Exterior – End of Week 6

Exterior – End of Week 6, originally uploaded by _K1_.

Just missing the metal trim siding along the bottom of the house (to keep the snow melt off the wood).

krotstan – End of Week 5 06-12-2009

End of Week 5., originally uploaded by _K1_.

Started the siding today. Windows are in. Electrical is almost done.

House with Shingles 06-05-2009

House with Shingles, originally uploaded by _K1_.

4 weeks into the project and the roof is shingled.

krotstan – Taking Shape 5-19-2009

Taking Shape, originally uploaded by _K1_.

Week and a half into our project and they’ve completed the exterior framing for the downstairs.

The Color Purple

sdscotto – Bellagio Fountains

Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas

krotstan – Day 7

Day 7, originally uploaded by _K1_.

Foundation poured and driveway roughed in with pipes laid underneath. Tomorrow they may start the floor joists.

sdscotto – Death Valley #1

From Ron’s and my trip to Death Valley back in April.  I had originally discounted this photo because of the wind blowing so hard as to make the Palms blurry.  However, in looking at it a week or so ago I decided it added something to the photo.  I really would like to go back (in winter!) on a calm night and try this again.

sdscotto – Alaska ‘Shroom

When Ray, Kim, Kim and I went to Alaska in 2007, we went on an ATV adventure through a forest.  These mushrooms were all over the place and I thought they were really interesting.

sdscotto – Las Vegas

I was going through some of my other photos and wanted to share.  Maybe we can continue to share photos here without the pressure of _taking_ the photo daily? 

I really miss all of your photos.

krotstan – Breaking Ground

After the first day, originally uploaded by _K1_.

Results after just the first day. A huge hole in the ground!

bruhaha

one of my daily pic challenges got into an online article =)
http://substance-abuse-recovery.suite101.com/article.cfm/living_with_an_alcoholic_who_isolates
direct link

heh. the author ran across it from my flickr site and asked to use it. yippee.

so did everyone go kaput?

it’s may 2nd, n the last post were april 29 =)
i think come next week my life will be back to normal. hurm. need new pic ideas.

Mike – Ominous – 4/29/2009

No Sun for you

In less than 60 seconds from the time Diana spotted this amazing sunset, I missed the shot of the orb.  No post processing and the clouds were just as seen here.

Diana – Cheating

This is a pic I took of Lucky Jim on a day when I thought another pic was better.  I took it with the landscape view on my camera and I didn’t think it looked like much until I saw it on my computer.  I hope what you can see is how brilliantly blue the sky is here.  It makes me aware of how dingy the sky is in SoCal.

I miss everyone’s pics too.  I took the worst pics for this challenge but I bet I learned the most.  Besides the basics of learning to upload to my computer, crop, eliminate red eye, turn off the flash on my camera and use the different settings, I learned something more fundamental.  I’ve never been a person who takes many pictures or even really thinks to use my camera.  After this challenge, I look at the world with different eyes.  I can’t help looking at something and thinking wow, that would make a great pic of the day, something I never would have thought before.  I’ll never come close to the technical capabilities of the rest of you but I’ve become comfortable with my stupid little point-and-shoot, and I hope that translates into using it more and capturing at least some of the significant moments that otherwise would fade into oblivion.