This marvellous sight greeted me the other morning. I paused for a moment to appreciate, and give thanks, for being blessed with beauty and life.
Tag: life
Life is good . . .
. . . when you can roll in the grass on a mild day.
Splash
I do my best to appreciate what is in my life now, today, this season, no matter what time of year or what is happening. That’s what much of my photography is about – stopping and looking, trying to see, giving thanks for what I see, and sharing a small portion of the beauty that I live in.
Sometimes though it’s good, uplifting, reinforcing, to look at something from a different time, to put current life in a different perspective. To look forward, to anticipate. I look forward to seeing this splash of colour again in a few months.
Hectic
Life requires a little more of my time over the next few days. Not a complaint, a statement of fact. It’s possible, even necessary, to be grateful for a very full schedule. My appreciation for the eventual bit of down time coming soon is heightened.
Tree in Field, Chatham-Kent
This tree stands, living through snow, rain, cold, heat, anything and everything thrown at it. It doesn’t rail against, revile, complain about, whine about the onslaught. Life is what it is, to be accepted and dealt with.
Harbinger
I almost overlooked this maple leaf. It was lodged in sand at the edge of the stepping stones, a place I walk several times daily. I’m normally looking up, around, yet I looked down and saw this.
A harbinger that Fall is coming. That’s fine, even good. Life, the seasons, are a circle, a wheel, around which we travel. I look forward to whatever delights and mysteries this fall brings.
Soaring
This Red-tailed Hawk rode the wind yesterday, graceful, silent, a pleasure to admire. It was lunchtime at work yet it was right to dash outside and photograph it, then lower the camera and watch with a smile on my face and in my heart as it continued to soar.
Make time to reflect on and give thanks for being alive, being in the world.
Adapting
These ‘weeds’ live in a very harsh environment – on the beach where the wind constantly blows. Thursday it may have been blowing 70 kph or more. The sun bakes down, winter and summer, radiating intense energy. The temperature varies from -25C to +30C throughout the year.
Yet these ‘weeds’ will almost certainly revive, bloom, reseed. They will live, thrive, because they adapt. They live in this environment, they adapt to it. They remind me that life, living, is about adapting to, accepting unpleasant as well as pleasant situations.
Splash of colour
These gaillardia grace our property. Although the minimalist shades and colours of winter have their own beauty, sometimes it’s good to add a splash of colour to your life.
Dog run
This is a favourite photo, taken in Goderich not long after Achilles, Stella, and I arrived in Canada.
Stella as she so often is, is a blur. Angling in on Achilles, who is spotlighted by the sun, whiskers glowing. He’s galloping along, looking sideways at her and running so hard that his big, sturdy, upright ears are flopping down.
It’s a portrait of life, living in the here and now. It’s a good reminder to live in the now.
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