It's A Fine Thursday...

" Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste."   ~  Logan P. Smith

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Thursday Challenge- Wet

- Leeks

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                 Shoot Me-

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  Vintage Thingie Thursday- 



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Yard Art On Thursday-

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Alphabe- Thursday- F is for.... fine feathered friends flushing the filth from their feathers in this fantastic fountain..

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Have a wonderful day!

Patsy



So Many Photo's and So Little Time...

"Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. "

 ~ Rabindranath Tagore

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Who Do You Love? - A Weekly Photo Challenge

Street  Photography-

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Signs Signs-

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                            Midweek Blues-

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Have a wonderful day!

Patsy

Wednesday.. the Week Keeps On Moving Along!

"The world's favorite season is the spring.
All things seem possible in May."
  - Edwin Way Teale

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Photoblog Challenges~ Theme #20- Landscapes

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                          
                              
                                      Technique #12- Sepia-
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                       Sepia Scenes #132-
 
 
 
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Watery Wednesday #141~
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wordless Wednesday-
 
 
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               White Wednesday-  #101
 
 
                White Oleander
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Thanks for stopping by to see what is going on in my world today.. I hope you enjoyed your stay and that something you saw made you smile ..I welcome both comments and followers..
Have a wonderful day!
Patsy

Take a day off and get a month behind?!

"Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. "

 ~ Harold Coffin

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Unique Weekend Challenge-

Church~

Dave and I spent the day Saturday with a few friends/co-workers deep in the woods... along the Savannah river.. at Crab Orchard Plantation.. we meant to leave earlier but wound up staying till near midnight..
The wonderful world of GPS seemed to be behaving as it pointed to what looked like he dirt road we had been advised to take instead of the way we came in.. a short cut they said..  twenty two miles of dirt road and saying road is being very lenient.. in some places I bit my lip to keep from screaming out loud.. but  along this spooky abandoned trail we saw several mother deer out for strolls in the starlight with their spotted babies..and for just a second caught sight of a big buck.. we also passed four little wooden churches.. that leaped from the darkness as our headlight struck them.. they appeared to be forgotten and yes they were spooky rising from the thick trees..  I can't wait to go back to the plantation.. but I will not be following the GPS Trail!

I Saw Sunday-week 36
Weekly Winners
The Creative Exchange-

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I Heart Macro-

RED brick Pillars where the original gate once hung..

Macro Monday-
Ruby Tuesday-
That's My World Tuesday-









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Two For Tuesday- Portrait/ Still Life-

Project Life Tuesday~

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Mosaic Monday~

Blue Monday-

Today's Flowers-

Mellow Yellow Monday-

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Have a wonderful day!

Patsy

After a Long Week.. Friday has Arrived in the Nick of Time!!

"Inspiration and genius--one and the same." ~Victor Hugo

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Photo Blog Challenges- Monthly Project- Photo Hunt

#18- Shape of Subject

~ Round

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
                   #19- Time of Day~ 
 
                                     ~ Sunset
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
#20- Any Photo Taken in May-
 
My niece / sidekick / friend / Phoebe
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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        Lens Day Challenge- Cozy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Pink Friday #71-
 
a new..  hand crocheted.. pink baby hat ..
.. with a funky zebra bow..
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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             Photo Friday- Many

 

 

 

 

       Friday My Town Shoot Out-

         ... Flowers in My Town-
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Sky Watch Friday-
 
Weekend Reflections #87-
 
Fingerprint Friday-
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Thanks for stopping by today.. I have had a busy week and am glad to see Friday.. I welcome both comments and followers.. I hope you have a wonderful day!
Patsy

Tuesday... Good Morning Gray Skies!

