8/31 Outdoor Wednesday #138

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Rural Road, Hayward Lakes Area, Hayward, Wisconsin.

Abandoned Home, The Berkshires, Massachusetts-2011

Howdy! Nights are cooler. Days are shorter. Fall is just around the corner. Some trees are changing color already in the Midwestern part of the U.S.A. Autumn is my favorite season of all. I'm ready!

Glad you visited. Meanwhile keep smiling. Life is what it is. See you next week.

Thinking Outside the Box-Two Heads are Better Than One

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"The grass must bend when the wind blows across it."
...Confucius

Pink Saturday - August 27, 2011

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This is one of those shots which needs to be in the delete pile; but I have been told to save all my images. So I worked on this photograph in a program called Picassa. I thought and thought and thought some more until it came to me, the lake water needed more movement. I changed the background to purple, to green I used several colors until I thought mmmmm black makes the Pink color pop. Then I got goofy and wanted to see through the water as if it was parchment paper. Tah, dah! Remember this is my first attempt at doing this kind of work. Five years from now, I will probably be saying "What was I thinking?" rofl

Today is a full schedule. Plan on doing most of these things on my list but who knows?
Wash the kitchen floor.
Do errands.
Read email.
Check out what was posted for Pink Saturday on other blogs.
Go on a photography shoot--the list is a mile long of images that I saw and wanted to go back too. Depends on lighting for this goal.
Pray that our Eastern Seaboard friends will be safe.

I am glad you dropped by to visit. Meanwhile, take care. Time for me to go make breakfast and start the day. I hope to see you next week.

Skywatch Friday - Season 5, Episode 7

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Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it."
...Henry Ward Beecher

8/24 Outdoor Wednesday #137

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Lily taken after a rain storm.

Copyright: Joyce Meyer 2011

Blue Clematis.

Another lily after a different rain storm.

Yeppers, the drought is over. This year, we have been having a lot of rain, a lot of humidity and a lot of sunny hot days. Flowers are blooming, our grass is being cut more often and the woods are a deeper green.

Glad you visited. I hope you will stop by often. Meanwhile, you take care now.

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
....John Muir

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best as you can be."
....Pema Chodron

Thinking Outside the Box - Aliens

Pink Saturday - August 20, 2011

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Welcome! This week, I decided to post this Pink car reflection in a hub cap taken at Gene's Used Furniture and Antiques, Gene Hause, Prop., W14337 Hwy. 8, Weyerhaeuser, WI 54895. Think I'll snack on some cherries while viewing the Pink things posted this week. Hope to see you next week. Meanwhile, take care.

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away."
...Bill Keane

8/17 - Outdoor Wednesday #136

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Photograph of Shovels were taken at Gene's Used Furniture and Antiques, Gene Hause, Prop., W14337, Hwy. 8, Weyerhauser, WI 54895.

All Rights Reserved. Joyce Meyer-2011.

These two shovels have holes in them. Looks like they are wearing Halloween faces eh? Glad you stopped by lightandvoices again. Think I'll watch the sunset through the windows, view blogs with an outdoor theme while enjoying a whole glass of refreshing sweet tea with lots of ice. See you next week.

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"It would be so much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in our heart and to relate to the wound."
...Pema Chodron

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments."
...Rose Kennedy

Thinking Outside the Box - Soccer in Space

Thematic Photographic 157 Rough

This photograph was taken at Sand Lake, Hayward Lakes Area, Hayward, Wisconsin.

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Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Either leave the situation, change it or accept it. All else is madness."
...Eckhart Tolle

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire."
...Pamela Hansford Johnson

Skywatch Friday - Season 5 - Episode 5

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Sunset, Lac Court Orielles, Hayward Lakes Area, Hayward, Wisconsin-2011.

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little."
...Pope John XXIII

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."
...Plato

8/10 Outdoor Wednesday #135

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Thank you, Norm for adding color to our firepit. Our grandchildren's eyes just lite up when they saw this happening. Then it was how did you do that? Norm told them, "It is an Uncle's secret."

This orange and yellow lily grows near our firepit. I was extremely lucky to capture raindrops on the petals.

Thanks a heap for stopping by. Hope you will come again.

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."
...Carlos Casteneda

Thinking Outside the Box - Stove Gauge

Stove Gauge, Gene's Used Furniture and Antiques, Gene Hause, Prop., W14337 Hwy. 8, Weyerhauser, WI 54895.

Took a photograph of an antique stove gauge. Then added a fire background to make image look hotter than hot temperature wise. My favorite part of this photo is the round shape. FYI: Start an image with what you like then work from that.

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
...Maria Robinson

Pink Saturday - August 6 and Skywatch Friday-Season 5, Episode 4

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Pink Sunset, Lac Court Orielles, Hayward Lakes Area, Hayward, Wisconsin, 2011.

8/3 Outdoor Wednesday #134

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Car Door Handle, Gene's Antiques, W14437, Highway 8, Weyerhauser, WI

Broken Car Windshield, Gene's Used Furniture, W14437, Highway 8, Weyerhauser, WI

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to."
...Lao Tzu

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
...Confucius

Thinking Outside the Box - Lock and Chain

Photo: Lock and Chain
Credit: Joyce Meyer

I took a shot of this lock and chain which was blocking off road usage in Hubbard Park, Meriden, CT. Image was average showing road, grass, weeds, tree forest and metal. All these textures got my juices flowing. I thought. And I thought. And kept thinking like Pooh Bear. I wanted this particular shot to look like someone was welding. Viola, here it is.