Friday, July 17, 2020 - SkyWatch Friday - Lake Michigan IMG5246E - Quote - Matshona Dhliwayo - Sees, Hears, Understands, Speak

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IMG 5246E - Lake Michigan

Quote:

"The world sees.  The sky hears.  The universe understands.  The heavens speak."
~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Friday, July 10, 2020 - SkyWatch Friday - Sunset IMG4257B

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Sunset, IMG 4257B

Friday, June 12, 2020 - SkyWatch Friday - IMG3427C Lake Michigan - Path on Northwestern University Grounds - Quote - Maya Angelou - Experiences are Positive

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IMG3427C - Lake Michigan - Path on Northwestern University Grounds

Quote:

"You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot-it's all there.  Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."
~ Maya Angelou

Friday, June 5, 2020 - SkyWatch Friday - DSC4654B - Lost Stories - Quote - Vironika Tugaleva - Path of Consciousness

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DSC4654B - Lost Stories

Quote:

"It is not how many times we get lost, but how many times we seek the path, again and again, that determines our level of consciousness."
~ Vironika Tugaleva

Friday, May 29, 2020 - SkyWatch Friday - Sunset - WP20180430001C - Quote - Elbert Hubbard - Goals

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WP20180430001C

Quote:

"Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal."
~ Elbert Hubbard

Friday, May 23, 2020 - SkyWatch Friday - Fog and Posts - Quote Amit Ray - Resolve

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Fog and Posts

Quote:

" When life is foggy, path is unclear and mind is dull, remember your breath.  It has the power to give you peace.  It has the power to resolve the unsolved equations of life."
~ Amit Ray, Beautify Your Breath - Beautify your life

Friday, May 15, 2020 - SkyWatch - Two Clouds #1233C - Quote - Akiroq Brost - You Deserve a Break

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May 15, 2020 - 1233C

Quote:
"Do something nice for yourself today. Find some quiet, sit-in stillness, breathe.  Put your problems on pause.  You deserve a break."
~ Akiroq  Brost

Friday, May 8, 2020 - SkyWatch Friday - Bicycle, Sunset, Lake Michigan - WP2017060124B- Quote - Helen Keller - Toleration

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WP2017060124B - Bicycle, Sunset, Lake Michigan - 2020

Quote:

"Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bike."
~ Helen Keller

Friday, April 3, 2020 - SkyWatch Friday - Eagle in the Sky - IMG20170712003C

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WP20170712003C - Eagle in the Sky

Friday, March 27, 2020 - SkyWatch Friday - Sunset - Lac Court Orielles, IMG20170724004B - Stone Lake, Wisconsin

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IMG20170724004B Sunset - Lac Court Orielles, Stone Lake, Wisconsin

Breathe.  Think better.  Find your inner calm.

Friday, March 20, 2020 - SkyWatch Friday - IMG4745 - Quote - Akiroq Brost - Shift in Perspective

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IMG4745

Quote:

"If people only understood the incredible power of a shift in perspective.  To be different you must think, feel, and act differently.  Change your perceptions, change how you feel about things, and then take action."
~ Akiroq Brost

Friday, January 31, 2020 - Skywatch Friday - Anticipation - IMG 5218B

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Anticipation

IMG5218B - Grayness envelopes the Chicagoland area for weeks with a dusting of snow off and on.  I just realized that January is over.  The folks in this area have only one more month, February, to deal with cold weather and snow. Yea!  I am in gratitude that the gray background does have its own beauty. And so it is.

Friday, December 27, 2019 - SkyWatch Friday - Gilson Park, Wilmette, Illinois - IMG2958B

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IMG2958B - Gilson Park, Wilmette, Illinois - 2019.

It always amazes me when I see the sea and the sky are the same color.

Friday, December 6, 2019 - SkyWatch Friday - Senior Citizens at Lake Michigan

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Image 3051B - Lake Michigan - Senior Citizens enjoying the lakefront and fresh air.

Image 3050B - Lake Michigan - Senior Citizens enjoying the lakefront and fresh air.

Friday, November 8, 2019 - Skywatch Friday - Lac Court Oreilles IMG3962B

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IMG3962B
Lac Court Oreilles

Friday, September 19, 2019 - SkyWatch Friday - Gilson Park, Lake Michigan - IMG3060B - Quote - Meryl Streep - Things Holding You Back

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IMG3060B
Gilson Park, Lake Michigan

Quote:

"Put blinders onto those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head."
~ Meryl Streep

Friday, August 30, 2019 - SkyWatch Friday - LCO 2019 - Quote - John Ruskin - Nature

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IMG4085B

Quote:

Nature is a painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty."
~ John Ruskin

Friday, June 14, 2019 - SkyWatch Friday - Evanston Lighthouse #IMG3097B - Quote - John Milton - Awe

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It has been raining a lot here in the Chicagoland area.  One can count on our two hands the few sunny days with blue skies, but here I have posted one day. This moment, I am grateful to be able to pick up one foot, put it down and then pick up the other foot and put it down.  I am grateful that I can breathe the fresh air after spending a long cold winter inside a heated home.  I am grateful for the lighthouse still standing in Evanston, Illinois.

Last year's footprints have been erased by the lake's ebb and flow but here are the new footprints left behind on this sandy beach.  One comes.  One goes.   Do you have a permit?  No.  May I walk the beach take some pictures?  Okay for five minutes.  That is all I have.  Five minutes of solitude now that it is Spring. When the snow covers the sand, and the ice forms on the beach one may forget to count how many moments of solitude that one requires to take on the world of chaos.

I head home after capturing awe one more time.  And so it is.

Evanston Light House
Photo #IMG3097B

Quote:

"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."
~ John Milton

Friday, March 26, 2019 - SkyWatch Friday - Antioch Fish Boil - Quote - Osvald Siren - Spirit

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John, my husband, and I went to a Friday night fish boil with longtime friends.  When we came out of the church, this is what I saw while the three of them were getting into the car for a long ride home.  What a miracle!

Quote:
"the movement of spirit through the rhythm of things"
~Osvald Siren (April 6, 1879 - June 26, 1966 Finnish-born Swedish art historian

Friday, April 19, 2019 - Skywatch Friday - Icy Window

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"Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch."
~ Alan Cohen

Recently, I saw this through the attic window.  These trees did not escape the mystery winter creates with snow, ice, and sunsets.  I used Picasa for cropping.   And so it is.

Icy Window #2162019347B