Up and Away (Day 20 and 21)

ugh, i'm so not proud of these two pictures, but the "ugh" kind of describes this past week. it's the first week getting back into gear at work. and then you look at the past year and the numbers you are responsible for and then, yikes, or oops, my bad. i really want to do a good job this year, but it doesn't help that my numbers are pretty unreachable. i guess i'll just take it and run with it. and see what happens.

this is on my drive back from montgomery yesterday. for some reason, i didn't feel the need to take my camera out for all of montgomery's downtown capital beautifulness, but took this out the window shot. i call this, my "oh crap, i haven't taken my picture today" picture.

and then there's this. so laura, what do you do with your leftover candy canes from your christmas tree?...oh, i put them in a wedding mug and then take a picture of it. geez. and i keep using this same under the cabinet lighting that makes everything look orange. you think i'd get a little more creative...and i promise i will. there are so many cities that i go to during the course of a week that have such pretty things to photograph.

red-nose 5k tomorrow. hopefully it'll get above freezing before 8:30!! then on sunday, it's off to arizona to watch my Tigers play, so there'll be a small blog hiatus!! but will come back with more pictures than you can count! have a good weekend!!!

Days 18 & 19

i hope you all are happy with this top picture, because i damn near killed myself to get it. i really wanted to have my nikon with my new lens on it to get this shot, but figured i really would get killed if i tried to pull that one out and put the lens on it. this is shot from downtown birmingham getting onto I-20/59. this is looking south toward downtown. the sunset was beautiful over the skyline of birmingham, which is what i really was trying to get, but the lights under the overpass ended up looking pretty neat.

this is a shutter from downtown birmingham on morris avenue. it looks way better in black and white than it did in color, although i love the color of old bricks.

we're leaving for phoenix in 4 days to go to the national championship game. i'm pretty excited. i will definitely get some good pictures from this trip. i'm hoping to get some good ones of the sunsets in the desert. i'm no professional, but it would be beautiful either way.

Day 17

let me introduce you to wilbur. he joined our family about a year ago. bennett bought him for me at an antique store for get this.... $1.02!!! i saw him and he looked so sad just sitting there, all on sale and no one to love him. i don't have a particular love affair for pigs ( i'm a rooster girl, hence the lamp in the background!). i know it's another around the house picture, and i promise these will stop soon. i drive all around the state of alabama for my job, and i need to start capturing some of that.