For this challenge Patti asks us to show what hopeful means to us. My header image shows a sunrise over a river. Watching a beautiful sunrise gives me hope for good things to come.
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
Christopher Reeve
Graduation season is here and graduates everywhere will be filled with hope for their future. We’ll be attending our oldest granddaughter’s high school graduation this weekend. I’m hopeful that she and her classmates will have all their dreams come true in whatever they choose to do after graduation.
When someone receives a cancer diagnosis their life is changed forever. Meeting other cancer survivors and hearing their stories of strength and courage can bring hope to others going through cancer.
Ovarian Cancer survivors give hope to other women with ovarian cancer
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.
Great Egret with chicksDucklingsAlaskan Husky PuppyCalvesMama duck with ducklingsWhite tail doe with fawn
I’ll finish with some young girls participating in events at a Scottish Games Festival in Savannah.
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.
North to Alaska by Johnny HortonMiles and Miles of Texas by Asleep at the WheelRocky Mountain High by John DenverSmooth as Tennessee Whiskey by George JonesThe Georgia state song of Georgia on my Mind by either Willie Nelson or Ray Charles.
Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett. Although we didn’t take our RV to Key West we visited there many times.
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.
When the moon hits your eye like a big Pizza Pie, that’s amore
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.
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.
Black lava rocks, St. KitsBarbadosGiant’s Causeway, Northern IrelandCreek in GeorgiaRock formation at Cliffs of Moher, IrelandBalanced Rock at Arches National ParkGrand Canyon North Rim Point ImperialThree Patriarchs in Zion National Park
These next magnificent natural rocks deserve a gallery of their own.
Devil’s Tower, WyomingEnchanted Rock, TexasLooking Glass Rock, Blue Ridge ParkwayHalf Dome in Yosemite National Park, California
The next gallery shows some ancient man made rock structures.
Beehive huts, Dingle Peninsula, IrelandAncient Pueblo dwellings, Hovenweep National Monument, Colorado and UtahBridge at Eileen Donan Castle, Scottish HighlandsMesa Verde National Park, Colorado Stone Stairs in a castle in the Scottish Highlands
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.
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