Weekly Photo Challenge: It IS Easy Being Green!

If you’re a garden!

“But green‘s the color of spring!”

Soon it will be pea-pickin’ time! I used to plant my peas end of March, beginning April, along with other cool weather crops such as lettuce, spinach and radishes. I didn’t especially like radishes but I tolerated them because I grew them myself organically and could enjoy the fruits of my labor within 30 days! Lettuce and spinach took a little longer if I could keep the rabbits away. Loved living out in the country more when I gardened. There were no small varmints to ruin your crops because the big varmints got them and the bigger ones never came around my house though they were sometimes spotted out in the fields.

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Even though my garden in the city was not successful at all as far as a source of food, it was a nice sanctuary to relax in after a hard day’s work.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Atop

Was fooling around with a weather vane picture taken atop a building at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan with Microsoft PhotoDraw.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Road “Not” Taken

For a similar reason as the poem written by Robert Frost. Fear, the great destroyer of plans, dreams, options, etc. Doubt is also something that leads us to make wise decisions as well giving us time to rethink everything. Don’t ever think of fear as a bad thing. Yes, excessive or unreasonable fear can cripple you but sometimes you need to hold back. Sometimes fear is that sane part of you when you wish to be reckless. It can save your life.

For some reason my roads have always been very well thought out and planned but never turn out as I expected. The roads all seem to lead to dead ends for me but I don’t feel sorry for myself because I have had many blessings in my life. I believe in the will of God so I don’t question anything I do with good intent. It appears that something always works against me in my life, but maybe it is working for me. It is said that God knows what you need even better than you do yourself. I can safely say I have always been level-headed and actually had a life plan written out much as some create business plans before going into business. Short-term and long-term goals. I think many do this. I wonder how different my life would have been if I had just “winged” it, at least once in a while, instead of being so cautious or anal retentive. Taking that path where I feared to tread, not fallen and not gotten lost, who knows?

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitude

A few shots of solitude birdie style. Sorry my theme is late.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Graceful as a Swan

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And other things too!

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Weekly Photo Challenge: I am Nothing, if Not Resilient

In fact as many times as I have been down in life with financial problems,

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physical ailments,

depression,

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the sin of growing old in a vain culture

and various dealings with the fickle finger of fate.

There is a core of strength and protection all around me. It is called faith. Faith from the living Word that never fails.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Chaos of Fall Color

Enjoy this “chaotic group of autumn photos!

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Transmogrify for Halloween!

ENTER, IF YOU DARE!

grimreaperglow-2 pumpkinrainbow Halloween used to be one of my Favorite Holidays when I was young, after Christmas of course. Halloween is my oldest son’s favorite and he goes all out in decorating each year. Sometimes including his own costumes, fave being Brandon Lee’s “The Crow.“

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Enjoy video from some of his previous Halloweens on youtube.com! Or even scarier!

One of his earlier Halloweens with a jumping apple head for an apple head doll

As a child I lived near one of the oldest graveyards in the area with stones from the 1700’s at least. A few of us used to go up there to read them. Thanks to the television program I watched as a young teen, Dark Shadows, I thought cemeteries were very cool. Ghosts anyone?

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I had a very cool Halloween song that I might have shared before. Starts with:

Jack ‘O Lanterns big black cats and witches that fly in the sky!

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Halloween also led us straight into the other holidays later on. Used to be we kept the Halloween harvesty feeling way past Thanksgiving and I loved that. I remember when Christmas didn’t really start til a week or two before Christmas. Again, that was over 50 years ago and I don’t think that stores were even open on Sundays. I think they started doing that in the late 60’s, some of them. I love autumn! It’s just a great time of year for so many reasons.