Monthly Photo Challenge

[Rei]

I didn't realise anywhere had a traditional food associated to St. Paddy's. I just figured the tradition was beer and Irish whiskey. And if somebody felt really traditional, maybe they'd drive out a few snakes.

[Mich]

Green-tinted beer is also really popular, although apparently all of the bars on 21st (the street where almost all of the bars in my district are) are too cool to do anything special for St. Patrick's. One did say they were having a bagpiper come in and I was a little speechless.

Personally, I hate corned beef and cabbage, as a dish. I love corned beef sandwiches, though. Mmmhmm.

[Luet]

I've had corned beef and cabbage (and carrots and potatoes) twice this week and I don't even celebrate St. Patrick's Day. It's just the only time of year to get it at restaurants.

[steph]

Mmmmm. I love me some corned beef and cabbage! We've been busy, so I'm making ours on sunday. Yum! I bought 5 corned beefs this week while they were on sale. 1 for this week, 4 for the freezer to enjoy year round!

Irish Oatmeal that we had for breakfast on St. Patrick's day. (Don't ask me why it's Irish. It was one of those homemade-layered-jar Christmas present. It was yummy.)

[Gravity Defier]

April

April showers...Capture something water related.

[Luet]

This is at a park in a nearby town, called The Crossings which is really fancy and must have cost a fortune. There is a lake with fountains and a bunch of koi and when it is chilly out, they all huddle together to keep warm.

[Rei]

Oh wow, I was trying to figure out what the red spot was until I read your comments! On a related note, my parents' neighbour had to put a grating over his koi pond to stop the heron from fishing in it.

[Mich]

Oh wow, I was trying to figure out what the red spot was until I read your comments! On a related note, my parents' neighbour had to put a grating over his koi pond to stop the heron from fishing in it.

Haha, my dad did the same with ours! First the koi, then the goldfish. Then, when he got this really ugly net, some raccoons decided to eat the shubunkin.

Very pretty picture, though.

[Gravity Defier]

That is an awesome picture, Nomi. I honestly don't know what I thought the koi were before I read that part of your post but I thought that, whatever it was, looked like a pair of lips.

[Luet]

Glad you guys like it. I almost used a picture of a canada goose and her baby geese but I didn't want to freak out Jan.

[zeldagirl1234]

[Jayelle]

Glad you guys like it. I almost used a picture of a canada goose and her baby geese but I didn't want to freak out Jan.

I very much appreciate it.

I'm amazed that I don't have one right off the bat this time, what with living in the land of rain these days, but I'm going to have to take one!

[powerfulcheese04]

Dexter likes to swim!

[Petra456]

Glad you guys like it. I almost used a picture of a canada goose and her baby geese but I didn't want to freak out Jan.

Just happened to freak me out!

[Luet]

The koi freaked you out?

[Gravity Defier]

But i'm absolutely terrified of fish.

http://www.philoticweb.net/phpBB2/viewt ... 144#104144


(I couldn't figure out how to make that URL work with tags.)

[Syphon the Sun]

Testing

But i'm absolutely terrified of fish.

[Luet]

Ah, sorry that I didn't remember that. All you people and your phobias!

[Mich]

Testing

But i'm absolutely terrified of fish.

Oooooooh, fancy! I totally want to think of a situation to use this in, now!

[starlooker]

Okay, this is actually an old picture. But it's one of my favorites that I've taken, and it's water related, so I figured it would count.

[Jayelle]

Daddy boots, Mommy boots, Baby boots.

[Gravity Defier]

Daddy has some small, yellow boots. You know what they say about men with small boots...

[mr_thebrain]

small socks

[Dr. Mobius]

If Kirsten can cheat, so can I. I still intend to do the other months sometime when I get a camera.

[starlooker]

If Kirsten can cheat, so can I.

Oh, all right. Here are non-cheating pictures taken with my phone of the pond/stream on the campus where I work.







Sorry about the geese in this one, Jan, but everyone here loves them and they were coming towards me and kind of acting like they wanted to be photographed:

[Mich]

I give you: PORTLAND, CITY OF ETERNAL RAIN!



It chose to stop raining just when I took this, so the theme is being interpreted as "suspicious lack of water". Plus, you know. Clouds.

[Wil]

[steph]

Wil, is that in Red Rock?

I give you the skyline of Hong Kong as seen from the Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade overlooking Victoria Harbor on Kowloon.

[Gravity Defier]

May

Capture, if you can find it where you are, something spring related.




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This is a tree on my bike path; it actually hangs over it.

[Wil]

Wil, is that in Red Rock?

Spring Mountain Ranch, which is probably 10 minutes away from Red Rock. I wasn't actually supposed to be down there, as I had to walk off the path and down into that little creek to get the picture, but since nobody else was around I figured it couldn't hurt.

Here are more pictures!

[Rei]

I totally meant to get this up before today, but here is my April challenge picture:



That was taken properly, according to the rules.

But this is my favourite water picture, one which I took several years ago:

[Gravity Defier]

according to the rules.

I think there was a comment on cheating last month from Josh, which, when combined with this general statement from a few people makes me scratch my head.

Rules? (Where we're posting, we don't need rules [/requisite movie quote, slightly altered])

I'll throw out a relatively open-ended prompt, you make the picture happen with as much or as little creativity as you wish. No swiping from Google Images or similar online image searches. Original images only. Post your final product.

Prompt (pretty open ended still, I think)
Original picture (maybe there was an implication you had to newly take the picture?)
Post (you guys got that down, solid...which is awesome)

If there's an old one, use it! So long as it's yours. Got more than one? Hit me up.

Down the road, say, end of December, early January 2012, I'll go with the first posted if there's more than one but way too early to worry about all that.

[Luet]

This photo was taken two years ago on May 10, so the timing is perfect. It features one of my favorite spring flowers, the lilac, and a Tiger Swallowtail butterfly that landed on it.

[fawkes]

This is my orchid, Oscar.

[LilBee91]

I found some pretty trees on campus. I feel like I should know what they are, but I don't.