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  • Today’s Shot 141

    Today’s Shot 141

    Bloom

    We don’t always smile because the conditions are perfect. We don’t have to frown because it rains … after all, it rains sulphuric acid above Venus. We don’t always find the perfect soil to grow and bloom in. But where are your feet planted? Bloom there.

    Sometimes we find beauty in the most unlikely places. I was waiting for a patient at a cancer treatment center when these blooms caught my eye.

    It’s a place people go to when they’ve received bad news and where they get the treatments that can save their life. Sometimes they have hope and sometimes they don’t.

    My 75-year-old gentleman patient had a bandage around his head, but he had a kind word for the people he met and a smile on his face – a reminder that we may not always like the ground were standing on, but we can bloom right where we’re at, even in the most unlikely spaces.

    🚐 🚑 🚐

    Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD

  • Today’s Shot 139

    Today’s Shot 139

    Cascade

    Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD

    Brashley Photography’s Mid-Week Monochrome – MWM

  • Responding versus Reacting

    Responding to Injustice

    If they want us to fight, w h y would that be? A message from Teal Swan.

  • Today’s Shot 137

    Today’s Shot 137

    Clematis

    Clematis – Utah

    Thank you for the beautiful shot

    from the Utah crew! 🤗

    Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD

    ~ and ~

    Brashley Photography’s Floral Friday – FF # 20 – FOTD

    Have a safe and blessed weekend. Remember your vitamin C and D and take care of you!

  • Today’s Shot 136

    Today’s Shot 136

    Motion Granted

    Gerbera jamesonii

    Arrested mid-thought

    Now a sentence standing still

    Motion to Dismiss

    Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD

    Home Challenge 5-28-20

    Pluto Retrograde

    It began with a seed which grew up, flourished and then danced before my lens. Looking at the photo later, I saw motion and animation. Whereas before, I thought I’d caught someone standing completely still.

    The movement from the still-shot intrigued me. Who is this living being that graced my eyes today? I sat with James for a while in the hopes that he would tell me all he had to say. And then, the weirdest scene came into play.

    Now, here was a twist in the plot

    which I’d thought

    Was about a flower in a pot

    Not

    James pointed two fingers at the sky and silently impressed one word – Pluto.

    This is when I left the garden and walked into the inner courtroom of the past. Enter scene two.

    Why must Pluto moonwalk his way to October looking over his shoulder the whole time? It’s a good way to trip, you’d think?

    In this court though, you are the judge and jury over the shadows of old memories and circumstance. Without allowing a long look back to truly see – those old court cases may never win their final decree: motion granted, case dismissed. You’re free.

    This is what happened between James and I. We took a look back and then had a good cry.

    Don’t be afraid to revisit old shadows now and then. Healing can come from surprising directions to mend.

    Motion Granted

  • Today’s Shot 135

    Today’s Shot 135

    Sun’s Flower-Child

    Bright rays warm the earth

    Nature’s incubator births

    The sun’s flower-child

    Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD

    ~ and ~

    Brashley Photography’s Mid-Week Monochrome – MWM – 38

  • Today’s Shot 134

    Today’s Shot 134

    Two – Thousand Miles

    Mauve

    Sharing, look she says

    From two-thousand miles away…

    Sisters on FaceTime

    For a moment – I am there

    Flags all down the lane

    And we walk the garden path

    Green

    Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD

  • Today’s Shot 132

    Today’s Shot 132

    Farm Life

    💦🌾💧

    I rarely stop on work trips, but I’ve always wanted a picture of an irrigation sprinkler. This one was also watering my pathway so it was unavoidable!

    💦 🌾 💧

  • Today’s Shot 131

    Today’s Shot 131

    Stars in her Eyes

    She opens her arms

    Wind’s soft breath traces her shape

    Stars shine in her eyes

    For: Cee’s Flower of the day – FOTD

    ~ and ~

    Brashly Photography’s Floral Friday – FF #19

  • Today’s Shot 130

    Today’s Shot 130

    Woman of the Lake

    She rises slowly through still waters, and lifting her face she sees. The surface, clearest glass, is like canvas stretched between the trees. Here, the sky and clouds are painted, beside tall shadows hung with leaves.