Photo Meme Eye Candy Friday

Vicki (Knitorious) tagged me for this photo meme, which I did with some trepidation.  Who knows what lurks in older folders?
Rules:

–Go to your sixth picture folder and pick the sixth picture
–Pray you remember the details

Here’s my result.

I do remember some details about the picture above.  It was taken in May of 2006 in our front yard/garden (yarden).  The grape hyacinths way in the front were blooming fairly late, and the leafy furry leaves you can also see are Monarda (beebalm) coming up.  Yes, I had a digital camera well before that time, and my 6th folder pictures should have gone back several years earlier.  But there’s a sad story….

I put all my photos on what was then theoretically my laptop, but really was the family computer.  We finally got a desktop computer, and my husband said he could make use of the laptop at his recording studio.  So I gave it to him, but asked him to get all my photos off & burn CDs or download to a hard drive (he’s a bit more computer savvy and is home during the day — plus he’s the one who wanted the computer).  Well, he didn’t do it, didn’t get around to it; and then the computer crashed and burned and I lost all my photos.  Problem is,  in the meantime my Nikon Cool Pix was lost or stolen with its card still in (and I had deleted photos off the card, obviously, too).  So I have a couple years of lost digital photos…..

This photo was taken before I had given up hope of the Nikon showing up again (I thought it might just have been misplaced).  I borrowed my husband’s tiny digital camera when I started blogging in late April 2006 — one of those that uses AAA batteries (shudder; they go through those puppies so fast).   It isn’t a very smart camera.  But the colors of the late spring grape hyacinth were so lovely that I tried my best to capture them.

There, a breath of spring in early winter!  Seems too early to be dreaming of spring, but color is always welcome.   (At least the snow has covered up the November grays and browns now.  Even if it’s quite white.)

So:  I’m not much for tagging, usually (too much like chain letters).

But this is easy and fun.   Unfortunately,  many of my blogosphere friends and must-reads have a) already done it, b) been tagged and not done it yet, or c) profess not to do memes.  Here are a few, however, whom I would invite to give it a shot (ha! shot! get it?):

Laurie, who is apparently my twin sister separated at birth, from KnittingGarden; Lisa of Knitnzu if she has time; Deb of Wound Too Tight; another Lisa, my Rhinebeck Roommate, of purl this!, and Norma (who needs no introduction) because she was just complaining about having nothing to blog (even though she is meme-free).  ETA:  Dang, I meant from the beginning to also tag Sam of Knit Quest!  There’s 6, just like the folder, even though I wasn’t trying.

No obligation: but feel free to show and tell!

What Kind of Nerd am I?

All sorts, apparently! But music and books are right at the top. (Sounds about right.) Found on kmkat’s blog.

What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Musician   Doo doo de doo waaaa doo de doo! (<– That’s you playing something.) Everyone appreciates the band/orchestra geeks and the pretty voices. Whether you sing in the choir, participate in a school/local band, or sit at home writing music, you contribute a joy to society that everyone can agree on. Yay! Welcome to actually doing something for poor, pathetic human souls. (Just kidding.)
Literature Nerd
Artistic Nerd
Science/Math Nerd
Social Nerd
Drama Nerd
Gamer/Computer Nerd
Anime Nerd
What Be Your Nerd Type? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Work’s been crazy busy (apparently not so busy that I can’t take a quick nerd quiz at the moment) but this weekend should find me with a little more time, other than Nutcracker insanity starting (first performance is in one week). (And speaking of music/artistic/drama nerds.) I’m not in it (was in the past) but just the RockStar being in it is a big time suck. As in, “Mom, I need fill-in-essential-object-of-choice tonight/tomorrow!” plus chaperoning/volunteering at rehearsals & performances. Well, it’s a huge time commitment from everyone involved. But so wonderful to see. And the countdown begins….

Thanks to all, and yarn for a few!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to wish me a happy birthday and to share their favorite quotes, poems, songs, and more.   Thank you!  I had such fun reading them all!

And thank you to the Random.org random number sequencer for picking out my lucky winners in the Birthday Blog Contest!

Kathryn, Becky and Gladys all were selected by the randomness inherent in atmospheric noise to receive some lovely yarn.  (The multiple mathematicians who apparently stop by my blog should appreciate that link.)  I’ll show you what they won a little later this week, when I’ve picked out some very special yarn.

Let me highlight their words of wisdom:

Kathryn:

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute,
and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour,
and it seems like a minute.
That's relativity."
                        -- Albert Einstein

Becky:

"Victory will never be found
by taking the path of least resistance."
                         --Winston Churchill 

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty
to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble."
                         --Helen Keller 

"The greater part
of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions,
and not our circumstances."
                      --Martha Washington

Gladys:

Something I learned a couple of decades ago,
but still have to remember at times,
is to live -- and make decisions --
with no regrets. This means that I
try (not always successfully)
to look forward and see
if I might regret the action
that I'm about to take.
This doesn't always work at yarn sales.  

Words of wisdom in truth, all of them.

Especially the one about yarn sales.  Sigh.

Over the River and Through the Woods

…back home safely this morning.

A little snow on my car

and on the roads, but the ice was all vanquished by salt and daylight.

Home I came to the first snowmen of the season.

(Not my yard, but fun to see.)

Also home to an unshoveled sidewalk, but I’m used to that….

Home to some new Twisted yarn, too, when I finally got home from work tonight!  Hooray!  That partly makes up for the white-knuckling in the last 24 hours.  All’s well that ends safely, in any case.

Don’t forget, enter before midnight (CDT) tonight to win a skein of yarn in your favorite color, by leaving a comment on the Birthday Blog Contest post with your favorite quote, saying, song or poem.

Tomorrow: the winners!