I'm deciding that I really need to get a new camera. These pictures are beautiful :) Is Cat doing okay? I haven't heard from her in a while. Are you doing okay? Haven't heard from you either.
Gorgeous photos! My husband always tells me that my best sunset photos are the ones that have another subject in them for contrast. Both of your photos here are fantastic.
The sunset behind the basketball hoop should be on my husband's and daughter's favorite walls. They love the game, especially outdoors. Beautiful work here.
I thank for the visit in my blog and your good reasons! Also and your own photographs are splendid, in all blog. I had fun that I did not understand with the first glance the tower basket.
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons! ************ "Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." **************
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White
************ "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”. “Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy” But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place. So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”. And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.
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I think the other things really add to the pictures and these are extra special!
I'm deciding that I really need to get a new camera. These pictures are beautiful :) Is Cat doing okay? I haven't heard from her in a while. Are you doing okay? Haven't heard from you either.
Nice colours!
Gorgeous photos! My husband always tells me that my best sunset photos are the ones that have another subject in them for contrast. Both of your photos here are fantastic.
great sky watch
great sky watch!!! Beautiful pictures! :)
Two nice pictures!I like the first one with the little touch of pink:)
Nice pictures.
Lovely colours.
I agree about giving the photos more "life" sometimes.
Happy weekend! :)
The sunset behind the basketball hoop should be on my husband's and daughter's favorite walls. They love the game, especially outdoors. Beautiful work here.
Great sky shots, Joy! You saw my Empire State Bldg shot - talk about other stuff in the shot! :)
Great sky shots! Beautiful colours!
I like the way you got the telephone poles to hold those clouds up ... very enterprising!
2 beautifully captured Sky watch pictures
Woo hoo - I'm feel'n it! nice :)
hey, come by if ya can. i have an excerpt i'd like you to critique if you're up to it.
gr8 wk end to ya.
Awesome pictures as always! I like the first one a little more because of the color.
I love these, the colors are great! I like the way you have other things in as well. Happy SW
I thank for the visit in my blog and your good reasons!
Also and your own photographs are splendid, in all blog.
I had fun that I did not understand with the first glance the tower basket.
These are gorgeous photos! Thx for dropping by. :D
You can only live in the moment. This was a beautiful one.
Beautiful photographs!
Very nice sky watch pictures. And two totally different colors.
Gorgeous images. I love the vibrancy of the first one, and the subtlety of the second.
Nice pictures, I like them both.
Thanks for visiting.
wonderful colors, shapes and lighting. Those white clouds seem to be building up there. My Sky Watch is here. Thank you.
I love these both but especially the second shot.
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