Sunday, March 02, 2008

weekly winners




Tess Art





Through a glass Weirdly




My favorite chunk of mountain around Tucson -- that notch, there to the left.







The Sun Also Sets



The Top Hat (my lovely daughter) smacking some skulls. It's a school play, not phone camera fights in the park stuff.


East End
West End
The graffiti on this train said "Im Rick James Bitch". Perhaps someone needs both a couple apostrophe and a shot of self-esteem. Or a comma.


He's not sneezing. He's just a dork.
(We walked the dogs. It was more of an adventure than we were expecting. Lots of great photos of the action here and here.)




I got out of the shower. I noticed this drop of water (I didn't taste it or anything, so I am just assuming it's water. There are three kids and two dogs in the house, but this leaf is five and a half feet off the floor...Let's just call it water.). I messed around with the flash and the nature macro and macro settings on my camera...(isn't that kinda greedy, having both macro and nature macro settings, when some cameras don't even have one?).



Don't mess with Mesquite. Trees, that is.
They can be quite painful. I know this because Abe the WonderDog dragged me under a low-hanging one just before he stepped on a snake and got attacked by a pit bull. Abe and I sometimes have rather adventurous walks. (I know. I used this line earlier this week, but I like it.)




Weekly Winners is the fevered brainchild of Lotus. Lots more weekly winners, and quite likely shots of her adorable son's bottom, here!

32 comments:

  1. Oh, what cool pictures! The last two are just fantastic!

    Very good post. Have a great day!

    (My post)

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  2. I can't see your first two pictures. I love the "water" drops.

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  3. Hey, Tasina...Blogger has been acting up lately...And it was water! It was water!

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  4. Okay, I posted those first photos again...I hope they stay this time...stupid blogger.

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  5. Anonymous12:42 AM

    I can't see the first two, either, but I do love that supposed water drop. Playing around with the macro thing is my favorite, too, probably because if you gave me a "real" camera where I had to do it myself I'd have zero clue. Love all these shots!

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  6. Anonymous1:15 AM

    Julie,
    I am loving your photos. All of them.
    I love your dog though. He looks like he has caught the wind in his mouth!
    The B&W! Amazing and the drop of water and the Tess art. Wonderful. Different perspectives and an escape from my mundane.

    PS Just wanted to say, thanks for all the gorgeous comments you have been leaving for me about my Ivy girl.

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  7. Anonymous1:15 AM

    Julie,
    I am loving your photos. All of them.
    I love your dog though. He looks like he has caught the wind in his mouth!
    The B&W! Amazing and the drop of water and the Tess art. Wonderful. Different perspectives and an escape from my mundane.

    PS Just wanted to say, thanks for all the gorgeous comments you have been leaving for me about my Ivy girl.

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  8. I love them Julie, all of them, but your comment on the graffiti really made me smile!
    And I've read about the adventurous walks earlier this week ..
    Scary huh?

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  9. Beautiful ♥ the glorious sunsets and the water drop is awesome.
    Very talented - I don't know about macro and micro but it is impressive.

    My WW is up
    My Little Drummer boys

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  10. Great pictures! I love the water. Having five pets myself, I will wholeheartedly agree with you, it has to be water! ;)

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  11. Wow! Some great shots. I think my favorite is the middle palm tree one.

    Have a great week!

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  12. Anonymous8:11 AM

    Your pictures are all sooooooooooooooo great, that I can't pick a favorite. I do especially love the trains and mountains, though.

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  13. Anonymous9:08 AM

    wow that dog has a loooong tongue!
    Love the mountains shot and the raindrops too :)

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  14. All so beautiful. I loved the "fight".

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  15. first two palm tree snaps! AMAZING colors...I sure miss that. Here in VT we don't get much of that. I also like through glass weirdly--cool shot!

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  16. Anonymous10:02 AM

    Those sunset shots are beautiful! I also like the water drops.

    Very cute dogs!!!

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  17. Oh you have two big dogs that need long walks too! :)

    Thanks for visiting my blog!

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  18. Look at all the fun stuff you have going on! Love the sunset pictures, it's one of my favorite photo subjects.

    And I hope to have a camera with a macro setting (even though I have NO idea what that is) very soon. I'm looking to upgrade. Any suggestions?

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  19. I like the "waterdrop" :) And OMW at the fighting scene, I read that caption twice.
    Mines here... http://jentyrambling.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/weekly-winners-8/

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  20. Remind me not to walk the dogs with you!! :) I love the distorted picture of the kiddo through the glass. Neato!

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  21. I really like all your pics this week Julie.. You looked like you had a lot of fun putting them together..

    the sky is all blue and white stripes here this morning.I am trying very hard to ignore it. I have zillions of photos of blue and white stripey skies..

    Noooo cant concentrate must photograph sky.......

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  22. =4






























    Wow! So many great pictures!

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  23. I love ALL your photos:) I can't wait for it to warm up here so I can go out to take some photos!!

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  24. Lovely shots.

    The plant? It is transpiring, so it's just excess water. Is it a philodendron? Nearly impossible to kill, if it is!

    Woman with a Hatchet

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  25. Hey, Woman with a Hatchet -- it's still alive, after being in my house for a year or so, so it is impossible to kill. Because I kill everything.

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  26. I can see the first pictures now and I'm glad! Tess is very talented.

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  27. Nice! I love the water drops!

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  28. The shots of the sky are gorgeous and the leaf water drop is neato.

    I love the train shots, too! And a random Dave Chapelle funny does my heart good. :-)

    I'm Rick James, Beeotch!

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  29. Love these pics - the sunsets I see all the time (in phx)..for some reason the kiddies' pics really moved me. Took me back to when I was a youngster ;) Are you in Tucson??? Hmmm. Not sure if I knew this or not.

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  30. Anonymous1:55 PM

    Yay, the ones I couldn't see before are now there, and I *love* the first one!

    If you feel like playing along, you've been tagged!

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  31. Anonymous9:25 PM

    I love those sunset photos!

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