Michael's "Decay"

You can slow the decay of your teeth by brushing every day!
Thank God Sandra reminds me to do it!

Danelle's "Decay"

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I went hiking with my friend Pam and we got lost on the trails. We eventually ran into these old railroad tracks that were decaying. It is fun getting lost and seeing what you can find!

Coreen's "Decay"

Decay - the best place to find decay around here is in the refrigerator.  There is the possibility of a lot of decay in there.  I found these too yellow delicious apples in the fruit drawer.  
I think they are in the first stages of decay.  Probably almost too decayed to be edible.

Next Week "Wings"

Since I forgot to put up the poll for "Charge" voting will last until Tuesday, and we will make the "Decay" topic due on Tuesday.

Coreen's "Charge"

CHARGE!!   I wanted to go down and take a picture of the big vapor cloud above the North Omaha OPPD Power Plant but it was too cloudy yesterday.   I think that cloud is result of a very big charge.  The FEDS would probably have arrested me, a grandmother, for trespassing. 
So I got a picture of Bonnie and one our squirrels just before the charge.  I had to take the picture from my dinning room window in order not to interfere with the charge. So the quality is poor.  But you can be sure there was a CHARGE!  I just am not fast enough with the camera to catch the actual charge.  Bonnie just about got the squirrel and would have had she not been tied.

Michael's "Charge"

The plasma lamp was invented by Nikola Tesla after his experimentation with high-frequency currents in an evacuated glass tube for the purpose of studying high voltage phenomena, but the modern versions were first designed by Bill Parker. Tesla called this invention an inert gas discharge tube. Wiki
Anyway... If you touch the glass the "charge" is more attracted to the spot your fingers touch.

Next Week "Decay"

Charge is due Sunday night.

Michael's "Suspense"

My photo involves the railroad too.  We went down to the Model Railroad show this weekend and wandered around a bit. 
What does this have to do with "suspense"?  I always feel a lot of suspense when a train is going into or coming out of a tunnel.  I suppose you would feel more if you were a passenger, but do like the displays that have lots of tunnels and bridges.

Coreen's "Suspense"

I stretch the rules on this one.   I took a picture of a picture that I have been trying to throw away for a long time.  But there is so much "Suspense" and interesting history in it that I have not been able to get rid of it.   It came from my Grandmother Nielson's house.   She inherited a lot of things and wealth from the people that she was maid to most of her life from the time she was ten years old.  There is a novel there.   Anyway, this picture says so much but leaves so much out???  
This is a pre 1900 photo. Mr. Beattie, my grandmother's employer, worked for a railroad in Council Bluffs.  Probably the U.P.  But that is not what the map on the back wall says?  Also on the wall are the photos of two beautiful shapely women.  Are these 1800 pin-up?  Interesting!!   Look how this man is dressed.  Look at his shoes.    He has no phone but a Morse code machine on his desk.   The big "funnel" over his head is probably the heating system.   But he does seem to have an electric light.   Look at that wonderful roll top desk.  It is kind of messy.  See the file cabinet.  Look at the latice waste basket.  Check out the hair!   Was he happy in his job?  He looks pretty fit.  Is that an ashtray on his desk?     On an on??

Next Week "Charge"

Suspense is due Sunday Nightish

-mvm

Danelle's "Best of 2010"

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Sorry I am late!!!

Elizabeth's "Best of 2010"

We went to Mt. Rushmore in October. It was cool to see the faces. We went on a walk that led pretty much right below them and it was cool to see them from that angle.

P.S. Have you ever noticed that their pupils are square pegs?

Coreen's "Best of 2010"

Last summer, we visited the state of Idaho and found a lot of interesting and strange places.  The strangest place was the Craters of the Moon National Monument.   It is a huge lava field that spreads for miles as the result of several volcanic explosions.   It is not pretty but very interesting.   We walked all through the field on paths and then climbed a lava mountain that reached about 1500 feet.
We took this picture from the top of that mount.  It is difficult to see the end of the mountain and the beginning of the landscape below because they are all black.  Some of the astronauts that went to the moon trained here because the landscape is so much like the moon.  It was really a hot day and the black lava rocks radiated that sunlight right back to us.  It was surreal.

Ryan's "Best of 2010"

Returning from a long hiatus....

I was going to post the same photo I used over on weeklyphotography, but I decided to spread my luck and post this:



See why I'm afraid of her?

/rl

Michael's "Best of 2010"

I used this photo for the topic "domestic" on the contest I do at Weekly Photography.
I liked it so much, I had Shutterfly blow it up and plan to hang it in my "Man Cave".  I saw this car on a trailer near Lincoln on Hwy 6 the day we moved Andy into his apartment.

Next Week "Suspense"

"Best of 2010" is due Sunday Night!

-mvm

Coreen's "Tales or Tails"

Tales or Tails?  - I went for "Tales".  I always read fairy tales to my children and grandchildren.  Now I am reading them to Christina.  She loves them and we say them together.  They are very old rhymes and stories but children seem to relate to them.  
Like the Dr. Suess books, the sounds of the rhymes seem to have meaning for children.  Mother Goose books usually have wonderful illustrations that help the "Tale" along.  So my photo is a photo of a page from the Mother Goose book - a book of wonderful TALES.

Michael's "Tales or Tails"

Danelle and I never made it to the zoo this week like I promised her, but we had lots of fun anyway!  This left me a little short on photos of tails.  Though I'm sure there were tales to tell.
For the price of dog biscuit, I got these two to pose for me.  The camera adds ten pounds!

Next Week "Best of 2010"

Just any picture you took in 2010 that you really liked for next week!

Tales or Tails is due tomorrow night.

-mvm