Photo Challenges

Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry

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Geometry and Grandchildren.

The youngest grandson stayed with us over the weekend…

by himself…

There were no cousins to sword fight, wrestle with or act as the other meat eating dinosaur. It was only me and his Papa to contend with his six year old imagination.

When he grew bored with his grandfather it was up to me, the Disney channel or his PSP to amuse him. Hmm…

I said, “hey how about a geometric journey- you like to take pictures don’t you?”

He of course was thrilled with the idea snapping the camera at anything that had a line, an angle or might be used in measure.

Six year olds are really intelligent creatures. Give them a definition in terms they can understand (don’t call it learning) and watch them grow go.

This weeks photo challenge is geometry. We took over one hundred shots and settled on two.

The Stars & Stripes of Our Geometric Journey
It’s Cool to be Square

Weekly Photo Challenge (Foreign)

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This week’s photo challenge foreign fits right in to my current thought process, as in foreign language. As I mentioned in a recent post I speak Hick and a little French. My grasp of foreign languages is limited; thank goodness my imagination is not.

I sometimes watch Spanish television. No, I do not speak Spanish – that may be why I find it so entertaining. I like to guess at what they’re saying. My husband enjoys certain Latin channels because they show cleavage and midgets. I don’t know what it is about that combination but it humors him and he laughs at the plump jolly man dancing to La Cucaracha.

I try to discern what they are saying, I don’t want to fluently comprehend – that would take the fun out of my guessing game. Husband doesn’t even try to guess, his thoughts are, “They’ve got boobs, little people, a happy fat man dancing and a song about a cockroach – who cares what they are saying.”

Foreign Snapshot

This snapshot came from a program I was watching this morning. I gather the conversation had something to do with men cheating on women or leaving them and monogamy being a realistic expectation.

I’m guessing that to some monogamy is a foreign concept.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette

They’ve flown south now for the winter. The last bottle of red colored sucrose hangs fermenting. The Petunia and Morning Glory have bid them farewell as the Four O’clock and Salvia prepare to sleep.

Seed and root resting in the shadow of nature’s understanding.

Oh that I might fly with you..

Until the next Equinox, buenas noches little bird.

A Brief Moment of Rest

Weekly Photo Challenge: BIG

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This is BUD. See BUD stand

The Big Ugly Dish designed for C-band

                                                                      BUD stares south, stands guard all day

                                                                     Directing Bravo West while watching buzzards play

In the sky that is… OMG The Ballad of Jed Clampett has consumed me. Y’all come back now, y’hear.

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy

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This weeks photo challenge is Happy.

What makes me happy? This gallery could go on forever with an endless list of small things that bring the greatest joy. It is probably a good thing that I am away from home right now, saving you from a trillion gigabytes of what makes me smile. I’ve narrowed it down to five from my hard drive.

An over-sized chair in a remote location…
Easy people and anticipation…
Bright flowers and blue skies…
Contented tiredness and toothless smiles….
Family and Food and the faces they make…

Weekly Photo Challenge (Mine)

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Nestled in the woods there is tiny space of refuge. A place of respite and reflection and it is mine. At least that’s what the sign says.

[For the weekly photo challenge titled Mine]

When I look up at the sign that says it is mine I pause and thank The Creator.

Weekly Photo Challenge (Solitary)

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This week’s photo challenge is titled Solitary. Though solitary is defined as: solitude, alone, secluded, singular or without companions the word itself conjures a multitude of images.

I immediately imagine a one man game of cards, confinement, loneliness, punishment and isolation. Well those things along with an old song ‘Countin’ Flowers on the Wall’ overlapping the imageries

Yet what I chose to submit is an empty chair. Now I sit alone pondering what that means (if anything) while I scroll through the other intriguing submissions and wonder what solitary means to so many others.

Alone in the Woods

Here is an excerpt from the lyrics of Countin’ Flowers on the wall.

Counting flowers on the wall,
That don’t bother me at all.
Playing Solitaire till dawn,
With a deck of fifty-one.
Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo.
Now, don’t tell me I’ve nothing to do

P.S.  A personal tidbit. Dour Number IIII was inspired by these very woods. Just beyond the barn in the background another world exists.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Everday Life

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This weeks photo challenge is titled Everyday Life

Why did I choose this photo depicting dusty dirt roads? #1 Because these roads are part of my every day life and #2 it reminds me that every day we are presented with at least two choices. How we choose decides the direction our lives will take.

Every Day Life and (at least) Two Choices

Weekly Photo Challenge: Near and Far

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I took this photo last week while at Magnolia beach in Indianola Texas. The birdwalk here appears to be abandoned with vegetation creeping up the planks. That doesn’t necessarily mean it has been, vegetation takes over in a hurry in this area. In case you’ve never heard of a birdwalk it’s like a  boardwalk designated to bird watching. I enjoy watching birds but I barely know a laughing gull from a brown pelican.

Anyway this is my submission for the weekly photo challenge  Near and Far.

Abandoned Birdwalk