According to Google, to be blissful is to be extremely happy and full of joy and that is the aim for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #175, guest hosted by Lindy Le Coq.
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Tag: Snapshot
CMMC: November Pick a Topic
CFFC: Paper (Mostly Food Wrappers)
I work for a company that provides training for emergency telecommunicators aka dispatchers as well as develops the software for emergency communications.
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #174: Shapes and Design
This week, on Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #174, Patti invites everyone to share some shapes and interesting designs.
From my experience, to make a bridge takes many shapes – triangles, trapezoids, squares to name a few. These shapes typically make up the basic design of any bridge. I hope you enjoy my gallery of bridges.
Bridge in Zhongshan 
Pedestrian bridge in Park City, Utah 
CMMC: November Color Blue
CFFC: Future Nostalgic
Some of my all-time favorite photos have been of nature whether it be strange weather or just landscape photos from my hikes, from time to time, I would look back at those photos and I would be transported back to that day.
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Monday Thoughts
Maybe I’m just looking for trouble despite my muscles protesting yesterday or maybe I’m just stubborn.
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CMMC: November Close Up
CFFC: Sand or Dirt
Rainbow-watching on sandy ground 
Watching the rainbow disappear 
Sunset-watch by the beach
No Rest For Me
It’s once again Monday and I have a feeling this is going to be a rough week.
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CMMC: October Alphabet – Must have Q or U in the Word
CFFC: Candid Photography
Mixed Bag of Thoughts
Thought #1
I probably slept more last weekend than I had in a long time.
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #171: Weird and Wonderful
Weird and Wonderful, this is the topic for this week’s Lens-Artist Photo Challenge, hosted by Ann-Christine, which is another topic I find challenging for me.
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CMMC: October Pick a Topic
CFFC: Twisty and Squiggly
CMMC: October Color Orange or Light Green
A Photo a Week Challenge: Ancient
When I saw the topic for this challenge, my memory almost immediately took me to this picture. This was a church long ago, back when Portuguese dominated this town, Macau, in China. Sadly, it was burn down and all that was left was this wall.
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CFFC: Straight Lines
Monday Thoughts
This Monday has been brutal so far. I didn’t want to get up this morning and the moment I did, I wanted to curl back under my comforter. It was so cold and I was so tired. I wanted to turn on the heat but mom was having hot flashes and sweating like crazy. She even had the windows open. It’s 40-some degrees outside, come on!
Is this what it feels like after a 56-hour work week? I’ve been working overtime every week since I started but never have I worked on a Saturday. I think being mentally strained is worse than being physically strained.
And of course, having a mom and family like mine, God forbid I should have one day off. My aunt dragged me out yesterday to have me take her to work and buy two boxes of cup noodles for her on my way home. Of course, when I visit a big box store, there’s no way I would ever make it out with just 2 boxes of cup noodles. I ended up getting some batteries and 2 gigantic (27 gallons) storage containers for my garden stuff.
They looked big at the store and even bigger in the back of my car but when I started putting stuff in them, they were smaller than I thought. I might need one more…or two.
After all of that was done, I was so tired and sleepy even though it was only 2 PM.
That’s what I get for skipping my morning coffee…
I barely dozed off when mom woke me up to help her plant some roses in the front yard. No, it’s the ones I propagated last week. They are these beautiful petite rose bushes from her house – the one she refuses to live in.
I ignored her for the first 15 minutes or so but to be honest, I was so tired I couldn’t even open my eyes without them automatically shutting less than 30 seconds later. She stomped her feet – boom, boom – and shouted, “do you know how much pain I’m in? I only do this for you, you know. If you don’t want to do it, fine, do ask me to do anything else for you again.” She stormed off, muttering angrily beneath her breath.
I should’ve replied, “I didn’t asked you to do this, you know,” but that would dredge that conversation from a few weeks ago which ended with her throwing something across the room, nearly missing my head. I didn’t see what it was because I was outside and out of harm’s way by the time what ever it was landed with a thud.
Anyway, I should return to work now.
#SundayStills – Burnt Orange
CFFC: Curves and Arches
#SundayStills – Hobbies
In January of 2020, I toured a house where the hostess has a hobby of collecting nativity figures from every country. Just about every inch of her home – kitchen counter, stove, bedrooms, even bathrooms – was occupied by a nativity figurine and it was supposed to be put away after the new year but she kept it out for my church group.
Some of these figurines were very intricate while some even required special instruments to see.
I wonder if she had done it again for Christmas 2020?
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