Sunday Stills: A #White-Washed World

With winter still in full swing in the northern hemisphere, I wanted to challenge us all to look at and photograph objects that are the color white. If you live in or around snow, then show us your snowy scenes. If not, the color white is all around us. I’m still a newbie to living in snow, so I get that many of you are over it and don’t want to be reminded of winter white! Please indulge my rookie winter as I share a few images of snow.

A morning storm blew three inches of snow from every angle and created the white-washed view from my RV.

Whietwashed world

Despite living in an RV park, the white wash of snow makes just about any scene more beautiful.

Bare White Winter Trees

The powdery snow melts quickly in this high desert-alpine environment, leaving abstract snowy tracks from my own boot.

Making Snow Tracks

As March quickly approaches, I find myself longing for spring, now that temperatures this week are in the upper 40s. No complaints, but I do miss seeing random flowers on my daily walks. These echinacea daisies grew abundantly in early spring, while the paperwhites below grew in January in Northern California. Florals shared are today for Cee’s Flower of the Day.

white and gray flower
Vibrant paperwhites
Vibrant paperwhites

Since we are on the subject of “things that are white,” here is my lovely snowy egret captured with my lens during winter in San Diego a few years ago. Sharing for Lisa’s Bird Weekly.

Snowy egret stands in grace
Egret enjoying San Diego

This Just In…If We Were Having Coffee…

…I would tell you that as of 3:00 Saturday, we visited the property and saw that the interior crew has begun work on the inside of the house! Viewing from outside through the dining room slider door, this shows a “white-washed” view of the work being done. A little messy, but it will be gorgeous in a few weeks!

manufactured home interior work

Weird how things worked out timing-wise for the theme this week! I hope you enjoyed this brief coffee chat and I appreciate your indulgence and encouragement each week as I share our home building progress.

Sunday Stills Photo Challenge Reminders

  • Please create a new post for the theme or link a recent one.
  • Title your blog post a little differently than mine.
  • Don’t forget to create a pingback to this post so that other participants can read your post. I also recommend adding your post’s URL into the comments.
  • Entries for this theme can be shared all week.
  • Use hashtag #SundayStills for sharing on social media.

Bloggers and Their Feathered Friends

Sunday Stills is a wonderful community of bloggers and photographers who desire to connect with one another. Each week I will share the links from the previous post so you can continue to meet and support each other. And with that…join 37 bloggers who shared their fabulous bird photos and stories.

Please join me next week as we kick off March with the theme “Rainy Day.” For March themes, please visit my Sunday Stills Page.

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130 responses to “Sunday Stills: A #White-Washed World”

  1. Heavens, 37 contributors, Terri! You don’t have time to move house 🙂 🙂 Glad it’s going well. I don’t mind looking at snow, so long as it’s someone else’s. Your images are really beautiful.

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    1. Thank you, Jo! Sunday Stills really took off this year as a photo prompt. I do something everyday with it, so me posting once a week is plenty for now. Snow is gone and spring is near!

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  2. […] Terri’s Sunday Stills Challenge: https://secondwindleisure.com/2021/02/28/sunday-stills-a-white-washed-world/ […]

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  4. […] Time for Thursday Doors and I just happened to have some “white” doors ready to go and so also linking up with Sunday Stills and the theme of a #white-washed world. […]

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  5. Not much of that white snow downu nder here in summertime in NZ but I do love splashing around with water – there are always white flowers and seashells..

    SundayStills 2021 – Shells and Splashes are White

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  6. I agree. Your whites are so varied and original. I especially love the first one of water droplets. Stunning. I don’t see my pingback so putting it here: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2021/03/03/mainly-white-sunday-stills-challenge/

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    1. Thanks, Judy, I’m so happy to see you back here to Sunday Stills!

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  7. […] have a lot of white flowers I could share, but here are just a few I’d like to submit for Sunday Stills […]

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  8. Hi Terri, your whites are wonderful for this week. I like the snow clumps from boots 😀 😀
    Here is my entry. Enjoy!

    Sunday Stills Challenges – #White

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    1. Thanks, Cee and I’m happy to see you at Sunday Stills!

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    2. Good eye. I wondered what that was. I thought it was snow clumps that fell off some house trim, but think you must be right.

