52 of 2014 - Week 52

52 of 2014 - Week 52

Theme is the Best of 2014. Weeb is always my best of. And this certainly sums up our year - ignoring me while on her iPod.

52 of 2014 - Week 51

52 of 2014 - Week 51

Theme is 'Some of My Favorite Things'.  Easy.  Weeb.

52 of 2014 - Week 50

52 of 2014 - Week 50

Theme is Bokeh.  I've never been able to do a decent bokeh with my point and shoot.  I suspect that has more to do with my lack of skills than my camera.  So here's a Weeb, instead.

52 of 2014 - Week 49

52 of 2014 - Week 49

Theme is Celebrate the Season.

52 of 2014 - Week 48

52 of 2014 - Week 48

Theme is One Thing, Three Ways.  One Weeb, x 3.

52 of 2014 - Week 47

52 of 2014 - Week 47

Theme is texture. I'm not winning any awards for photography for this, texture, or otherwise.  Any guesses what it is?  I'll give you a hint - when you add clear, liquid hand soap to a bottle that still has a bit of white, liquid hand soap, this is what you get a few hours later - especially if you take a crappy picture of it and edit it badly.

52 of 2014 - Week 46

52 of 2014 - Week 46

Theme is Perspective and Scale. This shot is a good example of neither.

52 of 2014 - Week 45

52 of 2014 - Week 45

Theme is Focus on Music.  So, figurine of little girl with cat.  Naturally.  I did a couple of edits on this one.

52 of 2014 - Week 44

52 of 2014 - Week 44

Theme is Outdoor Photography. So here's a Trick Or Treat photo. Happy Day of the Dead!

52 of 2014 - Week 43

52 of 2014 - Week 43

Theme is Driven to Distraction.  I'm driven to distraction by this girl.  She is my favorite hobby.

52 of 2014 - Week 42

52 of 2014 - Week 42

Theme is Black and White. Last week was Fall Colors, and what says 'fall' more than Canadian Thanksgiving confetti on our table?

52 of 2014 - Week 41

52 of 2014 - Week 41

Theme is Fall Colors. Fall colors obviously means that Halloween is coming. Blood is a color, right?  Weeb likes a little editing, too.

52 of 2014 - Week 40

52 of 2014 - Week 40

Theme is... well nothing is posted yet.  But I'm pretty sure it's going to be Re-Edit Forever, You Lazy Person.

52 of 2014 - Week 39

52 of 2014 - Week 39

Theme is Light Trails. Or re-edit a silly photo you did of yourself last week.

52 of 2014 - Week 38

52 of 2014 - Week 38

Theme is Fish and Water.  Or my big ol' edited face.

52 of 2014 - Week 37

52 of 2014 - Week 37

Theme is At the Fair. If the fair is in our back yard, we're there!

52 of 2014 - Week 36

52 of 2014 - Week 36

Theme is Every Picture Tells a Story. Once upon a time, Weeb.

52 of 2014 - Week 35

52 of 2014 - Week 35

Theme is Street Photography. We were on the street earlier. MineCraftWeeb.

52 of 2014 - Week 34

52 of 2014 - Week 34

Theme is Doors and Windows. But here's a Weeb, instead.

52 of 2014 - Week 33

52 of 2014 - Week 33

Theme is Shallow Depth of Field, or a kinda bland shot of a pretty African Daisy.

52 of 2014 - Week 32

52 of 2014 - Week 32

Theme is Birthdays - it could be Mount Baker's birthday.  You don't know.

52 of 2014 - Week 31

52 of 2014 - Week 31

Theme is Insects. Instead, here is a picture of a NO SIGN sign.

52 of 2014 - Week 30

52 of 2014 - Week 30

Theme is Fast Action.

52 of 2014 - Week 29

52 of 2014 - Week 29

Theme is Wildlife Photography. We've been so busy and haven't come across any 'wildlife moments' in the middle of suburbia. This is as close to wildlife as I'm going to get, for now.  Weeb and her cousin J, again.  They are at the pool, sneaking up on their prey (me).  And in all honesty, they were a little too giggly to be very sneaky.

52 of 2014 - Week 28

52 of 2014 - Week 28

Theme is Back to Basics - Summer Photography. This seems to be the year of The Mighty Weeb, so here is another Weeby shot. At the pool with her cousin J.

52 of 2014 - Week 27

52 of 2014 - Week 27

Theme is Patriotic Photos. O' Canada! Happy Canada Day!

52 of 2014 - Week 26

52 of 2014 - Week 26

Theme is Capturing Emotion. I captured, "I am NOT taking ANOTHER picture, Mum!".

52 of 2014 - Week 25

52 of 2014 - Week 25

Theme is the Fish Eye Effect. Ding Dong! Weeb-a-gram!

52 of 2014 - Week 24

52 of 2014 - Week 24

Theme is Photographing History. I'm old, she's young. It works, right?

52 of 2014 - Week 23

52 of 2014 - Week 23

Theme is Framing. This sorta counts. Car selfie, using the vanity mirror from the passenger seat.

52 of 2014 - Week 22

52 of 2014 - Week 22

Theme is Abstract Photography.  Not so much abstract as wrinkly and old looking.  Still kinda neat though.