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

 ~ Mother Teresa

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Photoblog Challenges- Monthly Project #5- Photo Hunt

 #14- Nature/ Tree

       
       
           #16- Point of View- 

            From the Ground















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Who Do You Love- a weekly photo challenge for photographers

 this weeks theme - Portraits

my sister Martha
and  grand-nephew Bryce
















~ Project Life Tuesday ~



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Ruby Tuesday-

                                                               

Anthony's Graduation
from University of New Mexico













That's My World Tuesday~
Photoblog Challenges - theme 19- begins with a A

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Unique Exposure- Weekend Photo Challenge-

- Country Life










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The Creative Exchange-

                               The Lighthouse..
                            as seen from the dunes




















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Two for Tuesday-
This week’s Photography Challenge: ‘Overexposure – Underexposure’

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Thanks for stopping by today to share glimpses of my world

I welcome both comments and followers..

Have a wonderful day

Patsy

Shutterday ~ Reading..

"The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory."
  ~ Paul Fix


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         Shutterday -
         Weekly Challenge-

Theme #214- Reading


Maya reads while waiting
on the ceremony to start!










Thanks for stopping by my photo blog today.. I enjoy sharing glimpses of my world with you...
I hope you enjoyed your visit... I welcome comments and followers..
Have a wonderful day!
Patsy

Photoblog Challenges..

" A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything."
 ~ George Lucas

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Photoblog Challenges offers many exciting photo challenges including monthly projects.. themes ...and techniques .. Plus..   They have tutorials that are helpful..  Please do go and check the sight out if you love a good photo challenge!


Technique #10- Macro-

 
 
 
 
 
 
he bites!
 
 
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Theme #18- The Arts
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cooper.. perfecting his art...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Monthly Project #5- Photo Hunt-
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
#6- Depth of Field..
" Large- everything in focus "
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
              #12 Light Source-
                 " Candle "
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
#13 Location-
" In Your Town "
 
 
 
 
 
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Thanks for stopping by my blog today.. Blogger had some minor issues last week and some of my posts had to be reloaded.. please go back and visit those if you missed them.. I welcome both comments and followers. Have a wonderful day..
Patsy

Friday the Thirteenth.. I Am Not Afraid!

"I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes. " ~  Judy Holliday

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Photoblog Challenges- Monthly Project
Photo Hunt #9- Food/ Candy

Pink Friday #70-

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Sky Watch Friday-

this is very close to the center
of our small town..

Welcome to my World!


Photo Friday- "My World"

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Friday My Town Shoot Out -
National Nurses and Hospital Workers week!

my Daughter Emily.. when she isn't posing patiently
for her Mom's camera she is busy taking
care of the clients at the local nursing home.. or
visiting clients who have gone home and yet may
still need a happy face to visit them..  she loves her
job and all of the "Old Folks" she tends...
I Love you  Em! I am very proud of you!
You are one of my fingerprints from God!






Fingerprint Friday-

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Weekend Reflections - #86-

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Thank you for visiting my world today.. I hope you enjoyed the images I have shared.. I welcome both comments and followers.. Have a wonderful day!
Patsy

Thursday.. Hot with a Slim Chance of Rain...

“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.”
~ James Earl Jones

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Photoblog Challenges- Monthly Challenge -
Photo Hunt  #5- crop- square

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Thursday Challenge- "pets"..  this wonderful cat came with the house that my sister.. Martha.. recently moved into...though he is more than half wild he came close enough and lay down for his photo shoot.. as soon as I reached out my hand to touch him..  he was off in a flash to give me dirty looks across the yard..  I think I will name him  Percival...
 
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Shoot Me-
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Yard Art on Thursday-
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
here in the "Bucket Jungle" anything at all can become yard art.. this old wheel that was once part of of a band saw.. at a saw mill..  is lovely covered with lacy hummingbird vine...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Have a wonderful day!
Patsy

Wow... Wednesday Already?.. Some Weeks Fly By....

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."

- Benjamin Disraeli

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Photoblog Monthly Challenge- #4- White

White Wednesday- #99

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Sepia Scenes-

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Watery Wednesday- #139-

Wordless Wednesday-

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Wednesday Lensday-  Spartan- is defined as simple.. frugal.. or austere

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ABC Wednesday- Q is for-

Q is for quilt.. this one had a tag that claimed antiquity and demanded a quadrillion dollars..




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Patsy