Thinking about my upcoming July vacation in Maine and looking back through beach shots that I have taken over the past year and trying to figure out what I need to do to improve on them this time around. I looked through my Oregon album that I posted on Facebook while I was still in Oregon and remembered a comment that I guy that I work with made. I think it was the single best comment that anyone has ever made to me on Facebook.
"Torrie, Your Oregon pictures make me very happy. As if an invisible weight has been lifted off your shoulders. As your friend, l don't want you to come back."
Actually an uncharacteristic comment from someone that is usually shooting snappy comebacks at me along with rubber bands, throwing shoes toward me or crawling across the floor to scare me in the morning (yeah, it totally happens, and he is my age too...thank God some of us never grow up!) He truly gets it. Even in that lousy job, I have to say that I work with some really awesome people. I am so thankful for that!
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I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like ...
Best prop I have ever found... my latest flea market acquisition. I LOVE IT!!
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So, I've read that you shouldn't post a photo if you feel that it is not your best work, with the apologies that .... well, it's not your best work. So, I'll just say that I wish I had had a lens other than my wide angle this morning, and I think that maybe I should send my camera back to Nikon after I dropped it to have it checked out, or maybe I should have my eyes checked.... or ... all three.
We finally saw the sun this morning and the sun felt good on my back on my morning walk ... actually, it wasn't all that high yet, so it felt good on the backs of my legs. I'm sure the blue heron was thinking the same... not about the backs of my legs... but about his back! He looked beautiful sitting in the sunny spot on the bridge.. so I decided to post it... even though it's not my best.... oops....sorry!! ; )
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For Macro Monday's Redux theme ... I think this could fit into "Anything Goes" or "Guilty Pleasures" (for me, that being "things that are handmade" ...which is something I love... especially when someone takes the time to make something for someone as a gift... the best gift you can give or receive, in my opinion anyway!) And I wanted to share these... my Christmas gift from my sister, presented in a very cool little pottery bowl that she bought, that fits perfectly in your hand. She filled the bowl with these little discs that she made from an old copper plate that she found at a thrift shop. She stamped each disc with a a word... the idea being, that each day, you get up and choose what you think that you might need to get you through the day .... and then you put that disc in your pocket and carry it with you. How cool is that? Oh...and there is a blank disc... that's the "wild card" disc and it can be whatever you want it to be! Today, I think I would be carrying "gratitude". Tomorrow.... I will need "Motivation" (although my co-workers probably wish I would be carrying "FOCUS"!! I may carry "hope" EVERY DAY!
Super creative... super cool gift.... right?!!
(Happy Macro Monday!!)
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Leaving Waterloo Village, along with the last rays of light ...which I saw seeping through the cracks in the walls of the old sawmill and creating a stained glass type masterpiece on the windowpanes with the autumn colors. Aaaahhhhh...glad I didn't miss this! The magic of the details! (The little details... that's where the true colors shine through ...always!)
Happy Slider Sunday!
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