2012 Scavenger Hunt--#7 and #4

What luck! We were traveling on a road we hadn't used before and came upon a roadside stand! My husband quickly pulled to the side of the road and I snapped this photo.

Then, while at a flea market, I found this man strumming his mandolin and caught him on the down stroke. He wanted to know why I took his photo so I spent about ten minutes explaining it to him and showing him my list of completed clues. He was flattered to know that he would soon be on the internet for all to see. Such a sweet man. Then, he asked if I wanted to buy a musical instrument! I explained to him that I had a dead ear as far as music was concerned.

I haven't had time to make my layouts of these photos yet, but I'll post them when finished. See below for the layouts.

Pass the Book: Year Two

I thoroughly enjoyed reading and creating photographic trading cards from the book Trading Card Treasures. It is now available to be passed on to another lucky recipient. If interested in having this book passed on to you, please go to Pass the Book: Year Two where all the details (and other books) can be found. Please let me know in the comments section of this blog and I'll choose a name on Monday, August 27, 2012, then pass the book on to that person.

I recently took a series of wonderful photographs on an old farmstead. This book inspired me to use one of those photographs to create this simple series of four photographic trading cards titled: Watering Cans on Barn.

2012 Scavenger Hunt -- #17 A Church

I suppose I could have taken photos of my parish church, but I was looking for something special. As I said before, you never know exactly what is in your own area until you go looking for it. I spoke with a friend of mine about the hunt and the need for a photo of a church. She suggested that I go to Doylestown and take a photo at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestocowa (pronounced Chest-a-hova.) She was correct--this is a magnificent church.

I also found a gorgeous outdoor staircase, but alas I already took photos of another one and did the layout. However, I thought I would show you this staircase because I would hate to have to climb it!

My digital layout is at the bottom.

2012 Scavenger Hunt -- #1 A Pier

I thought I would never get a photo of a pier. The closest to us would be the Delaware River and that's not exactly close and would take a special trip.

To my surprise, while on my morning walk at Peace Valley Park, I came across a pier! I don't usually walk here at the park because it can be a lonely place to walk but one gets tired of walking the same route every day. Fortunately, this morning, there were quite a few retired women walking and I joined in with them.

When I spotted the pier, I ran back to my car and grabbed the camera. It's not a pretty pier, in fact, it is pretty much falling down but it's a pier and I can cross one more item off the list.

Here's a couple of view of the pier along with my digital layout.

2012 Scavenger Hunt -- #10 A Horse

I found my horse in a most unexpected place. While attending Wilson and Nancy's wedding, held in a vineyard, I found there also were several animals on the estate--including horses. I suppose if one stops looking for something, it simply turns up.

The children climbing all over that very patient horse are Wilson's grandchildren. It looks to me like the horse didn't even know they were there! I thought it only right to also photograph the playmate--a rather scruffy looking horse but also very gentle.

At the very bottom is the digi layout I made of the horses.

2012 Scavenger Hunt--#15 Someone Dancing

Continuing on...taking full advantage of Wilson and Nancy's wedding event, I have #15 Someone Dancing! First I have them eating then they danced.

They weren't the only ones eating...there was so much food we all had to loosen our belts and buttons. And, there was plentiful wine available, too. Makes sense since it was held at a vineyard!

Nothing like a wedding to make you feel good. In fact, we had our wedding 52 years ago today. Yep, it's our anniversary. Right below is a photo of us at our wedding. My goodness we were young!

Now on to the dancing...

2012 Scavenger Hunt -- #16 A Bride

We witnessed such happiness today when Wilson and Nancy married.  Wilson had been a widower for two years.  He and Nancy had worked together for 20 years but never in their wildest dreams did they ever think they would fall in love, but they did.  As I told them…Cupid works in mysterious ways.

The wedding was in a beautiful vineyard setting.  The vineyard is owned by Nancy’s nephew and he had a special bottle of wine created just for them.  Everyone at the wedding was given a small bottle to take home and celebrate the happy event.

Here are just a few of the hundreds of photos I took at the wedding.  I intend to make them up a special wedding album so I needed lots of photos.

2012 Scavenger Hunt Linkup

I missed out on the Scavenger Hunt last year so was really looking forward to doing it this year. We are attending a wedding this evening where I hope to get some more hints accomplished. I expect to find a bride, people dancing, and maybe even some other hints on the way to the wedding.

I mostly do digital scrapping (except for cards) so I am putting all my Scavenger Hunt layouts into an 8x8 album. Here is what I have accomplished so far...