In response to The Daily Post’s weekly writing challenge: “Countdown.”
A letter to myself
Bucket List
Cooking and Recipes
Declutter
Exercise
F The four F’s, find out what they are.
Gratitude
Hobby
Investments
Joy
Kitchen
Live, Laugh and Love
Medicines
Nature
Obituary
Passwords
Quiet time
Reading
Savings
To -do List
Unplug
Vulnerable
WILL
X is for Hugs
Yes to life
Zzzs
I plan to use this A to Z countdown to write new posts next year on these topics. Hope you all will join me.
Converge means to come together and meet.
I took these pictures in December 2013 as we were traveling through a blizzard in Central Illinois. The snow covered ground and cloudy skies converged to create an infinitely stunning landscape.
Are you ready for winter?
For my daughter’s fourteenth birthday, she wanted an “art party”. She told me, it would be a small gathering of five teenagers. I was comfortable with the idea, but neither me nor her could think of what the girls could do. So I talked to my friend Monika, who does art work as an hobby. She agreed to come and teach the girls a new craft she had learned a few weeks ago. It was similar to the”God’s eye” craft that children make, but it is made with four sticks instead of two.
Monika arrived with samples of art work that she had made and the girls were very happy to get started with two sticks and each one chose the yarn that she liked.
The girls talked liked young ladies as their fingers turned the yarn around the sticks. They talked about boys, girls, school, books, teachers, homework and more. They encouraged each other as they worked. I found they often admired each others artwork.At the end of an hour and fifteen minutes the results were very angular and stunning!
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.Mary Schmich
Rethink.
For this week’s minimalist theme, photographer Jen Hooks challenges us to share a picture that is delusively simple. A simple, yet strongly illusive message on the front of this journal helped me make a quick choice to pick it up at the bookstore.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!
For this week’s Word Press Photo Challenge, stimulate your creative process and imagine which of your images you would like to see gracing the cover of a book, an album, or a magazine. If your cover art is for a book, is the book fiction or non-fiction?
I hope you enjoy my cover art for my imaginary book, “A Travel Guide to Canada”. This cover photo reminds me of the song from the movie “Lion King”, “there is more to see, than can ever be seen and more to do than can ever be done”. Have fun checking out how many places you have visited in Canada!
Picture Courtesy: My daughter’s favorite T-shirt. (Of course published here with her permission) 🙂
Dreamy is this week’s photo challenge from word press: we’d like to see an image that looks dreamy to you.
We were traveling on a cruise ship in 2009 from Aswan towards Luxor temple on the river Nile in Egypt. In the early morning hours, when I opened the drapes, I was pleasantly surprised by a scenery that looked dreamy to me.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
I took this picture today in the western sky behind my home at 6:17AM, a few minutes before the eclipse was expected to reach its totality. A cool crisp morning and all I could think of saying was, “Good morning Moon!”
You may read more about this lunar eclipse at http://www.space.com/27358-total-lunar-eclipse-blood-moon-complete-coverage.html
Signs can direct us where to go, but they’re also pieces of art, which reveal much about the time period and culture in which they were made.
This sign on a delivery semi truck got my attention.
A closer look revealed that this sign is made to resemble the outside of a pizza box. What a great way of letting your clients know how their spinach is treated.
Thanks for stopping by. Have a nice weekend!
I took these pictures on September 9th 2014. The Sept. 9 super moon was the last to complete the trio of super moons that began in July. The biggest and brightest of the trio was the one that occurred Aug. 10.
I used my neighbor’s tree as a reference to capture the rising moon in the eastern sky.
It is by far the biggest and brightest object in the night sky however, the moon is not an easy subject to photograph.
Super moons are lunar phenomena where the moon reaches a point in its orbit where it is closest to the Earth. At this point, the moon will appear to be bigger and brighter.
Nighttime: It’s trickier to take pictures at night, but the rewards are well worth it.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark Twain
I took these pictures by the port of Fisherman’s Wharf in The World Famous Scallop Port of Digby, Nova Scotia. Our adventures were rewarded by the world famous Digby scallops.
Big or small, enjoy your adventures this weekend!
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