Too Cold to Hold 2010

And they're off! Today's photo is the beginning of the Too Cold to Hold race in Norbuck Park this past Sunday, Jan 17. The first place guy is #152, right next to the chicken =)

Jim (located to the far right in this pic, with a camera in each hand) has the 1st and 2nd place winners posted and the first place winner finished the race with only one shoe - and the guy crossing in 2nd place was carrying it. It would've been funny if the shoe that came off was the one with the timing tag attached to it! =)

the race is on!

I went down early this morning to Norbuck Park near Whiterock Lake to take photos of the 'Too Cold to Hold' 5k and 15k. I hope within the next couple months to be participating instead of standing on the sidelines =)

Jim has the beginning of the race posted over at Terrell Daily Photo, and is asking viewers to pick out the winner.

There were only a few people in costumes. Spiderman had a big gut hanging out the front of his shirt, and, well... you can see what was bringing up the rear. Spidey was hanging with a few Elvis in personators! =)

I know I'm old, but the blog title reminds me of this old classic George Jones song!

rainy saturday

just a quick post tonight... i ran up to Audie Murphy's museum in Greenville with Jim today to take a few photos.

then i came back home to file taxes. 2009 was my first year to play around in the stock market. and i have now learned that every single transaction that was opened and closed throughout the year has to be entered individually! yikes! =) now it's time for some beer!!

2009 Photo of the Year! CDP Theme Day!

A final winner has been selected by everyone who voted in my 'Photo of the Year' contest for 2009. The grand prize goes to the 'TDP Downtown Photo-walk' picture. This is a photo I submitted for consideration in the Terrell Photo-walk that Jim at Terrell Daily Photo sponsored last summer.

I was actually taking a photo of Risinger's Western Wear and the Buford Drugs sign, and when I got home to review my photos I saw the old car driving past. Serendipity? Perhaps =) I thought the black and white effect made the photo seem older - and I was going through a 'color focus' phase back at the time, which resulted in my leaving the car in it's original color. It's one of my favorite shots, so I'll agree with the results!

I selected my photo by taking a poll from 5 selected photos posted on my site throughout 2009, and here are the Final Poll Results:

1st. TDP Downtown Photowalk with 19 votes

2nd. THS Cheerleaders with 10 votes

3rd. Purple Passion Flower with 3 votes

Please take a browse through some of the other City Daily Photo sites participating in photo of the year!! Click here to view thumbnails for all participants

playing possum

Today's photo is an unusual sight for the Plano business park where I work - especially up a tree! I was afraid to get too close, just in case he decided to jump on me =)

Yeah!! tomorrow's Friday!! I decided for new year's to stop wishing the days away, so this week has been dragging along nicely!! hopefully that holds true for the weekend...

reflections

Another photo from the archives again today. This is also one that was taken in Whitewright, Texas a few months back. An old grain silo, maybe? I'm not for sure =) It's abandoned now, and looks like it's been a part of the community for quite some time.

Looking ahead

Or is it looking behind? Sometimes things can be seen from two very different perspectives.

This photo is one from the archives, taken a while back in Whitewright, Texas, a small town in the way of me and Choctaw!

Local Drive Thru

One thing that seems to be popular around my area is the drive-thru beer barn and tobacco store. =)

It also seems to be a popular search on google, and I get a lot of visitors searching for it because of one of my first posts back from January 2008. Who knew? Today's photo is a different merchant than my last post, just a few blocks further west.

Cause, you know, a town can't have too many places that you can drive thru (with 2-way traffic) and satisfy all your alcohol and tobacco needs.

Riverside is located at 500 West Moore Ave, and more information regarding them can be found here. Personally, I have never driven thru either beer barn - I am kind of old-fashioned; I like to get out and go inside to buy my beer... =)

a year from today will be 1/11/11... i'm a numbers person, so is there some significance to this?

sunday blues

Well, this photo doesn't look anything like the building I saw the other night. I knew I should have gone back to photograph it the first time! I think they had additional lighting on it when I saw it on Friday, and now it just looks ordinary...

I have to agree with several of the comments from yesterday - I like the old post office better too! But I'm kind of nostalgic for the olden days, and a little resistant to change =)

Hope everyone had a great weekend! This week is my time to write annual reviews for employees at work. At the same time I have to update my own performance journal with work projects. I was supposed to update it throughout the year, but procrastination won again =)Wheeee....

Walking on Water

Ok, I didn't make it back down to the post office last night to get an evening shot... so i'll try again tonight.

Although I wasn't able to walk on water in jim's post yesterday, this duck was out to prove to me that he could! He said, just take it easy and place one webbed foot at a time...