photography – Long walks and dark chocolate

The milkweed lesson

March 4, 2013 1 Comment

I love to work in my yard. I find it to be calming and restorative as well as invigorating. Today, it was a windy day, strangely chilly for South Florida this time of year. We have milkweed in the butterfly garden and the wind was picking up milkweed pods and scattering them haphazardly about the yard.

I began to think how they are picked up and slung around, bruised and sometimes broken, torn into pieces, yet they flutter about doing good, throwing seed to and fro.

It reminded me of us. We can learn from mistakes, grow from struggles, keep the faith and still yield some good fruit that is beneficial to others. Nature always teaches if we just stop to observe.

Filed Under: Photography, Uncategorized Tagged With: Butterfly, Butterfly gardening, garden, gardening, milkweed, nature photography, photography, plants, south florida

Freeloaders

March 2, 2013 4 Comments

I wanted to share this with you because I find so much happiness in watching it. My husband is a fishing guide and every day when he comes in, he has some friends that hang around waiting for handouts. They seem to know when he is coming before I do and stay right with him until they get some dinner. I hope you enjoy!

This old guy begins to wait patiently for my husband to come in from fishing

I think he heard the boat coming before I did

About the time I can hear it coming, he takes off in flight towards it

soaring along, food on his mind

He finds the boat and paddles along behind it all the way in

Now he is joined by a friend

and then there were three, eagerly awaiting their dinner

Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: animal photography, boating, brown pelicans, fishing, photography, Recreation, south florida

Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the details

March 2, 2013 Leave a Comment

I took this in Texas and every time I look at it, I find myself looking at all the different elements and loving the way they all fit together.

something special along the way…Texas trip

Filed Under: Photography, Uncategorized Tagged With: nostalgia, photography, Texas, Travel, weekly photo challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Kiss

February 15, 2013 4 Comments

This week’s photo challenge was to share a photo depicting what KISS means to you. I couldn’t pick just one! It’s obvious my family is very affectionate.

Family kisses

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Weekly photo challenge: Home

February 9, 2013 4 Comments

The weekly photo challenge was to depict home – to me, THEY are home….My husband, my daughters and my granddaughter…wherever we are together, living, loving, eating, playing….This applies to extended family members as well of course!

Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: Family, food, Home, love, photography, postaday, sisters

Weekly Photo Challenge: Love

January 25, 2013 2 Comments

My paternal grandparents before I was even though of

My paternal grandparents before I was even thought of

This picture represents love to me, because I know that they survived every storm together. They honored the commitment that they made before God, and gave us an example of true love and devotion. Things weren’t always easy, and I’m sure they had days when they would have liked to give up. But they didn’t.

In these days we live in, where love comes and goes like the wind and people would rather run than fight for their marriage, their example shows that love can survive, in the midst of trials and tribulations and circumstances that come against every couple.

This picture isn’t the greatest quality and photo credits go to my Uncle if I’m not mistaken, but this photo moves me. I can sense the love between them.

Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: committment, Family, love, marriage, photography

Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond

January 19, 2013 1 Comment

For this week, the photo challenge was…..

In a new post specifically created for this challenge, share a picture which means BEYOND to you!

All of the photos below represent “beyond” to me although in different ways.

Old CCC camp at Prince William National Forest Park – A little creepy, sitting beyond the road a distance.

Boating with family, 10,000 Islands…what is beyond the clouds?

View from ferry coming into Seattle, looking forward to what awaits us beyond the shore.

Taken in Olympic National Park; the ocean beyond the hole in fallen log

Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: national parks, ocean, photography

Weekly Photo Challenge: Resolved – No Looking Back

January 4, 2013 Leave a Comment

My precious granddaughter, Ayda

I don’t really make resolutions as I believe every single day is a new day, filled with grace and opportunity. However, one thing I want to remember this year is to stop looking back at what could have been or might have been or how I could have done something different and press forward toward all that I am called to be. So, I guess the resolution would be “no looking back”. I want to put my efforts into the future and not waste strength and energy on the past.

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13

Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: God, New Year, photography, weekly photo challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful

November 23, 2012 Leave a Comment

Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful

I’m thankful for the beautiful SW FL sunsets we are blessed with and the opportunity I had to share this one with my youngest who will be leaving the nest soon!!