Category: leisure

  • Sunday Stills: Look! Up in the #Sky!

    Sunday Stills: Look! Up in the #Sky!

    The theme for Sunday Stills photo challenge this week is “sky.” Three weeks ago, we shared our sunsets and sunrises. This week let’s look at the sky from other perspectives. Hot air balloons float in a desert sky. Taken in North Phoenix in early January 2019 with my pal Ingrid. “The sky is the daily…

  • Fitness Friday: #Walk Your Way to Better, Guest Post by Author Joyce Shulman

    Fitness Friday: #Walk Your Way to Better, Guest Post by Author Joyce Shulman

    I am delighted to participate in the blog tour to share Joyce Schulman’s book Walk Your Way to Better.

  • Sunday Stills: Happiest at #Home

    Sunday Stills: Happiest at #Home

    For Sunday Stills, share your idea of #home in photos, thoughts and other creative ideas!

  • Sunday Stills: #Plant Life Grows Around Us

    Sunday Stills: #Plant Life Grows Around Us

    This week’s Sunday Stills photo challenge is all about plant life. Many folks are still limited to where they can go, but we can all walk in our backyards and gardens and enjoy plant life. While there, why not snap a few new pics to share with us this week? To plant a garden is…

  • Sunday Stills: Life in a #Waterworld

    Sunday Stills: Life in a #Waterworld

    Memorial Day in the US is the traditional start to summer, which brings throngs of people to lakes, rivers and oceans. Perhaps, but not in 2020… …as the threats of exposure and illness from the coronavirus keep people home and away from their favorite leisure spaces. Even as most US states have opened up for…

  • Sunday Stills: #Awakening of Leisure

    Sunday Stills: #Awakening of Leisure

    Have the last few weeks of staying at home awakened something in you? The dictionary describes awakening as a recognition, realization, or coming into awareness of something. The example? a rude awakening to the disagreeable facts. That about explains it! Awakening can mean the revival of an old interest or trying a new hobby. Lately,…

  • Walking in the Valley of Fire

    Walking in the Valley of Fire

    Hello fellow walkers! Walking is about the ONLY exercise I have engaged in since California’s Stay-At-Home order on Friday, March 20. Believe me, I am happy and grateful to walk outside in my neighborhood, and my dogs never complain, but why does it feel like it’s been longer than 9 days? Thankfully, we can ride…

  • Sunday Stills: For the #Birds

    Sunday Stills: For the #Birds

    What’s up with the expression “for the birds?” Easy enough to google…it’s an expression that “became army slang for anything that was pointless, ridiculous, or simply without value to any but the most pathetic or least capable.” Someone who announces, “that idea is for the birds” is saying the idea is useless or meaningless. A…

  • Winter Road Trip Preview: Walking in the Desert Light

    Winter Road Trip Preview: Walking in the Desert Light

    Join me today as I share a preview of my winter road trip and where some of my walks took me. With a camera and phone in hand, I took loads of photos on my daily walks. I managed to walk over 10,000 steps a day as recorded by my Fitbit. I needed to with…

  • Sunday Stills: Sixty #Birthdays

    Sunday Stills: Sixty #Birthdays

    This year, 2019, marks 59 years of my existence. I was born in December, so for most of 2019, I am 59. Being that I was born in 1959 makes this my golden year, I’m told. I have to admit that it has been a golden year, albeit a little tarnished with stress and surgery,…

  • Sunday Stills: Signs of #Autumn

    Sunday Stills: Signs of #Autumn

    The official start to fall begins with the Autumnal equinox on Monday, September 23 this year. Not much in the way of fall leaves just yet here in Sacramento, Northern California, as we are still experiencing our normal warm temps (upper 80s, low 90s). Luckily, the heat only lasts a couple of hours each day.…

  • Sunday Stills: Your Favorite #Sport or #Hobby

    Sunday Stills: Your Favorite #Sport or #Hobby

    This week’s Sunday Stills photo challenge is all about showcasing your favorite sports and/or hobbies. Your images of sports might show others participating or yourself engaged in one. The same is true for your hobbies. Please share any image depicting doing what you love and engaging in leisure! I will start you off with some…

  • Wordy Wednesday: Summer Blues

    Wordy Wednesday: Summer Blues

    The middle of July finds me reflecting on the fact that half of my summer is gone! Most of you know, it has been a very different summer for me as I recover from foot surgery, spending almost two months in a cast. Prior to the early June surgery date, I spent a few weekends…

  • Blue July #Squares: Surf’s Up in Hilo

    Blue July #Squares: Surf’s Up in Hilo

    I caught these young surfers shredding waves on Hilo Bay last January. Three boys and one girl surf and boogie board on a warm winter’s day. It was a school holiday; the temps were warm and who wouldn’t surf if they could? Even more amazing was how they managed to dodge the large lava rock…

  • Wordless Wednesday: Aero’s Square Birthday

    Wordless Wednesday: Aero’s Square Birthday

    I normally don’t post on a Wednesday, but I couldn’t resist sharing square images of my precious pup, Aero. Today is his 9th birthday, Why square images? I am submitting these for Becky B’s month-long July blue squares photo challenge. In the photo above, Aero romps around San Diego’s Ocean Beach dog park. He also…