#WordlessWednesday: Salt and Sky


Part of Wordless Wednesday, where a picture tells the story.

Hello January 2025!


Happy New Year, everybody!

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2024 in Review


As I mentioned in a previous post, 2024 will go down as the year of least travels. As of today – December 31, 2024 – there are less than 1,200 photos in my Lightroom library taken in 2024. That’s a over 50% in reduction from 2023, so that should tell you something.

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Reflection on the 2024 Garden


I’ve procrastinated long enough to reflect on the 2024 garden. Although, with stuff still growing somewhere either in my garage or outside, I don’t think the 2024 garden was ever over.

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Silent Sunday: Saddest Snowman Ever Lived


WeekendCoffeeShare – Last Weekend of 2024


Happy Saturday! Welcome! Can I offer you some homegrown mint tea for this final #weekendcoffeeshare of 2024, hosted, as always, by the lovely Natalie of Natalie the Explorer?

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Wordless Wednesday: Merry Christmas!


CFFC: Colorful Buildings


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Silent Sunday: Festive Red


#WeekendCoffeeShare – Winter Solstice 2024


Happy Saturday and Winter Solstice! Welcome! Let’s grab a drink and join me for another edition of #weekendcoffeeshare, hosted by the lovely Natalie of Natalie the Explorer.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #329 – Last Chance


Happy Sunday! This week, for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #329, marks the final Lens-Artists Challenge of 2024, thus it’s the last chance to showcase any photos that didn’t make it into the photo challenges of 2024.

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – Christmas Parties


Happy Saturday! Welcome to another edition of #weekendcoffeeshare, hosted by the lovely Natalie of Natalie the Explorer. Let’s grab a drink and have a chat!

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #328 – Winter


Happy Sunday! This week, for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #328, John from Journey with Johnbo reminds us that we are approaching midwinter and that winter will be staying for the next few months.

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – Getting Back in the Groove


Happy Saturday! Welcome to another edition of #weekendcoffeeshare, hosted by the lovely Natalie of Natalie the Explorer. Let’s grab a drink and have a chat!

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Close Calls with Wildlife: Lessons Learned


Daily writing prompt
Do you ever see wild animals?
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Hello December 2024!


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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #327 – 5 Elements


This week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge’s theme – 5 elements – hosted by Sofia at Photographia, had me a little stumped, which was why I put it off (that and procrastination got the better of me) until Monday. The 5 Elements are consisted of Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Metal/wood, hopefully I will represent them well in my post.

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – Thanksgiving 2024


Happy Saturday! Welcome to another edition of #weekendcoffeeshare, hosted by the lovely Natalie of Natalie the Explorer. Let’s grab a drink and have a chat!

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #326 – This Made Me Smile


Happy Sunday! What makes me smile? I guess we’ll find out as Ann-Christine from Leya hosts this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #326 with this exact theme.

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – 500 Days of Language Learning


Happy Saturday! Welcome to another edition of #weekendcoffeeshare, hosted by the lovely Natalie of Natalie the Explorer. Let’s grab a drink and have a chat!

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#SundayStills: Monthly Color Challenge – #Brown Trees


A photo of a fallen tree trunk covered in snow taken at Bryce Canyon National Park in December 2023

Like it or not, I will always look back on that trip because so far, that trip is ranked at the top of my best trip list. This picture is a picture of a fallen tree trunk at Bryce Canyon. In the snow, it looked like something else, like a sleeping beast in the snow. Nature has its weird ways of creating art, doesn’t it?

Another one from the trip.

There seem to be quite a bit of brown landscapes. I’m pretty sure it’s just the time of year for that color to surface as the days are at its shortest and the nights are at its longest.

Surprisingly, by the time I made it to northern Arizona, I found out I get 30 minutes of daylight than I do at home. Funny how much of a difference 6 degrees of latitude can make.

Anyway, this is just a tree, somewhere along highway 95 in southeastern Utah, surviving, I guess, beside a nearly dried up river. I feel like many of us are in similar situations – just surviving, trying to get by day to day.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #325 – Gratitude


Happy Sunday! As Thanksgiving will be here in the U.S. in a little over a week, Tina is challenging us to show some photos of Gratitude for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #235.

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – Weird Week


Happy Saturday! Welcome to another edition of #weekendcoffeeshare, hosted by the lovely Natalie of Natalie the Explorer. Let’s grab a drink and have a chat!

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