Picture Kaleidoscope 3/30/11

With the time change, sunrises and sunsets are wonky with my drive to and from work, but still was able to catch this beauty from the fourth floor. What's truly amazing is that the sun is not only rising but moving slightly sideways. There is one point where the sun will be exactly behind the building. I'm hoping to catch a picture of that soon. (By the time I realized it was happening and hurried to get the phone, it was too late.) :(

NASA shared some very cool pics this week.

1st one up comes from WISE - Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. It is the last picture taken by it back in Feb 2011. A gorgeous field of stars and gases.

2nd is an infrared image of the North American Nebula. I love all that RED!

3rd is a super cool image of Saturn. Not only can you see the rings, but more fun is the fact you can see its auroras. Take a look at the north and south poles. Sweet!

And just when you thought it was safe, winter is BACK!
Inkyelbows got a great picture of an unhappy bird and added a cute caption to it. Heh heh.

That's it for this week! Have a good one!

Picture Kaleidoscope 3/23/11

I may not have any from my own camera this week (actually did manage one), but do have at least a couple of cool pics to share anyway. (Links should all pop up a new window)

Muzachan shared this pic of some Hello Kitty Hina Matsuri Dolls. Hina Matsuri is a Girl's Day celebration held on March 3rd. Usually represented by dolls representing ancient Japanese court. These are adorable!

Patrick Mazias shared a cool pic of a 1955 shot on the set of Godzilla's Counterattack. You can totally see the great miniature work and also the man in the suit taking a smoking break. Too cool!



Yep, looks like a lame week for pics. lol. Hopefully will do better next week!

Picture Kaleidoscope 3/16/11

Even though I was totally out of commission for most of last week, I did manage to get a few pictures before I succumbed to the evil cold.  (This is also the first time I'm doing this type of blog post from the new fandangled multi loader so should be exciting how much I have to fix before you all see it! Hah!)

The flowers from the red tree in the back yard last but maybe a week. Got lucky and actually got a couple of shots of them this year.

Hubby helped out a friend in clearing out a shed from an older lady who was about to go into an assited living facility. It seems they were big proponents back in the day of having extra food and stuff in case of the apocalypse. I got the friend to send me a couple of pics as these are not things you see everyday! Thought I'd share them with you.

Look at the size of that can! John said they weighed a ton. Six to a box. And they had a whole shed full. Perma-Pak, baby!

And while I huddled in my chair, hoping to sleep away or immobilize my cold, a beautiful and unexpected picture moment appeared! Matt, Drew, and their puppy child, Serenity. Adorable!!!! (Just don't tell them! I'll be killed! :P)

 

 

 

 

Picture Kaleidoscope 3/16/11

Even though I was totally out of commission for most of last week, I did manage to get a few pictures before I succumbed to the evil cold. (This is also the first time I'm doing this type of blog post from the new fandangled multi loader so should be exciting how much I have to fix before you all see it! Hah!)

The flowers from the red tree in the back yard last but maybe a week. Got lucky and actually got a couple of shots of them this year.

Hubby helped out a friend in clearing out a shed from an older lady who was about to go into an assited living facility. It seems they were big proponents back in the day of having extra food and stuff in case of the apocalypse. I got the friend to send me a couple of pics as these are not things you see everyday! Thought I'd share them with you.

Look at the size of that can! John said they weighed a ton. Six to a box. And they had a whole shed full. Perma-Pak, baby!

And while I huddled in my chair, hoping to sleep away or immobilize my cold, a beautiful and unexpected picture moment appeared! Matt, Drew, and their puppy child, Serenity. Adorable!!!! (Just don't tell them! I'll be killed! :P)

Picture Kaleidoscope 3/9/11

I was actually quite surprised by a couple of pics I took in the last two weeks. I'd figured the sky was done giving me fabulous views since the sun was rising earlier than before. I was wrong...

Case in point...



Crispin Freeman shared a gorgeous photo of the Japanese Gardens in Balboa Park in Los Angeles, CA. Look at the blue!

