Through the Eyes of Sisters, Topic: Light

I LOVED the topic this week, as a hobbyist photographer I have learned that if you can work with the light you have, you can make 'amazing' out of 'ordinary'.  It's kinda magical - so when Heids suggested it as her theme this week my mind started to race.  Of course, we also had a RECORD week at South Shore Organics - most sign ups in one week, most deliveries in one week, most going on in one week which all translates to MOST STRESS IN ONE WEEK!  We survived, we did a good job, all my customers have their healthy food and are (and I quote) 'happy', 'delighted' and 'excited' and even 'in love'.  I do wish I could have taken a whole day to play with the theme this week though because the possibilities are endless - Heidi decided to hit the town at night and she took these two photos which she joined:

She loved how the changing traffic light changed the statue, and how it even appears to change direction with the changing light.  It is awesome, very creative.  I of course, pushed my point and shoot Canon PowerShot to the limit again.  I haven't actually taken out my beautiful talented Nikon in weeks . . . oops!  Months!  Time flies.  But it served me well, here is my pic:

This is our cat Dudley - he has issues.  I wrote to my sister that he lights up my life and she wrote that he is the light of my life - not quite sis, he is damn hard work and he can be an idiot and just when you want to squeeze the breath out of him he goes all adorable on you and you decide to let him live another week.  He often makes me smile though - he is a funny cat.  Our bird is funny too, he is a Rottweiler in feathers I swear and not because he is aggressive, no no, he is a mooch, but he definitely has a warped sense of self and is not afraid of the cats at all even when they sit salivating millimeters from him with just a few strands of cage wire between them.  He pulls out their hairs for attention, yup, plucks them with his beak, taunts them with his scent and then watches in glee, GLEE I tell you, while they drool.  I say God makes him and then they come live by us, my sister says birds of a feather  . . .

I also took this photo, we were at a sheep shearing event at one of our local farms on Saturday and I think it qualifies - I didn't take a before but please believe me, after the winter we just had these sheep can only have been happy, delighted, excited and maybe just a little in love when the shearer walked into the barn door - they are much lighter post shave!

See - don't they look happy?

They also had a demonstration of the working sheep dog, it was AMAZING to watch.  These dogs are SO well trained and who knew so much went in to it?  The sheep have to like the dog, and respect him, they dog has to tap into its predatory instinct, so the sheep are dinner, but not dinner, and the handler all the while is communicating through whistles or brief hand gestures and from across the field the dog knows exactly what to do.  It really is incredible, the handler who has been doing this for 20 plus years - his name is Rick Seaman and I couldn't resist but snap a pic while he was talking - the way the his hair, blowing in the wind was back lit, I nearly chose this pic this week instead of Dudles:

It's a Pantene advert - don't you think?  Well, that's it from me for now.  I had to choose the topic this week, my sister always says I choose great topics, actually, I don't think so - I like hers better (except that 'work' one).  I guess it is always nice to receive a topic than to think one up - there must be a website somewhere with a random Team Up Thursday's Topic Selector where you click a button and poof, there you go!  I'm off to Google that!