how does he know.....

yesterday tim gunn {from project runway and now the revolution} said that crew neck t-shirts on women are one of the most unflattering things a woman could ever wear. he said if a woman is going to wear a 

t-shirt {god forbid} in the first place, that at a minimum it needs to be a v-neck.

obviously tim has never lived in wisconsin or any place cold for that matter. tonight it's going to be below zero and tomorrow's high a great big whopping six degrees.

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so tomorrow i think i'll wear TWO crew neck t-shirts, one right over the other, to stay warm and to cover up the most flattering part of me {according to tim}....my clavicle. 

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i bet he'd have a heart attack seeing my in my uggs

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i kind of miss the butterflies....

i dropped my camera. on black top. in a parking lot.

thankfully it's fine. 

unfortunately its body now has two scratches. but nothing broke. 

i truly believe the reason my lens didn't break was due to the fact that the lens filter took the brunt of the fall. not the lens itself. if you don't have filters on your lenses for protection. i highly recommend you buy some. maybe tomorrow or wednesday. 

for every lens you own. 

really. i think you should.

two words

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bachelor. train wreck.

okay. technically that's three. but you know what i mean.

you were probably thinking i'd have some wisconsin winter photos to share with you after not posting for three days. or maybe some birds fighting for space at the bird feeder.

well instead i give you "old" photos. as in archived.

i organized photos this weekend. some got trashed. some were moved to my hard drive.

and some i played with. i like playing best of all.

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help...

you is kind

you is smart

you is important

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and

now that i have your attention

what i really mean is 

"the help"

{not help}

as in 

if you haven't seen this movie

you must

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i found this quote yesterday and along with telling you that i think you really need to see "the help" 

i wanted to leave you with these words for the weekend

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"you were born with potential

you were born with goodness and trust

you were born with ideals and dreams

you were born with 

wings

you are not meant for crawling, so don't

you have wings

learn to use them and fly"

rumi

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happy weekend everyone

and

if you've seen "the help" did you love it like i did

the world is coming to an end....

sorry. that's my melodramatic side coming out. the world isn't really ending.

but it is going to snow

all of these photos were taken in the past two days. while it was 48 and 53 degrees.

that's right. record setting temperatures.

and 

now mother nature, who has developed a sense of humor, is going to dump five inches of snow on us. 

with blowing winds. and a high of twenty.

i don't like snow. did you know that.

anyhow

i have a new toy. it's a polarizing filter. 

i normally use UV filters on my lenses, but my friends at the camera store talked me into trying a polarizing filter on my 70-300. and guess what. i liked it.

i mean who doesn't love a new toy. especially a new toy for a camera.

{insert smile here}

want to know how to get a photo like this. 

first you have to find a weed or a flower that is being highlighted by the sun. 

this weed was highlighted to the point of being completely blown out, so i moved my ISO to the lowest number i could, which in aperture mode was 200. then i stepped down my exposure by one full step and then switched my metering mode to spot metering. 

have you ever met a milkweed, dead or alive, that you didn't just fall in love with.

me either

and

this little guy. well maybe modesty is overrated.

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these are non-lightroom 3 photos since our computer with that program is having a bit

of maintenance done. oh well.

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ps...send shovels

hi monday....

thank you thank you thank you

for all the comments left on my last post

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i was asked what my answer was to my own question and now with some thought

i think i'd have to answer "learn"

this past fall/early winter i took a class at our technical collage and i have to say, as scary as it was to be going "back to school" i loved it. i loved learning something new.

so yes, more learning in 2012 would be a gift

another gift at the moment is our incredibly mild winter. 

40's and even 50's have been throwing themselves at us and nobody {well maybe the snowboarders and snowplow drivers} is complaining.

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because i'm curious....

finish this sentence: 

"in 2012, i'm going to                          a WHOLE lot more."

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happy weekend everyone

babies aren't rude...

i've never seen a rude baby, so obviously we aren't born that way. 

so why is it that the adults i run into during my every day errands are. how did they get that way.

is it too much ask for a simple "excuse me" if you walk in front of me, take up the entire aisle with your cart so that i can't move, or run into me. i think not.

everywhere you go around here, someone is talking about the weather. or the lack of.

it has been an abnormally warm and dry winter so far. the birds are not flocking to the feeders, which makes me sad. and i'm not sure who was supposed to eat this corn, but whoever it was, they certainly didn't hoard it. all of it makes me wonder what we're in for the next few months.

we cleaned out our closets over the winter break and i packed my car up yesterday and today and dropped everything off at our food pantry {which gives out free clothes} and the hospice thrift store. 

that makes me feel so good.

and with my word for the year being "reach"

i feel the need to add it in every now and then... just as a reminder

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