Cory's Joy

Those who have been following the predecessor of this blog may recall that my branch of the Lueninghoener children has been living in New Mexico for the last several years.  Well, not anymore!  In July, we packed up the house and the kids and made a 1400 mile move to Seattle so I could start working for a big social media company.  It's been quite the adventure.  One of the big changes is living in a city again instead of out in the middle of nowhere, which means there are all kinds of big-city things that we got used to not having around in Los Alamos.  Things like busses.  And a nearby airport.  And Ikea.  And people.  It's kind of like being back in Chicago again, where we lived before New Mexico, but with a more exotic west-coast feel.

Remember how I said the move has been quite an adventure?  Part of that is the result of me crashing my bike and breaking my arm back at the start of December.  After riding the bus to work for a week or two while it healed some, I've been walking the two or three miles each day since then.  It takes about an hour, but gives me a chance to explore all of the nooks and crannies between the office building and our house.  One of the routes I can take goes past this radio tower, one of several on top of Queen Anne Hill in Seattle.  This particular one has been decked out in Christmas joy ever since Thanksgiving, and is one of the fun things I wouldn't have gone past between my house and the lab while we were living in the great southwest.

Craig's Joy

We were supposed to spend the last two weeks of December in Europe, and I thought I'd have a slam dunk awesome picture that would come out of those travels. Then, in mid November, one of our kitties got sick, and as the date for the trip approached it became obvious he was going to require more care than we could trust to a cat sitter, even if we had the sitter come every day. So we canceled our trip and spent the holidays here at home. My subject for "Joy" is said kitty, Lemur. Here he is in his two recovery collars, since he kept figuring out how to get out of (or bypass) every one we tried on him. He's my joy for a number of reasons, but the main one at this point is that he's much better and well on the road to recovery. We just took him to the vet for a check-up yesterday afternoon and everyone agrees his horrible skin infection is recovering wonderfully (and, as expected, slowly), but no complications and he may only have a couple more weeks in the collar.

Micky's Joy

This is one of my best friends. Aaron, with his fiance. This was taken in midtown crossing on December 8th right after my birthday dinner.

Quentin's Joy

The joy of finding the right song on the juke box.

Michael's Joy

Michael's joy is teasing small children and animals.  With the cold this weekend, I decided to recreate something I saw a professional do that was hilarious.  Animals catching treats.  One note:  Max got bored after about 10 Cheerios and I had to break out the cheese.

The effect I was trying to go for is here:  Click Link

Laurie's Joy

 

Joy is having your best friend curl up around you to keep you warm.

Carolyn's Joy Post

I read somewhere that joy is the voice of hope. I rather like that.

Even through the dark when hope seems absurd, joy finds a way to sing.

Annemarie's Joy

It's the most wonderful time of the year... when the Christmas decorations come out. There are trees to be climbed and shiny things to be killed. As soon as I pulled the Christmas tree box out of my closet, Mini was ready to go. A few glasses of wine later, I was obsessed with the reflection of the lights in her eyes, and managed to catch this photo.

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After a long hiatus, WeeklyPhotography has come back as MonthlyPhotography.

The idea is simple - every month we will have a topic. The topic for Dec 2017 is "Joy".

Each participant will shoot a picture for that topic. They may interpret it any way they wish. Before the end of the month each of us will post the photo and any explanation or caption they want on this blog. Sometime soon after the end of the month I (or someone) will put up a poll, and all our friends and admirers can vote for the best photo.

Lather, rinse, repeat.