College Marching Band

Okay so I have been absent from blogging for a while, it has been a busy summer but as my boys have gone back to school, and I can feel the autumn in the air. I thought maybe it is time to get back to blogging....


There is nothing that says fall, and start of the new academic year like good old football games. But for me, what I enjoyed most was the marching bands. They play before, during, halftime, and after the game. There day on game day starts well before the football players makes it into the locker rooms, and does not end until way after the game. And most of the students on the marching band does it just for fun... no credits earned..... Wow...

This is the first year in 10 years that my boys are not involved in marching band, I am already going through a withdraw...... Ah... maybe, just maybe one will play in the marching band in the grad school next year.... I really miss the sound of the drum line...

Purdue University All American Marching Band will be participating in the Macy's
Thanksgiving day parade, and University of Southern California marching band participated in the Shanghai worlds fair this summer, and will travel to Hawaii for USC's first game of the season......

Fireworks 2010

Last summer I started experimenting with taking photographs of fireworks. Why would I haul all those equipments to take photographs like everyone else... well, the experiment worked really well, and I even had a show to show some of my fireworks shots that turned out well... Thinking that I can duplicate it again, off I went to the same place as last summer... Because of the recent storms we could not park at our usual place, so we had to walk several blocks with heavy tripod, and my gears... when the beautiful fireworks started with a bang I was so excited... yes, I wanted to see the same results... but when I checked, NOOOOOOOOOO...... I could not figure out why it was not turning out as last year, and with all of the stuff I had to carry, I forgot the flash light..... bummer.... Next day we went off to the next fireworks... here... yes.... I brought the flashlight and fixed the settings as the show started... hum.... not quite what I had imagined, but some turned out quite interesting....more can be seen on my facebook page...

Green energy

On I-65 north of Lafayette Indiana, all of the traffic which has been going about 80 mph or faster will suddenly slow down. It is the wind-farm corridor of Indiana. Couple of years a go few showed up right up against the freeway in the corn fields, and now, it is just filled with windmills as far as eyes can see. It is quiet an amazing sight.......come by at night, when all of the red lights on top of the windmill blinks in unison...

Lemonade

Lemonade and Summer... ahhhhh.... My son went out for a run today, and found neighbors girls selling lemonade to raise money for local humane society. He couldn't resist so he grabbed some money (mine) and went out to contribute..... well, it turned out that they were selling lemonade so that they can buy a hamster... he got sucked into by cute girls..... he never learns..... but lemonade, symbols of summer tasted great... he said.....

My sea glass from Cancun

My trip to Cancun last fall was a really special trip. I loved walking on the beach every morning, and just being near the ocean was a joy to me.... on one of the walks I found this sea glass, it is not quiet frosted on the back but this was THE only one that I found the whole week.. When I got back I asked my friend and fellow blogger Jeannine to make it into a jewelry with several of the shells I found .. It turned out just as I had imagined to be... thank you Jeannine.....

Raindrops and flowers...

There is something so therapeutic about rain...seeing raindrops on my garden flowers I could not resist photographing in the rain......

"Colorfest" photography book

Joan Kalmanek, a fellow photographer who I had a privilege of showing our work in "Colorfest" photography exhibit, made the book of our show. It is a glossy 9 1/2 x 8 soft cover photography book with all of our photographs that we had it in the show. It also includes our biography, information about our reception and the cover of this book is actual images from our postcards that we had sent out... Thank you Joan... I will treasure this forever....

Bleeding Heart

I am so sad to report that right after this photograph was taken there was an accident and most of the flowers on this bleeding heart plant were ripped off. I am so thankful that I was able to capture the beautiful little pink heart shaped flowers while they lasted. It shows that we have to treasure every minute as life is so precious.....

Candy Factory - Albanese

Albanese Candy
Factory Outlet store is where everyone, no matter how old you are, turns into kids. First thing I noticed when I walked in was all the fun colored candies that every bin was filled with and melted Chocolate were pouring down from top of the tall column. So sweet.... I did not plan to buy anything (... not) but came out from the place with three pounds of Gummie bears and Gummie worms. They are just the right firmness and filled with tons of unique and tasty flavors..... many people knew exactly what flavor they wanted but me I choose a garden variety to be hand packed. They are sold by the pound and really reasonably priced. There are also chocolate covered goodies that smelled wonderful.. Unfortunately I can not eat chocolate so I only got a small bag of double chocolate covered peanuts for my hubby.....

Amazing animals .......

Is this for real or is it Photoshoped?





















This is for real.. these animals are the real things.....