{SOOC} - Beauty

Head on over to Life on Delgany Street and link up to this week's challenge - Beauty.  I've just recently taken my 'professional' camera back out (I was afraid to drop it in the winter!), so I've only a few shots.  However, I captured my baby penguin right after nap time yesterday...she's my beauty.

Come have some creative fun!

Raw(e) - Fall

Next week's photo challenge is FALL!  I have just the shot I want to share too:

 It was taken during one of the first 'dates' with Mr. Penguin.  I love fall.  LOVE IT!!  And this is one of the few shots I've loved straight out of the camera -  as in the photo is exactly what I hoped to capture.

(I'll see what else I can capture this weekend.)

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Photo Roulette Friday - __(9)

This week for photo roulette we get to pick the folder!  Then it is the th photo in that folder that gets submitted.  I couldn't pick just one.  LOL  The 9th photo in some of my folders were just too great, and so very random from one another, not to share (but the first one will be my entry).  So here we go:

This is the hot air balloon that Mr. Penguin and I rode in for our 1st anniversary back in 2008 - before it was inflated.  It was about 5am in this shot and the team was about to turn on the burners for the hot air.  This ranks as one of the best experiences of my life to date.

I hate winter.  I hate snow.  This is the amount of snow we received in March 2008.  The trucks started filling the mall parking lots with snow as there was no where else to put it.  I was SO ready for spring/summer that year!

This is my wonderful man walking his step-daughter to the Peggy's Cove lighthouse for the first time.  She's so little here!

This is baby at the sugar bush this year.  I love the colours.

This is one of my shots from our first trip to Kingston.  The reflections are from the building across the water.

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Photo Roulette Friday - 10(7)

Mr. Penguin and Monkey playing in the snow at the condo. March 2008.

Photo Roulette Friday @ Mischief and Laughs!

Raw(e) - Back to school

...or STARTING school, as it is for my big girl.

This shot was taken last Tuesday on her very first day of kindergarten.  My baby, all grown up!

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Raw(e) - Yellow

This week:

YELLOW

 

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Have FUN!

Remember:

Straight out of the camera shots ONLY.

Link up to your ONE photo so that people

can find it easily and you can win!

 

 

Raw(e) - Mirrors

This week's theme for Raw(e) is mirrors.  Quite the theme to jump in on!  Well, my first thought was of a picture I took of my eldest when she was learning to brush her teeth.  It was taken with a film camera and I'd have to scan it, so it didn't really qualify.  Bummer.  BUT!  I recently made that picture into a scrapbook page for an album and took a picture of that (to send to a friend) which was taken with my digital camera and untouched.  So I'm using it.  :P

Our office

I put up Mr. Penguin's Father's Day gift today...

I love it!  It looks as good as I had hoped.  :D  His side of the office is coming along nicely...mine is still a work in progress.  I have some art projects to complete and some more organizing to do, but it's slowly becoming a wonderful Penguin office.

*hugs*

Can I go home?

This is unedited - but it still makes me feel like I'm right there sitting on the rocks.

Can I move back to the ocean yet?

*hugs*

Balloon ride.

I came across our balloon ride photos this afternoon as I scoured my laptop for photos for my scrapbooks...

 

Mr. Penguin and I took a hot air balloon ride on what we call our Independence Day (ie - the day we both changed our lived for the better).  What an experience!  We were the only people (us and the 9 others on board) who got to see the sun that day -- it was cloudy in the city.  Amazing.

 

It was freeing and thrilling and wonderful...PERFECT for the occasion.   

These I am printing.

 Our Independence Day is still a few months off, but it got me thinking about what I'd like to share with my man this year.  We've talked about rafting -- that would be fun!  Last year I gave birth to our daughter...not exactly planned for the occasion, but it was an adventure of sorts!  We'll see what we can come up with.  

I believe trying new things and just experiencing what life has to offer as a couple brings an element of excitement to the relationship.  However I write this from my office on a Saturday in which we've done nothing but crawl out of bed, eat KD and then browse the web...so take it for what it's worth.

*hugs*

First trip home in 2010.

The Penguin family heads back East a couple times a year to our home town.  We look forward to each and every trip.  The first for 2010 is coming next month!  :)  It'll still be cold and probably still have snow...but we'll see OCEAN baby!  And that's all that matters in the end.

There is nothing like the smell of salt water.  *sniff!*

It's the last trip before I go back to work, so it's extra special.  Visiting friends, touring the sites, seeing some family...what a way to end my mat leave!  We're also bringing baby penguin to see the lighthouse for the first time.  It's a 'rite of passage' of sorts in the penguin household -- one me and Mr. Penguin treasure.

I think I'll be dancing a little bit more in the coming weeks...bring on March!

*hugs*