Weekly photo Challenge – Blue

Blue 3 Ways

Weekly Photo Challenge – Together

This was not a hard one, except that there were too many photos to choose from. So I chose a lot of photos that express together to me. Instead of having you endlessly scroll or click on thumbnails I decided to put them in a slideshow (You have to click here or on the post…

Guest Post

Visit R We There Yet to read my guest post. http://www.rwethereyetmom.com/2012/03/yorks-wild-kingdom-york-maine.html

Create The Day – With Persistence

I was going to title this Create the Day With Endurance, but I decided that persistence was a better word because it involves the qualities of being determined and enduring. I believe one of humanity’s greatest qualities is the ability to persist in the face of incredible odds toward a goal, or an ideal. How fortunate we…

Weekly Photo Challenge – Through

Through The Woods In Through The Window Out Through The Window Images of going through my life. We are all going through something all the time, but fortunately we have a lot of choices about what we go through and how we go through life’s circumstances. It’s just a matter of being aware of the…

Weekly Photo Challenge – Unusual

Ducky-Doo

Weekly Photo Challenge- Contrast

Contrast – Not only light and dark, but furry or smooth, round or pointed, sharp or blurred, reds and greens, colorful and colorless, there are many types of contrast that make the world interesting & beautiful.

Winter 2012

It started on October 31st, 2011, but then it went away. For 3 months I have listened to my son complain about the lack of winter this year, you see for him winter means snow. As for myself, I was perfectly happy with the mild weather, not needing to shovel or dig the cars out…

Mom

My mom is one of the most compassionate people I know, not in a gushy or weepy way, but in a very practical way. Right after high school she went to nursing school and became an RN. She took care of people her whole life. By the time I was 3 she decided she should stop working…

Dreamtime

Outside the snow falls, it’s dark and cold. Some people really love snow. My son longs for a white Christmas every year. Memories of childhood days; snowmen, sledding, snowball fights, snow forts and missing school for snow days. Snow brings more painful memories to my mind. I did not grow up with it, so I…

My First Glimpses of the New Year

It was a warm sunny day, so unusual for January 1st in upstate NY. I gathered my belongings to leave from an overnight stay, took them to my car and left them on the hood. I didn’t have the keys. This stump and the green grass below it called out to me saying, “Come, join…

The Roommate

When my son became a senior in college he finally had a room to himself. For his sophomore & junior years he was in a triple, so I thought he must be very happy to have some space finally. Although he was in an apartment with 4 other guys, at least he had his own room. After his Christmas…