Capture Your 365 (September 9-15)

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365 Daily Photo Challenge, children, CY365, humour, nature, Photo Challenge, photography

Some clichés beg to be played out. Last night after worship team practice, Corey Hart’s “I Wear My Sunglasses at Night” came on the radio, and since I was still keyed up, I cranked it and slapped on my own sunglasses! Guess how Hubby & I chose “our song”, Lady in Red?

Here’s the next installment for the Capture Your 365 project. It’s not that I’m a fantastic photographer, but rather that I am a stubborn person and I want to see this through to the end. Click on the photos to see the quotes. Happy Wednesday!

In My Garden: “The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people.” ~Eric Honeycutt

What a Mess: “If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?” – Will Rogers

Changes: “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” – Jim Bishop

Reaching: “The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” -Unknown

Discarded: “Snowmen fall from heaven… unassembled.” ~Author Unknown

Contemplate: “The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” -Aristotle

Capture Your 365 (September 1-8)

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365 Daily Photo Challenge, Capture your 365 project, CY365, nature, Photo Challenge, photography, school

We’re halfway through September and I’m running behind on my photo challenge – 3.5 months to go until the end! I’m still trying to get organized. The Ladies program I help run started yesterday. And today, I’m getting ready to do battle at the school. I’ve said it once and I’m saying it again…Wake me up when September ends! Click on the photos to see the challenge prompt and the quotes.

Single: “Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” – George Eliot

From Scratch: “If baking is any labor at all, it’s a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.” – Regina Brett

No. 2 pencil: “A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.” -Joyce Meyer

Back to Reality: ““Nothing ever becomes real ’til it is experienced.” – John Keats

Assignment: “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris

Beginning: “One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.” – Tryon Edwards

It’s almost Friday!!

Capture Your 365: August 23 to 31

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I was happy yesterday morning but I can’t really say why. Maybe it was because I smiled and waved cheerfully at the jerk (who was tailgating me) when he passed me? It really made him mad when I smiled and waved and that made me happy. I was humming as I opened my email…and then I got suckerpunched in the first email I read…Happy Feeling Gone.

Words have the power to do that sometimes…

This turned into a week of posts with mostly photos and few words. I needed a break from words, to take some time to get organized for the Fall, and to dabble with some ideas without the pressure to produce. Part of ushering in Fall requires saying “farewell” to Summer, which is a hard thing to do. Nevertheless, here’s the finale of August’s Capture Your 365 Project challenges.

Happy Weekend!

Where I Stand: “Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Tradition: Some moments are like cotton candy. They’re wonderful and sweet, but you know they just won’t last. – Susan Gale

Backpack: “Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.” – E. B. Du Bois

Serene: The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Two of a Kind: “Truths and roses have thorns about them.” -Henry David Thoreau

References:

www.brainyquote.com

www.quotes.net

Capture Your 365 (August 11 to 22)

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Here we are…into September already. And while the weather remains hot & humid, there is a storm gathering across the province…for tomorrow…is the first day of school! The weather man is predicting heavy rains and possible thunderstorms, but the ferociousness of any storm won’t begin to compare to the torrential turmoil most parents and kids are going to experience. Wake me up when September ends! Click on the photos to read the quotes.

Homegrown: ““It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.” – Lewis Grizzard

Green: “I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels.” – Andre Leon Talley

5: “Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.” – H.G. Wells, The History of Mr. Polly

Trails: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

From Outside In: ““The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

Welcome to September!

Capture Your 365 (August 1- 10)

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I cut my hair last week…I’m not ready to talk about it…

I was also on vacation last week – the last one of the Summer. I packed cotton skirts and t-shirts because it was supposed to be sunny and hot…and then the rains rolled in. It was freezing! I survived watching Little Guy swim one night by wrapping in a blanket and clutching a cup of hot tea. I even borrowed a pair of flannel pjs from my Mom…I’m not ready to talk about it.

Here’s the next installment in my Capture Your 365 project…better late than never. Feel free to click on the photos to see the prompt and the quotes.

Happy Tuesday!

 

My Morning: “A cup of tea would restore my normality.” – Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay

My Everyday: “The minute you’re born, you’re getting older.” -Doris Roberts

Flora: “The earth laughs in flowers.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Concentration: “To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track.” – Florence Griffith Joyner

Beverage: “The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.” – Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

On the Brink: “I have a stepladder. It’s a very nice stepladder but it’s sad that I never knew my real ladder.” – Craig Charles

Like A Painting: “I must have flowers, always, and always.” –Claude Monet

 

References:

www.quotegarden.com

www.goodreads.com

www.brainyquote.com

Capture Your 365 (July 22 – July 31)

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“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.” ~Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

It’s the perfect time to finish off July’s Capture Your 365 challenges. Please click any photo to see the quotes I married to each one. Happy Tuesday!

