“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” Charles Darwin A pair of iguanas atop a third mate, mugging for my camera at the pet store. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/resilient/
Category Archives: Beauty
The simple, seasonal pleasure of ice skating
“Winter is here, best time of year, come on along sing a skating song…” One of my fondest childhood memories was ice-skating on a small rink my best friend’s dad built for us in her backyard. Round and round we would soar feeling the chill of the air on our cheeks. Not an iPhone or computerContinue reading “The simple, seasonal pleasure of ice skating”
WPC – “Landscape”
“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/landscape/https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges
WPC “Half-Light”
Nature’s first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/half-light/
Log Dancing
“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams. ” Albert Einstein https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/dance/
Seasons
“I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year…” ~Edna St. Vincent Millay https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/seasons/
Vibrant
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” Claude Monet https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/vibrant/
One Word Challenge – “Up Close”
“Each sunshine-moment twinkles by A white-winged, wandering butterfly…” ~W.T., “Honeymoon Cottage,” Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Arts, 1862 June 28th “Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.” Hans Christian Andersen “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp,Continue reading “One Word Challenge – “Up Close””
Daily Post Photo Challenge “Vivid”
It always draws controversy. I recall a neighbor glancing at the painting with the discerning eye of a collector remarking, “How in-ter-esting!” Love it or hate it, it hangs on my bedroom wall. This vivid, lively swirl of jade green, orange and blue with the upside down heart (my interpretation) The painting that brings the memory of my father closer to meContinue reading “Daily Post Photo Challenge “Vivid””
Weekly Photo Challenge – “On The Way”
On the way down the front porch steps to fetch the morning paper I encounter a trail of pink petals, damp, fragrant and delicate. Compliments of our kindly dogwood tree, unable to hold onto their fleeting beauty during a fierce wind storm the night before. . https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/on-the-way/
Shangri-La 