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Recent retiree--35 year's experience teaching reading, English, adult basic education and volunteer leadership skills. Started this blog to exchange ideas and commentary with friends and others having an interest in joining the discussions. Greatest life accomplishments include: 1.organized my 3rd grade class to check out library books for me to get around librarian's weekly limit--Amazon.com, the Mullins Elementary 3rd Grade Class of 1956 is still waiting for "thank you" notes; 2. volunteered in the Peace Corps, island of St. Kitts, West Indies; 3.taught adults to read, earn their GEDs., and speak English as a second language; 4. bought a border collie puppy for $6, got evicted rather than give him up, and began a life-long love affair with all things "Dog"; 5. joined a physical fitness boot camp in my mid-50s--don't mess with someone who's been doing regulation pushups in wet grass at 5:30 a.m.; 6. walked across Northern England with best friend Sally--over 80 miles from the Irish to North Seas; and 7. travelled to many foreign countries for pleasure and work.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

First Day of the Month - Winter Skies


In January I discovered an exciting blog photography meme started by Jan at Murrieta 365 . This meme appealed to me because I need to work on taking better photos, which do a lot to enliven and illustrate blog posts. Here's how it works:

Jan is calling her new meme First Day of Each Month. Here are her directions: "The goal is to capture one thing repeatedly on the first day of each month. It can be a landscape, a person, an animal, a project; whatever your focus is fine. It can be a record of where you are each first day of the month." Interesting exercise, right?

I decided to photograph Kentucky sunsets. However, here at the first of February I'm expanding the focus a bit and doing Kentucky skies. For the past few days I've been snapping the cold winter skies--outlines of bare trees against steel grey skies, shades of pale rose in the evening, very little sign of the sun recently. Except! Here's what I woke to on Sunday morning--just a day or so short of February 1 when the official photo was to be taken for Jan's meme. I couldn't not share this beauty and, after all, rules are made to be broken , right? So, here we have Kentucky Skies -- taken on January 30, 2011:



Even if you're weary of winter who could not feel glad to see a sunrise such as this? If you'd enjoy seeing some more beautiful photography from all over and on many subjects, just click on Jan's webpage for a list of other First of the Month players.

11 comments:

joanygee said...

I love photos of skyscapes and yours look dramatic yet beautiful all at once. Thanks for sharing.

Living Life said...

Bravo, Faye! These are fantastic photos of the Kentucky sky. Simply breathtaking! I love taking sunset/sunrise pics. I nearly forgot about Jan's meme. I will try to post one later in the day.

Jan n Jer said...

Great shot Faye, thanks for the reminder...like Mother like daughter!!! I also forgot! I am heading over to Jan's blog now to sign up. Keep on snapping!

Jan said...

Love these, Faye. It's perfectly alright to expand the focus of your posts. Thanks for joining in.

EG CameraGirl said...

Beautiful sky, Faye! I'm a big fan of sunsets so will be waiting to see what the rest of the year has in store.

pip said...

I Love these photos... just beautiful!

Gemma Wiseman said...

Indeed, stunning skies with magical glows of light! Very beautiful!

Sherrie said...

Hi!
Yes that is a beautiful sunrise. We haven't seen the sun for a week. Have a great day!

Sherrie
Food for Thought
http://100sweets.blogspot.com/2011/02/first-of-month.html

kayerj said...

a beautiful sunrise does make you feel happy. Kaye—the road goes ever ever on

Coffeedoff said...

Beautiful photos, lovely skies.

Pamela said...

so pretty.. an excellent choice I can now confirm!