Day ten of our photo journey …
Relaxing on the park bench, just enjoying the sunshine on my face, I looked up and saw Haley leaning on the edge of the pavilion.
The look of pure peace and tranquility in her eyes made me begin to understand how far our photo journey has brought us.
Day nine of our photo journey …
Have I ever told you that I have a thing about mailboxes? I think maybe they bring back memories of when I was a kid. You know, when people used to mail real letters to you. Yeah, I know, that is too far back for most folks to remember, but as a kid I remember literally running to the mailbox to see if anyone had sent me a letter.
Since I finally put a real mailbox up (not just the one at the post office) I thought maybe I could get away with this being my picture of the day, but the kids had other thoughts, so off to the boat ramp we went.
Haley and Shona (Nick’s Girlfriend) decide to show you that it is day nine of our photo journey, but somehow in the process I got distracted by all the vivid colors surrounding me, and had to take a few pictures.
I love the colors in Mississippi this time of year. Everything is so bright, that at times, it doesn’t even seem real.
Oh wait a sec! I have a new model to frame in my lens, don’t I? Okay, let me stop for a second to grab a picture of Shona when she is staring all dreamy like at my son! I figure if she is still staring at him like that, even though we’ve told her every possible embarrassing story about him, she must be okay. 🙂
Ooops! Sorry! I got distracted by all the color around me again. If you put a bunch of shades of green around me, I can’t help myself, I am sure as heck gonna end up taking pictures.
With smiles like these, I think these two girls could probably get away with just about anything, as long as it wasn’t criminal.
Everyone was getting hot and tired, but there was simply no way we could drive by the park and not stop for a quick climb on all the playground equipment.
Yup! Haley is clowning around and making funny faces.
Just another day in my life. Yeah, life is almost normal again, and I am feeling pretty dang good about that.
Day eight of our photo journey …
When we moved, it felt at times as if our lives had been uprooted, right down to the flower bulbs we planted early in the Spring.
For weeks after we transplanted them, the leaves of the flowers looked brown and wilted. We were certain that they would die, but we just didn’t have the heart to dig them back up again.
Day after day I watched for signs of life, but it was really starting to look as if they didn’t survive the move. Over time, I forgot about them.
This evening, sitting in my old rocking chair on the porch . . .
I happened to look over . . .
Imagine my surprise to see that not only had they survived, but they were actually beginning to bloom!
Heck, I don’t even know what this flower is called, but I reckon if this flower can survive, and actually flourish, so can we.
Day seven of our photo journey …
One of my biggest weaknesses is that I tend to have a slight case of tunnel vision. There can be an entire herd of cattle in front of me, but I will see, and focus in on, the one that catches my attention.
You cannot tell me that this isn’t the most adorable face that you have seen in a long time. Look at her! I bet the bulls chase this beauty all over. What do you mean you don’t see how gorgeous she is?
You must be blind! 🙂
Okay, if you don’t see what I see, have a closer look at those eyes! I bet she is thinking the same thing about me. Or, maybe she is just wondering when the crazy woman pointing the camera in her face is going to be dumb enough to try to climb across the fence.
Here I go again. There is a huge beautiful field and pond beyond here, but I have always loved old fences, so guess what I can see.
Yup! You guessed it.
I see the fence. Everything else is just an afterthought in the horizon.
Okay, I refuse to take the blame for this picture.
This is about the ugliest dang cow I have ever seen but I am telling you, she absolutely, positively, without a doubt, begged me to take her picture. Since my head was pretty much through the fence by this point, I figured I better go ahead and grant her wish.
I wonder if she would fit in my freezer . . . 🙂
Well what do you know? It turns out that if I look even a little bit beyond my own personal focus, sometimes I will find beauty that I didn’t even know was hiding there.
I hung on the fence and watched these beauties for close to an hour just enjoying this simple moment in my life.
Day six of our photo journey …
If you are visiting my blog today with the hopes of finding new incredible pictures, you chose the wrong day to visit. 🙂
Do you ever have one of those days where you really don’t feel like doing a dang thing? You know what kind of day I mean.
One of those days where even getting dressed feels like it might be too much effort. The only thing you really want to do is curl up on the couch with a huge mug of coffee and your favorite novel.
That was me today.
Of course about halfway through my day of vegetating on the couch, I suddenly remembered my promise to take at least one photo a day for 30 days and began some serious grumbling.
I have to admit I was truly tempted to take a quick picture of the couch, but I resisted when the dogs started grumbling too.
Okay…
Okay…
Okay…
I needed to go to the post office anyway, so I grabbed my camera while mumbling to myself that there must be something in town that I could take at least ONE picture of.
I figured that as a last resort you were going to be stuck with a picture of a fire hydrant since that was about how artistic I was feeling.
I walked out of the post office feeling just a bit better since somehow there wasn’t even one single bill in the mail. How exciting is that? 🙂
So maybe, just maybe I would take ONE more picture, but dang it, there better be something worth looking at right on this same block because that is just about how long I intended to be out there.
Oh yessssss! Right across the street there is this incredible mural on the side of the old dry cleaners. And, with a zoom lens I don’t have to take a single step. Zoom in, click the shutter and I’ve got it!
Yeah, I know I could have taken a few extra moments to at least crop the picture and make it all pretty like for ya, but I wanted you to see that it really is on the side of an old building.
Besides, I am pretty sure I can hear the couch calling my name . . .
Day five of our photo journey …
Just about anywhere you go in our town you can see the steeple of the First Baptist Church. Even at night you can see the lights softly illuminating different parts of the building.
I don’t know why I find comfort in that thought. When I am feeling a little lost, I think perhaps it feels like a reminder to me that God is always there to help me find my way back again, even during the darkest of times.
