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Strapping on the Old Tool Belt
Project 52
Week 17//52
Week 17- OLD
From : Catcher In My Eye :)
For more than 35 years, my husband, has strapped on his old tool belt...
His talent is to take 'nothing' and make it into 'Something'... using refurbished wood and repurposed scrap and turning trash into something useful! He has the eye to turn salvaged scrap wood into a piece of furniture as well as taking an out -of -date house and making it one that has curb appeal! He was 'flipping' houses when those HGTV guys were still in diapers! :)
He was self-taught. He was just out of college...He didn't KNOW what he didn't KNOW! He always has had that CAN DO spirit... I don't think that anyone ever said to him, "YOU can't do that! ".... I have never heard him say, "I can't."
We are living in our third home built by my husband... and we remodeled every home inbetween those homes. We have been in this home since 1993. Way back then, my husband buckled on this tool belt and in his 'spare time' built his family a home with his two hands and a few tools. By the sweat on his brow... and a strong back my husband built our family the home we live in today. He framed and sheet rocked our home alone and with the hands of a skilled carpenter, he crafted cabinetry and furniture for us, his family. All three of our kiddos got bedrooms with window seats and I had MY DREAMHOUSE, a house with a front porch swing and a screened back porch. :)
The acreage, that we all called, THE LAND, was turned into, OUR HOMESTEAD. The land grew a horse fence and a barn, a tree house and a fishing pier at the pond. Ten years ago my husband's 'Can Do' spirit built a dance stand, and long tables for our first daughter's wedding. Our family was growing.
We prospered by the 'fruits' of my husband's labor... Our land and home has a history, our family history.
As we begin another remodel, I reflect on our many years in this home ...
We have grown from a family of five to being blessed with 2 sons-in-law & a daughter-in-law as well as being grandparents to 7 grandchildren. We are not called Mom & Dad anymore but are affectionally called Gram & Poppy.
As I begin dinner in a kitchen that is about to be remodeled again, I THANK GOD for Poppy. God lent us a carpenter... and he carved us out a blessed life in the home that he built for us.
For this week's photography group theme, we were asked to show something OLD.
My first thought was a self portrait. I feel old. But than as I stood at my kitchen window last night and watched my husband on a high scaffold, framing a new family room for our ever-growing family, I had to laugh as I remembered the expression, "We aren't getting older, we are getting better." Poppy only gets better with time. He is like fine wine, "better with age."
As the last of the evening light fell below the neighboring hill, I watched my husband, unplug extension cords, kick off his muddy shoes, set down the tools of his trade... and unbuckle his OLD tool belt again, signaling the end of another day.
"Poppy" is home. He is MY home.
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very ornate shoe box mini cake design for client. This design is not complete yet.
100% edible
each box serves 2
Whilst mourning the bike & not getting out climbing... I am left to drown my sorrows with the delights of waterdroplets!
In the honor of the sakura season I decorated my office/guestroom in pink and cherry blossom theme! :) See more here: zerudaswonderland.blogspot.se/2014/03/sakura.html
I usually look at the Macro Mondays weekly theme after the uploads have already started. This week, I happened to notice this on Saturday night, and it really interests me. A number of themes bear repeating, and some I missed completely. I hope to spend some time reviewing this list to see if any themes capture my mind or my delight mode.
This shot was taken with a 14-24mm lens as I was perched on the safety steps of the lift hill, a great shot though.
Camelot Theme Park was a resort and theme park located in the English county of Lancashire (the last operating season was in 2012, the park did not open for 2013). The park´s theme was based on the famous legend of Camelot. It was located on a 140-acre (0.57 km2; 0.22 sq mi) site[2] near the village of Charnock Richard, 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Chorley.
Clouds, unfortunately, was the theme of the day in Indianapolis, IN during the solar eclipse which really ended any serious prospect about processing highly detailed and deep solar corona. There was a considerable opaque layer of high level clouds that obstructed the entire sky. Despite that, I was still able to bring out some detail in the corona, although not as much as I would have liked if it was perfectly clear.
I've heard the expression, "That's like comparing apples to oranges". They must be opposites.
Strobe info: Two Vivitar 285 set at 1/16 power. One above and slightly left. The other is at camera right. There's also a small slave flash shooting up from bottom right and bounced off a large white reflector.
The challenge was trying not to get any bright reflections off of the apple. The orange was easy to light with the textured skin.