Round Robin Photo Challenge -- Food Preparation

Today is the start of another Round Robin Photo Challenge and the subject is Food Preparation. I was making a chocolate cake and had the ingredients out or in the mixer bowl to mix up and cook. It makes me hungry to cook another one! Maybe tomorrow, since it's the 4th of July.



















Here is the batter in the pan, all ready to bake. Yum!



















If you would like to see more of the Round Robin challenge, go to the Round Robin blog linked in the first sentence.

Round Robin Photo Challenge -- Garden Portraits

For this Round Robin Photo Challenge, which comes along every two weeks, the theme is Garden Portraits. I seem to be in between blossoms out there but I did find some pretty azaleas. First, though, is the side garden, with rose bushes that don't seem at all ready to blossom (I think it's been too cold). There is another nice-sized bush along there, too.



















Here is the blossoming azalea. The ones I have are from my late husband, who planted them and cultivated them after receiving the seeds from the Royal Gardener in England many years ago. He was able to sell most of them to a neighboring nurseryman that he had worked for but kept a few for himself.



















The azaleas always bring back memories. To see more Garden Portraits, go to the link in the first sentence. This meme is always fun!

Round Robin Photo Challenge -- Statues

This time the Round Robin Photo Challenge is about statues. I have a few small statues around my place, including the following. The first is of two kitties and the second is of one.



















To see more statues, go to the link in the first sentence and you will find quite a few links to blogs that contain statues.

Round Robin Photo Challenge -- Land or Sea

This Round Robin Photo Challenge, we have the choice of featuring the land or the sea. As much as I love the sea, that was a pretty easy choice. Since I had just been on vacation in Astoria, Oregon, staying on the Columbia River, I had some fresh pictures of the water to share. The first one, however was taken at a different time and place, with the seagulls flying about while I watched.










One of the most enjoyable aspects of where I stayed was the trolley that went by, ringing its bell, much of the day (except Monday). I want to ride in it sometime, when I stay out there again. I'm sure there will be all sorts of views of the water from it.


















I like the views of the ships from my motel room. The Columbia River has a deep channel in Astoria and there is a huge bridge, the Astoria-Megler bridge, that they go underneath. The bridge isn't real close to the motel I was in but I believe you can see part of it in one of the following pictures.



















You can see the other bloggers' preferences, land or sea, if you go to the link in the first sentence and follow the individual links at the Round Robin blog.

Round Robin Photo Challenge -- Anything in Threes

I am back from vacation and ready to play Round Robin again. This time the theme is Anything in Threes, so I went hunting for things in threes. My biggest challenge was to get my three cats all together at the same time.

I got three bananas at once in the following three pictures and a picture of my three grandsons before Emily was born.

Believe it or not, I got a picture of the three cats together, as follows. That is very unusual. I think I managed it by feeding them first. LOL!

Head for the link in the first sentence if you would like to see other things in threes.

Round Robin Photo Challenge -- Look Up/Look Down

This time, the Round Robin Photo Challenge is on the subject "Look Up/Look Down". The best examples I have of looking up and looking down are found in my cats. Here, in the first picture, Socksie is not only up on a cabinet but she is looking up. Then in the next picture, she is looking at me from the top of an even higher cabinet.





















Now for the looking down portion: It wasn't too long before Socksie was on the floor and looking up at me from the cozy carpet, and here she is. Cats are really good at the "Look Up/Look Down" game. X-D!




















If you would like to participate in this meme, go to the Round Robin blog linked in the first sentence. It's a lot of fun!

Round Robin Photo Challenge -- Blinded by the Light

This time, the Round Robin Photo Challenge is on the theme of Blinded by the Light. I found a couple of spots of bright light today. The first was on my kitchen floor, where there was a bright spot reflecting off of it. My daughter-in-law Stephanie had just mopped it so that's probably why it was so bright, as well as because of the light overhead.




















The second bright spot was the sun, just on the verge of going behind the trees to the west. It shone beautifully and my camera picked up on that.


















