Color Your World: Magenta

It is that time of the day when you just want to MAGENTAIZE your day isn’t it? Don’t you just wish everything was this color right now?

Imagine if your coffee was magenta, or your computer screen. What a lovely world it would be!

Well if you want to see things that are legit magenta you will have to click the capitalized link above or look below at my magenta offerings.

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Color Your World:Jungle Green

This afternoon we are here to tell you “It’s a jungle out there.” At least Jennifer wants us to go JUNGLE GREEN WITH OUR NEXT PHOTO POST.  To join this challenge or to read other submissions to it, click on the capitalized link.

This is a shading challenge. Here is the shade we are being asked to match.

 

Here is my attempt, but I warn you green is my hardest color to see shading of…

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Pine Cone Palm

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I will call that close enough.

 

The Seasons Change

This post is in response to The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Seasons.

Life is always changing:

We grow.

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We learn.

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We laugh.

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We play.

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We pray.

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We dance life’s dance.

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And sometimes we fall.

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Some of life we walk with others.

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Some of it we walk alone.

But one thing we can surely know is that life like the seasons is all about change.

“As long as the earth endures,

seedtime and harvest,

cold and heat,

summer and winter,

day and night

will never cease.” Genesis 8:22

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Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: We Carry Our Weather.

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This week Cee has challenged us to show her THE WEATHER IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. Click the capitalized link to see weather from around the world.

I have learned a few things about the weather in my time…

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Sometimes it’s easy to walk above our weather. At certain moments we think we have it all in hand and life’s little problems seem beneath us however irritating they might be.

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Then there are those moments when the weather rises up and engulfs us. We can’t rise above it because it’s coming from above. We have to learn how to live in it one shovelful at a time.

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But the truth is that whatever the weather is doing around us, whether the clouds are thick and gloomy…

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Whether the rain is falling down or…

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the sun is shining high, it is we who choose how the weather effects us. We decide if the snow and rain are blessings or barriers. We carry our own weather.