Full Circle 365: May 2015

5.30.2015

5.27.2015

MaryFran May 27, 2015 (147/365)

Shepherdstown, WV

This is not the greatest picture, but a start. I have lost my photo mojo....picking up one of my cameras has been a chore and pretty much non-existent lately. Honestly, I've picked up a camera for paying gigs. (I just did prom pics, weddings, bands etc). My love of photography kinda got lost in the shuffle of all of the mess called life. I used photography for so long to ease my pain (camera gear is cheaper than therapy I always said) that when my sadness started to lift the camera became almost unbearable to hold (Can a camera suck up the pain?) maybe I'm afraid of that hurt that I had for so many years. Anyway, I'm going to try to rekindle my love again......but for ME.....and not as an escape.

SO this little gem in my horrible picture. It was just sitting on the road as I drove home from dinner with a friend. The picture...taken through a windshield, with my camera.....yes, not the greatest photographic work...but hey, I saw something that interested me, that counts for something right now!!!!!!!

Thanks for having me in the group!

Carol 148/365

Broken.

5.26.2015

Carol 147/365

Tanya 146/365

This is just the contents of my daughter's room. Two more weeks until the move!!

Tanya 145/365

I guess turning 13 is hard work!!

5.25.2015

Carol 146/365

Rain down.

Historic Yates Grist Mill

5.24.2015

Tanya 144/365

Anna and her friend say "cheers to 13 years". Happy Birthday Anna!

Tanya 143/365

The birthday girl. She got a new cell phone, some software to draw on her computer, but what she the most excited about? Purple gumballs!!

Tanya 142/365

Anna's cookie cake. Our house officially has a teenager!

Carol 145/365

NC Arboretum

5.23.2015

5.22.2015

Carol 143/365

Tanya 141/365

The 6th grade clarinet section. Anna's the blonde in their with the glasses.

Tanya 140/365

Anna at her band concert. I had to stand up, she had to stand up, and still this was the best smile that I received from her.

Tanya 139/365

Anna's band instructor. She's a feisty one. This was when the 7th and 8th grade were playing. She had the 6th grade wait outside after their performance as they were rude, disrespectful, and just wouldn't stay quiet which I can see for her outburst here. Today, she made the 6th graders clean the band room. Every chair, vacuum, scrub every instrument. She was pissed!! It was warranted thought and it was mostly Anna and her friend dancing around being disrespectful. Anna had tears of which her band instructor saw. She told her that she had to punish everyone and not just her otherwise it wouldn't be fair and asked if we're going to follow directions next time. OY!