If you would like to see or participate in this meme, just go to the link in the first sentence. Add your brightness to the rest!

Round Robin Photo Challenge -- Childhood Memories

This Round Robin Photo Challenge is about "Childhood Memories." I thought I had an old bandana from when I was a girl in my then-church's Primary organization to photograph, but I couldn't find it. Mainly what I have left are these pictures. The first one is of my Grandma and Grandpa McClellan -- my paternal grandparents. The next picture is of my family on my dad's side. I am in there towards the left side of the picture. You can pick me out by finding the little girl in the same dress as I'm wearing in the next picture, where I'm with my girl cousins. I am on the extreme left there. The last picture of me is as a littler girl, probably in my 2's, and I remember the plaid couch I'm sitting on very well. It was the one in our house in Logan, Utah, and before that, in the apartment my parents lived in, upstairs from the grandparents shown. I'm guessing that my dad took all except for maybe the first picture, as he was the family shutterbug back then.










Below is a picture of a miniature Lane hope chest I got in high school. It was to encourage me to buy a regular-sized hope chest but my family couldn't afford that. It's just been hanging around here and has been partially broken so that it won't shut right by a couple of cats I know.


















To go see more childhood memories, go to the Round Robin Photo Challenge blog and follow the links as instructed.

Round Robin Photo Challenge -- Water

The subject of the Round Robin this time is "water", and I had to get pictures of my kitty Socksie drinking the water out of the kitchen faucet. I got three of them, and two show her tongue lapping it up. One just has her near the water. She loves to drink out of it!




















For more pictures of water, go to the Round Robin Photo Challenge blog, where you will find links to a lot of blogs participating. If you would like to do the same, you are welcome!

Round Robin Photo Challenge -- Candlelight

I'm a bit late (try 2 days) in posting to the Round Robin Photo Challenge, with the Candlelight theme. Here are two of my favorite candles, all lit and glowing. The first was given to me by my son Tony, daughter-in-law Kamie, and grandsons Michael and Alex for Christmas. This is the first time I've burned it. The outside itself isn't wax; it contains a votive that burns.

The second is from my friend Linda and was for my birthday and Christmas last year, I believe. I have burned it once in a while. It is scented, "Sun and Sand" and is lovely. It's from the Yankee Candle Company. Yum!



















Go to the Round Robin Photo Challenge -- Candlelight to see the many lovely entries.

Round Robin Photo Challenge -- Roots

Hooray, the Round Robin Photo Challenge is back! There has been a brief hiatus during the holidays but we're up and running again.

The theme this time is "Roots", and I have taken that two different ways. The first is roots as in those found in a tree. My trees don't show too many roots, though. This picture was the best I could get.


















The second way I took it was roots as in ancestors, and I have provided a link in the following sentence to a picture I posted on Flickr of my paternal grandparents, Josephine and Charles McClellan.
My grandparents McClellan on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

If you would like to participate in the Round Robin, go to the link in the first sentence of the first paragraph and you will find all the info you need!

Round Robin Photo Challenge -- Shooting in Low Light (Indoors and Out)

Today's Round Robin Photo Challenge has the theme "Shooting in Low Light (Indoors and Out). My low light shots seem to be nearly all outdoors. The first two here are near-sunset shots from my front yard/driveway area, which I love to take.




















This is my now-gone kitty, Chester, up in a flowering plum out front near sunset.
















During my recent trip to the beach, I caught the following near-sunset and sunset shots from my motel room window in Newport, Oregon.



















To see more low light pictures and/or to play along, go to the link in the first paragraph.

Round Robin Photo Challenge -- In Motion

The creatures who are nearest me and who are always in motion are my cats. Here are some pictures of them doing their thing.

Socksie likes to get up on my bedroom door and scrabble around up there. She is doing just that in these two shots.

















Socksie starting to go in the closet, up over my basket of shoes that I can't wear thanks to my bad toes.


















Here are Silver and Stevie in a fight. That's the ultimate of motion among the cats!

















To see the other Round Robin Photo Challenge blog links, go here.