The Old Dogwood,
in her Autumn crimson cloak,
steals the show again this season
on the green carpet.
Nature….
the best show in town.
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
Walk with my Camera
Don’t Fence Me In
The wonderful thing about taking a walk with my camera
is that even though I may take the same route every day,
when looking through the lens,
there is always something new to see.
Don’t fence me in!
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
The Little Log Cabin
Oh Little Log Cabin on the edge of the woods, what is your story?
What tales would you tell if you could
of life now and life then?
Are we doing it right?
You stand so solid and sturdy and beautiful.
You remind me to slow down, breathe deeply, gaze intently.
You do speak…
to my soul.
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
Discover your own way
Temperatures finally broke double digits yesterday allowing Mikey and I to get out for a short walk.
This tree captured my attention.
Every branch is discovering its own way,
and each has its own unique beauty.
Kinda like all of us…
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
P.S. I am sharing this photo on Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Wood
Breaking News: Snow on Mars
Mars, PA that is…
Remember how I posted the gorgeous 70 degree F day on Tuesday (two short days ago)??
Today, Mikey and I headed out for a short lunch time walk, and look what is happening!!
THE WHITE STUFF! And it is 36 degrees F. I actually had to put a coat on for the first time.
So – ok – it wasn’t like a blizzard or anything (in fact it had just started, and I had to try pretty hard to find objects with enough snow on to get a photograph :). Remember it was 70 degrees two days ago…
But the first snow – no matter how much – is always kind of exciting… like a right of passage to the holiday season…
In faaaccctttt……. I think I might start playing the Christmas tunes…
(That always causes all kinds of trouble around here with my grinches guys – tee hee hee!)
Ask me in February – or maybe even January – how I feel about the snow, and I imagine it will be a whole different story! But from now until New Year’s, I love it.
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
Welcome November
Graveyard Walk
On one of our lunch time walks this week, Mikey and I decided to turn left instead of right for a change and visited the local graveyard – in honor of Halloweeeeeeen!
Boos & Spoooooky Hugs,
Jodi
Six Words
The #Writing101 Group I was in had such an engaging group of people from all over the world, and I was sorry to see it end. I really enjoyed the challenges and felt they stretched me as a “writer.”
So I was super excited that several of the members took the initiative to carry on and continue our team support by forming a new group to offer writing challenges called #TheWritersHub. Our current challenge is to write a six-word story.
I combined mine with this photo I took on my Walk with My Camera today. My story sums up my life right now.
Looking up
at
life in between
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
Mushroom: wwMc
I came across this little gem on my lunch time walk this afternoon.
It was a rather dreary, cool, overcast day, and this little mushroom – with its cap turned up instead of down – formed a little bowl to hold the rain water and created what looked like a miniature bird bath.
The wind was blowing and caused the water movement to look surreal. The intricacy of the black curled ends of the mushroom cap created such beautiful detail.
It made me wonder about the miniature “world” surrounding it. Were there tiny insects that bathed or drank from it? Will a larger animal come and lap it? Eat the mushroom?
So much detail in such a small space. So much going on if we just look.
And it made me wonder…
Is this what we look like to God above?
Is there another life form out in the galaxy watching us as if we are a miniature world?
#wwMc
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
Pomegranate Love
Besides the fact that I love the taste of sweet, juicy, ruby red pomegranates that have just started showing up these past few weeks in our grocery stores for their seasonal debut, I had a little fun photographing this beautiful, unique fruit.
My Walk with My Camera didn’t take me far today on this rainy fall day.
So I ask – to eat or not eat the entire seed?
the creative life in between 
