#14 Artificial

This apple was on the principal's desk. It fooled me into thinking it was real with the dew drops on it. I realized it wasn't real when I picked it up.

#268 School

Steve and I attended his high school reunion this past weekend. His alumni association actually owns their high school. The high school was going to be torn down a number of years after Steve graduated. The alums raised enough money to buy the school and preserve it. We toured the building and this is the principal's office. One of his classmates remarked that it seems smaller than he remembered it. I've had the same feeling when I went back to my school.

#289 Smoke

This is smoke from the Blue Angels before their takeoff.

#228 Patriotic

If you don't feel patriotic while watching the US Navy Blue Angels perform, then you don't bleed red, white and blue.

#231 Perfect Alignment

Kudos to the US Navy Blue Angels. They performed for us at the 2009 Wings over Wayne Seymour Johnson Air Show. Thanks to all of our military for serving and doing what I don't have the guts to do!

#211 Oops!

Oops, this is Chicken Scampi from a popular Italian restaurant.
Someone forgot to remove the sticker on the pepper before cooking it and putting it on my plate. I guess that means the food is fresh.

#266 Rusty

A rusty water fountain.

#241 Private

This beachfront property is private. Oh, it would be nice to have my own little slice of heaven, maybe one day.

#234 Pink

I found these tulips blooming at a local shopping center.

#150 Holes

#131 Groceries

Some fresh produce at a roadside vegetable stand in NC.

#154 Humor

I hadn't seen a daffodil like this before. I showed this picture to my Mom and asked her what was it called? Her reply, "scrambled eggs". I gave her a funny look and said, "what?" She told me yes, that is what they called them back home.

#179 Magical or Mystical

#212 Open

This tulip was open and almost past its prime. But I think I captured the details so well, I want to show it off!

#103 Flowers

#19 Chair

I would love this to be my yard. I could see myself sitting in these chairs looking at this view every day for hours. I caught this picture during the NC Azalea Festival Garden tour. If you have a spare million, the house next door was for sale for 1,495,000 dollars.

#256 Reflections

This little guy kept swimming closer and closer to me. I knew he was looking a snack; but all I wanted to do was take his picture. I found him swimming in a retaining pond in a subdivision in Wilminton.

#296 Song Lyrics

"Hey, you, get off my cloud!"

I caught this cormorant flying in to knock this pelican off his piling. The pelican wasn't having none of it. He told that bird to find someone else to knock off or maybe...pick on someone your own size!

#331 Times Gone By

One of the attractions of the NC Azalea Festival are the belles. Each belle is sponsored by a member of the Cape Fear Garden Club. Southern belles like good old southern family values are a thing of the past; but every now and then you see them come back!

#365 Yellow

The hibiscus is one of my favorite flowers.

#300 Spring

In North Carolina, the blooming azaleas signal the start of spring.

#141 Hangs on a Wall

#111 From Ground Level

I was playing ball with Sandi on Friday and inspiration struck!

#3 A Movie Title

Not very original or creative. I posterized this in PSE. It seems to have cut down on the reflections that I saw in the original photograph.

#41 Canine Companions

This is my companion, Steve and our canine companion Sandi. As you can tell Sandi has a tongue and knows how to use it. Just who taught dogs to kiss humans with their tongues? This one was born knowing how! I think Sandi may love him a little bit!

#40 Candy

I didn't notice this when I took the picture: but there's a cute little girl in the top right corner staring admiringly at this candy! This could have went for rainbow too! But hopefully with a little luck of the Irish (LOL) I will see a real rainbow this year!

#53 Clocks

Seems like every downtown area has a clock. It also seems that it is always in front of the jewelers. My hometown has one. This clock is in downtown Wilmington, NC.

#16 Award

Certainly not my best work so far. But the company I work for rewarded everyone that passed the LEED AP exam the past quarter with a dinner at An in Cary, NC. I must give them an A for the presentation, but as for the flavor, I wasn't impressed. The rice is wrapped in a leaf that made a bowl. I was able to be funny and pick up the rice in the leaf and place it next to my chest as if I was pinning it on as a buttoniere. Wouldn't that be funny, if guys could wear buttonieres with snacks in them ? It might make more want to be groomsmen............
PS I took this with my camera phone, I was embarassed to go to the car and get my camera for fear that my cohorts would think that I hadn't eaten a meal in a restaurant before!!! Shame on me!

#172 Lines

On the roof again, the lightweight concrete has not been poured yet and the sheathing hasn't been placed on the studs. So the studs are lines, the decking makes lines, the safety cable is line around the perimeter, the structural steel itself makes a line. When I saw this, I saw lines everywhere.

#46 Chalk or Chalkboards

A chalkboard menu on the street in downtown Wilmington, NC