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.

Color Your World: Inch Worm

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.

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Just a note. I threw money not inch worms into this lady’s violin case.

My Daily Walk 2-17-16

With the temperature plunging to -17 with a wind chill of -39,  I missed all my daily walks this weekend. I did spend a little time stretching though.

I really thought I would be back at it yesterday but the rains came in like a flood. The creek behind the house overflowed its banks and the entire neighborhood was one big puddle.image

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.

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