PHOTO A DAY/Days 6-10

And so I continue with the Photo A Day challenge. I've found this to be quite interesting at it causes me to focus on seeing things all day that would fit into the specific daily category. Provides a different dimension to my quotidian activities.

July 6:  Chair---  a perfect Friday afternoon at Aliso Creek Beach in Laguna. Cousins everywhere.

July 7:  Garden---  I have a little fairy garden in my backyard that is growing and growing and growing. And when the whirly-gig is going around in circles, that means a fairy is happy.

July 8:  Lunch---  I almost forgot about this one since it was Sunday and shortly after getting home from church I started cooking beef stroganoff with my sister for the 20 or so people we were having for dinner, but then I went into the kitchen that night and saw the remains of my lunch still on the counter, and a very little remains it was. Brownies from Zink's in Laguna Beach. I kid you not, I have officially declared these to be the BEST brownies in the world!

July 9:  Big---  Since the Gallachers were in town, early Monday morning we drove Brigham to the train station in San Juan Capistrano to take the train from there to Santa Barbara for EFY.  What great and rapturous joy we all felt when we saw about 10 gorgeous girls from San Clemente all boarding the same train and heading up to EFY with him. We now call it the EFY Express. The express train to Briggy's heart.

July 10:  Favorite Color---  Boy, I would have enjoyed photographing more than one picture of this color. I would have loved to photograph every color, many times. Color, color, color. How blessed we are to see the world in bright, vibrant, full-of-life color.

PHOTO A DAY CHALLENGE Days 1-5

I'm taking the Photo A Day challenge for the month of July. Although I'm posting on Facebook I've decided to post 5 days at a time on my somewhat forgotten, all too neglected blog. Thanks to my friend, Gayle Humpherys, (who got it from someone else) for the idea.

July 1:  Self-portrait---  (however it turned out to be Self-portraits or Selves-portrait since Miss Annie Jane had a sleepover with her Nannie.

July 2:  Busy---  Just the thought of moving usually makes everyone sick.  Brittany and Jordan moved into their new home over the past weekend. It's been a very busy few days indeed.

July 3:  Favorite Part of My Day---  as if this requires any explanation.

July 4:  Fun---  I posted this picture of family and friends at our bar-b-que. But I would have posted the second picture, too, of the Pacific Symphony program for their 4th of July performance. It was great fun for this old gal to get out and take a breather from things on the home front. Thanks for the invite, Metcalfs.

July 5:  On The Floor---  Brittany called somewhat distressed.  "Mom, can you come over between 12 and 12:30 so the babysitter can go to her next job? I'll still be with Annie and her birthday party friends at the nail salon (5 little girls getting mani-pedis)".  "Yeah, sure" I replied, "if you really get home by 12:30 because I have to be in Newport Beach before 1pm.  Needless to say she didn't and I wasn't. And Brooks and Tyler had an exciting time helping unpack the game room.

Looking forward to seeing what the next 5 days brings.  Hint for Day 6...starts with "ch".