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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

This weeks challenge topic is ‘Fleeting‘

I had started to do these photo challenges to try to get back to photographing things other than my children.  Don’t get me wrong, I love taking and having their pictures, I just wanted to broaden my spectra.

 

However, this weeks challenge speaks of childhood.

Childhood is fleeting.  Innocence is fleeting.  Being able to find pure joy in the splashing of water is fleeting.

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To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

~Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

In a blink of an eye our babies change to toddler; our toddlers turn to teens; and then our teens turn to adults.

Each picture I take is trying to capture that fleeting moment in their lives.

Happy Shooting

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Menu Plan Monday June 3rd

Well it is already June.  I am not sure where half the year went.

This past weekend Ian got to go fishing for the first time.  He has wanted to go fishing with Dad for a while now, and we finally had the opportunity to take him.

The friend Ty usually goes fishing with had a good-sized boat (no I don’t know the what size).  But it fit six of us, he brought his two daughters.

The fishing was slow, we caught four trout but one had to go back.  The kids got to reel in all the fish.

Ian had a great time, he loved being on the boat.  It was a wonderful day.

We are sailing. We like pirates. Argh Matey! Shiver me timbers!

We are sailing. We like pirates. Argh Matey! Shiver me timbers!

Ian helping Dad get the pole ready

Ian helping Dad get the pole ready

Dad, Ian and his catch

Dad, Ian and his catch

Our friend let Ian help him drive the boat

Our friend let Ian help him drive the boat

Menu Plan 6/3-6/9

Mon: Chili (we ended up having pizza last Fri, so this is a carry over)

Tue: Chicken Bacon Ranch Quesadillas

Wed: Mike’s Clam Chowder (for hubby) and Creamy Cajun Chicken Pasta (for me)

Thr: Sloppy Joe’s with tater tots

Fri: Baked Ravioli with meat sauce

Sat: kitchen is closed

Sun: Beef Bourguignon with Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes and Cheesy Garlic Biscuits 

 

 

Happy Cooking

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

This weeks photo challenge is Escape.

I thought a lot about what ‘Escape’ means to me.

I have a lot of pictures of wonderful places I like to go.  Especially places around here.  My husband and I used to escape up to the mountains, when it’s nice, all the time.  So I have a lot of pictures

We would just throw the dogs in the car and drive.

Now though, I find my escape in these two boys.

There is no where I want to go, if they are not there too.

Happy Shooting

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern

This week’s photo challenge topic is Patterns

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“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher.”

― Chuck Palahniuk

Happy Shooting

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