This post was created for Cee’s Fun Fotot Challenge: LEAVES &TREES
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/05/06/cees-fun-foto-challenge-leaves-and-trees/
I found this tree in the Koog ZanDyke neighborhood just outside of Zandaam the Netherlands
I suppose it’s more of a giant pine cone than a leaf but I thought it was kind of cool.
This post was written in response to the Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: SPRING
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/spring-2/
I actually do feel pretty springish today. It’s not that the traditional things like daffodils or tulips are abounding anywhere (even the first dandelions haven’t budded yet) but this was us two short weeks ago.
So the fact that today my world looks like this
gives me hope that spring has finally arrived!
The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky is Everywhere
This post was created for:
http://skyley.blogspot.com/2008/06/da-rulez.html
So here we are again sharing our worlds, allowing them to collide gently into each other. It is an awesome privilege to be able to know people half way across the globe through Cee’s weekly questions. When you have finished learning a little bit more about me hop on over to Cee’s place and learn more about her and those who join in the “SYW” fun.
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/04/21/share-your-world-2014-week-16/
Here are this week’s questions:
How many places have you lived? You can share the number of physical residences and/or the number of cities. I grew up in Winchendon MA. Shortly after I married my wife and I moved to Phoenixville PA (home of the cult classic “The Blob”) and then back to Winchendon. We spent twenty years in Gardner MA and now I live back in the house I grew up in.
What type of music relaxes you the most? I love instrumental piano and strings.
If you could instantly become fluent in another language, what would that language be and why? Oh gosh! I love languages. This is a hard one but I think maybe one of the tonal languages like Mandarin would be fun as long as I didn’t have to work at it.
If you could fly or breathe under water what would you prefer? I choose breathe underwater. How fun would that be to be able to explore the ocean depths without ever having to come up for air!
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 our Good Friday and Easter services this last weekend and that I finally got over my post Easter bout with the flu (explaining why I haven’t posted in two days). I am really looking forward to our meeting with C.cada this weekend. I hope to have a good chunk of my painting done by then!
This post was created for Ese’s Shoot & Quote Challenge.
Like most things I have been creating lately this is more conceptual than realistic but it seems to be the space I am in right now.
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eyeis evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Luke 11:34
Find more whole shots & quotes at Ese’s blog
http://esengasvoice.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/ese-s-weekly-shootquote-challenge-whole/
This week “SYWWC” is all about the traffic patterns. At least for me. It has been a week of “You never know who you are going to run into.”
To bump into some other fine bloggers here in the blogosphere take a hop on over to Cee’s page and read some of her other subscriber’s answers to this week’s questions.
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/04/07/share-your-world-2014-week-14/
BUT FIRST:
If you had to describe your day as a traffic sign, what would it be?
If my life were a traffic sign today it might read “LANES MERGE UP AHEAD” or maybe it would just say this.
It feels like so many things are coming together right now in some sort of great convergence: home and family life, ministry, artwork. It’s a little disconcerting to see myself hurtling from what appears to be six lanes of life traffic down to two. I am on heightened alert and I see the potentials for trouble and yet I see the great adventure that lies before me as well. I am speeding on!
Is your hair short (total neck and ear showing), medium (covering ears and neck), long (below shoulders), extra long (at least halfway down your back) or bald?
My hair is short and thinning near the top. Wrinkles is not just going grey (and there is a lot more grey than there used to be). He is going bald-ish.
When you are with your friends, do your interactions include much touching—for example, hugging, kissing, rough housing, rubbing backs? Would you like to have more of this? (Note: the answers may vary depending on where you live on this wonderful planet.)
The word is New England. Not an extraordinarily touchy group of people are we. We love deeply but usually from a distance. 🙂
What do you feel is the most enjoyable way to spend $100?
I love to go out to dinner with friends and then maybe a movie as long as it involves superheroes! The movie that is, I have never had dinner with a superhero. Though, how cool would that be?
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 that the good Lord helped me to keep up my exercise regimen everyday last week! I am looking forward to finishing at least 5,000 more words of my new novel.
