Three Corners– Nostalgia

Posted on January 31, 2009

nos?tal?gia

[no–stal–juh, –jee–uh, nuh-]

–noun

1. a wist­ful desire to return in thought or in fact to a for­mer time in one’s life, to one’s home or home­land, or to one’s fam­ily and friends; a sen­ti­men­tal yearn­ing for the hap­pi­ness of a for­mer place or time: a nos­tal­gia for his col­lege days.
2. some­thing that elic­its or dis­plays nostalgia.

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I had a lot of fun with the theme this month.  As usual I had tons of ideas but never got around to tak­ing them.  The COLD weather kept me inside most of the time.  GO quick check out Corey and Jenty’s sites– I’m sure they found some fan­tas­tic pho­tos that spoke to them of nostalgia.





A Strawberry Story: The good. The bad. The nibbled.

Posted on June 29, 2008

Strawberry pot

My straw­ber­ries are really com­ing along. Squidge and I water them together and talk about how they’re grow­ing and how they’ll soon turn red and juicy. Squidge is a bit of a strawberry-aholic. The girl will eat her­self sick if I let her. I find this pretty funny as my mother will also eat her­self sick on straw­ber­ries so I think she gets this from my Mom.

The other day we found one that was almost ready for pick­ing. Oooh it was excit­ing think­ing we would be nib­bling on a straw­berry we grew our­selves– nom nom!

Yes­ter­day we went out­side to check on our straw­ber­ries and we found this. NIBBLED and not by us!! We think the squir­rels got to it. I’m a bit bummed out at this turn of events. BAH! I won’t let those Squir­rels win *shak­ing my fist in the air*.

nibbled

Any sug­ges­tions would be greatly appre­ci­ated. I’m also grow­ing these bad boys and I’m keen on actu­ally eat­ing these. damn you SQUIRRELS!!

This after­noon after a quick inter­net search I’ll be going to the gar­den cen­ter to find some anti-squirrel devices.

Also THANK YOU so much for the love on my last post. I don’t know if I’m just hor­monal but I got a tad bit weepy read­ing the com­ments. I’ve stuck to track­ing every­thing I eat and that has been an eye opener. Snack and nib­ble hoooo boy do did I do that a lot. I’m hop­ing the key is just being aware what I put in my gob! I’m also try­ing to eat more pro­tein and cut down on my carbs, not sur­pris­ing I’m a big carb junkie! I will keep you all posted on how that goes. I’m also off to a local ceme­tery a bit later to take some pho­tographs for this months Three Cor­ners project.

Squidge’s straw­berry addiction.

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Exhibit C





Three Corners– May

Posted on June 2, 2008

A lit­tle late but posted none the less. The theme for May was light and I’m not ashamed to say that I found this one dif­fi­cult. At first I thought it would be easy but I had a dif­fi­cult time decid­ing what light is.
I actu­ally looked it up on the dic­tio­nary hop­ing to get some inspiration.

1. an illu­mi­nat­ing agent or source, as the sun, a lamp, or a bea­con.
2. pale, whitish, or not deep or dark in color:
3. Of rel­a­tively lit­tle weight; not heavy

I spent most of May look­ing for light and I finally decided on these.

Man­ches­ter is not exactly known for nat­ural light but I think I did OK.  Please check out Jenty and Corey’s pho­tos for May’s Three Corners.





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