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      1. Hi Judy, yep, that is snow falling off my boot.

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  9. […] is my entry for Sunday Stills Challenge with the […]

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  10. […] her Sunday Stills Challenge this week, Terri has chosen the theme Objects That Are White. I know that it is a common weed, but I think the delicate dandelion is really very […]

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  11. Now that we’re living in Arizona, we don’t see snow without making a trip, so I greatly enjoy seeing shots of snow because I miss winter…although I do enjoy the weather here right now. Summer’s a bit rough, though. 🙂 I’m not sure about how your Sunday Stills works, but I have a white photo to link, although it’s from a few days ago. At any rate, I enjoyed your photos, whether snow or not.

    Sometimes details make all the difference.

    janet

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    1. I’m so happy you shared for Sunday Stills, Janet! My SS page has simple rules, but since it’s a weekly theme, you have all week! Thank you, and I enjoy photographing snow, but living in it more than a couple of days at a time is plenty.

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  13. How exciting to see your new home taking shape right in front of you! Love the puzzle pieces created by the melting snow, and the branches of the trees blanketed with the white stuff. Oh, I do love snow. My favorite, though, is your cover shot. There is so much beauty in the simple things of the world. We don’t even have to trek far to find it, do we?

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    1. Thank you so much for your kind words, Leslie! The snow is tolerable here and the snowplow companies do some fast work. The whole RV campground looked very lovely in it’s blanket of snow!

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    2. Denyse Whelan Blogs Avatar
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      I agree, puzzle pieces in the snow…amazing. Mind you, coming from the east coast of Australia we never have snow so its a novelty for me too.

      Denyse.

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      1. Thank you, Denyse. It always pays to look down when out taking pictures 😁

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  14. Great pics, Terri 👏 Looking forward to getting a virtual tour of your new home when it’s done 😃 I’ve added some snowy shots as well: https://jezbraithwaite.blog/2021/03/02/white-as-snow-sunday-stills/

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  15. […] Hi all 😃 My latest entry for Terri’s Sunday Stills: A #White-Washed World. […]

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  16. I agree that the snow can make the world look even more beautiful, Terri. What a shame it does not last very long, though. It’s the same here because of the salt air from living on the coast.

    I’m so please that work has got underway inside your new home. I bet you can’t wait to start stamping your own designs on it.

    Here’s my picture for this week’s challenge.

    I didn’t go in but wish I had done.

    Have a great week.

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    1. Hi Hugh, we’re relieved to see work being done, but I’m still expecting slowness with the process. I’d love to be proven wrong! Lovely image of the Cornish Maid. Very cute!

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  17. bring on the snow
    bring on joy for all seasons
    and bring on the white!

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  18. I love that windswept egret picture and the echinacea daisies. Never heard of that flower before.

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    1. Thank you, Siobhan. Those flowers were all over Sacramento and came in various colors. The plant is more of a ground cover.

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  19. All your whites are beautiful Terri! And I’m happy you’re enjoying Spokane’s snowy winter! I especially love the flowers and the egret is gorgeous. Glad to see your new home is coming right along! It won’t be long now!! I went looking for white and managed to find a few to share too. 🙂 https://catsandtrailsandgardentales.com/2021/03/01/looking-for-white/

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    1. Thanks so much, Susanne! If your weather is like ours today, you probably opened a window or two…it’s 53 degrees here! Meteorological spring has sprung!

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      1. Yes, sunny and warm and happy to have it! 🙂

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  20. Seeing your and other participants’ photos this week, I had no idea how beautiful the color white was, Terri. Who would have known the effect of white in one’s soul, especially seeing all these different representations? It’s soothing to say the least. I’m glad the workers are making progress inside your future home!

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    1. White is such a pure color and so many shared their version of white from nature. Stunning to see! We are so relieved, Liesbet, to see what they are doing on the inside…keep those fingers crossed for speedy progress!

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  21. […] this week’s Sunday Stills Photo Challenge I went looking for white and found […]

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  22. Your snow photos are lovely but I’m not overly keen on the stuff when we get it here in London – it doesn’t stay white for long! So I’ve gone for something completely different: https://www.toonsarah-travels.blog/chaumukha-mandir-the-four-faced-temple-of-ranakpur/

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    1. Thank you, Sarah! Winter white gets old after a awhile!

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      1. ‘A while’ = about two hours, in my case 😆

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  23. […] I’m sharing this stunning white temple for this week’s Sunday Stills, for which Terri challenges us to feature objects that are the colour white. […]

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  24. Terri, I appreciate your enthusiasm regarding the snow. I would be equally enthralled with these scenes. Not sure I could live in it, but it’s nice to look at. Congratulations, on the progress of your new home. I know you are counting the days.

    I realized too late that I had a photo for this challenge that I could have included in my post this week. I watched a foursome play croquet on the lawn at Jekyll Island Club (where we visited last week), and they were all wearing white. Oh well. I will just enjoy what everyone else presented and catch up with you in March. Take care.

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    1. Don’t get me wrong, Suzanne, as much as I enjoy looking at snow, I don’t enjoy driving in it, shoveling it or sidestepping the mushy melting snow. Luckily, Spokane does not see a lot of snow, and what falls is so light and powdery. It melts quickly when temps rise, too. I do enjoy looking across the area at the panorama of snow-capped peaks towering above dark green pine forests, something my soul has longed for over the years. today is the first day of meteorological spring and its 53 degrees here, and most of the week. No excuses to prevent the home from being worked on! Thank you for checking in and I hope to see you along for Sunday Stills when you can jump in.

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  25. […] SUNDAY STILLS PHOTOS:…White-Washed-World […]

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  26. […] Challenge: Sunday stillsTopic: Things that are White  […]

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  27. […] Sunday Stills: white washed world […]

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  28. […] I love it when two photo challenge have a similar theme. Lisa’s Bird Weekly Challenge this week is Birds with White Feathers and Terri’s Sunday Stills Challenge is A White-Washed World. […]

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  29. Wonderful snowy white images, Terri – and so pleased to see the start of the inside work on your house. So exciting! Toni x

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    1. Thank you, Toni. It was delightful seeing evidence of work inside and out!

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  30. Terri, I love your windblown egret and your frosty window. They both have an shimmer about them that makes them more than white. So here’s my efforts for today. https://tchistorygal.net/2021/02/28/sunday-stills-grandma-added-bluing-for-sparkling-whites/

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    1. Thank you, Marsha! I off to check it out!

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  31. […] winter still in full swing in the northern hemisphere, Terri from Sunday Stills wanted to challenge us all to look at and photograph objects that are the color white. If you live […]

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  32. Great post Terri! I love your snowy, icy photos. Thrilled to see the work happening in your house. Can’t wait to see it when it is finished. You will have to give us a tour. 🙂

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    1. Thank you, Lisa! I’m hoping most of the snow and ice is over for the season. I would love to offer a virtual tour, especially when the new furniture arrives!

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      1. I hope the snow and ice is over too. Is that normal this early? Can’t wait to see your new place! 🙂

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      2. Who knows, Lisa? We are in a La Nina year so more wet and cold than usual. The 9 degree night we had a few weeks back was very abnormal!

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      3. I saw that on The Weather Channel a couple of days ago about the La Nina. At least it isn’t El Nino. That causes us a great deal of pain in the south. Could be why our weather in unseasonably cooler too. We bounce from 30’s at night to 80’s in the daytime with a week separation. It’s all over the place. I’m not complaining, but my heat runs one day and air runs the next. LOL! 🙂

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  33. Love your white flower photos — so stunning. I found a few daisy photos and that was it. This theme was an excellent chance to use the archives and write poetry to reflect on the scene so thanks for the prompt. It’s awesome to see what direction everyone goes. I love winter so for me the white snow and the blue sky were no brainers. I hope you can enjoy the snow and still see progress on your house as I too well.
    Here is my link up.

    Flat white – my style

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    1. Thanks so much, BernieLynne! I’m ready to see more flowers myself! I’m off to check out your post!

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  34. What beautiful photos, Terri. White never looked so good.

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    1. Oh thank you, Jacqui, what a wonderful thing to say!

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  35. You are making such great progress on your house! I’m glad you are enjoying your first winter in Washington! When it gets a bit warmer, I bet you’ll have so much fun exploring your new hometown… and finding tons of things to take pictures of.

    Here’s my post for this week’s prompt:

    Sunday Stills: Winter(ish) White

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    1. Thanks, Janis. We did some exploring yesterday and are excited about attractions that are within a few miles from the new home. I make sure my camera is nearby. Glad to see your link!

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  36. HI, Terri – Having 37 fellow #SundayStills participants is awesome. From the list that you shared above, I already know 14 of them. I look forward to getting to know the others as well.
    I’m delighted to hear that your new home is progressing nicely. I assume that the electricity got done this past week. (?)
    Thank you for sharing your beautiful photography with us. You have captured the multiple shares of white brilliantly!
    See you next week at #rainydays!

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    1. Isn’t this a fun blogging community? I’m happy you’re part of it, Donna! Yep, that electrical was installed and the house warmed up enough to work on the interior. Drywall mud must be a certain temp to work. Next big project is the installation of the septic system so if if they are both worked on simultaneously, we can move in when both are ready.

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  37. Your White photos are luminous. And your new home is well on the way to being ready to welcome you.

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    1. Thanks, Anne, we’re sure getting excited!

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  38. Hi Terri, I too would love to experience living in the snow although it would certainly be a culture shock to a Queenslander! Exciting news with progress on your house as each day brings you closer to your new home. Thank you for helping me to think creatively with the #SundayStills prompt and here is this week’s contribution:
    Don’t live your life like a blank, white page – fill it with stories of YOU

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    1. Thanks, Sue! Living in an RV takes patience but more so with winter conditions. It’s been quite the adventure and we do get closer to a move in date! Glad you are enjoying SS and feeling creative!

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  39. Terri,
    I was sure that once the heat came on, that you would see some progress. It’s downhill from here. Ignore the mess…It comes with the territory. My contribution is a snow scene taken in Tazwell, TN, a little mountain town near the Tennessee-Virginia border. I used it for wallpaper for a few years. Very relaxing…Have a great week! Joe

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    1. Thanks, Joe, it was a matter of time (too much), but we’re relieved to see progress! What a gorgeous picture you shared!

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  40. You are well on the way to completion, it looks like your cabinets are in, that’s great

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    1. Thanks, Alice. Most of the interior was already built. Now they fix cracks in the drywall, lay carpet, and some other items. Hoping it goes smoothly and quickly!

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      1. I know how exciting it is to move into a new home.

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  41. Soft snow for you as well, Terri! And a peek into your new home was fun – it’s going to be gorgeous for sure! Thank you for joining in.

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      1. 🙂 You are welcome

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  42. Denyse Whelan Blogs Avatar
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    How exciting to see the inside of your new home! Living in the RV will bring even greater appreciation for space once you are in. Love that the new prompts are up…and I shall dive into them with creativity coming (I hope) for March.

    Denyse.
    https://www.denysewhelan.com.au/denyse-blogs/things-that-are-white-sundaystills-9-26-2021/

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    1. Thanks, Denyse, a lucky shot for the house and the right time of day to peek inside 😀

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  43. These are wonderful white shots Terri and such good news on your house being worked on. I’m away so not blogging all that regularly for a few weeks but enjoying reading and catching up on others. Thanks for the links, I love this addition.

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    1. Enjoy any time off you can take, Debbie! Thanks so much!

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  44. That is a wonderful theme, Terri! Love the bird capture, snow is beautiful.
    Hope everything is going well for you. 🙂

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    1. Thank you, Amy! I feel much better now that work is progressing on the house.

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  45. I am going to try and do a Sunday still today. Thanks for ping to my site. The sun is out and it cold. Clouds in the sky. Seeing freshly snow is delightful but doesn’t last long.

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  46. Ooh, the inside photo of your new home makes ME excited! lol. White is one of my favorite colors in the garden; it draws the eye.
    Here’s my post for the week, thanks Terri.

    In the Absence of Color- #SundayStills #Photography #BloggingCommunity

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  47. […] This week’s Sunday Stills Challenge is objects that are the color white. Check out Terri Schrandt’s wonderful blog and join in here. […]

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  48. Terri, Congratulations on making some more progress on the house.I guarantee you nothing got done on our neighbor’s house while it was snowing here. Haha! Here’s my entry…..

    White Wedding Anniversary

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    1. Thank you, Tracey, I was so relieved to see some work I almost cried!

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  49. […] not tired of hearing about the Texas Freeze, scroll on. In response to this week’s Sunday’s Stills Challenge, here are a collection of “white” photos from how we spent our first wedding […]

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  50. Beautiful photos, Terri. And I can see clearly that your place is going to be wonderful. 😀

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    1. Oh thank you so much, Diana! It was beyond exciting to see work being done finally!

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  51. Lovely snow images but I am happy I live where snow is a rare sight! I really like the white flowers but the Egret is my favorite.

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    1. I totally get that, Beth! I’m grateful when it does snow here, it melts quickly! I’m glad you liked that egret!

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  52. I like your snowy scenes. The boot print is great. I remember that happening to me a couple of times. Also, love that egret. Such a beautiful bird. There’s been a bit of snow on Mauna Kea for a while, but I’ve gone a different route this week: https://grahamsisland.com/2021/02/28/things-that-are-white/

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    1. Thank you, Graham! The egret was one of my first zoom shots with my Lumix. All that snow from last week has mostly melted already. Crazy!

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      1. That’s snow for you. I expect you’ll get used to it. I’m glad things are moving along at the house.

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    2. Love the window shot and the snow decorated trees. We haven’t had much snow to photograph so my white subject is slightly different. Here it is …
      https://oldbloggler.blogspot.com/2021/02/sundaystills-things-that-are-white.html

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  53. […] This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Things that are white.’ See more responses here. […]

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  54. Hi Terri – loved your snowy images – easy for me to say since we don’t get snow! Your new home looks so nicely open and welcoming! Can’t wait to see the finished product. You should link to A-C’s challenge with the one. Your snowy scenes are soft as could be!

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    1. Thank you so much, Tina! Being around snow this long has taught me much. The good thing it melts quickly. They are moving fast on the interior so I hope to be able to move in by the end of March. I will join that link-up!

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    2. I was thinking that, too, Tina. They go together so well. Terri, you house is coming together beautifully. I can hardly wait for the big reveal. You will see that our snow is almost gone.

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  56. How exciting to be able to follow along with the house progress! Hooray for all that messy white indoors!

    I’m one of those who is still enjoying lots of wintry weather! Plan to see lots of snow in my post today, LOL! https://frostonthemoosedung.com/2021/02/28/white-winter-wonderland/

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  57. All the snow around here has gone and Spring flowers are slowly coming along.
    Lovely selection of whites. The egrette is beautiful.

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    1. Thank you, Maria! Spring is around the corner here too! Enjoy!

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  58. I love that little egret! All our snow has gone now, and we’ve had lovely sunny weather all weekend.

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    1. Thank you, Stevie! Sunny, warmer weather is in our forecast too!

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  59. Kirstin Bozich Troyer Avatar
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    So fun…exciting on your house…can’t wait to see it all done and ready. Love your photos. That egret is awesome. I love the snow and how much it changes any landscape.

    https://troyerslovinglife.blogspot.com/2021/02/taking-in-life-around-mesunday.html

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    1. Thank you so much Kirstin! I’m sure I will bore the blogosphere with home photos when we get settled!

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  60. Wonderful view of white. My favorite was the abstract of the melting snow. Interestingly, when I started whitewash immediately came to mind, and then you brought it into play. 🙂 Have a good Sunday and week ahead.

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    1. Thank you, Frank! I had no idea how I would title my post, then when I saw the snow drizzling and pooling on the window, I was inspired! Have a great week and enjoy your break!

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  61. Terri, It’s exciting to see your home building progress. Your home will be gorgeous. I love your photos of the snow on the trees, the white egret and flowers. I’m glad I took photos of winter 2021 where I live because most of the snow is now gone after several days of above-freezing temperatures and sunshine. Thank you for linking with #WeekendCoffeeShare.

    Here’s my entry of all things that are white:

    The 9 Gifts of February

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    1. Yesterday was such a treat to explore the area, and we discovered a resort on the lake where my hubby can fish, only 10 minutes away! Then to see the work being done inside I almost died of happiness, Natalie. Enjoy your sunny week!

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  62. […] Challenge, I enjoy entering photography challenges weekly: Thursday Doors, Rosy Red, Birds and all things that are white in this post are for Terri’s #SundayStills photography challenge this […]

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