Here's Looking At You, Kid

I was shopping with my aunt on Saturday and ran across these cute kids shoes. Ha!

P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday Week #17 Pelican on the Pier

Week 17 in the P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday photo blog...  This pelican let me get so close I could almost touch him/her.  This was taken in St. Simon's Island, GA at the pier.

Pelican on the Pier St Simon's Island GA

P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday

This is my submission for Week 16's  photo blog. A perfect white gardenia, given to me by a sweet friend... My favorite harbinger of spring with the most beautiful scent.  A few days later, my own gardenia bush started to bloom.  I placed a few blossoms around the house and they smell great!  :)

P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday Week #16  Tonya

P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday Week #14

Here is my photo for Week #14 of the P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday project.  I took this photo at our local art festival (after getting permission, of course).  Don't you just want to touch this beautiful glass?  My husband has bought me several pieces of stained glass, art glass pieces and wood art.  I enjoy them all for the texture and  vivid color.

P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday #13

Here is my submission for Week #13 of the  P52  Sweet Shot Tuesday photo blog.  I could hardly resist capturing this little girl all dressed up in her Disney princess outfit and so full of joy at EPCOT.  Just makes me smile looking at it.

Decorating for Easter

It's taken me longer than usual but  I finally took 45 minutes this morning and switched out the fall / winter decorations in the house and replaced them with some springtime flowers and my homemade Resurrection eggs.  Take a few minutes to add some color and lighten up the inside of your home if you haven't already done so.  You (and your family) will love it!

Spring Easter Decorations Resurrection Eggs

Spring Easter Decorations

Sweet Shot Tuesday #11

Here is my photo for Week #11 in the P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday photography project.  I've missed a couple already but trying to dive right back into it.  I stopped the car today to take this photo of this gorgeous yellow tree in the Florida sunshine.  Love it!  (click on photo to enlarge)

Tonya Travelstead

In looking at other photographs on the P52 site, I saw this on one of them.  How true...

 

There is no camera that can make a picture.

No lens, no lights can make a picture.

Forget about different cameras and accessories, just use what you’ve got.

Only your eyes can make a picture.

Meal Menu Planning

I took about 30 minutes this Saturday afternoon to plan all the dinner menus for next week.  Wow! What a relief.  I don't know why I haven't done this in awhile.  Instead, I've been planning about a day ahead or sometimes (eek!) the same day.

I used a couple of cookbooks I picked up at the library this morning, allrecipes.com and my iCalendar (which syncs to my iPhone).  The menus use ingredients I know I already have in my pantry and freezer, so no more grocery shopping this week except for perishables.

Menu Meal Planning

I hope to keep doing this on a regular basis.  Sure makes life a lot easier and I avoid that 4:30-5:00 p.m. what's-for-dinner-tonight panic!

P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday #8

Here is my photo for Week #8 of Sweet Shot Tuesday.  It's an early spring here in Florida but quite windy. The weather has been changing from hot to cold every few days.  I love the carpet of fallen leaves shown below in the afternoon sunlight but instead of brown, they are a lovely pink carpet--perfect for a princess.  :)

To see my other photos in this year-long photo project, click HERE.

P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday Week 7

I found this dead dragonfly on our porch last week and was throwing it out when I looked a little closer.  Normally you can't get this close to one while their wings are buzzing so quickly.  I was amazing how intricate the design on its wings were...

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...like fine lace...

I was also surprised when I turned it over, it looked like someone who had been laid to rest in a coffin with its little "hands" folded so delicately across the middle.

P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday

God certainly has such detail in His creation.

Isa 41:20 That they may see and recognize, 

And consider and gain insight as well, 

That the hand of the LORD has done this, 

And the Holy One of Israel has created it.