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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Sunday Poser #211 – Life Lessons


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Monday Thoughts – Stop Growing Things!


I don’t want to complain but I must vent in some fashion. Bear with me!

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Share Your World – Week of December 9, 2024


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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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Close Calls with Wildlife: Lessons Learned


Daily writing prompt
Do you ever see wild animals?
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What Am I Good At?


Daily writing prompt
Share five things you’re good at.

This is a tricky one because there might be things which I feel I’m good at but other people will think I suck at. I guess it’s all about perspective on this one.

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  1. I think I’m good at trying to at least 2 or 3 moves ahead and I’m not talking about playing games. I’m talking about life. I’ve always treated life as a game of chess where one must look ahead before deciding the right move. I don’t remember when I started thinking like that but I can’t stop.
  2. I guess I’m good at hands-on learning. I can catch on quickly when I can see someone do the same thing or something similar. I think this is more like mimicking but still, it’s skill.
  3. I feel I’m typically pretty good at expressing the stories that’s playing in my head in words.
  4. I’m pretty good at numbers. I have been playing a game called “Cross Math” on my phone. It’s similar to crossword puzzles but with numbers. This game involves quite a bit of mental math. So far, I can solve a puzzle in less than minute. I tried competition and beat out quite a lot of people. I guess that means I’m pretty good at mental math.
  5. I feel I’m getting pretty good at gardening. If you asked me 3 years ago, I would’ve told you I have a black thumb. Back then, I couldn’t keep anything alive but, now, 3 years later, I’m growing kale and vegetables in the winter and they are all alive. So I guess I’m getting pretty good at growing food.

Sunday Poser #210 – Losing Track of Time


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Share Your World – Week of December 2, 2024


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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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5 Things I’m thankful for in 2024


I began this tradition on this blog years ago where I would list 5 things I’m thankful for during that particular year. I’ve been looking forward to the break over Thanksgiving that I completely forgot it’s the time of the year to give thanks. I wish my blogging friends in the US a Happy Thanksgiving and even if you’re in an area in the world where you don’t observe Thanksgiving, there’s always time to give thanks, even to the little things in life.

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Exploring Life Without Sleep


Daily writing prompt
If you didn’t need sleep, what would you do with all the extra time?
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Sunday Poser #209 – Regrets


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What Annoys Me: My Three Major Pet Peeves


Daily writing prompt
Name your top three pet peeves.
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Share Your World – Week of November 25, 2024


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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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#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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Sunday Poser #208 – Making Money from Blog


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Share Your World – Week of November 18, 2024


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Monday Thoughts – Fathers


Recently, I realized something, that I’ve known both my biological father and my stepfather for 5 years each. That would mean, of my entire life, there’s only been 10 years when I had two parents.

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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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Exploring Audiobooks


Daily writing prompt
What book are you reading right now?
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