Capture Your 365 (June 7-14)

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It’s been kind of an odd week. One day it was sultry and the next it was cold. One day it was raining with blue skies and sunshine, while the next it was raining sideways and the skies were black. On the way home from work one afternoon, I saw police lights in the lane ahead, blocking traffic, so I thought I’d go around the block to avoid them. Instead, my shortcut took me into the middle of a police operation and I was surrounded… And that was just the beginning of my week…But it’s Friday…and I’m glad it’s Friday. And I hope you’re glad it’s Friday too!

Here’s my next installment for the Capture Your 365 Project. The squirrel photo was taken by my Dad (and is used with his permission). Don’t forget to click on a photo to see the gallery and read the quotes! Happy Weekend!

Holding it: “Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel. Huge portions of what is loosely termed “the squirrel brain” are given over to one thought: food.” – Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Picking It Up: “I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Staycation: “If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.” -Audrey Hepburn

Dangerous: “I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.” – Cyrano de Bergerac

In the Grass: “Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?” -Rose Kennedy

Get away: “Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness…” Nazim Hikmet

References:

famous-quotes-and-quotations.com

Brainyquote.com

Goodreads.com

Capture Your 365 (May 27-June 7)

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After a three hour nap Sunday afternoon (oops) and full nights’ sleep since, I would expect to be full of energy. Instead, I’d be quite happy to crawl under the covers for a few more winks! But I’m going to work instead!

Here’s the next installment of the Capture Your 365 project. I’m finding the “challenges” getting harder to meet as the months go on…but I’m determined to persevere. Just click on the photos to read the quotes.  Have a great (and restful) day!

 

Monochromatic: “While there’s music, there’s hope.” – Wildrid Mellers

Quiet: “Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.” – Bernard Baruch

Ritual: Ritual: “Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.” – Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Safety – I saw this charity certificate on the wall at Wendy’s!

Wildlife Wonder: “How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Floating By: “I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.” – Mike Tyson

 

References:

http://www.goodreads.com

www.brainyquotes.com

http://thinkexist.com

Capture Your 365 (May 12-25)

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Thankfully, they weren’t there for me. I pulled up to the red mailbox in the church parking lot, but I didn’t see them until I looked up when I stepped out of the car. There was a neat row of police vehicles parked along the back of the lot: two marked cruisers, two unmarked cruisers, a special unit van, and an armoured vehicle…with a full team inside… I thought about taking a picture, but I didn’t want to give the men in bullet-proof vests to a reason to notice me…(I think they were getting ready to go somewhere else…)

I’ve almost completed 5 months of the Capture Your 365 project! Here’s the next installment, and none of these things will arrest me…Click on the photos to read the quotes, and have a Happy Weekend!

Twilight: “And not a breath crept through the rosy air, and yet the forest leaves seemed stirred with prayer.” – Byron

Make Believe: “I believe there’s a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride.” From Spiderman 2

Check-Up: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” – Benjamin Franklin

“My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.”- Abram L. Urban

Relaxing: “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.” – Jane Austen

Where I Stand: “O Canada, we stand on guard for Thee”

Hope: “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

References:

www.goodreads.com

www.gardendigest.com

 

 

 

 

 

Capture Your 365 (May 5-11)

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Happy Victoria Day! It’s a holiday in remembrance of Queen Victoria’s birthday. It also meant I joined the mass exodus to escape the city for the weekend. We watched movies, ate sweets, and played board games…Mom and I also engaged in hours of conversation over pots of tea! I didn’t have any time to write, but I did take some time to snap some pictures…before heading home!

Small Details: “We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.” -Anton Chekhov

Play: “Families that plays together, stays together.” -Unknown

Trust: Faith is like leaping into deep water, trusting that the arms reaching out in love will not only catch you, but lift you up.” –Jenn of Jennsmidlifecrisis

Innocence: “I was a dandelion puff…Some saw the beauty in me and stooped quietly to admire my innocence…” –Nicole Bailey-Williams

Quotes from www.goodreads.com and www.boardofwisdom.com

Capture Your 365 (April 28 to May 4)

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Some special ladies received a reprieve this past Wednesday when another last minute speaker filled in for me, at the last minute…which means I really have to stop procrastinating or more to the point, I really have to stop being distracted by everything under the sun, and prepare to speak this week. I warned the ladies that I was speaking next, so if they show up on Wednesday…it will be their own misfortune!

Here’s the next installment of my Capture Your 365 Project – I have work to do! Happy Weekend!

