of my longest posts to date. XD
It snowed last Monday/Tuesday, and I just went photo-wild. XD I got a few neat pictures of the snow, but most of the pictures were actually of icicles or ice. So anyway, have a seat and take a peek, won’t you?
Phew, I don’t know where to start! Let’s see. I guess I’ll start with some pretty, icy pictures.
Ice:
It looks like rain drops only… ice drops!
Love this one!The poor pussy willow buds got rather frozen. 😦
Next up…
Snow:
It didn’t snow very much, but it still looked pretty!Maggie!Heh heh, I drew this horribly deformed smiley face in the snow with water.
My three youngest siblings made this hilarious but cute snowman. XD After I took these pictures, they made him a “Snow Cool” sign.
They used icicles for the mohawk, a carrot for the nose (obviously), sunglasses for the… uh, sunglasses ( XD ) and a smear of dirt for the mouth.
After most of that snow had melted, what do you know? It snowed AGAIN! (And then melted super quickly but oh well.) The most amazing thing about this snow was the snowflakes. I mean, they weren’t even snowflakes, they were more like snowballs! They were the biggest flakes I have ever seen – a whole bunch of snowflakes bunched into a clump, some of which were quarter-sized or bigger. I tried frantically to get a good picture that showed how big they were, but I didn’t really get any. 😦 I did get some pretty pictures, though!
We have a nice view of this silo from our deck. 😀There you can kind of see how hard it was snowing!Fluffy. 🙂
Ooh, yay! Now I get to show you the…
Icicles
After we finished gathering eggs, I ran back to the house to get my camera. I noticed the lovely icicles hanging from the chicken house roofs, and I just HAD to get some pictures. 😉 I’m so glad I did! It took quite a bit of patience and a high shutter speed setting to capture the drops falling, but I had SO much fun experimenting!
Woohoo, two at once!
These icicles are on our house, and I took this picture at sunset.
And that leads us to…
Water Drops
After I had taken quite a few icicle photos, I noticed that the drops sliding off of them were splashing into a puddle. I decided it would be fun to take pictures of that too! Instead of kneeling down in the wet snow, though, I got a (rather dirty) measuring pitcher from the chicken house, brought out something to sit on, and started taking pictures. This also took quite a bit of patience, like the icicles. I got a whole bunch of blurry or boring pictures for every good one. But again, it was so exciting when I DID get a good one! Hee hee!
(Note: I edited these pictures a good bit – they didn’t look like this straight from the camera. 😉 )
And now for my very favorite one. ♥ Ohhh my goodness I love it so much!
And last but not least, we have…
Everything Else
I took several not-so-snowy pictures that I wanted to include too.
Quite a few robins were hopping around this puddle, waiting for spring to come, I guess. 🙂
I love how you can see his reflection.This was a fun one! I made everything black and white except for the robin’s pop of color.
I was pretty tickled to get this next picture. I saw two robins fighting in the puddle all of a sudden and quick pressed the button – and it actually worked! I love it when that happens. 🙂
This is neat, don’t you think?I rather like this one too.
I shall end with this promise of spring. This poor little beauty was stuck face down in the snow when I rescued her, but she’s still so bright and cheery for all that! Daffodils are such incredibly hardy, resilient flowers that can spring back after even such cold trials as this snow. Sometimes it’s hard to be a daffodil, isn’t it? It is for me…
Aaaaannnd I’m finished! Maybe it wasn’t so wise to put all those pictures in one post, but I just wanted to try and see how it worked. XD What do you think? Was that way too much or did you heartily enjoy seeing all those photos at once? Or are you indifferent? XD
If you actually got through the whole thing, which category or picture was your favorite?
(Update: Woops! Apparently I accidentally published this post before it was finished, but I’ve fixed it now. Heh heh. XD )
Oh my goodness, I took TONS of pictures the other day! Like, more than 100. XD Since I don’t think it would be the best idea to post all the pictures at once, I guess I’ll break them up into a few posts to save your poor scrolling fingers. XD
Oh, and hi, by the way. 😀
Annyway, we have this spot on our farm we call “The Sycamores,” because… well, it’s a row of sycamores. The trees are so big and old and beautiful! I love the white bark.
This seed pod or seed ball or whatever you call it is kind of deformed…
But this one’s better. 🙂I love how the seed balls look like ornaments hanging from the branches!
One tree is especially big and white at the top. ♥
Not all the bark is white, though, especially at the bottom. It’s only white where the bark like this flakes off.
