Wilderness Wednesday: March Snow

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Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.

Kahlil Gibran

Happy Wednesday!

CFFC: Bark

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On pavements and barks of trees I have found whole worlds.

Mark Tobey

This is my post for Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bark-Tree or Dog

Wilderness Wednesday: First Snow

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Sunday’s snow wasn’t the first of the season, but it felt like it…because we actually had to shovel and it has lasted for days!

One tenacious new branch in the lilac tree refuses to give up summer, proudly displaying unyielding green leaves, while every other tree in our back yard is completely bare.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

Wilderness Wednesday: Fall Jewels

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On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

Charles Dickens

Happy Wednesday!

CFFC: Sense of Smell

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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Anne Frank

Water

Flowers

Fresh Air

Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. – Laura Ingalls Wilder

Happy Wednesday!

This is my post for Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sense of Smell

 

 

 

CFFC: Sense of Touch

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Nature invites us to experience it with all of our senses, including our sense of touch. Silky and smooth, hard and rough, hot or cold, fluffy, furry or fuzzy. Well, maybe not everything should be touched – poison ivy and bumblebees, for example. Even isolated at home, there are wonders in nature to be savoured, if you take the time to look for them.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. – Hal Borland

Moss is popular for her unusual beauty, but what distinguishes her is that she is accessible and down to earth. – Rita Clifton

Green moss shines there with ice encased; The long grass bends its spear-like form; And lovely is the silvery scene When faint the sun-beams smile.    –Robert Southey

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, stand like druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Happy Wednesday!

This is my post for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sense of Touch

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Autumn

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Fall is filled with colour, but my favourite colour is red.

Winter is an etching, Spring, a watercolour,  Summer an oil painting, and autumn is a mosaic of them all. Stanley Horowitz

Happy Wednesday!

This is my post for Cee’s Nuener’s Fun Foto Challenge: Autumn Scenes

Wilderness Wednesday: Mountain Ash

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“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”
— Diane Arbus

Happy Wednesday!

 

Wilderness Wednesday: Blue Skies

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We found the way out
The city takes everything it can
But outside the crowds
I can feel my lungs again

Born for the blue skies
We’ll survive the rain
Born for the sunrise
We’ll survive the pain
– Switchfoot, Dark Horses

Happy Wednesday!

O Geeky Tree

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Christmas, Geek, humour, nerds, trees

Last Christmas, I got restless. I wanted to try something new & who knows? Maybe start my own business? Yeah right!

While there’s no business in sight, I certainly enjoyed my “geeky” creativity through the year, and turned my traditional Christmas tree into a “Geek Tree”! I’ve frittered many happy hours crafting ornaments from video games (Mario, Starcraft, Portal & Overwatch), anime (RWBY)…and a few others that I can’t share because they’re Christmas gifts. Game of Thrones, Star Wars & Star Trek are in the works. Of course, I’ve ventured into animals, tea & coffee too! Everything is hand-stitched – not a drop of glue in sight!

 

And the finished project is…well a little sad. But I have another year to remedy that!

Deck the halls with boughs of holly – Fa la la la la, la la la la
‘Tis the season to be jolly – Fa la la la la, la la la la
– Thomas Oliphant

Happy Thursday!