100DayProject Day 57

I made reasonable progress today. 40 cards within 57 days has put me back up to just over 70% completion rate. I am beginning to accept the likelihood that it will take me well over 100 days to make my 100 cards. There was a lot of colouring on my first two cards. The third card had no colouring at all so it went more quickly, although I did make 2 versions of Card 40 so that added some time. I am continuing to try to use the current colour palette from the Color Throwdown Challenge when I am making my cards. CTD831 colours are sage green, yellow and coral.

Shadows on Sunday

It was lovely and sunny this morning when I took Luna out for a forest walk. I took a few photos squinting up into the sun then decided that it would be better to position myself in the shadow of a tree. Shadows can be a good thing. They can make interesting photos. Many years ago when I was following some photography blogs there was a Shadow Shot Sunday challenge that I did for a while. I still remember some of the photos that I took, perhaps because I also posted them on my blog at the time. But it has made me a lot more interested in capturing some shadow shots from time to time. I am fortunate that my family and friends are generally quite tolerant of my requests for shadow shots. It is a nice alternative to selfies to get yourself into a photo. No timer and running back into the shot involved either.

Roland and I took Luna for a forest walk in the afternoon once it had warmed up more; it had become quite windy after my morning walk which made a walk less enticing. I grabbed a shovel and a few buckets because I wanted to transplant a few of the tall ferns that grow along the side of the road near where we start our forest hikes. Unfortunately those ferns totally dry up rather than staying green and there are no fiddleheads appearing yet so I’m not 100% certain that I dug up the correct plants. Maybe I just have some weeds that I won’t actually want in my garden. I’ll plant them tomorrow. What reminded me to dig some up was that photo prompt 95 was ‘plant’. Roland took a saw up into the forest and started clearing some downed trees while I dug up my ferns. I helped him haul away some branches. There still needs to be another trail clearing session with a chain saw but we made some good progress. Luna was pretty bored sitting around waiting for us.

Heidi and I made shrimp tacos for dinner with mango salsa and grated cabbage. They were pretty good. Next time we will try to figure out a nice coleslaw recipe to slightly soften up the cabbage a bit and/or we’ll figure out a better creamy sauce recipe. Heidi headed back home after dinner. Luna was not pleased that one of the three new smoke detectors that Roland tried to install seemed to be faulty because it kept blaring. Roland had to entice her with peanut butter get come back inside. She is so afraid of sounds like that, thunder and fireworks since there was a particularly loud finale fireworks at Stefan’s cottage birthday cottage about 4 years ago. Before that she didn’t cower at all from such sounds, now she is terrified. That fireworks night she ran off into the woods and it took more than an hour of us all up on the roads nearby looking for her.

Picture This Year | Prompt 95 (plant)

I didn’t bother to take another photo for today’s prompt 110 (sign) because I decided yesterday’s photo was good enough. So I just took a photo for the plant prompt. After I took that photo I looked back to see what prompt 94 is; it turns out to be ‘hole’ which will be quite handy for me since I’ll have to dig a hole to plant those (hopefully) fern plants that I dug up today.

Shadow Shot Sunday – Throwbacks

Since my theme today is Shadows, I decided to look back on my old blog to find some photos that I took as part of a Shadow Shot Sunday photography challenge.