Next week: "Purple"

"Best of Q1" is due tomorrow.

/rl

Fred's Memories

This week, I traded in my trusty Accord Coupe (foreground) for a used S2000 (background).  We generated a lot of memories in the Accord's 108,000 miles, but we're looking forward to lots of new memories in the zippy S2000.

Cory's Memories

Springtime has arrived (for now), so I built Lis some garden boxes in our back yard. Here she is with Maddy, creating some memories of planting carrots on one end of the box.

Also, I succeeded in taking the picture I wanted to post last week.

Mike "Memories"

Sometimes things, symbolize memories.  These 45's remind me of the rockabilly band I was in during college.  When Bob Kerry was Governor,  we recorded a funny song called Rock'n Bob. 
I found someone at work who can digitize them for me, so they came out of storage this week.  Just seeing any vinyl record reminds me of my youth.

Next week: "Best of Q1 2012"

Post your best photo taken Jan 1, 2012 to Mar 31, 2012. It doesn't need to be a photo taken for this contest - anything taken in the first quarter of 2012 qualifies.

"Memories" due tomorrow.

/rl

Fred's Horizon

This was the view over the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers earlier this week (Tuesday morning).  The Mississippi River is barely visible through the fog.

Cory's Horizon

No, this isn't a picture of a dusty lens. However, it also isn't the picture I really wanted to post this week.

Way out beyond the horizon are lots of stars, and ever since I moved to New Mexico two years ago I've had plenty of them to look at in my back yard. It started getting warm out this week, so I decided to break out the barn door star tracker that I built last year just in time for the cloudy season to arrive. My plan was to capture a stunning picture of the Milky Way to post, but Saturday and Sunday nights ended up being insanely windy and quite cloudy. So instead I have to post one of my test pictures from earlier in the week. I wasn't pointing at anything in particular in this shot, so there isn't really much to identify. I've marked a couple of recognizable stars in the flickr image though.

I'll have to come up with an excuse to use this thing again when the weather is a little more predictable.

Ryan's "Horizon"

The western horizon as seen from the hills overlooking Council Bluffs, Ia.



A front was blowing in right as I arrived. It didn't help the lighting any. I blended about 6 exposures to try to make up for it, but the result was rather flat.

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Mike's "Horizon"

Well.  Like I said last week, I was shooting for the wrong week, but I think our two weekend rule is still in play?  A bunch of us got to hang out at a YMCA camp last weekend.  Weather as beautiful as this weekend.
This was the view from the back of our cabin.  I realized, at this point, that the further away the horizon is, the easier it is to get flood insurance.

Next week: "Memories"

"Horizon" due tomorrow.

Voting is a bit out of sync - I somehow failed to post the poll until Thursday. The "Dunk" poll will be active until Thursday.

/rl

Ryan's "Dunk"

Flowers appreciate a good dunking....



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Cory's Dunk

I don't personally dunk cookies in milk, except when I'm trying to take a picture of it happening. In that case, I dunk an entire package of them to get a shot that looks alright.

Mike's "Dunk"

Well, I kind of messed up and was taking pictures for next week's topic this weekend.  I did get this picture on my iPhone though.
We were all sitting around and I noticed these two had on the same two pair of shoes.  The best thing you can do with Nike shoes, is go dunk a basket ball.  For me that basket has to be at 7 feet.

Next week: "Horizon"

I may be out of reach of the internets tomorrow, so I am putting this up a day early.

"Dunk" is due Sunday.

/rl

Ryan's "Down the Street"

This is a monument to the people that once drove street cars down the street in Dundee.



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Fred's "Down The Street"

Paul drove by to help get this shot.

And, yes, that's a rocket ship in the park.

It's an old piece of (now unsafe) playground equipment that has been turned into a large sculpture.

Cory's Down the Street

If you go down the street far enough in any direction from my house, you end up in a canyon. Trails run up and down most of them, and the different trails all have their own unique sights. For example, in Graduation Canyon we find the remains of a car that have evidently been there for a long while. Alas, there wasn't enough there for me to recognize what it originally was.

Here's another angle to help any car buffs out there that want to take a crack at identification.

Mike's "Down The Street"

I didn't get real creative with the topic this week.  If you go "down my street" there is a commons area.  Beyond that is the creek that separates our subdivision into two parts.
There must be rabbits living here because the dogs noses worked over the dead grass pretty well.

Next week: "Dunk"

"Down the street" is due tomorrow.

/rl