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May 4 2011 Colors<br />
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A few more tulips.  Hopefully the frost warning for last night didn't affect them.  What's up with that anyway - a frost warning in May?
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May 4 2011 Colors

A few more tulips. Hopefully the frost warning for last night didn't affect them. What's up with that anyway - a frost warning in May?

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  • May 17 2011 Peachy<br />
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Not much else blooming yet and it's been cold almost 20 degrees below normal.
  • May 16 2011 Kyle shoots a 3 pointer<br />
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The Bulls beat Miami last night in the first game of the Eastern Conference Championship.  So I'm posting this shot of Kyle to celebrate the Bulls victory.  He and I were working on a newspaper again and this is one of the shots we did. (Since we last worked on a newspaper Kyle has advanced to where he wants to do the cropping and image placement on the page himself).<br />
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I called Kyle at half time last night.  The game was tied so I asked him for a prediction.  He correctly predicted a Bulls win. The Bulls outscored Miami by 21 points in the second half to win 103-82.
  • May 15 2011 Purple<br />
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Not much of a shooting day, cold and rainy.  I finally found something besides tulips to shoot.<br />
Thanks for all the attention to yesterday's tulip post
  • May 14 2011 Last of the Tulips<br />
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I was going to post a picture of our backyard <br />
 <a href="http://arthill.smugmug.com/Photography/May-2011/16873679_djHLJ8#1290426046_cT3FF4r-A-LB">http://arthill.smugmug.com/Photography/May-2011/16873679_djHLJ8#1290426046_cT3FF4r-A-LB</a><br />
but decided to give you one last tulip shot.  They have about run their course around here.<br />
We went from the 90's on Wednesday back to upper 40's, low 50's and rain for the next few days. The temperature went down about 20 degrees yesterday in just a few hours.<br />
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Not many views on <a href="http://arthillphoto.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/sooc-or-not/">http://arthillphoto.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/sooc-or-not/</a>.  Check it out and let me know what you think.
  • May 13 2011 Go Bulls!<br />
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The Chicago Bulls beat Atlanta last night to advance to the conference finals. My grandson Kyle is a huge Bulls fan.  He knows everything about the Bulls, all the stats, history etc.  He is also a huge Derek Rose fan and was the first person I know to have predicted that Rose would be the league's MVP.  I thought I would post this shot of Kyle wearing his Derek Rose jersey to celebrate the Bulls win.  Kyle is checking out our pond.<br />
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New blog post yesterday<br /> <a href="http://arthillphoto.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/sooc-or-not/">http://arthillphoto.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/sooc-or-not/</a>
  • May12 2011 Red<br />
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By now you're thinking I'm posting too many tulips.  I can't help myself. :-) I shot some other stuff yesterday  <a href="http://arthill.smugmug.com/Photography/May-2011/16873679_djHLJ8#1288072837_ZZRCQQF">http://arthill.smugmug.com/Photography/May-2011/16873679_djHLJ8#1288072837_ZZRCQQF</a>) too but in the end...<br />
But not to worry, the tulips are fading fast around here so at most a couple more posts.<br />
I guess I just love the variety and the subtle color blends of tulips. With so many other flowers the only difference is color.<br />
Also maybe the fact that I go all winter without a chance to shoot flowers causes me to go nuts in the spring and tulips, while not the first, are the most abundant.  Have a great day.
  • May 11 2011 Pink Tulip Convention<br />
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I've been mostly posting closeups so I thought I would do one "group" shot.  My other choice for today was<br />
 <a href="http://arthill.smugmug.com/Photography/May-2011/16873679_djHLJ8#1286695461_FB3rPx3-A-LB">http://arthill.smugmug.com/Photography/May-2011/16873679_djHLJ8#1286695461_FB3rPx3-A-LB</a>
  • May 10 Blaze of Orange<br />
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Thanks so much for all the great comments on yesterday's post.<br />
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I've got a new blog post today<br />
 <a href="http://arthillphoto.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/put-the-best-face-on-it/">http://arthillphoto.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/put-the-best-face-on-it/</a>
  • May 9 2011 My pride and joy<br />
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We had a nice Mothers Day celebration and the weather even cooperated. That's the Naperville river walk behind us.
  • May 8 2011 In honor of Mothers everywhere<br />
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Remembering my Mom and honoring my wife and two daughters, all wonderful Mothers.<br />
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I got a lot more tulip pictures yesterday<br /> <a href="http://arthill.smugmug.com/Flowers/Flowers-2011/16917112_RW8DxW#1282042614_jzXFck5">http://arthill.smugmug.com/Flowers/Flowers-2011/16917112_RW8DxW#1282042614_jzXFck5</a>
  • May 7 2011 The tulip hunt continues<br />
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Decided to bring you a whole bunch today instead of just one or two.
  • May 6 2011 Ahh, Spring<br />
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Some of you encouraged me yesterday to do more tulips so here you go. :-)  I'll look for something else today but you never know.
  • May 5 2011 Another tulip<br />
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I guess I'm sort of stuck in tulip mode.  This seems to happen every Spring - I don't know why.  Thanks for the great response to yesterday's tulip shot.<br />
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If you struggle with coming up with a daily photo I've found an article that may help.  Find it and some other things here.<br /> <a href="http://arthillphoto.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/interesting-stuff-from-all-around/">http://arthillphoto.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/interesting-stuff-from-all-around/</a>
  • May 4 2011 Colors<br />
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A few more tulips.  Hopefully the frost warning for last night didn't affect them.  What's up with that anyway - a frost warning in May?
  • May 3 2011 Soaking up sunshine.<br />
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Finally we had a few days without rain.  I don't want to keep posting gas station signs but it has jumped another 14 cents just since Friday<br />
 <a href="http://arthill.smugmug.com/Photography/May-2011/16873679_djHLJ8#1274248645_pNFm4Jx-A-LB">http://arthill.smugmug.com/Photography/May-2011/16873679_djHLJ8#1274248645_pNFm4Jx-A-LB</a>
  • May 2 2011 My great grandfather's grave<br />
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Yesterday our Sunday School class went on a walking tour of Graceland Cemetery. <a href="http://www.gracelandcemetery.org/pages/biographies.html">http://www.gracelandcemetery.org/pages/biographies.html</a><br />
This is a pretty famous place known as Cemetery of the Architects.  Many famous Chicagoans are buried there including Potter Palmer, Marshall Field, Cyrus McCormick, Phillip Armour, Alan Pinkerton.<br />
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It turns out my great grandfather James Hill was buried there in 1927 and our guide found his tomb for us. My grandfather was his oldest son, born in 1879.<br />
The two small stones to the left are those of daughters by his second wife.  His second wife died in 1873.  The daugters were born in 1867 and 1869 and only lived until 1895 and 1898.  He married for the third time in 1884.
  • May 1 2011 Perfect Day<br />
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April was a lousy month in many ways but I closed it out yesterday with a perfect day.  Two soccer games, got the lawn mowed (finally no rain) and went to a night White Sox game.<br />
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And as we drove past that gas station show in yesterday's post I saw that the hiked the price another 10 cents - now 4.42.  Near the ball park I saw a gas station offering gas for $4.69
  • April 30 2011 Better start ordering 5's<br />
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Our local gas station.  A few days ago I posted one suggesting they had run out of fours. <br /> <a href="http://arthill.smugmug.com/Photography/Daily-Photos-2011/15281238_Twnec#1250527219_6BCzo-A-LB">http://arthill.smugmug.com/Photography/Daily-Photos-2011/15281238_Twnec#1250527219_6BCzo-A-LB</a><br />
I guess they ordered the wrong kind :-)<br />
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Check out the prices on April 13th<br /> <a href="http://arthill.smugmug.com/Photography/Daily-Photos-2011/15281238_Twnec#1250527219_6BCzo-A-LB">http://arthill.smugmug.com/Photography/Daily-Photos-2011/15281238_Twnec#1250527219_6BCzo-A-LB</a><br />
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And on March 26 just a little over a month ago<br /> <a href="http://arthill.smugmug.com/Photography/Daily-Photos-2011/15281238_Twnec#1228934796_A6iSg-A-LB">http://arthill.smugmug.com/Photography/Daily-Photos-2011/15281238_Twnec#1228934796_A6iSg-A-LB</a><br />
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That's a 53 cent increase in a month. And the summer driving season has not started yet.
  • April 29 2011 The Artist<br />
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Lindsey loves drawing and doing art projects.  She gave us that piece last week and we of course put it on our refrigerator.  Yesterday we asked her to pose with her creation.  We just love this kid; she is so much fun to be around.<br />
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And thanks for visiting my blog.  I had a new high for visitors yesterday.
  • April 28 2010 Flying along the lakeshore<br />
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Well, not really. Today's post is made up of two separate pictures taken in two different places.  I'm using it to illustrate a simple cure for boring skies in today's blog post<br />
 <a href="http://arthillphoto.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/more-sky-tricks/">http://arthillphoto.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/more-sky-tricks/</a><br />
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Yesterday's post was <br />
 <a href="http://arthillphoto.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/fix-up-washed-out-skies/">http://arthillphoto.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/fix-up-washed-out-skies/</a>
  • 1223742supersnappz

