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
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
Pittsburgh, PA 11/11/14
Yesterday – NOVEMBER 11, 2014 – it hit 70 Degrees F (SEVENTY DEGREES!) here in Pittsburgh, PA! That is simply unheard of, and surely broke some kind of weather record.
But, alas, today it is dropping, dropping, dropping and currently 39 and continuing down.
Not that this is meant to be a weather report – really!!! blah blah blah. But still – YOWSERS – it sure made an already great day even that much more glorious!
I was downtown on business, and was OH SO LUCKY to have the opportunity to have a spare half hour to just walk down along the river front of our beautiful city of bridges and take a few photographs.
As I angled my camera to capture the bridge, the water, a few of the building across the way and the beautiful blue skyline, I noticed the homeless man sleeping on the sun-warmed dock.
It made me pause – – – so grateful for this beautiful day – – – for him.
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
Conneaut Lake Sunrise November 9, 2014
Reflections on
a beautiful place to wake up to on a Sunday morning
after a beautiful weekend
with even more more beautiful people
Life is good
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
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
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
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
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?
I couldn’t believe it when I spotted these dandelion blooms on my walk yesterday! Dandelions typically bloom here in early Summer. What are they doing amongst the fallen leaves of Autumn?
It reminded me (like oh so many things) of a song 🙂
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
the creative life in between 