Smiles

One joker holding another joker, lol.



Kinda creepy too though.

French Quarter walks

Lowe's buckets make good drums?











We don't have hot dogs carts at home, lol.





Seems most of the silver paint in the US gets sold in New Orleans.

San Francisco de Asis Mission Church

We had a wonderful time exploring Taos, New Mexico! This mission was built over a period of years, 1772-1815 by Franciscan Fathers. It was the subject of four paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, and photographs by Ansel Adams and Paul Strand. Georgia O'Keeffe described it as, "one of the most beautiful buildings left in the United States by the early Spaniards."



We visited after dinner, as the sun was beginning to go down. The lighting was not quite what I had hoped.





Real adobe - how cool!



The doors - so welcoming!





The water drains from the roof into little pools.





Catholic offices.







We loved the blue against the adobe, if we had one we think we would use it.

Musical Legends Park

When you visit Cafe Beignet you get to also visit the Musical Legends Park and I loved me some beignets so I visited it a lot.

Wish gas prices were still that low

We found this old station somewhere along a Colorado road, thought the pumps were really cool.

Macro Monday Me

Do you know how hard it is for a right-handed person to take a photo of their own right wrist? lol So, this is my butterfly number 5, representing surviving the first 5 years after cancer treatment. My friend Leanne designed it for me, she's awesome! There is a "5" in it, see it? Before taking this photo I didn't realize it's still peeling, lol. Macros are fun!



This is my survivor's tattoo. The Chinese symbol stands for "to live" or "to survive", to do "survivor" would have been three symbols. From there I'm adding a butterfly for each year of survival, and a little blue star for each year of marriage. I'm now up to 5 butterflies and 8 stars - these 2 anniversaries are 1 day apart so it makes it easy to do.



See that's how it's all together. I think I need some dots from the little butterfly to the big one to help tie them together more, and I'm thinking about a little scrolly thing at the head of the big one to kinda finish it off. From now on the small butterflies will be added to the other side, spiraling up my arm. Heck, even if I live to 90 I don't think it'll reach my elbow. Can you imagine a 90 year old lady going into a tattoo parlor!? lol

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. :) MM started on Sept 29, 2008 - THANX to all of you for helping make it such a fun start to the week!

I think I see a heart in this rock, and that's one of my favorite shapes!

Happy Father's Day!

Hope all the fathers out there have a wonderful Father's Day!



These are just some more birds I found while poking around in Louisiana, lol.



Most of these I don't find up in Wisconsin.