This one is another cool view, which he entitled Floating Like A Lily Pad.

His third is of a Sakura Tree in bloom. Very nice!


I got this one from one of the vendors at the DFW Writers Conference. A Tiara Cap! Makes me wish I wore hats! lol.




From the Cassini Saturn Mission comes this super cool pic - Beyond Southern Rhea Like a globe sitting on a table. WOW.









Beth Riesgraph shares this amazing pic of way too much snow and ice. Read the Warning Sign in the back. :P

And to wrap up this week's set of pics, I'll leave you with this colorful beauty!

Picture Kaleidoscope 2/23/11

Been a super busy week! But got some nice pics.

First up is Selina Rosen. Too adorable with the baby with a superman cape. :)


Aren't they cute...!

This picture link it to an utterly amazing photo. A one in a million shot of a perfectly round droplet about to hit more water. Gorgeous!
Shared by @petapixel - drop

From @ChuckWendig - The Mystery! (I love the purples and the shine! A very odd yet beautiful picture!)


This one I loved how the sun was nestled in the clouds. (Thought I was going to go blind taking it! lol. Couldn't see right for a while.)












Shared by @ChuckWendig - Back to the Future - Irina Werning is recreating pictures with the same subjects years later. It's really fascinating. And a little weird. :)


Another of my sunsets. With spring coming, I won't be able to get many more of these.















From @ChuckWendig - Angry Birds - and yeah he looks way mad!



And I'll leave with a tranquil scene this week. :) Enjoy!


Have an awesome week, ya'll!

Picture Kaleidoscope 2/16/11

Say 'Hello' to the newest member of our family - Serenity. My daughter has never had a dog, so now she gets to enjoy one and all the extra maintenance that comes from having a puppy. She's totally adorable! An American Bulldog, or so I've been told. All I know is that it's a fuzzy wuzzy for momma to pet! Heh heh





From @elizadushku - See, I'm not the only one who likes pics of cool lookingskies. :P Boston at the airport.

Speaking of skies, I caught several unusual sun poses this past week. Here's one of them:

I love that weird orange glow.

From @Astro_Clay - Athabasca Glacier in Alberta/British Columbia, Canada. Sucker is HUGE!

And from super giant cold stuff we go to small stuff...

From @ChuckWendig - as he shows us how to trap bubbles


And here's the Big Orange Ball!


Have a great week, ya'll!

Picture Kaleidoscope 2/9/11

Well, the weird weather this week made for some cool photos (once I bundled up and went OUTSIDE to take them). lol. A whole lot more snow and ice than last year's February debacle. Dang!




This one shows just how deep it is. My footprints just outside the door!
















Shared by @ChuckWendig - Red Cardinal on an ice covered tree branch - gorgeous!



Here's a quick pic of the gaggle of birds way happy we put out seed.
















Shared by @PeterShankman - Liu Bolin - Chinese artist that plays chameleon in his art (I'd seem some of his stuff before. It's pretty amazing!)




Last but not least, I'll leave you with a pic of my poor snowed down pagoda.

Picture Kaleidoscope 2/2/11

Welcome to another week of pics!

First I present to you a fiery sunset! (Sky is on fire! Run for yours lives!) :P




There are some cute little seasonal birds that show up around our house in winter. I put the word out on Twitter and Facebook to try to find out what kind they were. The verdict was Junco Birds. Here's a link to a nice pic of one. The one I tried to take with the phone was a major fail. Really need to learn to keep the camera charged.

And speaking of birds...
From @ChuckWendig - Titmouse - they do exist!

Shared by @ColleenLindsay - Hello Kitty Dalek. No joke! Too funny.

From by @HuffPostGreen - Artificial Reefs - cool looking stuff!

Another weird one this week...
Shared by @KimberlyRPauley - a car literally covered in grass instead of a paint job. And driving it around town!

I do these posts in advance and last week was hellish, so didn't get to troll or take as many as I would have liked. Hopefully will have plenty more next week.

