Twenty-Third Week: Down low: Focus 52

Ok... week twenty three. Down low. I kept thinking it was 'look down' so I'm kind of between the two themes. Or at least most of my pictures are the looking down of being down low....



I do like how this one came out. This was from a walk around downtown that the son and I took this morning. We were walking past 'Kitchen Queen' and he asked what this was. I explained that there were some stores that had things placed in the side walk and this was one of them. So we both took some pictures of it.



My memories childhood were coming home and finding things changed around. My adult memories are going to my parents house and finding things moved around. Mom loves to play around with the placement of the everything. I love how their living room looks like a model from the loft. This is the view of their redecorating, looking down from above.



The view of a grocery store is so different from the top than the bottom. When you're there, it's shelves of products and boxes. But from the top you can see the down low of it all - people shopping and choosing, children freaking out, people working the deli, roasting chicken and spooning salad. The storage boxes on the top of the shelves shows how much is kept in one space. I love this view.



Of course, looking down, down low, there are flowers beginning to bloom. Some are wonderful.



This was a planning holdover from last week - I took it last Sunday after I already had submitted my pictures. The blue stood out to me, which of course was the theme for last week. We were in Winners and I looked down and there were these tables - great colours, great patterms. This is the view after I moved them around and made them how I wanted them.

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Twenty-Second Week: Focus 52: Blue

Yay! A theme that is simple but yet can be so complex. Blue.

I took a few pictures that went with the theme. These are what turned out enough that I liked them (can you tell I'm getting anxious to get my royalty cheques from a project I'm working on so I can upgrade from my Elph to a SLR?)

First, I decided to play with colour accent on my camera:



Nail polish display, only blue highlighted.



I had to go to a graduation this week and this was the view from the building. Very blue. I took pictures of this building a while ago as well - here and here and here. Fantastic building for colours and pictures.



This week was not a pretty week weather wise. I spent a lot of time freezing - it was so cold. Today was the first good day. This picture was taken when I was longing for a blue sky.



The guy I love. In his blue half cabs. Doing something he loves.

I have to say, I'm looking forward to summer when I'll have a little more time to play with taking pictures and themes. Yay teaching summers.

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Twenty-First Week: Line it up - Focus 52

Well, I lined up a bit. In my brain at least. Here's what I submitted:



This is a stencil that my son did at his after school program. The teacher taught him about lining up his stencil and chalking it onto the sidewalk. It's a t-rex. He was so proud.



The ultimate kid line up. Monkey Bars. I love how the primary colours look in the sunlight.

The next two go together:





I love how make up looks in in the store - ironic because I don't wear loads of make up. I do wear nailpolish and I am always struck by how it's lined up - gradually changing colours, themed collections and the contrast between "old lady" and "punky teen" colours. I wonder who buys what and what people have on their toes when no one sees them vs what they have on their fingers. The line up of colours of make up is always good for a ponder.



Here I did not line it up. I was cold, mom loaned me socks and a sweater and I realized how many lines were going on. I love these sock so much. I have blue ones that are very similar to it.

I liked this prompt very much.

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Twentieth Week - Focus 52 - No Theme

There was no prompt or theme this week. This was both good and bad. Good because I didn't have to tie together a bunch of pictures on one topic. Bad because I worried about my pictures more and hoped that they'd be ok. With a theme at least I know they're topical.

This is what I submitted:



My new coin purse.



Flowers at the parents house.



Orange Tulip



The trees are budding.


My mugs.

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Ninteenth Week - Focus 52 - Feminine

The theme this week, I have learned, is feminine. I only found this out yesterday and I looked to see what I took that could fit the theme. See, I spent this week in DC hanging with Obama (seriously - he was at the Newseum when I was!!). So here's my feminine takes, after the fact:

The ultimate feminine, in my opinion:



Eleanor Roosevelt. I take a picture of me with her every year.

From the same memorial:



The FDR memorial is my favourite, and not just because it has the only statue of a First Lady in DC. It is beautiful. This face was one in the wall representing the victims of the depression. She stood out to me so much.

And a mother and child duo, kinda....



Representing the mama and babys of the zoo. So beautiful - I love how even wicker can care.

And then, two that I submitted to the pool that weren't on the them, but I really liked:



The sky through the leaves at the zoo



Dusk at Lincoln.

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Eighteenth Week - Focus 52 - May Flowers - Quick Post

Well, this needs to be quick. I'm leaving for DC with a group of kids tomorrow and well, I'm not ready. Luckily I just added two pictures this week and that's really all I have for this week. I didn't really stick with the theme - May Flowers - as this week has been so super crazy. Anyway....



Given that I'm gone tomorrow, I got my Mother's day flowers today. A lego rose, a real rose. So beautiful both of them. I also got a letter in the mail from my son telling me how beautiful I am. I love that kid of mine.



It's the husband and I in lego. This makes me giggle when I see it in my office!

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Seventeenth Week - Focus 52 - April Shower, May Flowers

The theme this week for Focus 52 was April Showers bring May Flowers. I couldn't put many pictures up because of the limits - next week I'm off on a student trip very early Sunday morning so I can't post with good timing so I'm just working with what I have.

Anyway, anyway, anyway. Enough on that. The theme.

I thought about what it could mean and I could come up with two major definitions and one literal meaning. Gotta love that English degree.

The first was that hard work pays off - putting up with unpleasant things and then you have beauty. And so ....



Store your acorns, save up and eventually you're chubby and can survive. Save up for winter, put up with the hibernation times and then you'll get a chance to eat as many acorns as you stored. Put up with the hard times of storing and starving and then you have a beautiful spring to run around and be a charming lithe squirrel. Right now, I'm the chubby one. Here's hoping I make it to spring and become the lithe squirrel I was meant to be :)

I also thought of the literal - it's Spring. Flowers are springing up, trees are beginning to bloom, grass is getting green. Here in NL things are show in this process but they're happening. And so:



Flowers. Beginning to bloom. Found during a walk around a pond. We can do that now - the snow is just about gone!

And finally, the final meaning I thought of - put in the hard work in the beginning and then it pays off. My son, my now seven year old son, reading:



Instilling in him a love a reading at a young age means that he will hopefully become an adult with a love of reading.

Ok, some of these were stretching it a bit. Fun theme, busy week.

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