I saw this while walking.
My first thought was Snow White and her wicked step-mother, Evil Queen.
Here is picture from afar, then I walked closer.
There’s a story here. Who put this mirror there?
Ponder that on the weekend…
Wow – FALL arrived quickly! Cooler temps, days are noticeably darker in the morning and evening.
As I was out walking, I noticed there are still a few summer flowers blooming, but soon they will be gone, replaced by Fall flowers.
In the stores… Halloween stuff will soon be on SALE, because they’ve already brought Christmas stuff out.
Ah, it all happens so quickly, we need to SLOW down and ENJOY the new season.
Have a great weekend! Time to cozy up with a good book.
I was walking in a Chicago neighborhood, looking at the homes, listening to the birds.
When right in front of me was an apple tree, handing over the sidewalk.
Of course, I wanted to take one. I mean it was right there in front of me, but…
I thought of that scene in The Wizard of Oz, when the trees come alive, see clip from YouTube.
So, I merely admired the apple tree and walked on.
Such a FUN walk!
My daughter was out walking, listening to a podcast when she saw “something” on the ground.
Here’s how it looked on the sidewalk.
As she bent down and looked closer, it was a LOVE token. Looks like it had fallen off a key chain maybe?
She picked up this love token inspecting it and as she looked up she saw the top of the church.
Sometimes when we go through challenges, it’s nice to have a sign…
We are LOVED, all will be well!
We have had such rain the past week or so. It does get gloomy. So, today I was pleasantly surprised to take a walk this morning and feel the warm sun. As I looked up, I thought how amazing the sun was, so huge.
Then as I continued on, spring flowers are popping up.
Have a wonderful Spring filled weekend!!
The other day it was snowing. My daughter and I went walking and as we were talking, she suddenly said, “Look, Mickey Mouse.” We looked more closely and laughed, “YES, it sure looked like Mickey!!”
She was on a roll. As we walked, she kept noticing more snow art, it was so amusing. You can see from above, the left photo, if we blinked, we would not have seen Mickey, same with the other funny figures. We saw the figures at a distance, I zoomed in on them.
We “did” take the liberty of adding to some of the art, ie the snail, we added an antenna, the fish skeleton, we added the bones, that balloon, we added the string… but the balloon, you can see from left photo using our imagination, it was there… the added string, made it believable to “non-snow art-believers.”
Finally, for the GRAND FINALE, before we started to shovel snow… we saw this SMILEY FACE.
Ok… with this one… the EYES were THERE… my daughter added the mouth, but COVER the mouth and you can see how the EYES were talking to us in a “catch me if you dare,” kind of look.
What a fun walk. So, what snow art have you seen lately?
Walking can be boring, but not this particular morning. A friend sent me this photo.
Heading to work, it looked like the birds were also having the early morning workday huddle!
Discussion – How to tackle customer food donations that day! There has to be a BETTER way, they nod!
Happy Fall!
This weekend I was able to walk by Lake Michigan. We were having strange weather, it had gone from hot summer days earlier in the week to suddenly cooler temps like Fall. You can see a bit of the fury in the Lake.
Some people were swimming, it’s a bit dangerous with waves like this, the undertow is strong. As a child, I loved swimming in waves like this with my friends, it was scary and exciting at the same time. The undertow would suck us under tumbling us around in water and sand.
We held our breath forever hoping we’d get to the surface. Oh and when we did surface, hoped our bathing suit was still on properly. To give you a visual, imagine a dog with a soft play doll, violently shaking the doll in his mouth right and left. That’s how it feels to be in an undertow.
I really liked this photo. It was so windy, I took the photo quickly. I didn’t notice that there was a person in the picture; otherwise, it would have been perfect.
Most people don’t realize that Lake Michigan is really a large body of water. At first glance, you might think it is an ocean. It’s really quite vast.
Here’s to enjoying the last bit of summer. Labor Day is almost here.
It’s all in the mind, isn’t it! Yesterday a friend sent me these lionesses.
I was thinking what perfect timing. I was feeling that way, strong, powerful, unstoppable.
We don’t feel like that every morning, but there are days when our energy is at an ALL TIME HIGH!
I did start taking some vitamins lately. Maybe that’s been helping, making me feel like Superman!
I’m off to go walking. Now, I just need that perfect song that goes with these lions.
How about this. Hats off to the Olympians who are FIGHTING for GOLD! They must have some powerful songs and/or motivational talks they listen to when they need to erase a bad performance, come back the next day and FIGHT to WIN!
Have a great motivational day!
I was visiting a friend. We were out walking. It was early evening and these little birds were out in full force. They were chirping and chirping and flying so fast. I was lucky to get a few photos, because they do not rest in one spot for long. I’m not sure why my IPhone has the photos looking a bit blurry.
This bird was interesting. Look how disheveled he looked. I imagined my mother telling my brother, “You aren’t going out like that. Go comb your hair.”
We’re almost into August, soon Fall will be here. It’s nice to be out walking and enjoy our nice weather.
Enjoy your summer!
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