Ho Ho Ho Happy Holidays (Macro Monday)

Can you believe how quickly the time is flying?! A few more days and Christmas is upon us!

We added this adorable mouse in a mailbox ornament last year. I love getting Christmas cards in my mailbox, don't you?!

When we got our tree this year we found animal couples. We decided to add a pair to our tree and we chose the alligators. Now that might seem an odd choice, but there were no appropriate Wisconsin animals. There were lions, giraffes, elephants, but no deer, bears or badgers. So we chose the alligators since we were married in south Texas and we were able to see them wild there.

I also found a Santa riding a dragonfly, who could resist such whimsy?

Have a Holly Jolly week! :)

Macro Monday is easy to play, snap a macro (or any close-up) photo, post it on your blog and come back here and sign MckLinky. Don't forget to visit each other. :)

Birds of the tree (Macro Monday)

I love to add new ornaments to the Christmas tree each year and last year I added a few birds. This little bird clips onto the branch.

This year I added this flamingo, just because I thought he was zany!

They look pretty happy on the tree, no?

He's even smiling.

Macro Monday is easy to play, snap a macro (or any close-up) photo, post it on your blog and come back here and sign MckLinky. Don't forget to visit each other. :)

Tis the season (Macro Monday)

I hope you don't get bored of Christmas Ornaments, I have a few I would like to share over the next few weeks. :)

I love snowmen! So I have a few of them on my tree.

A cheery Christmas smile for you!

Macro Monday is easy to play, snap a macro (or any close-up) photo, post it on your blog and come back here and sign MckLinky. Don't forget to visit each other. :)

A Volunteer Pumpkin (Macro Monday)

This summer we discovered a little weed by our front steps.  We watched it grow into a vine, then we watched it flower, eventually it put on two small pumpkins, one didn't make it.

The weather changed and the vine started to wither.  I ran out to snap a few shots of the mysterious pumpkin before plucking it.

Smaller than a baseball, a tiny white pumpkin.  Wonder where it came from. . .

Macro Monday is easy to play, snap a macro (or any close-up) photo, post it on your blog and come back here and sign MckLinky. Don't forget to visit each other. :)

Macro Monday - Pink Magic

Fall is definitely falling all around me but I hope you don’t mind if I just hold onto summer a little longer.

I grew these from seed (and my son swears my thumb is brown since I killed a cactus), but I have no clue what they are.

I love the lines in the petals and the touch of blue in the centers.

Don’t you?

I can get lost in there. Notice that little bulb in the center, covered with many tiny balls?

A few days later and a sunnier day, that center dealy (technical I know) has sprotted nice frillies!

Nature is mystifyingly magical!

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Just sitting here blogging

I was happy when Gattina jumped in and said she would host the next Fun Monday because I was starting to panic, worrying about who was going to host and if I should just maybe go off on my own and start posting a "Macro Monday" like I have thought about doing.  Then, she goes and asks us something so revealing that I still almost didn't sign up.

By Sunday, I am sitting here thinking, 'Wow, where did the weekend go?' and 'What the heck, I'll reveal what a disorganized mess I am.'  Honestly, I blog from many, many places.  My husband travels with his job and I often go with him.  So I might be blogging from a motel in Door County or a Starbucks in Lake Geneva, I might be offline preparing a post or photos while sitting in the car while hubs is in a plant.  Sometimes, I prepare a written post on the PDA while waiting for him.

Often I sit in bed and blog, or if I really need some place to concentrate I move to a chair in the yard.  The yard is great place to think, communing with nature while my wheels turn.  But there is another place I blog and read blogs and scrapbook and make cards and . . .

So there it is, in all its glory, my desk!  I've made a few cards this week and trusted that you wanted my desk as it set today, no preparing it, scrubbing it down and cleaning it off.  Yes, my laptop does still fit on it.

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Guess what, hubs updated our Newdae Photography Website, if you have a chance maybe you can pop over and check it out?