Every Day Images

Kym, who blogs at A Fresh Cup of Coffee has a link up/photo challenge that I decided to take part in at the last minute. She uses certain words, listed below, as prompts for photos. 

May Prompts - Everyday Images #62

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at home (monthly)

kitchen

chocolate

reflection

park

spiral

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May was a pretty eventful month around here. (And I realize we still have a week in it. I guess I should say it has been an eventful month.) It included some traveling and lots of celebrating. I blogged about most of these things already so I won't rehash them here but I will see if I have some photos that I've haven't used in posts already (I try not to duplicate pictures much; don't know why- nobody cares except for me!!)

I just decided to write this post with the prompts on Friday; every picture here was already on the camera roll of my iPhone or SD card. I didn't take any just for the purpose of this post. I was pleased that I could find photos for all of the prompts.

At home- for this prompt, I'm going to include with the kitchen prompt since many of my at home pictures are ones of kitchen creations...

We hosted two events- Mother's Day and Abby's grad meal with family so I spent a lot of time in the kitchen preparing items for those meals. We ate the meals outside on the patio and so I had fun getting the outside table ready to eat on. 

This was most of the decor for Abby's college grad get together. I bought a pack of multiple frames from Amazon and framed some of the photos that I had taken of Abby during a photo session. I also framed a couple of awards that Abby received during college. Finally, I used some smaller frames to include some cute pictures of Abby when she was younger. I put deserts on this table part of the time but did end up moving them to the kitchen table. This table was overwhelmed with things!

This is how it ended up looking...

I used the same tablecloth for both our Mother's Day and college grad celebration meal. The flowers are such a pretty spring color! Speaking of flowers, how pretty are these real flowers? The ones in the middle are flowers that Abby's boyfriend gave to me at Abby's graduation- he got lots of points for that one! The flowers at the edge (yikes, I won't quit my day for floral arranging...) are ones I cut from our front yard. They're an invasive plant (and they truly are taking over all my flower beds in the front) but the flowers are pretty so I've only pulled out a few plants. 

Chocolate:

Earlier in the week, Alyssa and I went to run a quick errand of getting gas and a couple of things at the grocery store and yet we ended up at our town's little donut shop called Donut Haus. Donuts are not something that I crave often. While I love sweet things, donuts seem sometimes too cloyingly sweet for my taste. Nonetheless, I was happy to make an unplanned stop for the sweet confections at Alyssa's suggestion. Oh boy, was this guy sweet!! Cream filling in the middle and a thick layer of chocolate frosting on top- go big or go home, right? Well, I was heading home but I wasn't there yet- big it was :).

Reflection:

Not a true reflection but I'm going with it. These guys were on a famous landmark on Miami (of Ohio)'s campus. The structure that they're on is a large sundial. 

Here is another shot of the sundial. 

Park- 

Not a park per se- more like a copse of trees but it's good enough :). This was on Miami's campus.

Spiral

Sort of? I took this picture one day in the teachers' lounge at school. Interestingly, our district won a grant to create "wellness" or "calming" areas in each school. So, each teachers' lounge at each school has a little sitting area with magazines and some sort of relaxation "thing" (for lack of a better word) that staff can use (play with?) to relax? The sand designs are sort of spiral-y. I guess my stress level wasn't high enough to feel the need to play with the balls and the sand :). (I didn't create the designs in the sand- they were already there. I took the picture because I thought the whole thing is a bit odd if I'm being honest.) Though I did appreciate the comfy chair that I sat on during a break from classes!

Also, the laces on Abby's shoes are tied in a spiral-y way so I'll use this photo as well...

Also this from Abby's grad meal at home was sorta, kinda spiral-y