Friday Florals

“I must have flowers, always, and always.”

Claude Monet

Carry Me Away

“A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it’s the plains. I guess it’s the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.”

~ Georgia O’Keeffe

Wyoming

LOOKING FORWARD…..

Resolutions 2019

We’re in the last few days of vacation slowly preparing to get back into the busy days of school and work. It has been nice to wake up to the sun peaking through the blinds. No alarms, no rush to get ready just easing into the day. Some days grey and rainy but wonderful just the same. It has been nice binge watching new and old television shows, movie and game nights galore. Few early evenings were spent in the kitchen making sweet potato pies and chocolate cookies that rarely made it to the next day. Ending 2018 was spent with ones I love hanging on with heaving eyes trying to make it to midnight. If you’re wondering I did in-fact make it. I could not have asked for better people to spend that time with.

In this morning of 2019 I am excited about the things to come. The positive changes of life as if I am seeing the new year with the optimism of youth. In looking forward to the new and exciting magic of life sometimes we must look backward taking inventory of things that helped shape our present and exhale in serenity that we’ve made it through. I will spare you the exhausting details as there are so much I am still going through and learning to process. I will tell you there has been loss, near loss, injuries, weddings, and births. Life has its way of serving curve balls nearly knocking you off its axis testing your balance. May be that is what I am still needing to find. That “perfect” balance. To help keep me focused I decided this year I would share my 2019 Resolutions to not only put my intentions into the universe as they say (speaking them into existence) but to find them and hold myself to it. I am typically a quiet goal setter, a shy goal setter. As one of my resolutions states it is time to do more of the things I dreamed of, to step out of my comfort zone.

Here are my resolutions in no particular order:

1. Read more (never stop learning)
2. Watch less television
3. Write more
4. Help my daughter navigate the trials of youth
5. Take weekend trips – explore more of the Pacific Northwest
6. Get back to Yoga
7. Meditate
8. Less is more (learn to live with less)
9. Waste less
10. Shop small – Buy local and with purpose
11. Define my style as a photographer
12. Execute photo ideas for portraits of cousins
13. Cook more
14. Save money (for travel and a house)
15. Learn to be more comfortable sharing my life
16. Open online shop
17. Work on professional goals
18. Step out of my comfort zone
19. De-clutter – get rid of “stuff”
20. Nourish my daughter’s creativity
21. Love more -forgiveness

Autumn hues

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Here’s to the weekend. May the Autumn hues bring joy and mounds of inspiration.

HAVE A BEAUTIFUL WEEKEND

ARIZONA

Air,

like a dried bone,

parches in the glare

of a paralytic sun

gripped in a stare.

Heat spins

its spirals and swerves-

the desert is flat,

but the sky curves;

everything moves

yet nothing stirs.

~ Walter Lowenfels

Remembering Winter: in Black and White

“Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.”

~ Bill Nye

As we’ve entered into Spring, the magnolia trees reminding us its beauty, schools on their breaks, and sun giving hints to warm days head. Within all of this lingering is the continuous cold days hinting back at the humbling few moments the furnace stopped working (thank goodness for fireplaces and space heaters), car doors frozen shut, and the Christmas Eve snowfall that filled many childhood dreams. As calming and reflecting this past Winter has been I am ever so happy to the warmer Spring days ahead.

Holiday Inspiration

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