    on June 29, 2012

    Beautifully composed and superb colours

  • Karl Ronning

    on May 6, 2011

    So beautiful, Art! Love the comp and color.

  • geoghanart

    on May 5, 2011

    Lovely rich colors, nice comp.

  • Janet McQueen

    on May 5, 2011

    Oh so very lovely.... gorgeous deep colours, beautifully composed!
    (Better a frost warning than a blizzard warning .... :-))

  • Renae Smith

    on May 5, 2011

    Mmmmm, just what I needed on a dull gray day. Lovely bright complementary colors =)

  • papamugger

    on May 5, 2011

    Beautiful capture, 52 here this morning after three mornings with overnight lows of 45-49; a big change from the last few weeks when our lows were in the upper 60's

  • 798343owlsnestphotos

    on May 5, 2011

    Well done Art! Lovely color and dof! I don't know about the weather either, we had frost all the way down here in Tennessee.

  • jhutsonphotography

    on May 5, 2011

    Great composition... well done.

  • Curtis Budden

    on May 5, 2011

    This is very elegant, Art. Beautiful composition and colors.

  • LadyKatesPhotography

    on May 5, 2011

    MAGNIFICIENT!! LOVE this!! The comp, the dof, the presentation....well done!!
    BTW: I DO understand what you were saying re: 'toy' or' tool' !! Honestly, I thought about that before I wrote the word toy ;-) That was my first pratice session with it, so for that time being, it was a fun toy!!

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