Sixteen

While I was out of town this week for a meeting of the National Association of Junior Auxiliaries, the NAJA Executive Committee spent some time working with children who were ill.  This precious child was one of the only ones we were allowed to photograph during our time there. She was so precious and kept telling me she needed a bandaid.  The only problem is that the disease she has cannot be healed with a bandaid.  Thank you to the ladies of NAJA who donated over $2,500 to this charity who works with children who are affected by or infected with HIV/Aids.  God bless these precious children. 

Fifteen

It has been raining in Mountain Home for a week. Today, I had to get out to take week 15's picture or it wasn't going to get done.  I've been watching this old truck in a field for several months.  I love it and I happen to know it belonged to the dad of a friend of mine.  I thought it was especially cool with the stripes of rain on the old blue paint.  I hope to go back for more shots when I don't have to wipe rain drops off the lens...maybe this summer!

Fourteen

There is an old ghost town in Calico Rock.  Cool old abandoned buildings abound.  I took several shots in front of this old feed store on my way back from Mountain View on Sunday.  You can tell the top was down on the car, as my neck and face are sunburned and my hands and feet are not!  It was a beautiful day for a ride down Highway 5.

Thirteen

I pass an old tire swing on my way to work every day.  Today, I stopped.  

The house is for sale and that tire swing looked so lonely! 

Twelve

The sun is out and the daffodils are in full bloom!  This weekend I didn't have to travel far to find a beautiful field full of daffodils.  I wish I could have picked them all, but that seemed greedy.  A handful was plenty to take home and enjoy the sweet smell and sunny color indoors. 

 

Eleven

I had to be in Philadelphia, PA, this week for work and wanted to shoot some photos while I was there for the 52 week project.  All over Philly, I set up shots with nothing spectacular turning up, mainly because I didn't have a tripod.  When I got home and searched through the photos for something to use, this hit me -- it looks like a typical vacation photo -- heads cut off, random people in the background, etc.  So, I gave it a 1960's hue and called it a week.  The funniest thing about the whole shot was how I was posing, setting up the camera on a window ledge, and a woman asks me in a very irritated voice to move over so she could get a shot of the crack!  I'll laugh every time I see this picture!

Ten

I almost let the week slip by without a picture this week.  As I was walking across campus, I saw a bench in beautiful light, sat down and shot a photo using the garbage can as a tripod.  I love the cast of light in this one and especially the way it turned out in black and white.  Sometimes, no plan is a good plan.