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 do you see #265 – The Runner


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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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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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Six Sentence Story: Shadow


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The Unicorn Challenge – Start to a Vacation


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What do you see #264 – The Balloons


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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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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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The Unicorn Challenge – The Perfect Birthday


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Six Sentence Story: Benefit


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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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What do you see #263 – Graduate


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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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Six Sentence Story: Bond


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What do you see #262 – Once in a Lifetime Shot


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Monday Thoughts – S.A.D.


In relates to last week’s Monday Thoughts, I think my S.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Disorder) is starting to set in, and it’s worse than before because unlike prior years, I feel like I have absolutely nothing to look forward to this year like nothing in the next 2 or 3 months.

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