Blue Ribbon Photo

This is the winner.  The judge liked expression, activity, exposure, depth of field, and composition (for some reason it still looks blue and dark on this version-it doesn't in real life). I LOVED the subject.  Blue Ribbon and Prize Gift Card.  Cool huh?  You can go and see all the other entries at the Park.  Jesse H. Jones Park & Nature Center--20634 Kenswick Drive, Humble, TX 77338-2003.

The judge did give special mention to my other entries but, the winners were truly deserving.  The entries were beautiful.  I don't think I will post my "losing" pictures though LOL!

Dragonfly

He really loved posing for pictures.  Yes, this is a mail and if you look very closely you will see the evidence. He was a good model.  He didn't complain or whine or ask for pay.  He just stood there looking around back and forth.  I swear the critter turned his head to look at me a couple of times when I got close but, then he didn't seem to be bothered by the mommarazzi (me).

The only thing that I would have liked better is a shot of a dragonfly on a plant not a windshield wiper. LOL!  He was really beautiful.Oh and did I mention he did two sessions because I lost all the initial shots because of the corrupt files on my memory card. grrrr....

National Day of Prayer

Learning Christ
Teach me, my Lord, to be sweet and gentle
In all the events of life-
  in disappointments,
  in the thoughtlessness of others,
  in the insincerity of those I trusted,
  in the unfaithfulness of those on whom I relied.

Let me put myself aside,
  to think of the happiness of others,
  to hide my little pains and heartaches,
  so that I may be the only one to suffer from them.

Teach me to profit by the suffering that comes across my path.
Let me so use it that is may mellow me, not harden nor embitter me;
That it may make me patient, not irritable. That it make me broad in My forgiveness, not narrow, haughty and overbearing.

May no one be less good for having come within my influence. No one less pure, less true, less kind, less noble for having been a fellow-traveler in our journey Toward ETERNAL LIFE.

As I go my rounds from one distraction to another, let me whisper from time to time, a word of love to Thee.
May my life be lived in the super-natural, full of power for Good, and strong in its purpose of sanctity.