Flowers and snow

Project 365 - Day 16

Every year on my birthday I usually go shopping with my Mom and then we go out for lunch.  The weathermen here are predicting quite a snowstorm for this weekend.  Whether or not the snow will hit our area as much as they are predicting remains to be seen, but to be on the safe side we moved our shopping trip to yesterday.  While we were out, my Mom bought me a beautiful bouquet of flowers.  She was going to get them on Sunday, but she said she wanted to be on the safe side not knowing how the weather will be.  Oh, the hazards of a winter birthday lol.  I don't mind having them early...I get to look at them even longer :)

Here's the photo of the full bouquet:

Freeze Frame

Project 365 - Day 10

It was freezing cold today.  When I ventured out to take this photo, the temperature was at today's high of 15 degrees with a windchill of -8.  Now that's dedication ;)

p.s.  I won't mention the fact that I was outside around midnight last night with my camera, lenses and tripod trying to get a photo of the moon.  It was around 14 degrees then too.  The photos were not coming out well, so I came inside and started to question my sanity lol.