236: Blank canvas

  

235: Diner

And finally, a spot not too far from the diner, one I last featured here early this past spring. If you go to the link, check out the second to last picture. It's taken standing at the bottom of the white towers (a cement factory) in the midground of the image below.

234: Scrub

233: Wet and Blue

232: Car Talk

 

Another stroll around the neighborhood.

231: Little Blue Ship

 A model of the S.S. Quanza at the Virginia Historical Society. The original was not so little, and usually traveled between Portugal and South Africa. In 1940, it carried refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe to North America, ultimately landing in Norfolk, Virginia. During our visit to the museum, the attention span of the youngest visitors in our party allowed for little time to read exhibit labels, but I discovered this video later.

Another image from our visit. Can you tell what it is?

230: Embarrassment of Riches

229: Rainy day fun

 

228: Interrupted

227: The age of dinosaurs

My son made the volcano at school, and later built the dinosaur with my husband. I think the ivy adds the perfect touch to this little diorama on top of a bookshelf. The blue in this one is hard to see, but it's there!

226: Race

225: Cartoonized

 

I've been wanting to try this effect out for a little while now. I'm still in search of just the right type of image for this style, but the bright blocks of saturated color are a good start.

224: Tagged

 

End of another consignment sale. This is one of the items that didn't sell this time around. Yesterday's post features the pool seen in the previous set of images.

223: Community Pool

222: Wet and Dry

This seems like an obvious pairing, right? But I took these photos in two different places, and in the opposite order pictured, and I didn't even think of the connection until long after I took the second image. I like discovering these sort of unconscious themes or patterns playing out in my work.

221: I've got my eye on you

220: Wind Machine

219: Bubbles

218: Saturated

 

217: Old and New

216: Weld

215: Can't see the forest

  

214: City Sights

213: Making Tracks

 

212: Paper Airplanes

211: Picnic Party

On Labor Day, we decided to hike at a local park with a beautiful boardwalk through a marsh on the Appamatox River. When we arrived, we discovered this large group had set up quite a party at the park. After we hiked for a bit, we stopped at the playground and caught some of their volleyball game.

Nearby, a group of four kids, ages ten to 14 or so, were playing a game of baseball. This girl impressed me by holding her own with three boys. 

210: Atlantic

Happy Labor Day Weekend!

209: Clean Up

The power finally came back on last night just in time for us to use hot water and the dishwasher as we cleaned up from dinner. This afternoon a crew of three or four big trucks and half a dozen county employees rumbled down the street, stopping at the house next door to remove limbs and debris created by the hurricane. My kids, and let's be honest, my husband and myself as well, were thrilled to watch this huge claw manipulate the branches into the back of a waiting dump truck.

208: Further Distraction

Day 6... you guessed it... no power. We visited the elementary school where I helped with the four seasons mosaic panels earlier this year. The waterfall above is in the garden where the panels were installed. We were especially excited by the half dozen fat and happy goldfish we saw swimming in the garden pond!

207: Distraction

Day 5, no power. As good a time as any to take advantage of our Children's Museum membership.