A Day In The Life

People, Places, Nature, LIFE!

02/13/2022
DailyMusings

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Book Character Day

Do you have a favorite book you read as a child? Our school celebrates Character Day in February, spending the day focused on reading. Activities are planned, DEAR time is scheduled- that’s Drop Everything And Read, and everyone dresses up as a character in a book. This year I chose Pinkalicious and the Pink Parakeet. […]

02/06/2022
DailyMusings

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RDP SATURDAY: Tablecloth

Oh how I love tablecloths. Years ago I entertained a lot, and part of the entertaining was setting a beautiful table. My mother in laws advice was always to use two cloths, one under another, so the table felt “cushioned” and I always I do. My grandmother and mother always set a lovely table so […]

02/03/2022
DailyMusings

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One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge

The original. A foggy boardwalk one early morning, still wet from the overnight rain. I loved how the fog obscured the boardwalk in the distance. For my first change, I used a filter that changed the hues so the photo looks like it was processed in the 1960’s. This filter was called color change beautify. […]

02/02/2022
DailyMusings

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Last on the Card – January 2022

This is the last photo of January 2022 taken with my cell phone. We had a pretty major snowstorm come through on Saturday leaving 7 inches of snow before moving north. Sunday brought bright blue skies but temps in the 20’s. Brrrrr it was cold but I needed to get out of the house. The […]

01/21/2022
DailyMusings

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One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-January 2022

Pick a photo you want to play with. Process it using three different methods. My original image. A wonderful sky, at the beach, on the boardwalk. For this one I used a “radiant” filter and changed the colors. A black and white version with a grainy feel And here I used two filters, “sunglow” and […]

01/15/2022
DailyMusings

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A Photo a Week Challenge: View

One of my favorite views from the porch outside the room we stay in at an inn in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. Daybreak Sunrise the sky waking up Early morning as the sun moves across the sky Shadows from the sun moving west. View

01/12/2022
DailyMusings

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A Photo a Week Challenge: Posterity

Posterity: noun: all future generations of people. The descendants of a person. Ah, posterity. Families, generations. My husband’s paternal grandparents perished in the holocaust. His own parents came to America in 1938 along with his mother’s 3 siblings and parents. My husband’s father was one of eight boys and they all were able to flee […]

01/09/2022
DailyMusings

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Weekend Sky

Sunrise Sky Sequence on January 9, 2022 A short lived sunrise as now the day has turned cloudy and snow is expected. I am glad I was up for this beautiful morning show of colors. Weekend Sky

01/03/2022
DailyMusings

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Last On The Card

December 31st. Brian invites us to share our unedited photos taken the last day of the month, and in this case the year. December 31st is not only the last day of the month, but also my birthday. The world celebrates along with me. I had the day off from school and spent it at […]

12/30/2021
DailyMusings

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Swan Lake

My husband and I enjoy taking day trips on Sundays to local parks or nature preserves. Last Sunday the temps were pretty frigid, but the skies were blue so we headed out to a lake with a path a half hours drive from home. I found it on the internet. We arrived and began walking […]

12/28/2021
DailyMusings

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The Lure of the Ocean

I took the following photos this summer as I walked along the beach at sunrise in Ocean Grove, NJ, a lovely small town on the New Jersey shore. There is a beautiful story behind them I’d like to share. At the time I took the photos I had no idea of what was really happening, […]

12/14/2021
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Friendship

I work as an assistant teacher in 3rd grade. Last week, the teacher I work with was out sick, she had bronchitis, and I was expected to substitute. Before Covid, a substitute teacher was usually brought in, but over the past two years our sub list has run dry forcing the assistants to step up. […]