DP: Clouds

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Some days I love my job… while other days I feel like I’m in the “cubicle of purgatory” or at the epicentre of a circus. As mentioned countless times before, I am a church lady office administrator so I work in the “family business” with the usual list of suspects characters to contend with – some are lovely and loving, while others openly parade crazy. But I love them all.

So, on any given day, the clouds can gather threateningly all around me, competing with the sun. It is on those days that I must decide how I will approach the gathering storm. Will I rain hail and brimstone down on others, or will I extend grace instead?

I can’t control the clouds, but I can choose to watch for the light behind them.

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This post is in response to the Daily Posts’ one-word prompt: Clouds. To see more prompted posts, click here.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Admiration

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I admire people who can eat with chopsticks…I can, but by the time I’m half done my meal, everyone else is eating thirds! I can play Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” smoothly, but I can’t get a chicken ball to my mouth. It’s very sad!

“Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.”- Helen Rowland

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Half-Light

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We were hit with an ice storm Thursday night, which delayed our travel plans, and left our world coated and sparkling. I snapped a few pictures before I jumped in the car for our 3 hour trip. Within hours the sun had melted it all away, and most of my pictures didn’t turn out as hoped. But on Saturday morning, we experienced a heavy frost and as soon as I noticed it, I grabbed my shoes and my camera, and headed out before the sun “burned away the winter”.

Your mercy rains from heaven
Like confetti at a wedding
And I am celebrating
In the downpour

Your heart is wild with colour
Like a never-ending summer
You burn away the winter
Of my cold and weary heart
– Rend Collective, Finally Free

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beneath My Feet

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“The Grasshopper, the Grasshopper,
I will explain to you–
He is the Brownies’ racehorse,
The Fairies’ Kangaroo.” – Vachel Lindsay

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Weekly Photo Challenge: On The Way

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On the Way…to the Ladies’ Room on Market Day.

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” – Thoreau

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Broken

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The Drive-In – small town family entertainment. I have happy memories of playing on the playground equipment at the foot of the board, while swatting mosquitoes and waiting for it to get dark enough to watch the first show. Then I’d crowd in the back seat and watch the movie through the space between my parents’ heads. The sound was tinny and the mosquitoes were bad, but when I drifted off to sleep during the second movie, I was happy…

Our Drive-In closed in the 80’s (with a brief operating period in the 90’s). I took a walk there in April with my Dad and 2 boys, and everything was still there. Even the playground equipment.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Force of Nature

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“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.” – Eleonora Duse

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Intricate

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Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the Vatican.
– HORACE MANN, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man

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Wilderness Wednesday: Drink Deep in the Morning

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“You’ve got a voice and a song to sing.
Drink deep in the morning,
Drink deep in the morning,
See what the day will bring!” – Skillet, American Noise

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The Weekly Photo Challenge was “The Early Bird”. To see other “Early Bird” photos, click here.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange you glad it’s photo challenge time?

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The pun in this week’s photo challenge is compliments of Michelle, who loves the color orange.  The challenge was to create a collage of photos where orange is the dominant color, or the bold highlight. Here’s my collection:

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