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Vivid Aero: Life Jackets for All
Vivid One more photo for the weekly photo challenge: vivid. This one captures Aero in his hated doggie life jacket shaking off the water and hopefully, the offending PFD (personal flotation device). Life jackets are popular for dogs, too, but be sure to place life jackets on yourself and your children when in and around…
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Vivid Watercraft
Summer Day Camp in full swing as kids enjoy kayaking and paddle-boating while learning important water skills at the Sacramento State Aquatic Center. I couldn’t resist and added a second entry to the Weekly Photo Challenge! Vivid
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Vivid Memories
There is nothing like a brand new windsurf sail (on the right) to help create vivid memories between two best friends. Vivid
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Circles of Friends
While at our retreat in Lake Tahoe, I captured this photo of the paddle-boat Tahoe Queen on one of its daily tours and I am submitting it for Ed’s Sunday Stills weekly photography feature. Since “circles” is the theme, you will see the circle of the paddle wheel as well as the circular wood structures…
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In the Way
The Weekly Photo Challenge theme this week is “On the Way.” On the Sacramento River at Sherman Island in the Sacramento Delta, this huge ship travels through the deep water channel. Ships frequently travel down the river from the Port of Sacramento on their way to the San Francisco Bay area. In this case, the…
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Sunday Stills: Lifeguard On Duty
For Ed’s Sunday Stills Challenge, the letter L is the theme this week. Since May is (still) National Water Safety Month, I thought I would post a photo of a LIFEGUARD. Education about water safety should be available all year round. If you want to read more about water safety, click here and here. Please feel…
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Weekend Coffee Share: The Phoenix Shall Fly
“There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask, ‘What if I fall?’ Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?” –Erin Hanson If you are like me, you may have spent part of your weekend at a graduation ceremony. If we were having coffee I would have handed…
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Sunday Stills: Goslings
For Ed’s Sunday Stills Challenge, here is my photo for the theme “babies.” I hope you enjoy these fuzzy babies as much as I did when we saw these up in Post Falls, Idaho, during mother’s day weekend. The parents were very attentive to their brood! Honk, honk! What is you favorite baby creature?
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Water Envelops Us
Enveloped Water, in its three forms, ice, liquid and vapor, envelops us and our surroundings. These two photos show how water in liquid form envelops its users, either on purpose, like the little girl under the swimming pool mushroom…. or … …the big girl (me), gracefully (ha!) falling off my paddle-board. The next photo shows…
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How To Get 500+ Followers: 3 Reasons to Use Images on Your Blog
In an earlier post, I shared some blogging tips for running a successful blog in celebration of reaching 500 followers. In this post, I would like to discuss the use of images on your blog and in your blog posts. Tip 1: Use photos and images on your blog page or website. When I visit other blogs,…
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A Disappointed Daughter’s Perspective for Mother’s Day
Back in September, I wrote a post that elicited an emotional response from a variety of readers. For Mother’s Day, I would like the share this again. For my mom; my dream reader As I delve more into blogging each day, sharing my perspectives, I’m challenged with the notion that I am a disappointed daughter. My…
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My Oreo Lives Forever: The Journey
This post marks my final installment of the life of my dog, Oreo and wraps up the three-part Writing 101 assignment, Serially Lost. To catch up, please read the prequel about Oreo and the story of I Lost My Oreo. Oreo’s life went on as it does for any dog. Oreo spent long days in the…
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Dear Dock: What if You Never Existed?
I have written about the Sacramento State University’s Aquatic Center before. Here is a new twist on the writing 101 prompt. I am combining Day 14 and 15. Dear Dock, The Sacramento community is surrounded by lakes and two major rivers. It gets very hot here in the summertime, some days reaching up to 110…
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Poetry in Motion
Motion This week’s photo challenge is all about motion. Dog paddlin’ at Doggy Dip Day event where the dogs can go swimming. Paddling with his ball, he got photobombed by another happy dog! The Joy of Running Together is a sculpture located in downtown Spokane, Washington. The work is comprised of 40 life-sized figures, all…
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I Found My Oreo: The Early Years
The back-story of our beloved dog Oreo begins here. In a previous post, I wrote about how we lost our Oreo. Two years after my divorce, my youngest daughter still longed for the dogs we had when her dad was still here. Being a newly-single mother of two young daughters, with no monetary help whatsoever,…
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