A Photoblog Tour & Challenge

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What a diverse and beautiful mosaic of images, no?

It just so happens that each of the above images came from a different photo-blogger.

Can you pin the photo to the blogger based on their individual photographic style and/or content?

Let's have a little fun and see if anyone can guess them all correctly!

Here is the list of bloggers who contributed one of the above photos

Even if you are not familiar with a particular photographer

please take a few minutes to browse through their blog, say hi, then come back here and leave your guesses below

On Blogger blogs, the "dynamic" view has been linked for easy browsing.

To leave a comment on their blog, just delete /view/mosaic in the URL window to get to their homepage.

Tilting at Windmills: http://rayfamilyfarm.blogspot.com/view/mosaic

Journalling Through Photos: http://journallingthroughphotos.blogspot.com/view/mosaic

Chance of Sunshine: http://chance-of-sunshine.blogspot.com/view/mosaic

Be Yourself:  http://moredoors.blogspot.com/view/mosaic

Long Hollow: http://barbarashalluephotography.blogspot.com/view/mosaic

Louisiana Belle: http://louisianabelleforever.blogspot.com/view/mosaic

Nessy Designs: http://nessydesigns.blogspot.com/view/mosaic

Lady Fi: http://ladyfi.wordpress.com/

Creating a Life of Beauty: http://christinemyoung.wordpress.com/

Jillsy Girl Studio: http://www.jillsygirl.blogspot.com/view/mosaic

Now...off you go

and enjoy the photoblog tour while you're at it!

It's guaranteed you'll see some excellent photography!

Have Fun!

**Special thanks to Jill for all of her hard work organizing this fun photoblog tour!!

Caught Jumping

 I have to apologize for not being horribly chatty the last few days, but we do have family in town.  As you can see, I let the kids play hookie from school yesterday to spend some time with Grandma and Aunt Sissy.

Even though it was blustery, the sun was shining and the kids convinced Sissy to join them on the trampoline.

As with any of us adults who first get on, there is a period of time trying to find balance, and then giggling with every jump.

What's left is fun had by all around, and me catching the incriminating photos and posting them in blog land :)

Life is good!

Letting Off Some Steam

It has been a crazy busy weekend with prep, soccer, family coming into town, rain and blustery cold (you know it's bad when the weather where my SIL originated from in Portland was MUCH nicer than here)!

So after more than two hours in church this morning and after a two hour rehearsal yesterday, these second grade first communicants needed to let off some steam!

It was a full day, and this evening, though incredibly windy, the sun has come through! Hope you had a wonderful weekend!

The Men of the House

Charles is a very hands on kid.  So when presented with the opportunity last night to help dad get the ramp for the chicks put together, he was all over it!  It was a heart-warming moment on a soul-warming balmy night with a hint of lilac in the air.

First whack of the thumb.  He gritted through it, and bit back possible tears, yet did not complain once or want to stop, just kept working.

Lining it up.  Charles is a total switch hitter.  He is absolutely left handed, he writes left handed, shoots a bow and bee bee gun left handed, yet he throws right handed and hammers quite effectively with both right and left hands....though I think the left hand is dominant.

Proud daddy looking on at the progress.

I know I get frustrated when a nail goes sideways, but oh no, he perseveres.

Teamwork and bonding 

at the end of a warm day, priceless.

What's Undercover?

When I looked at this picture the first thing I thought was *wow* there are a lot of things covered up here!  The row covers are covering all of the beds, warming the soil so we can plant.  The milk cartons are covering up all of the peppers that we planted today.  They are much too large to keep in the house or cold frame now, so they now each have their own little greenhouses.  The white cover is protecting our cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower from flies who like to lay eggs at the base of the stems, which lead to the dreaded root maggots. Then, the black plastic in the foreground, is suffocating out weeds in the new expansion area.  So, there is a whole lot of undercover work happening in the garden right now!  If you would like to read a little on the companion planting I did today head over here.  Happy Monday!