A Blue Background: “The lord whose is the oracle at Delphoi neither utters nor hides his meaning, but shows it by a sign.” – Heraclitus

Chain Link Fence: “The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

My Favorite Color: “I believe in pink.” – Audrey Hepburn

Garden Lovelies: “A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Luminosity: “No my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within; paper lanterns among the dark trees.” – Carole Borges

Enjoy Yourself: “There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.” – Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

In a Jar: “The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.” – Malcolm De Chazal

References:

www.goodreads.com

www.searchquotes.com

www.quotegarden.com

Capture Your 365 (July 12-20)

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Normally I like to write a little prologue to my photos but I’m on vacation! Here’s the next installment for my Capture Your 365 Project! Just click the photos to see what quotes I married to each photo, and hang in there…the weekend is coming!

Centered: “Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass…” – Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Gone Fishin’: “He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

View from Above: “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl

When the Sune Sets: “When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.” -Mahatma Gandhi

Heat Wave: “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” – Sam Keen

Layers: “Everyone was a rose but even more complex … Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being.” – Mary Balogh, A Secret Affair

“Life is just a bowl of cherries so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.” -Bob Fosse

 

Capture Your 365 (July 2 – 12)

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Walter Elliot said “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” Therefore, I am still racing, week by week, toward completing my goal of finishing the Capture Your 365 Project…and this week I’m also racing to get everything in order so I can go on vacation next week. I can’t wait!

An Apple a Day: Queen: “…This is no ordinary apple, it’s a magic wishing apple.” Snow White: “A wishing apple?” Queen: “Yes! One bite, and all your dreams will come true.” Snow White (1937)

On the Window Sill: This little 1940’s “Dog” Novelty Perfume Bottle sat in my Grandmother’s kitchen window sill for years. I remember it being in the window in the farm house.

The Essentials: “Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.” – Gwyneth Paltrow

Bursting: “What will come from the briar but the berry.” – Irish Proverb

Wearing a Favourite: “To wear dreams on one’s feet is to begin to give reality to one’s dreams.” – Roger Vivier

 

Capture Your 365 (July 1 & 4)

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I planned and went on a pilgrimage after work yesterday in an attempt to snap prime pictures for my July Capture Your 365 Project!

The July 4th prompt was “All American” and my first thought was “as American as apple pie”. So I stopped at Swiss Chalet on the way home from work. I only wanted one portion, not a whole pie – a whole pie would be packed away and I’d get poochy. I envisioned a single slice of picturesque pie with pristine, golden flaky crust, oozing apple and cinnamon. I would place it on a white plate with a thick slab of sharp cheddar on the side. But when I pulled my petite $5 piece from the paper bag, it looked like…like puke with caramel sauce. But my stubbornness kicked in, I persevered, and I pieced it together enough to get this…

Little Guy polished it off for me!

My next stop was the grocery store for a luscious lemon to complete the July 1^st prompt, “Refreshing”. I envisioned a tall, sweating glass of iced tea with a lemon wedge, sitting in the sunshine. I even thought far enough ahead to make ice cubes. After I found a lovely lemon, I went on a pilgrimage for a bag of Bits & Bites. As I wandered through the store, I repeated the slogan “Kibbles & Bits, kibbles & bits, I’m going to get me some kibbles & bits…” (just like the dog in the commercial). As I wandered without success, accosting 4 different employees who insisted I could find them in aisle 11, the voice in my head got louder and angrier. After my fifth tour of Aisle 11, I convinced an employee to “show me where in Aisle 11” I could find my nibbles. He couldn’t…but he accidentally found 2 bags shoved into a cracker display at the end of aisle 7. . A propitious find! (Bonus – the sun came out after dinner!)

Homemade…but it looked better than it tasted

Cheers to a promising weekend!

Capture Your 365 (June 15-30)

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365 Daily Photo Challenge, Capture your 365 project, CY365, flowers, garden, nature, photography, River scenes

I haven’t been writing as much lately. It’s not that my creativity is stifled or that I have no ideas. My brain never seems to turn off and I am constantly snapping mental photographs and observing the interactions all around me. I write in my mind.

But lately I haven’t had the heart to commit most of my thoughts to paper. I know too many people who are hurting right now, and I hurt alongside them. Like my brain, I can’t simply “turn it off”. Not only that, but I find my own losses rising to the surface, and I recognize that sometimes it is better to feel than to simply set it aside until a better time comes along. There is never a “better time”.

I had hoped to finish June’s 365 challenge…in June! However, better late than never? You can click on the photos to see the quotes. Happy Weekend!

Photo Field Trip: “Creativity is the Blue Heron within us waiting to fly; through her imagination, all things become possible.” – Nadia Janice Brown

Historical: Great-Grandma’s Jerry

Where I Stand: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” – Heraclitus

Graffiti Wall: ““Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules.” – Raymond Salvatore Harmon, BOMB: A Manifesto of Art Terrorism

Have a Ball: “This world’s a bubble.” – Saint Augustine

Explore: “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – André Gide

In the Shade: “”Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.” – Inayat Khan

 

References:

http://www.goodreads.com/

http://www.brainyquote.com/