A Day In The Life

People, Places, Nature, LIFE!

04/13/2020
DailyMusings

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge:Going Back:Second Time Around

This week we are asked to focus the challenge on sharing images from our previous travels rather than going out to photograph new examples to share. If we visited a favorite place more than once, how did we approach the second trip photographically? My husband and I don’t travel much, we have not flown anywhere […]

04/13/2020
DailyMusings

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April Squares: On Top of the World

April Squares theme is ‘top‘. SquareTops can look like: On Top of the World – summit, crown, peak or uppermost part of something Under the Big Top – topping or covering (or if you’re really lucky circus) Room at the Top – first or highest in position Cherry on Top – something made even more wonderful by becoming square […]

04/12/2020
DailyMusings

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April Squares: Undercut Top

April Squares theme is ‘top‘. SquareTops can look like: On Top of the World – summit, crown, peak or uppermost part of something Under the Big Top – topping or covering (or if you’re really lucky circus) Room at the Top – first or highest in position Cherry on Top – something made even more wonderful by becoming square Top and […]

04/05/2020
DailyMusings

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Sunday Stills: The Power of Fantastic #Florals

This week, for Sunday Stills, Terri says: let’s blow up WordPress and the rest of the Internet with gorgeous flowers! We all need some hope and beauty in our lives. Linking to Sunday Stills this week will be like we are sending each other wonderful bouquets. #Florals

04/05/2020
DailyMusings

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Staying Home

Good Sunday Morning from my neck of the woods. I’ll share with you my daily view. Here is the latest news from the county I live in, in New Jersey. BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — The county that has been at the center of the outbreak of the new coronavirus since the earliest cases were announced […]

04/03/2020
DailyMusings

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Zooming into Zoom

I am spending a lot of time on Zoom. In case you are not familiar with Zoom, it is a video conferencing , web conferencing platform. It allows many people to log into a “meeting,” in my case our 3rd grade class, to meet. We also have staff meetings on Zoom, where over 100 of […]

04/01/2020
DailyMusings

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Tuesday Photo Challenge: Hope

Hope lies in the endless sky, down a seemingly endless boardwalk, along the beach.  Hope: To skip along an empty beach once again with not a care in the world…. Hope in the sunrise that begins the day Hope for a better tomorrow Hope

03/30/2020
DailyMusings

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The Weekly Smile

I must admit I can’t say there is much to smile about in my neck of the woods. It is just all so depressing. My town has the largest number of hospitalized people and deaths in the county. I try to stay away from the news but it seeps in from everywhere. The Governor has […]

03/25/2020
DailyMusings

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Tuesday Photo Challenge: Connect

Connecting with a grandson playing Monster Miniature Golf Connecting with nieces through shopping Re-connecting on the first day of school Connecting with strangers through our mutual love of birds Connecting with nature with a friend and a coffee Connecting through music Connecting through helping Connect

03/24/2020
DailyMusings

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The Weekly Smile

Honestly I have not been smiling much. Th cases of Covid-19 keep growing in my home town, and friends have been hospitalized, others home very sick, and it is just really overwhelming. I continue to work from home, happy I am busy and Zooming. I try to have coffee on Zoom everyday with a close […]

03/22/2020
DailyMusings

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Home Schooling

What a week, what a week. I am bleary eyed from Zooming… looking at 22 faces staring back at me from the grid that is Zoom. Like the old days on the Brady Bunch But the faces are not all smiling, some are laying in bed, others distracted by siblings, some eating breakfast, or parents […]

03/20/2020
DailyMusings

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The Last Photo Taken

Judy at lifelessons has asked us to look on our camera or in our photos folder on your computer or phone and publish the last picture you took . No explanations necessary.

03/01/2020
DailyMusings

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Last Photo for February 2020

Brian at bushboys world invites us to join his challenge: The rules are simple: 1. Post the last photo on your SD card or last photo on your phone for the 29th February. 2. No editing – who cares if it is out of focus, not framed as you would like or the subject matter […]

02/27/2020
DailyMusings

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Tuesday Photo Challenge: Yard

Frank invites us to share our interpretation of yard this week. My yard in different seasons and weather conditions. I have a garden window that faces my back yard, allowing me a view out and up. Yard

02/20/2020
DailyMusings

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Another Year

I have posted this before, but on this the fifth “anniversary” of my brother’s death I want to do so again. I wrote about his death, by his own hand, here. I have been thinking about him today. Saddened at the thought of his being gone from this world, sad for the troubled life he led, […]

02/19/2020
DailyMusings

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Tuesday Photo Challenge: Number

Numbers around New York City I wrote about this special firehouse and truck, The Pride of Manhattan– here Subway stops Seen on Main Street at the NJ Shore, it made me laugh. How’s that for a number?   Number

02/18/2020
DailyMusings

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The Weekly Smile

Well Sunday, Monday brought big smiles for me as I went away with my BFF for an overnight to where else…. the beach! We have been friends since childhood and before either of us were married we always took our summer vacations together. Canada, Amish Country, Cape May, NJ to name a few. Ten years […]

02/16/2020
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Last photo for January 2020

Brian over at bushboys world  invites us to post the last photo on our SD card or last photo on our phone for the 31st January. Here’s my last photo- it made me laugh when I pulled it up Last Photo January 2020