I look to nature for inspiration. It restores my sense of well being and balance when things are getting me down. It allows me to see the beauty around me, to get outside my own head and move me forward. Weekly Photo Challenge:Inspiration
Year: 2015
A Photo A Week Challenge: Recording History
Every photograph we take records history, a passing moment caught forever by the camera’s lens. Family photos keep a real record of “history”- smiling faces caught forever in a certain moment, allowing us to see people when they are no longer physically here with us. We document milestone events in our lives so we can look back […]
Thursday’s Special: Gold Inside
A partial view of the ceiling in the Morgan Library in New York City
The Daily Prompt: Human Culture
Daily Prompt: NASA is building a new Voyager spacecraft that will carry the best of modern human culture. What belongs onboard? Why famous lines said by the Real Housewives from Bravo TV of course. Let whoever comes upon them try to figure out human culture from there.
Cee’s Which Way Challenge
Don’t Block The Box! This is what New Yorkers call “gridlock.” Instead of waiting for the traffic on the other side of the street to start moving, drivers drive into the middle of the street going East to West- rushing across in hopes that things will start moving before the light changes going North South. Obviously […]
Travel Theme: Grasses
This week Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack wanted to take a look at one of the unsung heroes of the natural world, the humble grass family. Here are some of the different grasses found around a pond I frequent almost every dayand in my backyard-close up blades of grass
Bench Series
For the month of July Jude wants to see unusual benches. I spotted this one on the pedestrian plaza on Broadway in New York City. It is made of granite. It looks uncomfortable but when I sat on it I found it wasn’t really so bad. A bit unusual I think.
Silent Sunday
Weekly Photo Challenge: Close Up
While standing on the edge of the water at a pond, waiting to take a photo of the Great Blue Heron on the other side, this insect flitted over and landed. I changed my view, pointed down and took the shot. Pretty little thing I thought. The zoom lens capturing his beauty in close up.
Shazam!
For those of a certain age the word Shazam conjures up the Wizard in Marvel Comics who gives Billy Batson the power to transform into the superhero Captain Marvel, who was later renamed Shazam. That has nothing to do with the Shazam I am referring to. I am referring to the app that is called Shazam. […]
The Perfect Game
It was a perfect game. * It started three years ago when a friend asked if I wanted to learn to play Mah Jongg, could I be their “fourth.” I am not really a game player as I am not competitive by nature, but I knew the other women who were playing, and was assured […]
Hot Town, Summer in the City
I was in New York City this week, on a day when the heat soared to 92 and with the humidity it felt over 100 and like you could barely breathe. The heat makes the city feel like it is closing in on you, the streets are more crowded with tourists, there seem to be more […]
Wordless Wednesday
It’s Hot!
I am a big fan of summer. The heat doesn’t bother me, I much prefer it to the winter and the cold. The older I get the less tolerance I have for cold. My husband and I are never at odds about the house being too hot or too cold as many couples are. We […]
World Of Wings-A Day With The Butterflies
Yesterday we visited a wonderful place called World of Wings. It is a “butterfly museum” with many exhibits about butterflies and a 3D movie about the Monarch butterflies that every autumn fly 3000 miles from the northeastern U.S. and Canada to their ancestral wintering grounds in the mountains of central Mexico. It was very interesting. My […]
Bench Series
For the month of July, Jude is looking for benches with Unusual Details
Half & Half
Weekly Photo Challenge
Finite Creatures-Dust In The Wind
Daily Prompt: Finite Creatures – At what age did you realize you were not immortal? How did you react to that discovery? My first memory of someone dying was that of my Uncle when I was 13. It was the first time I saw my father cry, the first time I was exposed to open grief- […]
Camera Crazy
I have always loved taking photos. I was the one who always had the camera on vacations, taking roll upon roll of film back in the days when we used film. I can remember being on a tour in Europe back in the 1980’s and always having extra rolls with me so I wouldn’t run […]
Travel Theme: Land Meets Water
Where’s My Backpack-Travel Theme
Dear Mom
Daily Prompt: Write a letter to your mom. Tell her something you’ve always wanted to say, but haven’t been able to. I read through many of the posts on the Daily Prompt page before sitting down to write a response, as I was curious if they would all be positive. Most were, but I did find […]
Phone Fun
I got a new smart phone about 6 months ago and am still discovering all the bells and whistles it has. I have watched many youtube videos of what it can do but still seem not to have discovered everything yet. While scrolling through the settings the other day I found that I can set […]
Oh to Sew
The Daily Prompt asks:Tell us about a talent you’d love to have… but don’t. I wish I could follow a pattern and sew my own clothes. To walk the aisles in the fabric store, and choose exactly the color and texture I want. Then pick out the perfect buttons to match. It would be a […]
Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Groups of Birds
This week Ed wants to see pics of 4 or more birds in the same picture Sunday Stills
From Trash to Treasure
Yesterday we visited an amazing park within what is called The Meadowlands District in New Jersey. Back in the 1970s this area held over 50 landfills. Lands that previously had been used for grazing and the harvesting of salt hay were being used for landfills where for years unregulated dumping of solid waste took place. […]
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