This week the Photo Hunters were looking for "lazy."

This photo is nothing special but around here this picture just screams, "LAZY!" to me. I mean, would it kill ya to change the roll?

Photo Hunt - Lazy

Stop by TN Chick for more lazy.

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Saw this one over at Owlhaven. It looked too fun and too easy to pass up. If you want to play along, it's easy. Just open your computer photo folder, go to the sixth folder, pick the sixth picture and post it. Not too tough, right!! If you decide to play along, leave me a comment with a link to your post so I can come take a look at your choice.

Here's the photo I found. I love this one.



Here are (from left to right): Sweetly, JoeCool(peeking through), Shorty and Bear. They took this photo using my MacBook's Photo Booth.

Thanks for the challenge Mary! So much fun.

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For the two or three of you who come visit me here - now you can also catch me over at the terrific online magazine Blissfully Domestic.

I'm writing for the new channel, Inspired Bliss. So much fun.

Come visit me over there. My first post is up. Come read A Taste of Heaven and tell me what you think in a comment.

Labels: Blissfully Domestic, Inspired Bliss

Photo Hunters were looking for something "sad" this week.

These are photos of drawings done by my 11 year old boy, #1Son. His God-given talent amazes me. All of these characters express our theme to me in some way. Be it their mouths or eyes or just their faces, they all express sadness to me. (Don't worry - he draws plenty of "happy" too!)

Photo Hunt - Sad

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.

David Weatherford

Thanks to TNChick, there is more sadness here.

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September's Poetic License Challenge over at Robin's was to write a Fall-themed cinquain. I'm a little late jumping onboard because even though Fall officially began over a week ago, here in the sunny southwest, the grass and leaves are still green and it was 85 degrees today!! It's just not feeling like Fall here yet.

You're in for a treat! I made my three older children write a cinquain as a part of school today. (They moaned like I was killing them.) Actually my 16 year old daughter had to write three cinquains - one in each style that Robin listed here.

#1Son. He's 11 (and a real melancholy - can you tell?)

Autumn
Dark, Cold
Crying, sighing, moaning
Summer's over and it feels so lonely
Sadness


Sweetly. She's 13 and loves the Fall.

Autumn.
Cold, crisp.
Running, watching, falling.
A new season is here! It's all wonderful and exciting!
Colorful.

Sweetanlo. 16 and an aspiring writer (which is why she had to do all three!)


#1
Leaves
Colorful, beautiful
Morphing, drifting, falling,
From green to orange and yellow, awe inspiring difference
Change


#2
Crispness
Frosty, Chilly
Freezing, shaking, moving
Hoping for eventual warmth
BRR-RR


#3
September 22 is the very first day of fall
The cripsness in the air just goes to show
That colder times have come to call
The leafs have fallen oh so low
And soon we shall see snow


And it's only fair that I write at least one myself. Here's mine

capsicum
red, green
roasting, flipping, tumbling
it is fall when the smell of their fire-roasting goodness is wafting through the air
chile

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I had so much fun visiting all the different roads of last week's Photo Hunters.

I can't wait to see what we come up with for this week's theme - View. So many possibilities!

Do you have a good view? Let us have a look too!

As for me, I couldn't settle for just one view.

Photo Hunt - View

Mesas in southern Colorado



North Rim Grand Canyon Arizona



Sandia Crest New Mexico


And finally something a little more close to home...


the view from my kitchen window


Go by for a great view!

Labels: Photo Hunters

We're going places this week as Photo Hunters. The challenge? Our theme: Road.

Got a bit of the wanderlust yourself?? Grab your camera and come along with us!

Photo Hunt - Road

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.

- Albert Schweitzer

On the road again

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