Week 144 Photo Challenge: Vegetable(s)

We started this photo challenge almost exactly 4 years ago.  The first post was on July 2, 2021.  We gave My Guy the first deck of photo challenge cards for Father's Day that year.  Some cards have taken longer than a week to finish for a variety of reasons.   I took a several month hiatus from the blog in 2022.   The last year has been tougher as Grad Girl has been working hard to finish up her master's. She just didn't have the energy or time some weeks.  So there hasn't been a photo challenge post each week.  But we definitely aren't ready for the end but this week's photos are from the last card in the second deck. 

None of us had problems finding subject matter, the challenge this week is to make an interesting photo. My approach to that is typically to see what I can get with macro photography.

Kate: Red Pepper

Red peppers are one of my favorite raw veggies.  I can eat red, yellow and orange peppers with no problems. But green peppers tear up my stomach.  My favorite part of the photo is probably the texture in the stem.  

I went raw, My Guy went with a cooked veggie. 

My Guy: Pizza in Progress

This was Sunday dinner: caramelized onion with peach and prosciutto. We wanted something different on the pizza. It was supposed to be pear and fig pizza, but pears were out of season and figs are hard to find at our local small town grocery store. So he winged it. It was still really, really good.  

Grad Girl finished all the paperwork needed to get her thesis submitted and applied for graduation on Friday. It was a stressful week for the poor girl, turns out there's a whole approval process that had to occur, it wasn't as simple as just submitting the thesis to the website.  With all of her committee out of the country, that got tricky with the Friday deadline. She pulled it off, but not without losing a bit of sleep and sanity. But she still came up with a photo when I asked. 

Grad Girl: Grad School Garden

Like her Dad, Grad Girl likes to have fresh herbs.  With all the things she needed to do to get out this summer, her garden hasn't been thriving.  Hopefully, she'll have a bit more time over the next few weeks to nurse her basil back to health.  

So that's the last photo card from the second deck.  We've been discussing what to do going forward as none of us what to end the challenge. It's been a very nice way to do something as a family, even with Grad Girl so far away.  As luck would have it, Amazon came through and I found another deck of photo cards from a completely different company.  There are 100 cards in this deck. That's almost 2 more years of photo challenges.  Here's the first one: 

Hmm, it will be interesting to see what we all come up with. 

If you are interested in this photo card deck, here's the full info.  

100 Photography Ideas Cards from Tip Info.  You can find them at Amazon (no affiliation, just sharing if you are interested in doing something similar).