day of the bloom....

work is always busy at this time of year and it starts to take over every waking moment... wednesday it all came to a head.

as bad as the day got, i think of it now as one of the best years of 2010 because i now know that i do not want to go through it again. and primarily, it was a result of my own choices...

on monday, i had found a bud on my mother's Christmas cactus, decided i was going to shoot it as it bloomed but then let work take over my life and lost the plan... then today, i went to shoot it and it already had bloomed, i almost missed it.

LESSONS - every day matters and when you check out for a day, you may miss a lot...don't let busyness get in the way of living...sometimes little things are really big things...

a day to remember...

it's been so long since i posted here, i'm not sure i remember how...
happy birthday to mom, missed and loved and remembered forever... we missed your smile and dancing at the wedding, but knew you were on the dance floor with us during the twist and we are family :), heard you seeing blue bayou today, and felt your love and prayers lifting kelly and butch up in their fight against cancer...wish you were here, i miss you every day but most of all in november, come back and visit please, it helps :)

sunday has a feel...

apr 11
photo hunt word of the day was SUNDAY...

if ever there is a day that has a feel, that you can actually capture in a photograph, i believe it is Sunday.

i find that what others find in church, i find in nature. so i spent a good part of the day recognizing God in the world around me.

i started the day at the scary reservoir from friday's word and today, it was a perfect place for peaceful reflection. of course it was, because today was sunday. and as thoreau says - it's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

i visited churches and trees and lakes and watched families of strangers sharing their sundays.

then i went home to go to dinner with joey and shared the rest of my sunday with him, my family...

a soft spot..

saturday
april 10
photo hunt word of the day was SOFT...

ah, what a day.
i LOVE this day - then and now.

the weather was colder than it looked and every time i went outside, i was disappointed. so i decided to go shopping and on the way, i realized how beautiful all the SOFT colors surrounding me were...
it stopped me in my tracks and i spent the rest of the day celebrating the soft colors of spring. plus i had a twisted softee :)
may go down as one of my all time favorite days. yep. one of the best...

scary stuff

friday
apr 8
the word of the day was SCARY...
another tough word to go out and find. who is picking these words?? oh yeah me. as joey says, it wouldn't be fun if it were easy...

so after great thought, i drove to Six Flags. it's not open yet but i crept up to the fences and shot pics of the roller coasters. the security guards were circling, wondering who the old lady was that was spying on the place. i left them to their imagination and went home for pizza.

i didn't want to show up on facebook with only a lame picture of a still roller coaster, so after pizza, i talked joey into taking me to the reservoir down the street - fast moving black water scares me to death. i got a few shots and had to leave - i then hyperventilated all the way home.

people still made fun of me but i knew i shot SCARY stuff.

you say goodbye...

i say helloooo...
GREETINGS!!

thursday
april 8
the photo hunt word of the day was greeting.
i look for words that have multiple interpretations and then couldn't come up with anything. i drove around town - my new daily habit - looking for anything that could be a greeting.
i saw welcome signs all over but the welcome to East Windsor was unique - someone made an effort to customize that greeting - well done!
then it dawned on me - a yellow ribbon. but how do you find that? it's like a needle in a haystack. so i kept driving and driving. finally, there in front of me, much to my surprise, was a house with TWO yellow ribbons tied to their old oak trees. i found i wanted to know the story that prompted the ribbons...
down the same street was a greeting of respect - a serviceman, saluting. i imagine that there's someone in this neighborhood on a tour of duty and the entire neighborhood shows their support...
i ended the day back at home, with my collection of antique postcards from the early 1900's. i include these greetings and say hey to the adventurers that sent the greeting back in the day. i admire you and send greetings, hoping your journeys continue...

a little piece of my HEART...

wednesday
april 7
is Heart day.

it was a day full of hearts -
old hearts with stories we will never know,
hearts lit from within,
open hearts,
blooming hearts
and two hearts together forever as the sun set
on heart day...