Several cedar trees grow among the sycamores, and while they aren’t as pretty, they’re still neat up close.
Yikes, we found a scary looking thorn bush. O.o
Isn’t it amazing that this feather was stuck in the crack like that? Ha ha, okay, I’m kidding – I put it there so I could take the picture better. XD
Here’s one last tree, but I don’t know what kind this is. And it’s dead. But it still looked really neat against the blue sky, don’t you think?! Ahh, I want to go back and take some more pictures soon!
Alrighty, I guess that’s probably enough pictures for one post. 🙂 Tell me, which picture(s) was(were) your favorite(s)? (Wow, that was complicated. XD ) Stay tuned for the rest of the 100 pictures! 😀
I absolutely love Clara’s random photography posts, so I thought I would try to do a similar kind since I have plenty of random photos anyway. 🙂 I hope you enjoy!
Random Topic #1: Spring
I was about to say that spring is on the way, but then again, it’s 29 degrees outside, so… XD But the daffodils are blooming and the grass is getting green, so you at least THINK spring is here until you go outside.
Ohhhh pictures like this make me happy with the golden sunshine on the green, green grass. So pretty!
Random Topic #2: Bonfire Days
I already wrote a post about a huge bonfire we had recently, but there were a few extra bonfire-related photos I didn’t show.
The fire was so hot that we couldn’t get close enough to roast hot dogs, so my grandaddy though of an ingenious solution! He hauled out some long, hollow metal poles and stuck the roasting sticks in the end. That way you could move them around from a safe distance. XD My uncle and brother, not to be outdone, just got up close to the fire and shielded themselves by putting their jackets over their heads. It was quite the hilarious scene, but it worked!
Oh, and we also cooked potatoes, but the photo of that was terrible, so I decided to leave it out. 😉 But that’s a really fun thing to do at a bonfire: wrap a few potatoes in aluminum foil, poke some holes in them with a fork, and bury them in hot coals from the fire. Apparently we left ours in a bit too long, because they had a nice thick shell of blackened potato around the edges ( XD XD ), but they were quite tasty in the middle! Hee hee!
Isn’t this picture so funny? XD
Megan and I took pictures of each other taking pictures of each other. That was confusing. XD
Aww, Maggie dear!
Another fun thing we did was play with glow sticks. We started by tossing them around out in the field, and discovered that if the person carrying the glow stick ran far enough into the darkness, the glow stick really looked like it was floating when they waved it around. It was so weird. After that, we cracked some of them open and drew on our hands. XD Probably NOT the wisest idea, because there is actually a tube of glass inside glow sticks that cracks too when you break it. So yeah, maybe not a good thing to “try at home”… but it was fun while it lasted! XD And it looked really weird – like you were glowing from the inside out.
Random Topic #3: Eyes
If you’ve followed my blog for a while, you might have noticed that I really like photographing and drawing eyes. I think they’re fascinating, and extra beautiful up close! I had fun editing these photos.
Ohhh my goodness I love this photo so much! This is my friend’s eye, which I edited to look bluer than it really is. (But it is still so beautiful in real life!)
Eh, the pictures of my eye aren’t nearly as pretty, but I like all the different rings of color. 🙂 My eyes are definitely brown from a distance, but colorful up close.
This is a fun angle! It makes my eyelashes look super long, hehe. O.o XD
Random Topic #4: A Beauteous Sunset
Even if you haven’t been following my blog for very long, you might know that I also have a weakness for sunsets. XD I love how they’re all different, but all glorious (well, most of them)! I took these pictures at my grandparent’s house. The sunset was quite unique that night – the clouds looked like a washboard or something!
I edited this one (as you can tell).
Random Topic #5: Yummy Lemon Pies
Mom found this delicious recipe in the latest edition of “The Magnolia Journal” magazine. I tried it out, and it was pretty yummy and VERY rich. 🙂 One thing that we noticed is it could use a little bit more lemon juice next time. I didn’t fill the 2/3 cups super full since I was squeezing real lemons and I wanted to have an extra lemon for garnish.
I am quite happy with how the editing turned out on these photos. They still aren’t anything extraordinary, but they sure are better than this: *shudder* I did lots of different things, but some of the main ones were cooling the temperature of the photo, boosting highlights, and using the fancy focus and miniature effects.
