6th February photo - my lovely note book

Todays photo is from the 'something that makes me happy' category and is my Cath Kitson notbook that Heather bought me for Christmas. It is coming in very handy now for writing my daily journalling for my 365 project and it is so lovely to look at. Thanks Heather!

5th February photo of the day - my pink girl

Jessica's University - UEA - have recently changed their logo - which gave everyone the chance to invest in some new uni hoodies etc. The swim team chose this lovely pink hoodie and I think Jess looks lovely in it - so I pestered her to let me take her photo in it - she gave me one minute tops, so I worked quickly and was lucky to get a couple of gorgeous pics of her.

Poor Steven has been relegated from my laptop wallpaper now - to be replaced by this pic of Jess!

tought of the day - as well as a photo of the day

Found these thoughts on ALi E blog today (she has not had her baby yet!) and thought they were nice to ponder and share. They came from here (http://www.gypsygirlsguide.com/and was entitled - 'finding the courage to soar'.

So here is the first step. Before you even create a map of where you want to go, remember where you've been and what you've done. This is key to finding wisdom is your journey. Honor your own life and your own teachers, which are the challenges and accomplishments you went through and earned yourself. What I realized is that there is not just one big moment of courage in our lives. There are many. These moments come to us in different ways. At times we are forced into a leap (unexpected pregnancy, when parents or partners pass away, when we loose our job). At times we are called into a leap (when someone invites us for a trip of a lifetime, when our partner wants to move to a new city, when we are offered a chance, when we take the "money maker" role to support our family). Then there are also the daily tiny leaps we take for the sake of adventure (when we try new types of food, music, when we go out on a date, when we talk to a stranger, when we transition from blogger friends to real life friends). No matter how small, silly or hard, tiny, dramatic or forgotten... All leaps are important because little by little, we live through change, we figure out how to cope, we move forward, we learn who we are, and we build our confidence for the bigger leaps, the ones we seek for ourselves.

February 4th photo

This is my laptop screen with lovely wallpaper of my husband. The photo was taken in December when we went to Oxford to walk along the canal.

My laptop is in constant use - first thing I do each morning is check my emails - mostly from UKS and Geocaching.com. I am not far away from my laptop all day - in fact I think I am far too dependent on it and the internet.

In fact we are a very techy house - We have a desk top PC in the playroom and everyone has laptops - the older children spend most of their time on Facebook. Liam has an Apple Mac - which he loves and has hundreds of applications going at one time. He likes Facebook but also engadget and music sites. Steven uses it to follow Shrewsbury Town football club forum and Ebay - from where he buys too much 'tat'!

3rd February photo

Well in Shrewsbury we only had a little layer of snow, so we seemed to have escaped quite lightly, compared to the rest of the country. But I thought I should try another snowy photo to capture the occasion and this is what I have come up with!

It is a statue of Charles Darwin covered with as much snow as we got, outside our Library (his old school). I think it is quite apt as we are celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth - here in Shrewsbury - on February 12th. There are lots of exhibitions and displays planned - I should take lots of Darwin themed photos this month I think.

I need to have a play with photoshop to try and reduce the brightness behind the statue. Photo taken with my 50mm lens on my Nikon again.

***(edited to say I have now photoshoped the photo and it looks much better - left both on so you can see the difference a bit of work in PSE makes - though I am sure those with more experience could make it even better!)

2nd February photo

We woke up to snow this morning, so todays photo had to include the snow. So I rushed out bright and early (in my dressing gown!) and took some shots. I decided to go with this photo of snowdrops in the snow. It was taken with my 50mm lens on my Nikon D40.

just added this photo as well to show what a puney little layer of snow it was!

surprise present from my hubby..

Steven surprised me yesterday with a little gift - joint membership of the Ramblers Association! It came totally out of the blue and what a lovely idea. I had never actually talked about joining but he thought I had become so interested in walking that I would like this - I do! So I spent a few hours reading all the booklets and magazine that came in the pack and then dreaming about all the new places we could visit.So today photo is this info from the Ramblers Association.