I am almost too late for this challenge but before the new challenge comes out this afternoon I am going to answer the Weekly photo challenge from last Friday with WELL FRAMED POST OF MY OWN.
Here are my framed photos.
– PsychPerspectives
It is day 1 of what I am calling super week. The car is loaded and I am starting out on the drive to Special Touch NE Getaway in the Berkshires.
Here is what I saw at sunrise this morning.
This week Cee has asked us to have fun with HANDS. Clicking the underlined link can be very “handy” if you want to get to Cee’s site and see all the other hands she has on deck! 😉
My daughter recently had a hand in making some fallow deer very happy at the Southwick Zoo in Mendon MA
This week the Daily Post has asked us to HAVE FUN with the weekly photo challenge.
Here are my examples of fun:
Fun is captured in the moment!
Here are some other samples of fun!
Blending In
This week the Daily Post has asked us to show WHAT OUR MORNINGS LOOK LIKE.
To me the morning is the reestablishing of a rhythm that was called to a halt with the final good night. It is a return to the slow. constant and intentional meter I marched to the day before. It is a welcoming of routine.
For me, that return to routine starts with a morning walk with my two little friends Jacopo and Mercedes. Mercedes is the one in pink. Jacopo always wears blue.
It is a walk around the same block we visit three times daily. I must have a hundred pictures of this house.
But routine always involves finding a variation on the theme. Everything living changes. This morning we noted Father Mike’s new dog fence at the rectory. As with all new things of course we must express our customary dismay with a healthy bark or two. No worries we didn’t wake up Father Mike or his border collie, Liam. I checked.
After our walk. Jacopo and Mercedes always settle down to breakfast and I settle down to my first cup’o Joe.
With coffee in hand it is time for morning devotions first with this book.
and then with these books.
With life’s rhythm established I am now ready to meet my day!
Here are some other mornings from across the world.
Since I had little money to spend on extravagances this year I chose to take several free galavants through the countryside for my vacation.
One of the places I hiked was Doane’s Falls in Royalston MA. Doanes is just at the outlet of the Miller’s River as it makes its way into the Tully Dam spillway.
The first time I walked the falls was with my grandparents when I was a little boy. I don’t think I have walked all the way through to Tully since.
Usually the head waters of the falls are broiling making it very dangerous to swim. Many a diver has jumped into the pool never to reemerge. With the little rainfall we have had the first falls are reduced to a mere trickle of their usual volume.
The second falls
The third falls
Several boasters were taking advantage of the summer heat out on the Tully Dam waterway. It was a beautiful summer day and the whole hike took me about an hour and a half. When you visit bring plenty of water, bug spray and mind the poison ivy!
Lillie-Put 