Ugh. 😦
Random Topic #6: Party Food
While we’re on the topic of food… XD
This has been a while – my little sister’s birthday was the middle of January, heh heh. XD But anyway, better late than never, right? My mom always makes us a custom cake, and my sister chose a fox. Mom saw this great idea for a coconut fox cake on Pinterest, and it turned out adorable! She also made fox cupcakes, but I didn’t get pictures of those.
For my sister’s birthday supper she chose bananas as one of her sides. 😀 I had fun playing around with banana “tattoos” to make them more special 😛 It’s actually really simple: just poke holes in the peel with a toothpick, and soon the holes will darken by themselves. So fun!
Ugh, sorry about the bad lighting.
Random Topic #7: Uh… I’m Not Sure What to Call This…
Heh heh. I just had two lonely pictures leftover, which I took on the day of the rabbit photoshoot. So here they are!
Well that was rather anti-climatic. XD
Well, that’s about it, folks! So what do you think? Do you like this kind of post? What was your favorite random topic?
Hello, folks! 😀 How are you guys doing today? Bien, no? 🙂
Anyway, I wanted to show you some pictures I took of a huge bonfire we burned. It was so much fun! Dad collected a big pile of scrap wood and such, and our family and cousins and grandparents came over for a picnic after we lit it. (Side note: isn’t it simply amazing that we had a picnic in FEBRUARY?! I don’t know about where you guys live, but it is so wondrously warm here! I think spring is going to be early this year.)
And to break up the huge amount of pictures, I decided to make this a sort of lyric photoshoot with the words from TobyMac’s “Like A Match”. I didn’t use the whole song; just parts of it. You can play this video if you want to hear the whole song.
Alright, now we can finally start. 🙂
I keep hearin’ people say, “I need a getaway.” We got that getaway that takes ‘em to a whole new place.
Won’t leave us empty, won’t leave us craving more, We found that fulfillin’ fire that they been lookin’ for.
If it’s real, we gotta show it… ‘Cause if it’s not, they sure gonna know it.
You and me, we gotta love. Hold nothing back!
You and me, we gotta love. Strike it up, like a match.
Burnin’ for the world, we’re
Burnin’ for the world,
Burnin’ for the world to see.
You and me, we gotta love. Strike it up, like a match.
I call up all my friends, I gotta let ‘em in I tell ‘em, “take a drink of this and never thirst again!”
If it’s real, we gotta show it, ‘Cause if it’s not, they sure gonna know it.
Burnin’ for the world, we’re
Burnin’ for the world,
Burnin’ for the world to see.
You and me, we gotta love
Strike it up, like a match.
This isn’t my favorite TobyMac song ever, but I still love it, and I think the words are so true. It’s one thing to say you believe something, to say you’re a Christian, but it’s another thing to really act on that belief, to “burn for the world to see.” It’s hard to be a “match” and burn like that for others. That’s something I really need God’s help to work on, because I simply can’t do it on my own. But thankfully, I don’t have to! God is the most powerful spark in the world.
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Well, thank you guys for reading this! I hope you enjoyed the post and the pictures. 🙂 Have a wonderful day, wonderful people! ♥
Our bunnies are wondrously fuzzy creatures who also happen to be quite fun to photograph. QUITE fun indeed. XD The other day Megan and Carmen and I took a few of our bunnies on an outing that resulted in many adorable photos. I hope you enjoy the squishableness!
I shall begin with my large but lovable rabbit, Lily. 😀 She might be the most photogenic of all our rabbits, as you can tell by the many pictures.
AWW! I love this picture. XD
Lily’s squishy face. XD
She has beautiful eyes, don’t you think?
Hee hee! Carmen made a “fort” for the bunnies out of an evergreen branch, and Lily actually loved it.Apparently the fort wasn’t quite big enough. XD
Now we have Clemmie, who is more skittish and preferred to hide under the evergreen trees. But that turned out to be a good photo backdrop!
OH I LOVE THIS PICTURE! I actually erased an annoying branch that was right in front of Clemmie’s face with the clone tool on PicMonkey.
AWWW!
We did manage to put Clemmie in the exercise pen, but apparently she was not impressed…
HA HA! Her expression… XDPoor thing! Megan put her Washington Nationals bracelet around Clemmie’s ears. 😛
And last but not least, we have my adorable flufferpuff, Willow. Willow is simply irresistible in real life, but unfortunately all that gray fur makes her rather un-photogenic. I got a few photos, though!
SO. FLUFFY.
Ahhh I just want to squeeze her!Please excuse the human leg. XD
Oh my goodness I love bunnies so much. ♥ Do you? Which bunny was your favorite? 😉
Allison Marie 