I'll leave you with fiery sunset redux!

Picture Kaleidoscope 1/26/11

Some awesome sunrise and sunsets this past week. And a couple of oddball pics. Plus more stuff shared by others.



From @NASA - Hubble shows two dramatically different views of "the Whirlpool Galaxy" - definetly gorgeous!

At the anime store a week or more ago, I can across the weirdest bottles ever! Evangelion has gone to yet another level.






I was afraid to ask if they were selling well. :P


















From @NASA - Chandra views "starburst" galaxy M82, with stars forming at much higher rates than a normal galaxy



Baby blue and pink was the name of the game on this day!

Shared by @marthawells1 - Amazing Works of Art - talk about inventing new ways to make art. WOW

And for fun!
Shared by @torbooks - Map of the Star Wars Universe!

Let me leave you with one last sky shot. :) Look at those colors!

Picture Kaleidoscope 1/19/11

Let's start this weeks picture-rama with super cute!


Ran across this scene by pure accident at my brother's home. It was too cute not to grab a pic and share. :)

Now for something scary. Shared by @marthawells1 - An ice covered lighthouse You'll catch a cold just looking at this thing! Brrrr

Then back to something awe inspiring! Shared by @BadAstronomer - Milky Way's (almost) identical Twin. (Real nice Galaxy pic!)



Tiny footprints in the snow! We had a White Christmas on 1/9/11 (Sickness, travel, and other issues forced my side of the family to have a late get together) and we found these little foot prints. Thought they might be the squirrels, but then saw these tiny black birds with white bellies actually moving by hopping around rather than flying. Too cute!






From @ChuckWendig - I swear his Chihuahua is saying "How chu doing?" Brows rising and falling. Hee!

From @Nasa - Green Glob Space Oddity! Or a Space Frog!

Shared by @torbooks - Ghost Busters Wedding Cake! For reals! So cool!



Subaki and Mythril sleeping and propping each others with their heads. Adorable!













And speaking of cats... Shared by @torbooks - How to Steampunk Your Cat! Steampunked kitty drawings and pics

Shared by @petapixel - Deep Space photos taken from a backyard. Totally awe inspiring!

And because we can NEVER have enough CUTE! Shared by @JaneLebak - It's so tiny! Cutest baby possum EVER!



The sunset looked like a rainbow. Not sure that the camera caught that though. :(



From @Nasa - Triungulum Galaxy! Pretty!

On a sadder note... Shared by @petapixel - Queensland, Australia flood pics. Way way too much water. Reminds me of the floods in New Orleans after Katrina. Brrrrr.

And last but not least...the train that got in my way after work. :P
















Have a great day! Feel free to share some of the pics you've taken or been impressed by in the comments section.

Picture Kaleidoscope 1/12/11

As threatened, here is the first of my picture blogs. Heh heh. Some I took others are links to awesome pics shared through different means I thought you might enjoy.

Took this one on the way home from work. The colors are amazing!




This is from earlier in the year. One of our rose buds. The wind was not letting the camera or flower cooperate.




















Yes, I have some ways to go before doing good pics on the phone. lol. Work in progress.

From @petapixel - First Solar Eclipse of 2011 - some truly awesome pics!

Cloud Tsunami! Texas is flat so when we get a cloud bank like this, it's really a little scary looking! :) (That is not a mountain range or hill, that gray background is all cloud!)




From @starwars - Rare backstage photo of Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher

Fiery sunset...














From @JerryJDavis - Nice joke for a cold picture

This is a picture of some of the most fabulous bread EVER! It's called White Chocolate Orange Royale. It's sweet and super yummy! Found it at Whole Foods.





Looks at the trees on this one. Those are not leaves, they're mostly birds! Like something out of the old Hitchcock movie. Hee!
















And last but definitely not least...

From @Nasa comes the Andromeda Galaxy from Nasa's Image of the Day. (Totally Awesome!)


Enjoy!