I entered a photo contest!

So about a month ago my mom called me and told me about a local amateur photo contest being sponsored by our County Conservation District! She knows how much I enjoy taking pictures and she really likes looking at my pictures! Although since she is my mom I doubt she would tell me that she did not like my photos! :) Anyways she has been encouraging me to enter and I finally got around and printed out 4 photos and dropped them off today!

The contest is an Annual thing and this year they have 4 categories that you can enter a photo in. I chose 4 that I really liked that fit in each category. The categories are Trees and Plants, Wildlife, Landscapes and People enjoying Nature! They will be picking 3 winners from each category. You will only be able to win in one category as well.


So here are the 4 photos I choose!I printed them out as an 8x10 and they looked better on photo paper than on my computer!

Which one is your favorite?

This I entered in People enjoying Nature! This is a picture of my youngest Emily running down the trail in the woods behind our house! During fall we are surrounded by a sea of yellow trees and leaves!


I entered this one in Trees and Plants. I took this in our woods behind our house. I love the contrast of the yellow and red!


I entered this one in the Wildlife category. I took this photo of a robin's nest this past Spring in a bush in our front yard. I played with the settings on my camera and love how the picture turned out.


I entered this in the Landscape category. This was taken in our side yard. We are surrounded by tons of trees!

I won Tickets to see Willie Nelson today!

Okay, I am not the biggest fan of Willie Nelson, but my hubby really likes him! He was pretty excited when I called him to tell him I had won the tickets.

This morning I had the local country radio station on (WITL) while I was cleaning the kitchen and doing dishes. They announced that they were going to give away 5 sets of tickets to see Willie Nelson on the 24th of September. All you had to do was text "WHARTON" to a certain number and you would be entered to win! Well I have unlimited texting on my phone and you could send as many texts as you wanted, so I sent a few! Well I probably sent more than a few, more like 30! So the contest ended today at 2pm and I got a call a few minutes after 2 letting me know I was one of the winners! I am getting 2 4th row seats to see Willie Nelson at the Wharton Center in East Lansing next Thursday and they also are giving me a $50 gift card to Mitchell's Fish Market at the Eastwood Town Center in East Lansing. So now I have a date night with my hubby with a free nice dinner and tickets to a concert, all for free! I love FREE STUFF! I looked up the tickets online and they are going for $55.00 a piece! So I just won a prize package worth $160! This made my day, heck my whole week! I love WITL!

This is the 2nd set of concert tickets I have won from WITL in the past few months. I won 4 tickets to see the up and coming Country Group GLORIANA too! CLICK HERE to read a previous post about that night!

I am sooo looking forward to my date night out with Kyle next Thursday! I will let you all know how it goes next week. Now I am going to look at the menu for Mitchell's Fish house and see what I am going to order. I'm thinking crab legs or shrimp!