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WordPress Photo Challenge: Afloat
After a long week of work visiting my favorite park keeps me afloat.
You can see other interpretations of ‘afloat’ at the original post. Or see a few of my favorites here, here and here. I like this one too. And this.
OK. I have to stop now. But this one made me giggle.
Care to share what floats your boat? This challenge lasts till next Friday. Let’s see what’s floating near you!
Saturday morning light
Weekend possibilities are endless.
Saturday morning, early because some short furry member of the household insisted that I get up before 5 a.m., I am puttering around trying not to feel grumpy and tired. But I am grumpy and tired. Said furry member of the family has long since gone back to sleep when I notice the sun tipping the tops of the trees out back.
Happy light.
I hurry her awake and we go outside, slipping on the frosty deck and almost falling, but feeling decidedly less grumpy. I take a few shots of sun on birch. Katie stands hopefully in her kennel.
Hey mama! Can I stay outside?
And then I notice this:
Two sandhill cranes flying silently across the sky. Amazing. And I would have missed it if someone hadn’t insisted I get up.
I forgive her.
Told you mama!
WordPress Photo Challenge; Blur
This wasn’t what I expected to find.
At the car wash.
But I like it.
You can see other interpretations of ‘blur’ at the original post, or here, here and here are a few of my favorites…so far. I have another one that I might share with you.
We’ll see.
Ephemeral – the one I didn’t use
In the 1980’s I traveled with my folks through the Southwest. We visited a number of national parks and monuments but at Canyon De Chey my mom purchased a refrigerator magnet, reproduced Indian petroglyphs, painted on a bit of flat brown stone. It stayed on her fridge for years as a reminder of our trip together.
After she died unexpectedly in 2004 someone in their church gave my grief stricken dad a small prism which he placed on the windowsill above the kitchen sink. When the sun shines at a certain angle a rainbow plays across the kitchen.
Now, with both of them gone, we find comfort in that rainbow when it glows in mom’s kitchen. And sometimes dad’s rainbow falls for a few brief moments on mom’s magnet, reminding us that life itself is ephemeral at best.
I wrote the above thinking I’d use it for the ephemeral photo challenge. Then I realized the photo was very much like to original challenge photo and I always like to do something different. I’m not even sure I took this photo, I think perhaps husband did on one of his trips to Alabama.
So I didn’t use it. But I like the photograph and the thoughts behind it, so I’m sharing it with you anyway.
Life is ephemeral. Now go hug someone you love.
Ephemeral II
WordPress photo challenge: Ephemeral
You can see other interpretations at the original post, or see a few of my favorites here, here and here. And of course here.
WordPress Photo Challenge: Wall
Iconic wall in Ann Arbor MI
You can see other interpretations of ‘wall’ at the original post. Or check out a few of my favorites, here, here, here, and here. The challenge runs till Friday. Look around. Do you have an interesting wall in your life?
Share!
Creepy.
WordPress photo challenge: Orange
Oddly enough this week’s photo challenge is ‘orange.’ It’s ironic, because I used orange as a unifying color in a photo challenge a couple of weeks ago. So of course I can’t use my photo of oranges from that post. And that would be too obvious anyway. So I spent Saturday and a bit of Sunday scouting out orange things that represent life here in Michigan in March. When there aren’t any orange things blooming.
Once I started looking for orange I found it everywhere. From my toast in the morning, to the bittersweet vine on a bush down the street, to the orange snow fencing everywhere, the gumballs at the mall, the lights on the side of a restaurant, the Detroit Tiger English D, the New Balance shoe in a shop window, to the ever present orange barrels, orange is everywhere! And the orange car? I followed it for a few miles before it turned into a Wall-mart parking lot. Then I circled the lot until the driver went inside. Couldn’t resist showing you an orange car, right? Cars + Michigan. Can’t beat that.
You can see other interpretations of orange here, here and here. And I bet, if you look around, you’ve got a little bit of orange somewhere near you! It’s nice to look for some color during these last long days of winter. Show us what you found!
Change Is Hard 