Grey world....

A splash of colour.....

Movies we've watched this week......

This was SUCH a sweet movie that we watched last night......just really sweet!!!







I had heard not such great things about Adventureland but I REALLY enjoyed it!!! It's just a simple movie about teen life in 1987. Great soundtrack too (lol):







This movie is so much fun - I kept cringing for the main character because he says such dorky things, but you can't help but like him!! Just a funny, simple and sweet movie - no idea why the fiancee would want to change him though if he is already 'perfect'....seems to me that getting him 'friends' just caused them problems.....







This is a lovely family movie with some very sweet moments - like making pancakes with his Daughter!!! Very cute and definitely worth seeing :)

Saturday morning snapshots.....

This morning LLoyd and I went to Starbucks for breakfast.  We can't figure out why that Starbucks is almost always empty!  We go there quite often and we almost always have the place to our selves!  We sat and chatted for a while and Lloyd had his oatmeal that he likes :)

After coffee we ran to get more birdseed and then we drove over to the Big Brothers and Big Sisters Lottery House to have a look around.  You can see pictures of this house, buy tickets online and see the floor plans HERE.  It's for a great cause!!

After looking around the house, we went for a lovely drive and Lloyd was very patient stopping off for me to take pictures here and there in the lovely snowy weather.

Lloyd refused to look at the camera in the piccy above......sigh...but I wanted a snapshot for my 'January' mini album I'm making.

To cheer me up....

I haven't felt well the last few days - we've had a Colorado low come into the area - bringing with it a change in weather and air pressure....and with that I've had bad migraines that my meds couldn't help with.  Lloyd came home from work early Thursday to look after me, and on the way he stopped off to pick up these beautiful flowers for me!

My finger is also still really sore..it feels bruised too, so typing is still not easy but I am getting a little better at typing with one finger on my right hand.

Thank you Lloyd - the flowers are beautiful and smell so gorgeous.  Love you just so much - you're so thoughtful! xxxx

Believe...

Grassi Lakes

A Disney page.....

Snowflake Bentley....

Some of you who have been reading my blog for a long time will remember my snowflake photography using my macro lens.  The first person to start taking pictures of snowflakes was Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley.  Bentley was a farmer and he first photographed individual snowflakes in 1885!!!!!

Now ten of his precious pictures are coming up for sale at auction!!!!  You can read about the auction HERE and you can read more about the Snowflake Man himself HERE.

Here are a few of my shots from 2008:

Friday Fill-ins.....

1. You have a chance to donate and help Haiti - do it now.

2. I'm eating a bowl of Raisin Bran right now!
3. There is a kitten stretched out and sleeping beside me.
4. I've done no laundry for two days and so i'll pay later.
5. It's time to do my 52 - 10 page for this week!!  I haven't done it yet.  Yikes.
6. celebration plans for this week are up in the air but we'll figure it all out.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to a relaxing evening, tomorrow my plans include checking out the lottery home and heading to the garden centre as well as picking Susannah up from her sleepover.  Laurie is off to the movies with friends and Sunday, I want to stay in the warm as it's supposed to be cold!

Find your Friday Fill-in's HERE

This weeks iphone snapshots....

Little Peeps...

Our Downy Woodpeckers...male (red head) and female...they take a sunflower seed from the feeder then jump to the post and pop it in a crack in the wood and tap it until the seed comes out of the shell!!  I took a few pictures then when it flew off I went out and refilled the feeder!!  There are seeds mixed in with the bread crumbs on the table too....

We call these birds 'Little Peep' and we call the big Woodpeckers (Hairy Woodpeckers) 'Big Peep'....because they all say 'peep'...very cute and lovely to hear....

Common Redpoll's

On Wednesday we had a flock of Common Redpoll's in the yard - they were feasting on the feeders and the bird tables that Lloyd knocked up quickly for me for the deck a couple of weeks ago.....they were very cute to watch.  Abigail enjoyed getting the bird books out to learn all about them - she liked learning that they can slide down snowbanks just like penguins!!!!

A sunset for you.....

lacking in posts

I've hurt my finger and it hurts to type.  I am limited to doing things where I don't have to use my finger much....It's just a silly tiny little cut on the end of my finger but it REALLY hurts and bandaids just won;t stay on in that place - and it keeps bleeding each time it gets knocked.....

I will leave you with a couple of pages I have done lately.  I need to change the frame layers in the 'love' page...as I realised after I had saved the page that the one frame was overlapping.

Anyway...I am off for dinner with Val and her husband this evening :)  So looking forward to it :)