Scavenger Hunt - Feb 2010

A few nice picture collage images I found:

Scavenger Hunt - Feb 2010

Image by tim ellis
February 2010 Scavenger Hunt

1. A Picture Worth a Thousand Words` (mine and everyone's)
2. Bogus (mine and everyone's)
3. Center of Attention (mine and everyone's)
4. Enchanting (mine and everyone's)
5. Fake (mine and everyone's)
6. Frozen (mine and everyone's)
7. Hands on (mine and everyone's)
8. Heartsickness (mine and everyone's)
9. Insomnia (mine and everyone's)
10. Jaw Breakers (mine and everyone's)
11. Love-letter (mine and everyone's)
12. Making Waves (mine and everyone's)
13. Hello Neighbor! (mine and everyone's)
14. Origami (mine and everyone's)
15. Pick of the Bunch (mine and everyone's)
16. Red on Green (mine and everyone's)
17. Right of Way (mine and everyone's)
18. Street Photography (mine and everyone's)
19. Square (mine and everyone's)
20. Wee Dram (mine and everyone's)

March 2008 Monthly Scavenger Hunt

Image by tim ellis
March 2008 Scavenger Hunt

Collage by www.stainedglasscollage.com - can you match the picture to the subject?

1. sandy (mine and everyone's)
2. seedy (mine and everyone's)
3. serendipity (mine and everyone's)
4. serenity (mine and everyone's)
5. shady (mine and everyone's)
6. shanty (mine and everyone's)
7. shiny (mine and everyone's)
8. silky (mine and everyone's)
9. simplicity (mine and everyone's)
10. smoky (mine and everyone's)
11. sneezy (mine and everyone's)
12. softy (mine and everyone's)
13. solitary (mine and everyone's)
14. spooky (mine and everyone's)
15. springy (mine and everyone's)
16. strategy (mine and everyone's)
17. stupidity (mine and everyone's)
18. sturdy (mine and everyone's)
19. symmetry (mine and everyone's)
20. symphony (mine and everyone's)

happyMAY

Image by BRANDIlane
I wanted to take a picture this morning and the new May page just kept on catching my eye. My 2006 Betty Page calendar just took a whole new direction - earlier months were more tame! I don't have much on the calendar yet...but I am happy June is almost here. Can you tell?

Mouse over for notes on who is who. Some of you looking might just find your own self. Feel free to add your own notes cause I have yet to identify them all.

May 2008 Monthly Scavenger Hunt

Check out these picture collages images:

May 2008 Monthly Scavenger Hunt

Image by tim ellis
May 2008 Scavenger Hunt

Can you match the picture to the tite?

1. yellow swing (mine and everyone's)
2. dust (mine and everyone's)
3. garden tools (mine and everyone's)
4. mountain (mine and everyone's)
5. ice cold glass of milk (mine and everyone's)
6. trail mix (mine and everyone's)
7. garden gnome (mine and everyone's)
8. headache (mine and everyone's)
9. heavy fog (mine and everyone's)
10. scared (mine and everyone's)
11. fork (mine and everyone's)
12. bird (mine and everyone's)
13. fruity flavor (mine and everyone's)
14. station (mine and everyone's)
15. an unlikely duo (mine and everyone's)
16. roadside stand (mine and everyone's)
17. traditional (mine and everyone's)
18. farmer (mine and everyone's)
19. flattened (mine and everyone's)
20. now, that was refreshing!! (mine and everyone's)

meet the pilots

Image by Johnson Cameraface
Cobbled together quickly to test out this style.

I've never done any kind of collage-style picture before, so here is my tribute to the brave Zoid pilots who just have to sit there while the mighty machine goes zzzt zzzt zzzt in any direction it chooses (my Zoids always seem to veer to the right)

Feb 08 Monthly Scavenger Hunt

Image by tim ellis
February 2008 Scavenger Hunt
can you match the picture to the subject?
1. year (mine and everyone's)
2. audience (mine and everyone's)
3. yoke (mine and everyone's)
4. on the lam (mine and everyone's)
5. newspaper (mine and everyone's)
6. espresso (mine and everyone's)
7. emoticon, self portrait (mine and everyone's)
8. xenophobe (mine and everyone's)
9. tomorrow (mine and everyone's)
10. rebel (mine and everyone's)
11. artist (mine and everyone's)
12. documentation (mine and everyone's)
13. academic (mine and everyone's)
14. yesterday (mine and everyone's)
15. tree hugger (mine and everyone's)
16. onion (mine and everyone's)
17. high (mine and everyone's)
18. urban (mine and everyone's)
19. new age (mine and everyone's)
20. tryst (mine and everyone's)

December Scavenger Hunt Bonus

Some cool picture collages images:

December Scavenger Hunt Bonus

Image by tim ellis
December Scavenger Hunt Bonus
Six extra pictures this month, so an extra mosaic too...
Um. Is it just me or are we losing the plot?
Vices
Wrap it up
X? What happened to X?
Your Christmas Joys
zoom
Notes on the images point to the originals...

King of Clubs

Image by seriykotik1970
Life in the middle ages, we're usually told, was nasty, brutish, and short. Picture a medieval scene - Monty Python's knights clip-clopping by with their coconut shells, say, or the magnificently brooding cheekbones of Jonathan Rhys Meyers's Henry VIII - and a revolting peasant won't be far away, eking out a miserable existence before expiring in one of a variety of unpleasant and unhygienic ways.
But now one pharmacy chain would have us believe that there are lifestyle lessons to be learned beneath medieval England's scrofulous exterior. Our ancestors may have succumbed to pox and pestilence, but they did so, it seems, with lithe figures and unfurred arteries. Research shows the average medieval diet was a model for healthy living: low in saturated fats and transfats, high in vegetables, and topped off with a working life of invigorating outdoor exercise.
So should we all be following the Medieval Diet? Well, yes and no. We could do a lot worse than model ourselves on a prosperous medieval smallholder, eating pulses and wholegrains, home-grown fruit and veg, a little meat and fish, and no refined sugar, the whole lot washed down with weak ale (safer than drinking dirty water).
The diet of the average aristocrat, however, was more alarming. Conspicuous consumption was the order of the day: the wealthy shunned the peasant vegetables in favour of gigantic quantities of meat and fish (lots of it salted, thanks to the fact that fridges hadn't yet been invented), followed by elaborate sugary confections and creamy custards. And they cultivated a taste for expensive wines on top of their usual daily allowance of eight pints of beer.

That, of course, raises the important question of how much of world history can be explained by the ruling classes being drunk all the time. As for the medieval diet, the real lesson is of global importance: the rich have always eaten too much meat, salt and sugar, leaving the poor uncertain of being able to eat at all.

By Helen Castor, a medieval historian and author of Blood & Roses: the Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses.

lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2229642,00.html

Flowers Laura gave me

Image by Raymond Yee
I took a few pictures of the flowers that Laura gave me last week. I really enjoyed getting them. ( I then generated a little collage with Picasa, giving my pictures an unexpected new life!)