There is nothing odder than a shoe on a stick at the beach.
Click here to see other odd photos at Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge
There is nothing odder than a shoe on a stick at the beach.
Click here to see other odd photos at Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge
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…


Palm At Longwood
I will call that close enough.
I have never had JAZZBERRY JAM. I have had Moxie jelly though. Does that count? Check out this wild flavor by clicking the capitalized link.
And here is the actual shade:

My match is…

Before taking part in this challenge, I would have called the roof of the Vermont Country Store “red”. Now I know better! 😉
This post is in response to The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Seasons.
Life is always changing:
We grow.

We learn.


We laugh.

We play.

We pray.

We dance life’s dance.

And sometimes we fall.

Some of life we walk with others.

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


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…

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.

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.

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

Whether the rain is falling down or…

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.
Slowly, ever-so-slowly, I am catching up. The color for this post assigned by Jennifer is INDIGO.
Click the capitalized link to see how other artists interpreted this shade:




Here is my offering for Norm’s Door Challenge.
Today we are taking another page from the weird color packet. We begin the day with INCH WORM.
Now growing up inch worms were things you threw at girls to make them scream and no one thought badly about you for it (well except maybe your mother and that was only because your father had thrown inch worms at her), but nowadays when such behavior is frowned upon we have turned inch worm into this

Boys if you have an inch worm crayon in your box please don’t throw it at the girl you like. Crayons after all are not as soft as real inch worms.

Just a note. I threw money not inch worms into this lady’s violin case.
So today in spite of a very busy schedule I insisted on stopping between appointments for a walk. I had to meet my accountant in Keene NH. Then on the way back home I stopped in the little town of Troy to walk the common.