Scavenger Hunt Sunday--Week 27

It feels like summer again. Maybe it will last awhile this time. Joe turned the heater off yesterday morning and put the air conditioner in the window today. Tornadoes danced all around us last week but we weren't in the path of any. My heart goes out to those who were affected by them. I just can't imagine... Despite living in Oklahoma in the middle of tornado country, I haven't been in one. I would love to keep it that way. They terrify me.

I haven't had time to get my camera out much this week. I have been busy working on the schedule for the Successful Writer Conference my writing group from Tulsa is hosting the 31st of this month. I have worked on creating / formatting a program for it every night this week. I didn't get it perfect, but was able to get it close to what I wanted and posted it on the facebook page for the conference. I am still exhausted. Tonight I was finally able to think about SHS. All my photos are from inside the house. Here goes!

1. On My Feet

These are my favorite shoes. Sadly, they the won't stay on my feet.  :(

2. Shapes

Vintage cooking cutters came in many shapes and sizes. These are just a few. Children have a lot of fun making cookies with them. The dough doesn't always release from the cutter as perfectly shaped as I would like, but the grand kids love them anyway. 

3. Little Things

I like little things. My house is full of them. These are just a few. The little perfume lamp is my favorite in this group.

4. Good

Last weekend we were given fresh spinach and radishes. Yesterday a friend shared a loaf of bread with us because she didn't want to freeze it. We bought steak from the markdown bin and we had the potatoes. All we needed was a grill. Joe found charcoal from a year or two ago. This old black smith bellows made a handy grill after he added an metal cake pan from the scrap pile and a rack from an old icebox. The charcoal didn't want to stay lit but as you can see below, the steaks did get done--a little too done, in fact.

We put it all together to come up with this meal. Mine had a sweet potato. His had red potatoes. We had $15 in the whole meal and got all we wanted to eat and had the left overs for supper tonight. We don't eat red meat often, but the steak was GOOD and the price was great, especially since we both ate two times from it. 

5. Egg

I found this cute little egg basket at a second hand store a few days ago. It won't hold many eggs, but I only needed one for this prompt. Notice the old apron under it? I never think to wear it when I'm cooking but it made a great prop for this picture. I love the orange ric rac.

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday--Week 25

Joe has been out several times over the last few weeks hunting for mushrooms. He had all but given up on finding any until a friend posted on Facebook that they found a big batch. Needless to say, this week he has been hunting with a vengeance. I went along with my Canon to record the hunt.

The first few days out we only managed to find a few dried up red morels and (which are poisonous to some people even if they are fresh) and some old puffballs and inky caps. I did get some good photos though, so it wasn't a total waste of time. I will be doing a series of posts later about edible vegetation, including mushrooms, that can be found growing wild.

My interpretations of this weeks prompts were shots I took on our mushroom hunts this week.

1. Trick

We hoped the land close to water would not be so dry and maybe we could find mushrooms. I couldn't resist taking a few shots from the bridge. When I viewed these pictures later on the computer the images in the water looked like the 'real deal'. It was quite a trick to at first. Did you think the top of the picture was the sky?

2. Selective Color

I don't seem to have a program to produce selective color, so I improvised by choosing photos from the woods that appeared naturally for this prompt. The upper picture is a beef steak mushroom. It was too old and hard to eat. Joe says they do taste like beef.

I didn't pick this nice specimen of moss up to see what it was connected to but the color was a great contrast to the leaves around it.

3. Close Up

On the way to the woods yesterday we stopped at a flea market. We found an 35mm Canon EOS Rebel X with a small lens and a 75-300mm all for $25.00. The lenses fit my digital Canon. I can sell the 35mm camera with the small lens for what I have in it and keep the 75-300mm for myself. I used it for this shot. My other lenses are image stabilizers so I wasn't sure how good this 'close-up' shot would come out with no tripod. I was quite pleased.

4. Mirror

Water is the only mirror that I've found in the woods, but it does make a good one.

5. Bright Colors

Some of my favorite shots are looking up into the trees. The deep blue sky accented by soft white clouds made a nice bright background for the green leaves on the newly budding trees. 

This picture doesn't satisfy any of the prompts but does show that we finally found morels. We were about to call it a day when Joe spotted these. We found around a gallon of them. Needless to say, Joe is a happy hunter!

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