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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Floor is Made of Beer Bottles?
Yes! Heineken Beer bottles, in fact. Very beautiful when viewed up close! The WELL at Sacramento State University is the campus wellness and recreation facility. It was completed in Fall 2010 and boasts an array of recycled and Repurposed features, earning the distinction of Gold level in LEED certification. From The WELL is turning LEED into…
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Thursday Doors: The Mariner
While visiting sunny San Diego over the holidays, we visited Coronado for a quick walk on the dog beach area. Walking back to the car, I saw this amazing door! They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Graceful Athlete
Gracefulness comes in many forms, whether it is embodied in the images of birds, swaying trees, or beautiful art. Athletes also embody their own forms of gracefulness as shown in this older photo of my daughter playing volleyball in her college years. I believe this photo shows not only the strength of an athlete in motion,…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Gracefulness Defined
A graceful snowy egret contemplates its reflection in the waters of San Diego harbor. Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. ~William Hazlitt Graceful is the theme for the Weekly Photo Challenge.
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Ambiance in the Blogosphere
Ambiance is “the character and atmosphere of a place.” Our blog sites create their own ambiance, where we bloggers carefully craft our pages to be inviting and a warm place to visit. Each blogger creates his or her own character (some might call it a brand), by choosing a nice theme, compelling images and colors…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Taking Names
The WordPress weekly photo challenge offers a new theme every Friday. This week it is Names. This photo was taken in San Francisco’s China Town. My name: Webster Street, complete with Chinese characters. While in San Diego recently, I used my new camera (its name, by the way, is Panasonic Lumix FZ300) to get these…
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Eight Simple Ideas to Inspire Your Blogging
Another New Year’s inspirational post? Not exactly… The blogosphere is full of inspirational New Year’s posts. And why not? It’s that time of the year to dust off the good ideas you may have left behind last year and refresh them. Or not. This post is about finding new inspiration for your blog and its…
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Resilient Hummingbirds: Backyard Birdwatching
I have a hummingbird family living in my backyard! I believe they are the “Allen’s” species which are known to stay year-round even in Northern California. Since most hummers migrate to warmer climates, it’s nice to see this little family sticking around. I captured this photo as the male hummingbird finished feeding. It had rained…
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What Swimming With Whale Sharks Taught Me
The beginning of a brand new year can be inspiring for most of us. Last year I experienced something I never thought I would do. This is a re-post from January 2016. I hope you enjoy reading this once more. Several weeks ago, while vacationing in Baja, Mexico, I had an amazing opportunity to swim…
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“That’s What Christmas Is All About, Charlie Brown” Redux
In the spirit of the Christmas season, as families everywhere celebrate the holidays, I offer a re-post of one of my favorite and popular posts from 2015. If we were having coffee on this fourth and final day of Advent, in which we celebrate love, we would sip a hot beverage while our church choir…
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Anticipa-a-tion, It’s Keeping Me Waiting…
Last year, while visiting family in San Diego during Christmas week, I snapped this photo of my nieces contemplating with Anticipation the coming of Santa on Christmas Eve. We took a leisurely stroll on Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach to get out of the house and watch the surfers. My nieces may look patient, but…
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Glimpses Book Review and Author Round-Up
If we were having coffee today, I would share with you my review of a fabulous new book from one of my favorite bloggers! To me there is nothing like enjoying a few moments with a hot beverage while reading a good book. Let me introduce you to Hugh Roberts, blogger at Hugh’s Views and…
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It’s Not This Time of Year Without Holiday Thursday Doors
It’s not this time of year without… …holiday decorations on porches and doors! We spent the Thanksgiving holidays in Spokane, Washington. After eating wa-a-ay too much dessert (yes, all week long), I took one of many walks. Our family lives in the beautiful Dishman Hills area and walking up and down those hills is great…
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Who Has a New Book? I’m a Guest Author on D.G. Kaye
I am honored to be a guest author on DG Kaye’s Guest Author Friday feature today! She is a prolific author with many books. Please visit Debby’s website for the rest of the article! Originally written and published on: http://dgkayewriter.com/book-terri-webster-schrandt-blogging-photography/
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Making Magic with Art
Traveling this week for the Thanksgiving holidays found us in my cousin’s house near Portland, Oregon. Many of us California family members visit every couple of years to the Pacific Northwest for some family holiday time. A former teacher, my cousin is now an elementary school vice-principal and has always had a soft spot for…
Second Wind Leisure Perspectives 