Planet M Files » Photography http://planetmfiles.com Welcome to Our Planet! It's filled with kids, dogs, and crocheted guinea pigs! (A real guinea pig, too!) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:09:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 July Sky http://planetmfiles.com/2010/07/12/july-sky/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=july-sky http://planetmfiles.com/2010/07/12/july-sky/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:11:03 +0000 Gayle http://planetmfiles.com/?p=7603

We have been having some gloriously hot weather!  Everyone around me complains, but I love it!  I think I was meant to live in the desert.  Tomorrow we’re supposed to have showers, thunderstorms and downpours.  I just hope it all holds off until my son is finished with his driving test!  It’s at 1pm tomorrow!  Why am I using exclamation points?  I don’t know, because that means he will be able to go off in my car without another adult.  Yikes!

]]> http://planetmfiles.com/2010/07/12/july-sky/feed/ 5 Sweet Randomness http://planetmfiles.com/2010/07/01/sweet-randomness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sweet-randomness http://planetmfiles.com/2010/07/01/sweet-randomness/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:30:14 +0000 Gayle http://planetmfiles.com/?p=7552 Have you seen that my blogging buddy, Se’Lah of Necessary Room, is hosting a random act of kindness day on Tuesday, July 6, 2010?  It is the beautiful way that Se’Lah is celebrating the Dalai Lama’s 75th birthday.  So many have joined in already! Se’Lah is one of those very special people that have a way of bringing strangers together for a greater good. I just love that about her!

The Pioneer Woman chose this photo of mine to be a contestant  in her latest photography assignment, America!  What an exciting thing to wake up to today!

Speaking of photos on Flickr, have you seen how the images are larger there now?!  And if you click on an image and then get a little magnifying glass, and click again, you see the image even larger, and on a black background?  Love it! You can try it on my photo above, which I linked to Flickr.  Click on it here, then click it again in Flickr.  Cool!

I’m working on creating a crochet cricket thanks to the idea which was given to me by my blogging buddy, Katie from Can’t Get There From Here!  Thanks for the idea, Katie!

I’m still working on the knit Long Beach washcloth that I showed you here.  I think I am the slowest knitter ever!

Happy Canada Day to my Canadian friends!

Happy Thursday to all!

]]> http://planetmfiles.com/2010/07/01/sweet-randomness/feed/ 12 Crystals http://planetmfiles.com/2010/06/30/crystals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crystals http://planetmfiles.com/2010/06/30/crystals/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:55:07 +0000 Gayle http://planetmfiles.com/?p=7530 I found some beauty in the ordinary today!  You can click on the photos to see the crystals larger.

These crystals remind me of spider legs…

Do you see what looks like a tiny ice crystal Christmas tree in this last photo?!

]]> http://planetmfiles.com/2010/06/30/crystals/feed/ 6 My Favorite Shots of the Weekend http://planetmfiles.com/2010/06/14/my-favorite-shots-of-the-weekend/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-favorite-shots-of-the-weekend http://planetmfiles.com/2010/06/14/my-favorite-shots-of-the-weekend/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:53:53 +0000 Gayle http://planetmfiles.com/?p=7420 Taken by my twelve year old boy

Happy Monday!

]]> http://planetmfiles.com/2010/06/14/my-favorite-shots-of-the-weekend/feed/ 8 Magical http://planetmfiles.com/2010/06/08/magical/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magical http://planetmfiles.com/2010/06/08/magical/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:07:26 +0000 Gayle http://planetmfiles.com/?p=7370 I can’t look at a mushroom without it bringing me back to the days when my daughter was little and we imagined tiny fairies living in our yard!  Those were such magical days!  These days are very special, too.  My little girl will be graduating from the 8th grade in two weeks.  On to high school in September!  Her class dance is Friday night.  These are also days to be remembered!

Do you see the little sparkle of magic in the second photo?!

(Click the mushroom images to see them bigger!)