The Number 4

 “Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana.”― Shalom Auslander, Hope: A Tragedy

Buzz

“A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.” –Kin Hubbard

Uplifting

“It’s rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn’t wear an uplift bra.” –Helen Fielding

May Flowers

“Small good to anything growing wild/ They were crooking many a trillium/ That had budded before the boughs were piled/ And since it was coming up had to come.” –Robert Frost

My Eyes

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” –Audrey Hepburn

What I’m Reading

“My grandmothers are full of memories/ Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay/ With veins rolling roughly over quick hands/ They have many clean words to say,/ My grandmothers were strong. “ –Margaret Walker

 

Capture Your 365 (April 23 to April 27)

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Yesterday, it was my birthday. Another year wiser, or so I’m told. I doubt that very much! I’m also another year closer to death.  All day the rain drummed grimly on the window behind me like annoyed fingers on a desktop. But there was also cake – chocolate cheesecake with brownies on top! And surprise cupcakes from a friend – chocolate with pink buttercream icing and raspberry jam. And the delicious supper I made, with fresh linguine tossed with mild Italian sausage, sauteed peppers, and red onions in a four cheese tomato sauce, and topped with warm goat cheese! All good things worth living longer to fully appreciate! There were gifts too – a fabulous backpack for my camera (so I have no excuse not to go places) and a new cushy robe to put on after my treks into the outdoors with my camera (so I have no excuses not to go places)!

But alas! It supposed to rain all week…so I guess I’ll just have to enjoy hot showers, the cushy robe, and that cheesecake for now! And I’ll share my photos for the Capture Your 365 Project for this week!

Peaceful

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Thoughtful

“Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won’t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.”- Helen Rowland

April Showers

“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.” 
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

 

At last! I can open my birthday present!!

“..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself” – Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

 

Square

“You might think I’m crazy, but I don’t even care/ Because I can tell what’s going on / It’s hip to be a square.” – Huey Lewis and the News, It’s Hip to Be Square (1986)

Capture Your 365 (April 15-22)

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Where I Stand

B is for ___ : “Age shouldn’t affect you. It’s just like the size of your shoes – they don’t determine how you live your life! “ -Steven Morrissey

Optimistic: “If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.” -Terri Guillemets

“The bride and groom — May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love. “-Minna Thomas Antrim, A Book of Toasts, 1902

Multi-coloured: ““Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessings few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.” – Thomas Pynchon

Barbed

H A P P Y  W E E K E N D !

References:

www.brainyquote.com

www.quotegarden.com

www.goodreads.com

Capture Your 365 (April 8-14)

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Our toilet overflowed last night….I’ll spare you the mental images, and share these ones instead. Happy Thursday!

A Perfect Duo: salt & pepper

Fill the Frame

Chicken or the Egg?: Murder or Lunch?

Someone’s Shadow

Cling: “There’s only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.” -Queen Mary

 

Capture Your 365 (April 1-6)

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It’s kind of sad when you start to have a crisis about your mid-life crisis…Lately I feel like I have just enough energy to get through the day but not much more than that. My level of creativity is sagging (just like the rest of me)…

I started a post of semiotics, the art and science of making connections between the ordinary and making them extraordinary…the problem was, I suddenly couldn’t make connections. Then I read an article about the epidemic of sleeplessness…the only result was that I didn’t sleep a wink!

Maybe I have brain rot! Too much precipitation + too many radical temperature changes = brain rot! The April prompts are really a stretch, and I’m worried that my brain may just implode. On that note, here’s some of the first week of April – no foolin’!

Focused: “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” -Greg Anderson

Framed: “Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.” -Horace

Where You Work: This is not my desk…but it is partly my ‘handiwork’

Look up (hint: Big Guy is in that tree): “Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.” – Edward Whymper, Scrambles Amongst the Alps

In the Window: “Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry…In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in…But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.” – Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

 

References:

Capture Your 365 – Prompts

www.brainyquote.com

www.goodreads.com

Capture Your 365 (March 24-31)

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If I don’t hurry up and post, I will be sharing March’s photos on April Fool’s Day! I found March’s photo challenge prompts extremely challenging – either I didn’t know how to approach it or it didn’t turn out the way I imagined. Or worse – I couldn’t get to my camera! And with a “winter” that threatened to never end”…well, the motivation to get out and take photos just wasn’t there!

Lineup: “For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” -Martin Luther

Arched: “Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.” -Henry Miller

Foreground: “When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.” -Samuel Ullman

In The Garden: “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” – Audrey Hepburn

Where I Stand: In my backyard– Spring is coming!!

Three months down…nine to go!

Click here to check out the April prompts.