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A day in the life of…me. A WordPress weekly photo challenge

March 29, 2013 By 29 Comments

Went to sleep last night to the thought of, “Yay, holiday Friday…no workmen…I can sleep in!”

Well Morgan and Milo had other ideas at 6am, and by 7am I had an antimatter bed-ferret snuggled up beside me purring his head off. Thanks a lot guys!

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With the promise of sun and 15 degrees I washed some sheets and hung them out in the sunshine for the day.

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Then I had to go to Costco…no photos from Costco because I’m sure that if you’ve seen one soul-sucking box store, you’ve seen them all.

But then, a lovely walk on the beach…

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…a stop at the garden store and a little gardening. Oh, I bought a new cultivar of blueberry called pink lemonade which has pink blueberries. Not sure how I feel about that but I thought it might be fun for Binky and Bunny.

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Evening sunset reflecting in the kitchen cabinets is the time for an hour of Ashtanga yoga and then off to read a book.

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Road trip out to the country tomorrow. :)
Photographed with my iPhone for the WordPress weekly photo challenge – a day in the life.

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The challenge word is “forward”

February 22, 2013 By 23 Comments

And my answer is children.

My children and your children.

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Today we were given drink boxes, fruit bars and cookies at a conference downtown and Chloe’s first thought was of finding someone needing food and handing them out.

Chloe never walks past with her eyes cast down. She sees and touches and does her best. No one is invisible to her. No one is on the fringe.

The world will move forward with people like her in it. She and her generation will go far to eradicate racism, homophobia, hatred and fear and live responsibly as stewards and not lords of the earth.

And, if Chloe has anything to say about it, no one will ever eat shark fin soup with a clear conscious knowing they did their part in the mutilation and drowning of helpless animals.

That’s forward to me. You go girl!

Photographed especially for the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge…Forward

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How many times have I transplanted my grandfather’s bleeding hearts?

February 8, 2013 By 26 Comments

From garden to garden, from house to house, for years.

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But each spring I know they will come up and my house, which ever house I’m in, that house feels like home.

Thought about and dug up out of my photo files for the WordPress weekly photo challenge…Home

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It’s all a matter of perspective

February 1, 2013 By 16 Comments

I’ve got lots of crazy ideas. :)

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One of those ideas is that there are only so many good ideas in this world and everything else is a variation on those ideas. You might say that there are basic building blocks and lots of people with different colours painting those blocks and arranging them in their own unique way.

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I love, LOVE what I do with the same camera, the same paper, the same pencils that everyone else has and I love, LOVE to see what everyone else does with their camera and paper and pencils.

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This IS how we do it. Unique perspective. That’s what I love.

And, if we could ask Milo, he’d show us his unique perspective on the wet shower floor.

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I’d love to see your unique perspective on something. If you like, please leave me a link in the comments and, like always, I will def. try to visit everyone linked up to the WP Challenge. :)

Oh, giveaway ends soon, draw is Monday morning. Still time. :)

Thought about and photographed for The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge.

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Love

January 25, 2013 By 26 Comments

My friends at WordPress have asked for a photo which represents love.

I thought about it for a good long time and then decided to show you this photo of Kerstie and Bunny (Isla).

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I remember a moment when Kerstie was expecting Bunny and cuddling Binky and I said to her, “How much you love Binky, that’s how much I love you.” And she said, “I didn’t understand that before, mom, but I sure get it now.”

That’s love. That’s the love you kill for, the love you die for, the love you give up a lifetime of Sunday mornings to soccer and hockey for. That is a love which never fades, never stops and caries on forever.

That’s a love which can’t be expressed in any dimensional form so I expect I have failed here.

But how lucky am I to feel that love?

Thought about and attempted for the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge.

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Look beyond. A wordpress weekly photo challenge

January 18, 2013 By 18 Comments

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I’m not sure I’ve ever shown you this image. For a few years now I’ve been obsessed with reproducing Vanitas in my photography. Vanitas are a type of symbolic work describing the transient nature of life. The word takes a root from Vanity. In Latin: Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas: all is vanity. Look beyond the lovely hot cup of coffee. Think about what it is you see.

Thought about and presented for the WordPress weekly photo challenge: Beyond.

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Herb salad for lunch straight from my garden.

June 2, 2012 By 2 Comments

Finally!

Here in Vancouver we have to wait a little bit longer for our veggies.

But today there is a yummy herb salad for lunch, all organically grown by me!

I gathered different lettuce leaves, (romaine, red and green curly and butter), herbs are chives (including the blossoms), Provencal thyme, lemon thyme and parsley and some radishes.

You can probably see the radishes have been approved by the garden snails. Hey, if they like them, they must be good.

Simple oil and balsamic and the best lunch since last year.

Yum.

Thank you to my friend Gerry for the “today” photo challenge from WordPress

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