I was at a mall searching for '13' inspiration while I shopped (multitasking)and it was such a pleasant surprise that there were 13 gum ball machines in this row I think they are bright, fresh colors great for photos So all together:
And separately just for my fun.
I found them fun to snap, to try different shots It would have been good w/ children's faces.
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.
33 comments:
Wonderful colors and good 13 photo. This one was a real hard one for me.
Oh Marcia, a bevy of gum balls! The colors are so beautiful and varied! :D
My favorite photos so far this morning :)
What a great find for today's Photo Hunt!
Have a wonderful weekend :)
I love this!!!!!...what can i say, i am a candy lover...I wish i can reach out into the screen and grab these candies...
Yum yum..
Pearl - happy hunting
Yay! That's awesome!
YUMMMMM! Love the pictures.
Very well done! I'd love to visit this place with a pocket full of quarters. :p
Thanks for stopping by.
Happy Hunting!
Wow ! that's very colorful ! Very good idea !
You missed my Photohunting you only had to click on "Photohunting here" !
Love, love this! Great PH get and great photography too. Thanks for visiting Spatter.
Yes, and the contents are catchy and colorful which not only attract kids but adults as well. I counted 13 machines too.
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Excellent series! Good eye!
Ha! this gives new meaning to "eye candy" Well done. The colors, the rows of 13, are all fabulous!! Have a great weekend.
Haha - that's so cool!
I love all these colorful shots of the gum balls!!! The first picture of the 13 gum ball machines look really cheerful :P
Thats a lot of bubbles, great picture.
bright and beautiful, just like your spirit!
Great pictures! I can see them on the wall of a dentist's office.
I love your shots for thirteen. So vibrant and appealing. Hope you have a great weekend.
What a wonderful find. They are so colourful but why are there 13 in the same place? Weird. I suppose they are different.
How fun!! We love the gumball machines and even though my boys are teenagers now, they STILL stop me to ask for a quarter when we pass them by.
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Great shots and a wonderful take on the theme. Have a great weekend
Great choice for the week! Lucky you to find a group of 13 something. This week was a tough theme.
Wow! What a great find!! I love the colors too.
Wow!! Those are yummy thirteen. Great choice for this week theme, great shot and thanks for sharing. Happy Photo Hunt.
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What a great idea for the photo hunt. I love the ones of them all in a row. Thanks for stopping by my garden pictures.
Great photos! Love them. Of course I'm craving candy right now...
I love it. Now I'm hungry.
The gumball emporium photos are so colorful and happy! Great choice.
Yum, gumballs. Makes me a bit hungry. Very nice collection of shots!
How many jaws can those jawbreakers break?
I never saw the point of the rock-hard tasteless tiny banana candies.
what a creative mind- and great shots.
love your blog!
YUMM and what a fun idea!
so colorful gums... looks yummy.
nice blog u have and very nice photos.
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