The Daily Post has asked us to display pictures with that little something extra in them
Like a red dot in a blue sky: I caught this fleeing balloon just before it went out of sight!
And this little fellow obliged me with a quick snapshot.
See other extras at
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/extra-extra/
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
I am happy that in spite of the chilly weather (only in the 50’s) the summer flowers are beginning to bloom!
My happy place today was lunch with my daughters at Blueprints for Father’s Day.
This post was prepared for Cee’s Share Your World Challenge at
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/06/09/share-your-world-2014-week-23/
Head on over when your done here. I am quite sure you will find some very interesting answers to her questions there!
Here are my answers:
Would your rather be stuck in a small plane with mild turbulence for 2 hours or be a passenger in a car racing the Daytona 500?
I think either would be quite fun. However I have done the small plane turbulence thing so I choose the car race as it would be a new experience.
Would you rather be alone with nobody in the vicinity for one month or never be alone not even for a minute for one month?
Oh my goodness never being alone for a month sounds like somebody’s version of Hell (Oh yeah mine).
Would you like to sleep in a human size nest in a tree or be snuggled in a burrowed spot underground?
Oooo a burrow please. It would make me feel like a Hobbit.
In a car would you rather drive or be a passenger?
I like being driven. Not that that ever happens mind you but I like to be a passenger (or at least I use to)
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I am grateful for so many things you can find a few of them here:
And I am really looking forward to C.cada’s open air art show coming up this weekend and you can read more about that here:
http://artistdayapart.com/winchendon-250th-anniversary-art-contest/
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”
― J.M. Barrie
I am so glad I got to take my mom and my daughter, Amanda, to the Moving Wall last week. It was a somber experience but a memory worth having. And we all got Banana Splits afterwards! 🙂
For more info on The Moving Wall go to:
http://www.vietvet.org/movwall.htm
Just a note the home page for the wall is currently without a webmaster so you may have trouble loading that.
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
The black locust is in bloom filling the evenings with the scent of jasmine and grapes. How could anyone not be happy with the scent of Heaven filling the yard?
I haven’t been able to Fictioneer for a couple of weeks but here I am visiting the Friday blog on Monday. Thanks Rochelle for the prompt.
Reader, when you have finished basking in the Ambience why don’t you go on over and read a submission or 10 from Rochelle’s other contributors.
http://rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/6-june-2014/
AMBIENCE
by Joseph Elon Lillie
I light candles for ambience. Ambience is important to me. Somehow it makes the stacks of crap less crappy.
I’m sure she’d say, “You could clean.”
I use to… before.
But now living here, clean and dirty look about the same. It’s all still piles of stuff stacked against camper walls. It only smells different and maybe that’s the point. I can stand the smell as long as I have candles to change the lighting.
There is something romantic about stink by candlelight.
I can remember the good times and nobody wants to get close enough to break my heart.
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
Look everyone my first pears!
Today I am enjoying a walk down memory lane. I am thinking about my son’s recent visit to me from PA. It was a wonderful weekend!
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
