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365 Self Portrait Challenge: Day Three Hundred Fifty Nine:

January 6, 2013 in ma365, Photo Challenge, Photography, Self-Portrait | Tags: bloom, green, hibernate, hibernation, nature, plants, plants and animals, rain, roger miller, shine, Spring, Springtime, storms, stormy, weather, winter, winter slumber, wintertime | Leave a comment

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” Roger Miller

As much as I love springtime with its renewal and growth – I love wintertime with the rain and cold. We don’t get much snow here, but when it does snow – it’s beautiful. I love that all the plants and animals are in their winter slumber – resting up for the next go-round. It’s raining a lot here at the moment. I know in another month or so I’ll be begging for the sun to shine and the flowers to bloom and the trees to green up.

For now, I’m pretty content as I listen to the rain pouring out of the gutters.

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365 Self Portrait Challenge: Day Three Hundred Sixteen:

November 24, 2012 in ma365, Photo Challenge, Photography, Self-Portrait | Tags: celebrate, Christmas, fabric, goodness, human kind, love, ripple, season, soul, spirit, winter | Leave a comment

“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.” Calvin Coolidge

Black Friday. Everyone goes shopping on Black Friday! Well, everyone except us! I won’t be caught anywhere near a shopping mall between now and the New Year! The frenzy and madness are just too much . . . Christmas is not about the best gift I can buy for someone . . . it’s about the love and caring and sharing of spirit between you and the people you love. We’ve just become a society too caught up in commercialism . . . and have forgotten what it is to give from the heart. Today we spent time with family at a local “farm” that was a pumpkin patch and corn maze just a month ago, but is now decked out for Christmas with snow slides, horse rides, and many other fun activities for families to enjoy. The snow is all machine made because it really doesn’t snow here in the Central Valley of California.

That doesn’t matter though – because the spirit of Christmas is in our souls, not in our surroundings. If we are lucky, we carry that spirit with us all year round. We just celebrate it more at Christmas. I’m not a religious person, so I put this all in a context of the goodness that each and every one of us has the potential to share with one another. It’s all about choice . . . and maybe, just maybe – the goodness and loving spirit that I share with everyone I cross paths with has a positive ripple effect on the very fabric of human kind.

That’s my hope anyway.

Let the Christmas Season Begin!