Pam's Week 21: Little Red Corvette

I might as well warn you right from the start - there are no little red corvettes in this blog.  For some reason, that is the song that popped into my head though as I looked at the topics for the week.  If only it had occurred to me earlier, perhaps I could have searched out a little red corvette, or at the very least, a corvette in another colour....

While I am looking at photos and writing blog posts, I figured I might as well do my best to get this past week's blog done too and then I can start fresh next week.  Hopefully I can finish getting the suitcases unpacked and the laundry put away and then my whole week will start anew tomorrow!  Looking at the time, though, it looks as though that may be a good plan for the anticipated rainy day of tomorrow.

Today was a beautiful day.  I was up bright and early to have breakfast with a friend of mine who was in town very, very briefly (as in approximately 16 hours and was sleeping and working for about 14 of them).  Then I returned home and decided to have a power nap before I took the kids to their swimming lessons.  After lunch, Riya and I met Sharon at Bellevue Park to take some photos.  After a couple of hours there, I returned home and promptly returned to my bed for nap number two.  I actually feel a little guilty about it but I was honestly too exhausted to do anything else.  We just returned home from our vacation at 2 am on Wednesday morning and I promptly returned to work.  Each night then had me in bed much later than I would have liked as Duncan was in the Wizard of Oz play that his school was putting on this week.  It was actually a fantastic production; I was quite proud of him and all the kids really.  The downside, though, is not being able to catch up on some much-needed sleep until today.  Oh well, hopefully it isn't the only nice day to come this spring and summer...

Car Detail

So, I had a plan for this and was intending to do it yesterday evening and then forgot.  I tried a couple of other things today but wasn't happy with them.  I might want to add that it's a tad awkward trying to take photos of other people's cars without them thinking you are looking to steal it.  Needless to say, I headed back into the California archives to find a photo of a car.  It's perhaps not the detail Sharon intended, but it's a car the kids were rather excited to see at Universal Studios.  Does anyone else recognize it?

Hair

Had I bothered looking at this week's assignments while we were still in California or en route home, I could have surreptitiously taken a picture of the dandelion yellow hair (no word of a lie) on the woman in front of us on the plane.  No one would really believe it otherwise.  You will just have to take my word for it.

The reason we actually went to California was that Robert's cousin's baby was being baptized.  Check out the head of hair on her!

E

This was one of the photos I was successful at finding today at the park.  I actually had a couple of options to choose from even!  I will give Sharon credit where credit is due as she made a few suggestions.

First up - a park bench.  Now this is where I have to give props to Sharon.  I had actually looked at the bench and then decided there wasn't an E to be found on it.  We continued walking and Sharon pointed out the bench and the E just popped out at me this time.

I actually flipped this photo around as I thought the birch bark made an E but it was facing the wrong way.

For some reason I had my head tilted as we climbed the hill and I saw an E in the way these 3 trees grew out of the grass below.  Clearly I rotated this photo.

Silly

Unfortunately none of the photos I took of the play turned out well as those were some fanciful and silly costumes.  Today at the park, though, Riya was definitely playing the silly card.  Sharon and I were trying our darnedest to get her to sit or lie in places that we thought would create particularly nice photos.  I swear she lay down everywhere else!

 This was the best one I got...

This was our failed attempt at having her lie in the forget-me-nots...Apparently squirrels and geese and other dogs are way more interesting than your owner, her friend, and treats.

This one also made me chuckle as she is not allowed on the furniture at our house.  As soon as I sat on this bench, she jumped on up as if she owned the place.

Flower

I took a whole bunch of flower photos today while at the park with Sharon, but since she took photos of the same flowers and I don't know which ones she's planning on using, I decided to bust out the California archives again.  On the day we drove along the Pacific Coast Highway, we stopped for a picnic lunch at Aliso Beach.  It was rather chilly and windy but it was so beautiful that we decided to walk along the beach a bit anyways.  On our way back, after getting in trouble from the lifeguard for standing on the rocks that were apparently off limits that day, I noticed a bunch of discarded roses on the beach.  It made me wonder if an episode of the Bachelor was filmed there...haha.

Curves

You will never guess what I did for this topic - I delved back into the California photos!  Quelle surprise!  Honestly, though, I haven't been anywhere else to see interesting curves.

I liked the curve of this guy's surfboard on the curve of the wave (I realize that's not surfer lingo but I'm not a surfer).

This is the curve of the Ferris Wheel and Roller Coaster on the Santa Monica Pier.  Apparently it is called the Pacific Park and was actually conceived and built back in 1916, almost torn down in the 70's and then restored in the 80's.

Wild Card

I decided to plant tulips in my flower bed last fall, having never planted a bulb in my life, thinking it would be nice and festive to have some of the special edition Canada 150 tulips growing in my front yard.  Because our house is North facing, our tulips are budding but are not yet open.  The ones my mother planted seem to be coming up yellow instead of white and red.  Today at the park, though, the Canada tulips were in abundance.  I particularly liked this one; I thought the markings did look maple leaf-like.

And that's it for this week.  I don't have any immediate inspiration as I look at next week's assignments but hopefully something will come to me after a good night's sleep....Have a great week everyone!