Every Day is a Gift!
For this challenge Tina challenges us to create a post that features children or young animals.
Although I have few images of children I have plenty of images of young birds and other animals. The header image of a mother sea otter with her baby on her stomach is one of my favorites.
I’ll finish with some young girls participating in events at a Scottish Games Festival in Savannah.
Many thanks to our host Tina for her challenge Lens-Artists #298 – To Be Young Again
The Savannah Scottish Games and Celtic Festival took place this year on May 4. It was a beautiful day despite a short rain shower in the middle of the day. We arrived in time to see the Pipes and Drums Band enter the field for the opening ceremonies.
The festival was held on the beautiful grounds of historic Bethesda Academy. Ancient live oak trees dripping with Spanish Moss surrounded the event area.
I have Scottish ancestors on both sides of my family so we stopped to check out the genealogical tent before wandering around to see the rest of the activities.
Border Collie demonstrations, Highland Dancing competition, and Celtic music performances were all taking place at the same time as the Heavy Athletics. Oatland Island Wildlife Center had a presentation of Birds of Prey where we saw Wassaw, a rescued American Bald Eagle. There were also food trucks, kids activities, and vendors selling many different Scottish items.
The Scottish Heavy Athletics competition featured feats of strength and agility. Several different competitions were taking place on the athletic field at the same time.
We enjoyed the day and arrived home in time to watch the Mystik Dan win the 150th Kentucky Derby.
For this challenge Egidio asks us “do you believe you can “see” music in your photographs?”. He also asks “What music do you hear in your photos?”
Our RV travels are over now but from 2006 to 2019 the Wandering Dawgs towed our fifth wheel trailer from Georgia to most of the United States and several Canadian Provinces. We would leave home, sometimes for two to four months at a time, and return home to Georgia to rest up for our next adventure. I created play lists filled with traveling tunes according to where our wandering was taking us.
Every time we started a new journey we would play Willie Nelson’s On the Road Again. My header image is of one of the many roads we traveled in Alaska. I can’t see the next few images without thinking of a song from my travel playlists.
My last song and image have nothing to do with traveling. Henry and I recently watched the movie “Moonstruck” with the song That’s Amore sung by Dean Martin. It’s been almost a week since we watched it and I still can’t get the song out of my head.
Many thanks to our host Egidio for this fun challenge Lens-Artists #297 – Music to my Eyes
Ritva’s challenge is Abstracts. She asks us to “explore and expand to create something new”.
My attempts at taking photos of lights after dark usually don’t turn out the way I expected. My first images are examples of ones that didn’t turn out like I planned but I like them and kept them anyway. The header photo is of a friend’s Christmas yard lights. These next two are from a Christmas boat parade.
I couldn’t resist playing with some editing techniques to create abstracts. I edited the same image three different ways to create these next three abstracts.
I was having too much fun editing photos so here are two more.
Many thanks to our host Ritva for this fun challenge Lens-Artists #296 – Abstracts
In honor of Earth Day Donna asks us to “showcase anything from rocky landscapes to cobblestone streets”. I was excited when I first read her challenge because I have so many pictures of rocks I didn’t even know where to begin. It was hard but I finally chose the few I’ve included here.
The header image and the first gallery are natural rocks I’ve found during our travels. The header is of cactus flowers growing on top of Enchanted Rock near Fredericksburg, Texas.
These next magnificent natural rocks deserve a gallery of their own.
The next gallery shows some ancient man made rock structures.
This final gallery includes some rocks Henry collected during our years of Wandering Around the United States and Canada in our RV. If any of you have ever seen the 1954 movie “The Long, Long Trailer” starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz you’ll know that rock collecting while traveling in an RV might not be a good idea.
After we watched the movie, I resisted collecting rocks. Little did I know that Henry was collecting them! Luckily, he limited his collection to small rocks. The three in the big image on the left were collected during our Alaska and Canadian travels in 2013. The two smaller images on the right are the front and back of a rock Henry picked up in the cemetery near Seth Bullock’s grave.
Many thanks to our host Donna for the challenge Lens-Artists #295 – Rock Your World
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