Sunday - Wednesday Alphabet...

Today is Wednesday and the letter B...

I was going to do books, or bottles, or bleeding hearts, but then I noticed the blueberry bushes sitting in paper Cub bags on the porch that David bought the other day.
Hmmm blueberry bushes start with the letter B!
If they have any chance of surviving, they will need to be planted real soon. I think I'll put that on his Saturday list of things I want him to do (not including things He wants to do).
I really hope they don't die, I love blueberries. We had really good luck with them several years ago, then they started to die off, one after the other. We ended up getting several little ones two years ago, and they are struggling, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for these.

Kira is joining me in the Sunday - Wednesday Alphabet, stop by and see what she came up with.

Sunday - Wednesday Alphabet...

My camera decided I needed to start another photo challenge. It knows that I need the practice and without an actual challenge to make me pick it up, I will find other things to do (it knows me so well). So, I noticed some people were photographing the alphabet and I figured that sounded like a super idea.
Kira has agreed to play along, (I think our cameras had their own Skype date, made their own plans, then put the idea in my head!) They're tricky like that.
This is what we/they came up with: Starting Sunday, which just happens to be today, we take a picture/pictures of the first letter in the alphabet and post it, then on Wednesday, we will post the next letter and so on until we come to Zzzz.
They decided this set-up would keep them happy and maybe we would get better..snicker!

Here is what I decided on for the letter A - Architecture


Be prepared for picture overload...I thought she might like to see Minneapolis again...it's been awhile.

 

P.S. This is open to anyone else that would like to play along, just let me know and I will add your link.


Wednesday...the letter B

Linked 52 - Trees

I'm thinking that there are going to be some fabulous photos of beautiful trees from all the other ladies.

I've realized I am not a photographer, I just take photos for fun, which is okay with me. For this weeks word, I was looking around my yard and noticed that we have some sorry looking trees, oddly shaped, tilted, dead branches, so I decided to go with the odd, strange, non-perfect trees and find some damage to photograph.
Almost a year ago, we had a pretty nasty tornado rip though the area near me and even though some of the trees have been down, cut up in chunks, split and chipped, there are still a bunch of trees that are down, leaning, broken, and split that have been left to Mother Nature.
I took a little drive and photographed some of this left over damage. These are near Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden.

These following few are from shortly after the tornado, further north along the Mississippi River.

(I love this artwork someone left on one of the huge stumps)

You can just make out an island below, that used to be a Heron Rookery. The island was full of trees that were full of huge Heron nests that were full of baby Herons and their moms. Dads could be seen flying around looking for their families that were no longer there. It was so sad.

Click on the Linked 52 button above to check out everyone else's take on the word Trees!