Junie Moon: January 2011

I am participating in the January Photo Scavenger Hunt hosted by Postcards from the Edge, an off-shoot of her 365 Project endeavor. Thank goodness I did not succumb to procrastination and had finished the project before injuring myself Friday.

Warning: today’s post is photo-intensive and will take approximately five light years to view.

Source: Postcards from the P.P. blog

Abandoned Building

A tiny little shed/house/something found abandoned off Beal Parkway in Fort Walton Beach. The Spanish moss somehow makes it seem that much lonelier.

Stained Glass Window

One of the windows in St. Michael Catholic Church (downtown Pensacola, FL) designed and produced by Emil Frei who learned his craft at the Munich School of Fine Arts in the 1800s before emigrating to the U.S.

Goldfish

Not a single goldfish is in residence at my house, so I visited a local pet shop to take this picture.

Yarn

Blue Heron Yarns’ rayon metallic yarn in garnet purchased at Unwind, the Yarn Shop.

Playground Equipment

You can find this playground on the beach behind Angler’s Restaurant on Okaloosa Island.

Library

The downtown main branch of our library has a statue of a reading girl in the front yard.

Tombstone Over 100 Years Old

This gravestone is located at the Jesse Rogers Memorial Cemetery in Mary Esther, Florida. I cannot think of a tombstone as simply an item on a scavenger hunt. Headstones mark the passing of a real person’s life—in this case, Ida Rogers, a three-year-old child.

According to my research, Ida was the daughter of John Louis and Mary Elizabeth Watson Rogers. Three other very young children of these poor parents are also buried nearby. Besides the details easily seen in the photo, Ida’s tombstone reads: God’s will be done.

My Front Door

The custom glass insert was designed and created by a talented artist friend of my mother-in-law’s.

Reflective Surface (not a mirror)

Bottle-nosed Dolphins were feeding on a school of fish in the Destin East Pass between Choctawhatchee Bay and the Gulf of Mexico while I was photographing the reflective surface of the water.

Something Out of Place

We discovered the American flag tangled in a tree branch outside the library as the result of a broken tethering cable. My husband notified the library staff.

Nature

Great Blue Herons on the west end of the beach on Holiday Isle in Destin, FL.

Bubbles

I tried an idea posted by Violet, a member of Photographica, for photographing bubbles. Olive oil and water were poured into a glass bowl; then I whisked the mixture and held the bowl over an orange kitchen towel. To send light up and through the bowl, my husband shined a flashlight on one part of the towel and my mother-in-law aimed hers on the other while I took the picture—a team effort.

And there we have it, my Photo Scavenger Hunt for January.

Monday, January 31, 2011

Photo Scavenger Hunt: January