Weekly Photo Challenge ~ A Day In My Life

Living in a rural community, caregiving for one well into her 90s... doesn't lend itself to daily excitement. When I look back on days of raising a family and earning a paycheck, I didn't think that time was exciting either.  Yet now I see my best memories tucked within them. I've no idea how I will look back …

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Weekly “Phoneography” Challenge ~ My Neighborhood

There is no hustle bustle in my neighborhood.  No bright colors of big city life.  Just the muted tones of land waking up from winter. In my neighborhood we wait. Wait for leaves to sprout on mossy limbs... for the hummingbirds... for new growth after pruning. We wait for new adventure. And sometimes it's hard. To wait. But I …

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Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Lost in the Details

From a trip to Harper's Ferry... where I was captivated by the stonework... and the life growing within and around. ~~~~~~~~~(Click on any picture for a full size view)~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ....to a trip up the stairs... and the heart of what home is to me... Linked with the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge.

Weekly Photo Challenge : Forward

FORWARD... FAST... FASTER... Down the road to... adventure... tomorrow... danger... dinner... maybe even... home. Rain pours, vision pales, but whatever you do... don't  slow down. Because... if we depend on weather... in the Pacific Northwest... we'd never get anything done. Linked with WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge

Renewal

Mostly I'm a point A to point B person.... as in, we have a long way to go so let's go.  Now. I'm not your best choice as a shopping partner.  I can fake that I like shopping for a while... a short while.  Typically I have a list and that's the reason I'm at the store.  …

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New Morning

What do I do when, ...false words are spoken? ...help offered is ignored? ...kindness it criticized? Well... I eat a second cupcake, stuff down a handful of potato chips, polish off the rest of the "fun size" Halloween candy bars... then I sit in a stupor in my recliner feeling like an idiot, until.... I pull myself together.  …

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Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Solitary

one little boy... mesmerized by the bigness of the sea. ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~                 ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~ one man on the bridge... and the witness tree ....Civil War battlefield at Antietam Creek How do others see solitary? ... at WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge