This week’s theme for the Sunday Stills Challenge is fences, any kind. You may also focus on a subject, for example, like a bird on a fence, but show us the fence. Tell us about the fences, and where they reside.
We arrived back home on Wednesday, weary from another 3400 miles traveled for a milestone family event. My brothers and our partners traveled to help move my 87-year-old dad and stepmom to Central Arizona.
Moving Fences
“Fear is the highest fence.” ~ Dudley Nichols
Getting my stepmom to agree to move from the Sierra foothills was a big deal as I mentioned last week. When she finally agreed in August, that it was for the best to finally move, my family put everything in motion to start the moving process.
This image shows the chain link fence next to the sign marking Turkey Hill Road, where their former home sat.
She did not want to be “fenced in,” by being told by us what to do and when to move. Does anybody really? Cole Porter’s song Don’t Fence Me In makes sense now.
“Let me ride through the wide-open country that I love. Don’t fence me in.” ~ Cole Porter
Fences All-Around
“The wide world is all about you, you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.” ~ J R R Tolkien
How many fences can you find in this image?
These fences are designed to keep people safe!
Some fun fences were seen near my former home in Sacramento.
The warm morning sun caused steam to rise off my former backyard fence!
Artsy-fartsy park fence
Speaking of feeling fenced in, there is nothing like a long road trip where you can enjoy wide open spaces with and without fences. Once again, we drove through seven states: Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Idaho.
We strolled through my stepdaughter’s neighborhood in Gilbert, Arizona. A rural area complete with horse fences surprised us by how close it is to their suburban neighborhood.
Last April, while also in Gilbert, we visited the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch. Fenced pathways wind visitors through the various waterways, and the birds enjoy perching or walking on the edge of the fences.
Fences Near Home
“Good fences make good neighbors.” ~ Robert Frost
Closer to home in Nine Mile Falls, we put up our own fences when our property was brand new.
This fence in our yard keeps the deer away from our trees, but Mr. Goldfinch cannot be contained.
What is it with the wildlife around here? We like to think we can keep the deer out of the yard…nope!
“I cannot be contained, because I am the container.” ~ Jim Carrey
Last Autumn’s festival of leaves.
After our long road trip in the southwest heat, this was sure a welcome sight.
“A fence lasts three years, a dog lasts three fences, a horse three dogs, and a man three horses.” ~ German Proverb
Inspiring Photo Challenges This Week
Each week I find inspiration from my fellow bloggers’ photo challenges. I enjoy incorporating these into my Sunday Stills weekly themes.
- Cee’s Flower of the Day
- Dawn’s Festival of Leaves
- Hammad’s Weekend Sky
- Johnbo’s CellPic Sunday
- Lens-Artists: Edge
- Marsha’s Wednesday Quotes: Containers
Sunday Stills Photo Challenge Reminders
The Sunday Stills weekly-themed photo challenge is easy to join. You have all week to share and link your post.
- Remember to title your blog post a little differently than mine.
- Please create a new post for the theme or link a recent one.
- Entries for this theme can be posted all week.
- Tag your post “Sunday Stills.”
- 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 to the comments.
This Week’s Featured Bloggers
Sunday Stills is a wonderful community of bloggers, poets, and photographers who desire to connect with one another. Below are this week’s links from bloggers who shared their photos of fences. I add these all week as new links are posted.
- YOUR BLOG’S NAME GOES HERE…
- Always Write
- Between the Lines
- Bushboys World
- Cee’s Photo Challenges
- The Day After
- Deb’s World
- Dahlia
- Easin’ Along Image shared in comments
- Equipoise Life
- Gfpacificbee’s Insights & Photography
- Graham’s Island
- Hugh’s Views and News Image shared in comments
- LadyLee Manila
- Light Words
- Loving Life
- Now At Home
- Once Upon a Time and Happily Ever After
- Photos By Jez
- Quaint Revival
- Robbie’s Inspiration
- Stevie Turner
- This is Another Story
- Travels with Ali
- Woolly Muses
I hope you are not “on the fence” this week as you contemplate joining your fellow bloggers and sharing some of your favorite fences!
As always, I thank you for your support with links and comments last month while I was “away” from the blog. I love this time of year and I hope to see more of your posts as we enter the holiday season (yes, I said it out loud). 😉 Join me next week when we take a look at TEXTURES.
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