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After stumbling around in the dark, literally as I find myself awake late at night trying to navigate both WordPress and a new iPad !, I feel a victory in the wind!
Like magic , the help of The Daily Post has suddenly reappeared 🙏🏻😎 so hopefully my late night ramblings will lead to interesting and entertaining posts that will help to grow my brain and my audience
So much has happened this summer … the good the bad … and the ugly …. that the whirlwind of events knocked us clean off our feet in my household … so a few moments with my daughter and friends in the calm of Mary Cairncross rainforest in Maleny was just what the doctor ordered. Ahh breathe …… sometimes it’s hard to remember that important function.
Today, I need to remind myself I can still laugh, even with dementia… and that it is not alway a miserable experience.
Source: Reminder to self: I sometimes do laugh with dementia…
Please enjoy this wonderful interview with the irrepressible Kate Swaffer
and wake up to the realities of dementia , not just as you may know it
In response to Camera Lucida Challenge : Autumn
Although on this side of the planet we are heading into summer and not winter I still managed to find some autumn tones for this challenge
In response to Cees fun photo challenge – sense of hearing
I took this shot some time ago when my daughter was strumming her guitar and singing for the opening of a friend’s art exhibition, the light and the ambience was just perfect that day
Cees fun photo challenge – sense of hearing
Vintage Music Box
This is our forth week of a new series that I am calling a Habits and the 5 Senses.
This week’s topic is the colors of the sense of hearing. You can be simple like I did this week and used instruments. You can also get radical and show someone blasting apart a sidewalk with a jackhammer or the soothing sound of the ocean waves. This week you can post anything that stimulates or delights you when you hear it. Be creative and have fun. Feel free to dig around in your archives for photos if you don’t have anything new you can photograph. Most of all I hope you have fun.
I had a marvelous response from all of you on last week’s color are Sense of Touch. I want to say thank you to each of you. Here are the featured bloggers for this week…
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In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Monochromatic.”
This week, share with us your monochromatic images. Be calculating and creative in choosing your subject and focal point; resist the urge to simply take a photo of something with a single color range.
I found this a rather confusing challenge as I am a somewhat literally minded person, so the idea of an image being called monochromatic but then not being restricted to just one colour range just didn’t make any sense to me. With this in mind I looked at a few images I have done recently where I explored the monochromatic theme and this was my favourite… monochromatic birds on a very dull pallet were accentuated by removing all but the hint of colour that the birds themselves feature .
Daily Post Monochromatic Challenge
I was thinking that there was a challenge to write a post entitled “A Good Day”, not sure where I saw it now but I wanted to try out the new Mesh App .
(I am hoping this does not give access to my dashboard as it wouldn’t let me use the basic link as I was signed in)
Anyway, I used to walk a dog called Benji ( a lovable Black Labrador) for some elderly friends and one of the things we loved to do was to go to the beach together. Instead of writing a post with lots of words about a good day, I though i would let my pictures do the talking . At this stage I am finding Mesh just a little bit cumbersome to use but as it is new they are working on the bugs every day so I will enthusiastically look forward to playing with it some more.
Hope you enjoy a good day at one of my favourite local beach spots with one of my best mates. He is still patiently waiting for me to get back to him on the next walk…. so far has been waiting for a long time since the last outing …. and yes.. I feel guilty about that 🙂 He has been with me during the darkest of times, and for that I will never forget his wonderful personality. He is, by the way, … very much still alive even though it doesn’t sound like it . I have just been busy with other life challenges and need to get back to my old friend.
While the rest of the world queued up for hours in department stores chasing bargains that they didn’t need to have….. I settle for a leisurely dawn stroll along my local beach. As the ad says …. moments like this….. “Priceless”
Get your lens on 