Change Is Hard

…but change is certain.


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Weekly photo challenge -layers

When I saw the weekly photo challenge was ‘layers’ I immediately thought of a watercolor piece of art and how the layers of paint create the image.  But I don’t have a water color available right now to show you.

Then I thought of  the layers of clothing that runners wear now as the weather gets colder.  But I couldn’t think of a creative way to show you that.

I even thought about the bark on some trees I saw in California last week, the colors there were layered and the bark was peeling off.  Interesting and pretty but not exactly what I wanted.

Then I thought about the saying we use when we’re trying to get to the truth – to peel away the layers like an onion – and I knew what I wanted to do.

Off to the grocery store I went to collect some onions, many sizes and colors, layering in the texture and interest…with one large red onion cut to more explicitly express layering.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERASo there you  have it.  My interpretation of layers.

Time to make some soup now.


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Weekly photo challenge: Eerie

The WordPress weekly photo challenge is Eerie.  I toyed with going out and finding something new.  I have a few ideas, but nothing exactly right.  Plus I am totally swamped this weekend.

So I went to my archives…and found a moody photo from our trip to northern California a couple of years ago.

Can you feel them?

Can you feel them?

Inside Alcatraz you can almost feel the inmates moving beside you.

Maybe someday I will make a point of going out to find eerie.  It would be fun to look.  Keep your eyes peeled, there might be something eerie near you!


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Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon

WordPress has issued the weekly photo challenge.  You know how much I love photo challenges and as soon as I saw the topic – horizon – I knew where I wanted to look.  When I think of wide open spaces and a visible horizon here in Michigan I immediately think of our Great Lakes.  So I looked through my archives and found a couple of possibilities.

But the road called.  I admit it…I’ll grab any excuse for a road trip.  Even a short road trip.  So early this morning I set out heading north and east, targeting Lake Huron for my horizon shot.  I didn’t know exactly where I’d end up, but the weather guy said there were gale force winds and 10 to 15 foot waves.  I wanted to see that.

Turns out the weather guy was wrong.  No waves but I did find this (click on photos to see the detail):

Lake Huron

Lake Huron

Don’t you wonder what that is out there on the horizon? Of course you do.   It’s the remnants of a structure that was built in the mid 1800’s to load gypsum onto ships from the quarry onshore.   Want to see it a little closer?

Originally built in 1868

Originally built in 1862

There was a pier built on the big concrete pilings all the way out to the loading building which is multiple stories high.  It’s huge, even from far away.  If you Googlemap Lake Huron near the town of Tawas you can see it jutting out into the lake.

Here’s some information, found at a historical market near the beach.

Historical explanation.

Historical explanation.

So that’s my submission for ‘horizon.’  Except that on my drive back I stopped at another little beach and found this fisherman.  I thought this was a nice way to view the horizon too.

Fishing Lake Huron

Fishing Lake Huron

I enjoyed looking for the horizon today.  The sky was interesting and the lake was, as it always is, pulling at my heartstrings.  It was good to take a few moments to enjoy the view even though I didn’t get to see any giant waves.

Walking toward the horizon.

Walking toward the horizon.


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Weekly photo challenge (inside)

For a long time now I’ve been getting daily prompts from WordPress  providing ideas for blogs.  Once a week they even provide prompts for a photo challenge.  Many of the ideas have been interesting but I never quite got to any of them.  I’d save the idea and then something always came up.

This week’s photo prompt is “inside.”  We’re to provide a photo that shows our interpretation of that word.  I’ve been thinking about it and had some ideas.  I remembered when we were kids and Dad always made a big deal about the first sighting of the inside of our Halloween pumpkin.   I thought about a photo of Katie inside her kennel in the back yard.  I thought about a photo of the inside of my closet, but that would scare you all away.

Yesterday as I was working in the yard I looked up and saw my photo. (Click on it to see the details.)

Inside art

Inside art

The dahlias I picked Friday night fearing frost were glowing in a puddle of sun inside the kitchen window, framed in reflections of outside.  The whole thing was a bit of abstract art.

I smiled and went for the camera.

Fun stuff.