]]> http://planetmfiles.com/2010/06/08/magical/feed/ 7 Happy Weekend! http://planetmfiles.com/2010/06/05/happy-weekend-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-weekend-4 http://planetmfiles.com/2010/06/05/happy-weekend-4/#comments Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:14:54 +0000 Gayle http://planetmfiles.com/?p=7357 (There are photos in this post. You can click them to see them bigger.)

Happy Weekend!  Are you doing something fun?  We’re not, so I want to live vicariously through you!

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I hope this week treats you gently.

]]> http://planetmfiles.com/2010/06/01/gentle/feed/ 5 Alien Rhododendron World http://planetmfiles.com/2010/05/19/alien-rhododendron-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alien-rhododendron-world http://planetmfiles.com/2010/05/19/alien-rhododendron-world/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 13:32:00 +0000 Gayle http://planetmfiles.com/?p=7276 (Click the image to see it larger.  It looks way cooler when viewed larger!)

I almost deleted it.  So much is wrong with this image, but I love it!  I feel like I’m peering into an alien world when I gaze into these rhododendron flowers!

My photo taking has been so blah lately that I think it’s kind of funny that I picked a photo that I almost immediately deleted to show you!   I wonder if there is a lesson here for me.  Don’t try so hard to pick the correct camera settings?  Work on learning how to pick the correct camera settings?  Try to be more creative?  Nah, I know, the lesson is that sometimes there are happy mistakes!  And probably I do need to work more on correct settings and creativity! (Can you work on creativity or is it just something you have or don’t have?)  My mind is full of questions today!

]]> http://planetmfiles.com/2010/05/19/alien-rhododendron-world/feed/ 11 The I Can’t Think of a Name for This Post Post http://planetmfiles.com/2010/05/17/the-i-cant-think-of-a-name-for-this-post-post/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-i-cant-think-of-a-name-for-this-post-post http://planetmfiles.com/2010/05/17/the-i-cant-think-of-a-name-for-this-post-post/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 15:00:45 +0000 Gayle http://planetmfiles.com/?p=7263 (You can click any photo to view it larger.)

Our weekend was a good one!

We took my husband’s parents out for Thai food on Saturday night.  It was a fun time, but the food was kind of tasteless.  I was disappointed.  I don’t think that’s normal for Thai food.

My daughter and I planted flowers,

My youngest son and I planted vegetable plants,

We went to a garden center and my kids bought me a pretty Mother’s Day plant, (hubby was too sick last weekend to go then.)

I spent some time with my camera.  That time was good, too, until I transferred the photos to my computer and didn’t like most of them.  Sometimes that really bugs me!

How was your weekend?

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  • New car smell!
  • It’s blue, but sometimes, in some light, it looks very slightly purple!
  • I can close the rear hatch without the huge struggle that ensued every time I closed the hatch of my old car.
  • There’s no dog slime in it.  Yet.
  • The brakes work really well.  In my old car, you needed to push really hard on the brakes to stop.  I used to feel like Fred Flintstone when he would push his heels into the ground to stop!
  • There are no strange clicking noises when my husband adjusts the steering wheel that way he likes it.  That annoyed the heck out of him in the old car.
  • The brake light doesn’t come on (knock on wood!) scaring the heck out of me while I’m driving.  This happened a few times in the old car.  We brought it in for service and their computers couldn’t find a problem!

Weird Stuff:

  • Sometimes you can hear the gasoline sloshing around in the tank. What the heck?
  • It has 6 cylinders, but only uses the ones it needs, when it needs them.  I can feel the engine doing all that weird stuff.
  • The brakes work really well.  I’m just not used to that.
  • It notices when I have something light-weight placed on the front passenger seat and turns that airbag off.
  • I feel like I’m hurtling through time and space at warp speed…and I’m only going 40 mph.  Yeah, the people behind me aren’t too happy about this.

I’m sure you figured it out already -  it’s a new car!  I’m so glad I don’t have to worry about the old one and all it’s problems anymore!

And because it just doesn’t feel right to have a post without a photo…can you see the reflection of our fence in the water drop?!

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