52 of 2014 - Week 21

52 of 2014 - Week 21

Theme is Visual / Aesthetic Biases. I'm not really sure if more Weeby eye balls count.  Probably not.  Photo-rebel!

52 of 2014 - Week 20

52 of 2014 - Week 20

Theme is It Just Needed To Be Photographed. It totally did. Welcome to my eye obsession.

52 of 2014 - Week 19

52 of 2014 - Week 19

Theme is Action / Sports. Hey! I was on topic, this week! Warm ups for Track and Field. The Mighty Weeb got some air under her feet!

TIBBOH THE TERRIBLE

In 1997 one of my coworkers had a stray cat show up in his backyard and have kittens.  My coworker decided to adopt the mother and one of the kittens and give the others away.  I don't remember how many there were.  One of our other coworkers, the lady who introduced me to my husband, in fact, took one of the kittens.  After wondering if Hobbit, my 5lb black cat of terror would accept another cat in the apartment, or eat it, I decided I would take in this last available kitten.

Hobbit did NOT eat the kitten.  I decided to name her Tibboh.  In case you can't see it immediately, Tibboh is Hobbit spelled backwards.  Yeah, I was super clever in my 20's.  It turned out to be a brilliant name and these two cats could not have been more different from each other.  One, tiny and black, and super vicious to everyone except me (and later my husband, step kids and daughter) - the other orange, white and brown and (very quickly) a literally huge bundle of love (expect she was the one that had problems with the step kids, at first).

Hobbit made it to nearly 19 years old when we had to say goodbye in October, 2010.

Tibboh nearly make it to 17 when we had to say goodbye today.

I already miss her always greeting me at the front door.  I miss her following me into the bathroom.  I miss her stalking me whenever I go to the kitchen.  I miss her accosting me as I sit on the couch.  I miss the click of the nails she'd never let me cut, on our floor as she roamed the house.  I just miss her and this absolutely sucks.  

This is the first time I have been petless since 1990.  Or 1991.  I thought Hobbit was born in 1990, but I have vet documents that show she was getting shots and fixed in 1991.  So that's over 20 years of two cats in my life.  For a good decade, it was just me and them.  Then I met my husband and my step kids and our family got bigger, but for 10 years, my cats where my home and my love.

I miss you, Tibboh the Terrible.  Thank you so much for being part of our lives.

52 of 2014 - Week 18

52 of 2014 - Week 18

Theme is Panning Photography. Nope. Forget Me Nots.

52 of 2014 - Week 17

52 of 2014 - Week 17

Theme is Travel Photography. There's a park behind our house. It's up an evil hill. Sometimes we travel there. Fact.

52 of 2014 - Week 16

52 of 2014 - Week 16

Theme is Water. However, Easter Weeb demanded center stage, instead.

52 of 2014 - Week 15

52 of 2014 - Week 15

Theme is Something Old, Something New. OR the daughter of a goth and a punk goes country. *sigh* Okay, fine. Be who you gotta be, kid!

52 of 2014 - Week 14

52 of 2014 - Week 14

Theme is Pink. Spring in Metro Vancouver means cherry blossom time.

52 of 2014 - Week 13

52 of 2014 - Week 13

Theme is Making Ordinary Things Extraordinary. Terrible shot, but I couldn't resist a rainbow photo. It's pretty extraordinary. The rainbow, I mean. Not the photo. But there it is.

52 of 2014 - Week 12

52 of 2014 - Week 12

Theme is Silhouettes. Or, you know, a Zamboni.

52 of 2014 - Week 11

52 of 2014 - Week 11

Theme is Something Green. Or blue. Whatever. I'm a rebel. I didn't manage to get a shot of anything green (which is funny since it was St. Patrick's Day, and my favorite color is green), but we DID buy a blue rose for Weeb as we were shopping and she was completely memorized by it. It's not every day you see a blue rose. Unless you're in the flower business. And we're not. So, super cool!

52 of 2014 - Week 10

52 of 2014 - Week 10

Theme is Time Goes On and On. And that has nothing to do with this horribly grainy photo, but my kid was skating and it was the best shot that I got from my point and shoot from a mile away, behind glass that has seen many hockey pucks.

52 of 2014 - Week 09

52 of 2014 - Week 09

Theme is Oh, the Places You Will Go - I'm not much of a traveler, but we get to our backyard, from time to time.  This shot didn't turn out quite as well as it could have, but I love the little snowman and snowmouse so much, I have to use it.

52 of 2014 - Week 08

52 of 2014 - Week 08

Theme is Motion Blur Photography. No motion blur. I had some shots of the late February snow falling (the week before we only needed a hoodie to play in the park), but I liked this shot better.  I may be slightly biased on my likes though.

52 of 2014 - Week 07

52 of 2014 - Week 07

Theme was Camouflage, but this better suits the previous week's theme of Capturing Valentine's Day. My little Valentine with her little Valentine on Valentine's Day, at school. The heart wants what it wants.

52 of 2014 - Week 06

52 of 2014 - Week 06

Theme was Capturing Valentine's Day. My little Valentine. She gave me very clear instructions as to what I'd be doing for this challenge.