Christmas Day 2009

The flight of the helicopter

Dad's Christmas Sweater

Socks!

All I want for Christmas.....

Prisca through a window

Three pages for Christmas 2009 so far. More to come as I find the time to do them. Happy Christmas to all of you!

Orchid Plant

Denis sent me these great pictures of their Orchid plant and this is what I did with them.

Erik Hockey Game

We went to Saco to see Erik play. Took lots of pictures that were mostly mediocre at best. Even on the sports setting a lot of the pictures are not really sharp. Must be doing something wrong here.

Thanksgiving 2009

We were so busy cooking and eating that we forgot to take enough pictures. This gives you an idea however on Thanksgiving dinner 2009. Hope all of yours was wonderful also!

HBK in a Bottle

I liked this cabinet and putting Homer inside the bottle was cool.

Boxed Memories

This was fun to do with the box and some leaves that I photographed and extracted.

Grass Hay or Straw

I haven't put up any pages lately because I have been working on albums for two different people. One is now done and the other nearly so. I very seldom go out for a walk without my tiny Nikon in my pocket in case I see something interesting to photograph. One person's interesting is another's boring.

New frame technique

Learned something new today so used this photo of Denis.

Den and Joyce

Den sent me these pictures from a Halloween party the went to last week. Doesn't Den look great as a ganfsta and Joyce is the perfect Flapper moll.

Kennebec Valley Regional Cross Country Meet

This was so much fun. I hadn't been to any kind of Track Meet in years. The Spies twins are Juniors in High School. Alex was my confirmand when he was in the 8th grade and I have kept an eye on his doings ever since. Kate is the journalist and has quite a few articles published in the local paper.

Artists Bridge Sunday River

This bridge is only one of 7 left in the state of Maine and it has not been used for vehicle traffic in years since a new one was built just upstream from this one. I had fun taking pictures from various angles. What a wonderful birthday I had!

Birthday Trip to Screw Auger Falls

These four pages are all of Screw Auger Falls in northwestern Maine. I had never been there so of course neither had Homer. Off we went for my birthday day away while Mary stayed with Dad. WE had a wonderful day!

Phalaenopsis

That's the name of the orchid plant. It is gorgeous and the picture can't do it justice. Putting it next to the door for the photo shows how big it is.

Carriage Lane Colors

One more page on this rainy afternoon.

Railroad Bridge

Another day, another page! I'm working on two different albums for friends of mine so every now and again I have to make a page for me.

Just Look Up

I took a long walk yesterday while Homer was napping and pointed my camera up. Gives a different perspective!

Old Topsham Mill

Fooling around with stuff this morning and made this artsy page.

Panorama 1

Panorama 2

It was a sparkling day so I took my camera to the little park near the river on Maine street and did these panoramas.

Hummingbird Plant

This plant attracted hummingbirds all summer long. The photo on this page was taken on Sept 24 . It probably won't have time to get much bigger than this now that there is a chance of frost over the weekend.

Boat Tour in the Thousand Islands

These are the pictures from the boat. Some are too far away but this batch was good enough to scrap.

Sunset Sept 09

Quite a view from the deck of the rental cottage

Lacrosse Goalies thirty years apart

I've been meaning to do this page for weeks and finally this morning I was inspired to do it.

Inner Harbor

This is the last of the pages from the Whale Watch trip.

Boothbay Harbor

It's hard to believe that I never knew this footbridge even existed!

Biking

This page speaks for itself.

The Great Whale Watch Trip

We had a great time on the Pink Lady out of Boothbay Harbor last month. The boat was about 100 feet long and held 149 people. The afternoon that we were on it I guess there were about 80 people.

Cooking with Christine

We had such a good time making this dessert. It had about 1000 calories per serving but was well worth it as a splendid treat!

Summer Flowers

I keep taking pictures of these flowers hanging on my front porch since they are so amazing.

Kennebunkport Panorama

Part of our July Staycation was a trip along the shoreline. Had a late lunch in Kennebunkport at Federal Jacks thanks to a gift certificate from Bruce and Fran. Turned out to be a great day after a foggy rainy start.

Midsummer

My garden may be small but I'm constantly fiddling with it and tweaking it. Right now it's quite beautiful.

Cloudy Day

We have been having more clouds than sun hence this layout.

Flowers etc.

Tried some new techniques and came up with this 9 picture grid.

Rooms in the Olsen House

Last one for a while.

The Wyeth Center

The Olsen House

Two more pages from the Farnsworth trip.

oops

Looks like I sent this twice! Not the one I meant to do!

Farnsworth Museum

More from our day out to the museum.

Pride

Here's another page from the Farnsworth museum trip.

4th of July

I did this page a few days ago but forgot to post it. It was the first real summer day we had had so far so we sat on the porch and just vegetated most of the day!