One Word Photo Challenge: Background

I am one day away from the new One Word Photo Challenge. The one Jennifer issued last week was entitled: BACKGROUND.

Here are my Background photos:

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Sometimes our backgrounds are just frames to hang life’s pictures on.

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Sometimes a little background helps explain a person’s story.

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Then sometimes the background is what makes our subject more than just a pile of rocks.

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I guess sometimes the background is really the point.

 

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Optomistic

The Daily Post has asked us to share photos of things that fill us with OPTIMISM  even when everything in the world is seeming to fall apart.

You can click the underlined link to find over a hundred things to inspire optimism.

Here are my sources:

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My first source of hope and uplifting is Christ. going to Him in prayer always makes my day.

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My little dogs are great sources of joy

Then of course there is the family. This isn’t all of them but they are an optimising bunch.

 

Color Your World: Canary

Today Jennifer has asked us to bring out the CANARY .  You can see a post full of canary photos by clicking the underlined link.

Here is the shade Jen’s contributor’s have been asked to match and my attempts at it are below that.

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Wendy is one of C.cada’s mural painters. I am thinking the highlights in the window are canary.

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To those of you in the path of this winter storm…Be warm and safe.