Photography

When Life Gives You Lemons…

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Use them!

The weather in this region has been pretty sucky for the last few days as many roads are impassable due to ice. ICE, not snow. Snow is not sucky. I like snow. I can drive in it, heck I’ll even eat it but what we’ve got is not edible or drivable unless you’re just feeling wild and crazy. I must be getting old because I don’t feel so wild and crazy.

Not too long ago I would have gleefully tested my sliding skills on foot or behind the wheel and laughed at any mishap. Now I dare not chance it and worry about the kids making it home safely. Back in the day a power outage was an adventure; nowadays I fear the grandchildren won’t be warm enough…

🙂 Well the kids are nestled in their homes all fine and dandy [sigh] and their children are ‘snug as a bug in a rug’ so I can go about enjoying life’s lemons…

I’ll start with savoring Santa’s lemon apples with caramel dipping sauce. YUM!

apples (3) (1280x836)

 

 

 

 

 

We’ll turn the Christmas music on and decorate the tree

ornament rg&g

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And sing along  Peanuts roasting on a cast iron stove…

PEANUTS ROASTING

 

 

 

 

 

And maybe I’ll tell Santa what a good boy he has been….

 

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected

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Cheri said “IN A NEW POST CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A PHOTO THAT MEANS UNEXPECTED TO YOU.”

Well Cheri I wake up in a new world every morning so just about anything that happens after the first cup of coffee comes as a surprise.

Unexpected things are happening around us every day, 24/7 but we are usually too preoccupied to appreciate them. Small astonishing things like this dried leaf wafting on a breeze.

Or the tiny sweet bloom of an Elaeagnus

elaeagnus bloom

Some things we totally expect. If the weatherman tells us a storm is coming we anticipate a change in atmosphere accompanied by a little wind and rain. If we see lightning we generally expect to hear thunder.

We can even guesstimate the distance of a storm by counting the  seconds between the lighting strike and the boom of thunder then divide that number by two. But occasionally they come so close together you barely purse your lips to say one and WHAM!!

The unexpected happens.

 

That’s why I refuse to live in tree. 😉

Too Numerous To Mention

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This weeks photo challenge is titled Habit. I have far too many to mention and fewer still I am willing to confess but isn’t that a lovely sky? Maybe I am a habitual optimist – always looking up.

Not Quite Macabre

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In response to the weekly photo challenge: Eerie

Give no heed to the Sasquatch and ignore the Chupacabra for they are plainly seen.

But be watchful of the light and mindful of the shade for there are dreadful things in between.

Weekly Photo Challenge (Combining Hues & Horizons)

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These photos are recycled from older posts but they will work for the challenge(s): The Hue of You and Horizons.

This is me. These colors are the sum of my parts and they bring me peace. That along with the unfaltering hope that what lies beyond the next horizon will be all I ever dreamed of.

 

Lake Fork at Sunset
Mardi Gras Sky
Spying on young lover’s Lake Tawakoni
Evenings to be Savored
Another day ending Lake Tawakoni
Touching the sky at Keller Bay
Breaking Dawn South Texas
Navarro Mills Lake at Day Break

We are what we eat, what we breathe and what we believe.  Eat to nourish the body, breathe to soothe the soul and believe the sky is the the limit.

_jrh

Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite

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Infinite

As in clouds and sunsets…

Massive horns…

And endless entertainment

Rain clouds forming
Sunset at ramp
Texas Longhorn peek-a-boo
Laughing gull fishing
Spoonbill sanctuary

Carpe diem y’all because nothing lasts forever

Good Morning

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Q: What does your morning look like?

A: My mornings consist of coffee (lots of coffee), a walk and being greeted by the most awesome guard dogs in the world. See how they saved me from that turkey in the background?

Thank you for keeping that vicious turkey at bay
Good morning Morning Glory
Inspired by a change in weather

I wake the flowers up ‘good morning Morning Glory’ and forecast the weather by holding my wet thumb in the air. Sometimes I lick it, sometimes I let one of the dogs do it for me.

Today’s forecast: FABULOUS. It is cloudy and seventy degrees.  The wind is up, the temperature is down and there is a real honest to goodness cold front blowing in. 🙂

Gloomy skies are the perfect inspiration for dark stories so I had better get busy before the weather changes.  You know the old saying “If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes and it will change.” “why lick your thumb if someone else will do it for you.”