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Bench Series: Dogs and Leaves
I recently discovered another wonderful photo challenge called Bench Series hosted by Jude at Travel Words. After coming across this photo challenge last week, I had planned this post for today, and literally posed my two dogs on this bench. My talented, carpenter hubby built and re-purposed wood planks from old softball diamond backstops into a…
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Waiting Can be (Extra) Ordinary
(Extra)ordinary The weekly photo challenge asked us to focus on the mundane, the every day things we may find beautiful. As I took these photos, a theme emerged: waiting. My fall tealight candle holders are patiently waiting for a match to strike so that they may illuminate the fireplace mantle. Conversely, as we continue the…
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Weekend Coffee Share: My Happy Places
Happy Place If we were having coffee today, I would tell you that I was so busy over the past few days that I had to combine my two favorite blogging events into one post! Each Sunday, I participate in the Weekend Coffee Share hosted by Diana at Part-time Monster! All are welcome to join!…
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Boundaries of Leisure Provide Joy
Boundaries Fences around swimming pools provide security from the outside world, and ensure safety both inside and outside the fence. For dogs who get to swim once a year in a public swimming pool, the boundaries of a fence exist to provide a joy that knows no bounds! The lines are painted onto the bottom…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Change
Change is the theme for the Weekly Photo Challenge. Marriage makes you vulnerable and strong. It brings out the best and worst of you, and then it CHANGES YOU in ways you could never have expected…for the better. -Maggie Reyes What better way to depict change than to share a photo of my husband and I…
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The Social Side of Blogging
You started a blog. Congratulations, and I’m sorry. That is what we used to say to senior lifeguards who were promoted to Pool Manager for the first time. In other words, watch out what you wish for, because you may just get it! We start blogs for a thousand different reasons. Most of us want…
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Gridlines Frame Life’s Perspectives
Grid Grid-lines frame unique perspectives from our lives: A view from an apartment window overlooking the swimming pool. Looking up into the newly framed bedroom addition excited about the promise of a new living space. A look at the pavilion of the 1974 Spokane Word’s Fair shows the pride of a newly showcased structure. A nostalgic view…
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What’s On My Editorial Calendar?
If you are a blogger with a busy life, you know how important it is to have some sort of calendar. In Blogging 201, we were recently assigned the task to use our blog stats to set up a 30-day editorial calendar. My stats show certain days are better for publishing posts. This may show different…
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End of Summer Monochrome
The theme of the weekly photo challenge is monochromatic. This is a photo of my Chinese Maple with morning September sunshine bringing out the various greens of the leaves. Here is a photo of the same Chinese Maple in all of its Autumnal glory (from last November).
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Under Construction
If we were having coffee today, I would wish you a happy Labor Day weekend and toast the holiday with a nice Colombian medium roast. I can offer you a variety of teas if you prefer. Labor Day, observed as a national holiday on the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor…
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Leisure Connects Us
Connected Participating in leisure connects us like nothing else. To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. Arnold J. Toynbee A man looks toward the beach as kite-boarders get ready to launch their kites. Behind him are stand-up paddle boards waiting for customers to come out and play. Perhaps he…
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Happiness Is…Being Happy
What makes you happy? I spent an entire weekend at home…during the summer! A rare occurrence for me. After all the traveling I have done this month, a weekend at home made me really happy. Because my slight knee injury is preventing me from taking part in my usual leisure activities, I will share two…
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Angles of Yellow
From Every Angle The Weekly Photo Challenge focuses on the different angles the same subject can be seen and photographed. During the summer, I keep vase of yellow silk flowers near a window. I love how the subdued morning light captures the yellow. The next three photos are the different angles I photographed. I took the…
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Urban Trails
While visiting near Portland, Oregon this week, I made a point to power walk through the urban trails found in the suburbs pf Portland. My cousins live in Tigard and these trails are wonderful to walk through. The City of Tigard is working on a strategic plan to make “Tigard the most walkable city in…
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Aero and the Kennel
Aero looks up at me with his liquid brown eyes as if to say, “Mom, don’t make me go into that kennel.” This was Aero’s kennel when he was a wee pup. I got it out recently to check it out for size to help out a friend who just got a puppy. I placed…
Second Wind Leisure Perspectives 