Sgt. Daniel Vasselian Motorcycle Run

My little hometown of Abington MA has a lot of hometown pride. Today a motorcycle run was held in honor of a hometown hero........Sgt Daniel Vasselian........a Marine who was killed while serving in Afghanistan in December.
You may recall the blogpost about Danny's homecoming. If not, please copy  and paste the following link to view:

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Last week a group of volunteers in town got together to make replacement yellow ribbons to hang along the motorcycle route, along with American flags. These items were all donated by local businesses and local residents. Abington shows it's pride very well.

We had spotty showers and light drizzle during the motorcycle run, but that didn't stop the hundreds of motorcyclists, and the hundreds of people along the route who paid tribute to a fallen hero.

My thoughts are with the Vasselian and Doyle families, and I'm sure they felt the love today.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Update and Webb Park

HELLOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Sorry for my absence. I hope life has been good and that you are enjoying your summer. Can't believe we are approaching August first. It blows my mind how fast the summer is flying by.

Good news: I have started physical therapy!

More good news: After twelve weeks out, I went back to work this week! Yeah!!!!! I'm so very happy to be back!!!!!

Not so good news: I get very very sore when I work.

But it's just the way it is and Motrin and ice packs have become my best friends.

More good news but also not so good news: Xray shows more healing of the fracture........however it is still very broken.

More not so good news: I can not lift my right arm. Orthopedist says I either have a frozen shoulder (which is very possible from being in the sling so long) or I could have a torn rotator cuff (which is also very possible from the force of the trauma)

But we will not do an MRI yet. Will wait four weeks and see if there is any improvement from the physical therapy. Not going to worry about it now and hope for the best.

AMEN

Either way I will not be able to shoot with the Nikon for a very long time. Makes me very sad but could be so much worse and still counting my many blessings!!

Recent camera phone pictures taken at Webb Park in Weymouth MA:

Ryleigh is ten months old now! She eats all sorts of table food. She is crawling and it's so much fun to see her explore her world. She walks along holding onto the furniture and it will only be a matter of time before she's off and running. Her favorite word is "hi" and she says it to everyone she sees. She is always happy and she lights up my world more than I ever could imagine!!!!!!!!!

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Miss America

Here's a few pictures of Ryleigh that I took on the 4th of July......again, using my point and shoot with practically one hand.

You can call me Lefty if you choose to do so.......

CHASING RAINBOWS

Update. Yes, went to Vermont. Yes, brought the recliner to sleep on. No, I did not sit on it during the drive like Granny Clampett!!!

BUT........drumroll.........I took a picture!!!!!!! Still can't hold the Nikon, but I can hold the point and shoot now........can't hold it up to eye level, but somehow managed to take a few pictures. Went out to find a rainbow after a late day shower with the sun shining......drove up to Duck Pond Road and found this:

                                  "THE COLORS OF THE WIND"

It was pretty cool that the first landscape that I've been able to shoot is of a rainbow!

June in Vermont

Seeing as though I'm probably not going to be able to take any photos this June, I want to share a few of my older images taken a few years ago, on June 27th in VT.

I love the lupines this time of year

And all the pretty fields of wildflowers

This year those sights will stay in my mind and I won't be capturing them with my camera.

You know what? This will be the trip where a bull moose will be swimming across the lake......a black bear and her cubs will be frolicking in a nearby field, and a bald eagle will land in a tree right beside me. HA!

WAS THIS PHOTOSHOPPED OR NOT??

Hello!!!! I miss you. I hope you miss me too!!!! I miss a lot of things in my life. I miss driving. I miss sleeping in my bed. I miss going to work soooooo much. Okay. I must be honest. I do not miss getting up at 4:30 AM for work. BUT, I miss my friends at work. I miss feeling like I have accomplished something in my day other than watching HGTV and The Food Network.

I really miss taking pictures. I miss post processing my pictures. I love the whole photographic process. I love being out in the field.....I miss the exciting feeling I get when I know I nailed the shot. I also really enjoy the time spent in front of the computer using Photoshop and NIK software to process the images. Some photographers hate post processing, but not me. I love it!!!

Which brings me to show you the following image which I took at Nantasket Beach in Hull MA several years ago.

Do you think this seagull was Photoshopped into this picture, or was it in the scene as it was shot??

Hmmmmm........What do you think?????

Ready for the answer????????

Okay. This image was how it was shot. I was shooting at 200 mm's, and the only thing I did to it besides the normal things I do........adjust levels, contrast, saturation, and sharpen etc......was that I cropped it. After it was cropped and the lighthouse and land across the water looked closer, the gull looked like it could have been added into the scene to me.

Perhaps I have too much time on my hands...........Oh wait a minute.........I really do have too much time on my hands!!!!!!!!

Which brings me to an update on my fractured humerus recovery. It is sloooowly healing. Like really slow. It has been six weeks since the fracture and xray and exam show that it is still in the early stages of healing.

UGH!!!!

Work needed a return to work date and Dr says not before July 30th. That will bring me to twelve weeks out of work. I still can not sleep in my bed. Mr. S is on vacation next week and we may be putting the recliner on the trailer and bring it up to Vermont with us for me to sleep on. He says I can sit in the recliner on the drive up just like Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies!!!

I'm a lucky girl!!!!!!!

Honestly, could be so much worse and I'm still counting my blessings.

In My Easter Bonnet

As I was going through my photos, i realized that i never put miss ryleigh's Easter pictures up on the blog. i also just realized how lazy i am typing with just my left hand. i actually can use capital letters if I take the effort to do so. lazy lazy one handed typer i am. huh!

ok......so here is ryleigh and all of her prettiness on Easter

have i told you lately that i love her???????

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