Through the Eyes of Sisters, Topic: Letters

What a fun topic this promised to be this week - unfortunately, fate played her hand and worked against me.  I have been sick with flu, and just unable to shake it for about a week now.  So I have been cold all the time, full of aches, stuffy nose, headache - ugh.  Just horrible.  Despite my groans, I took the kids for a nature walk in one of our forests on Saturday with a local professor who showed us all the plants that we live with, what we can eat, and what is good for remedies.  It was so interesting, and I took my trusty point and shoot camera along (you know the one, I was bragging about it just last week) so that I could capture for eternity what my mind would forget in the car ride home - and April dropped it!  Gasp!  Lens first on the tar road as we were getting ready to start out.  It's dead.  We killed it.  I was devastated, we have had such good times together me and my trusty little camera, I wanted to cry but April was already in tears and so I had to be the grownup.  But I am sure it contributed to my overall poor feeling this week - I am in mourning.

So!  That being said, I no longer had a trusty to drag around with me, I had to haul out the big guns and, to be honest, my hopes for this theme died with my camera.  No matter how hard I tried, I just could NOT get into it.  My sister sent me her photo early because she was super busy:

Isn't it fun?  Didn't she do a great job?  Don't you feel the love of mother nature emanating in rays from the picture?  I loved it, and so even though she was uber-busy she did a wonderful job.  So I copied her:

I figured I would use man-made stuff only though.  We have such different pictures each week and now even on the same theme our pictures are so different.  What is ironic, is that my sis, who hates camping, is not a fan of bugs or pets, or hair or animals or dirt but instead favors room service and, well, electricity, took the nature LOVE.  And me, who is happiest smelling of horses and hay, or hiking, or doing ANYTHING outside, especially if there is dirt involved, took the man-made LOVE.  How funny is that?

I am glad the week is done, I am glad I don't have to look at letters anymore, I love Heid's photo - I may print it and frame it for my bedroom or something, I am looking forward to moving on.  No other photos this week since I don't have a trusty to take them with - my mother-in-law took pity on me and ordered a replacement, although nothing could fill the hole my last camera left, I am open to a new relationship and hopefully it will be here in time for next week's challenge and I think I will have to name this one - I never expected to get so attached to the last one.  Any ideas?  I am thinking of 'Henry' . . .