IMAGE & WORDS # 8 ~ MUSIC & DANCE

 
          Our hostess this week is Milli. The theme she has chosen is:   MUSIC AND DANCE       To join in the fun, click on this link:          

PICTURE PERFECT FRIDAY ~ FAVORITE PICTURE PERFECT POST

 

PICTURE PERFECT FRIDAY

Our hostess this week is Cherie,
And the theme she has chosen is:

FAVORITE PICTURE PERFECT POST

This is the favorite of your own post... not your favorite of anyone Else's!.

I was so excited when I heard the theme this week.  There was no doubt

which one I would post as it was my favorite from start to finish.

I was visiting my Mom and my sister last summer

when the theme was posted "Song Titles".  LOL, we all know I like that live music. 
(How ever this one didn't have live music in it as it was a competition week.)

It had been a month since my last visit to California at the time

and I was missing my boyfriend.  So my song title was natural.

My whole family jumped into help.  We called every florist in the area

to try to find some lavender and finally found it at the grocery store down the street.

My sister cut the lavender and put the ribbon around it while my brother in law

cleared his desk (several desk actually to get the right color wood.)

My mother emptied the frame for his picture,

and I wrote the letter (which I later mailed).

I must have kissed 20 envelopes before we agreed on an okay kiss ~ lol.

And although I took the picture... everyone was right in there with suggestions.

It was so much fun and I had thought that visiting there I would miss Picture Perfect

that week.  When the top ten were posted... everyone was looking

over my shoulder to see if "we" made it. 

Although I am not a big "Competition" fan (as for me it is about the fun and the sharing),

I was never so happy in my life... for my family.  It was so much fun!

Below is my entry exactly as it was posted.

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PICTURE PERFECT FRIDAY

 (Link to Picture Perfect)

Our host this week is Heather

and the word:

SONG TITLES

 

 

 

 

"Though we gotta say good-bye,
For the summer...
Darling, I promise you this,
I'll send you all my love,
Everyday in a letter,
Sealed with a kiss."

 

 

 

Taken today (July 24, 2008) with my Kodak easyshare Z740 Digital Camera

 

NOTICE: NEWS FLASH ABOUT FRANNIE'S COMPUTER!!! The computer is jumping around and she can't catch it!!!! This means she sees you and your blogs BUT she can't respond!!!! She said to tell the gang hello!!!!

CAN YOU SAY AWE?

LOL  Yes, yet another Life support!  When I read this one I thought of the little dogwood in my yard.  I've been looking at that Dogwood for twenty years now.  Always thinking (especially when in bloom) what a beautiful little tree it is!  Even after the storm several years ago caused a larger tree to come crashing down on it and leaving half of it dead, the other half continues to blossom and grow so beautifully!  We live in a world full of beautiful things... what a shame to take their beauty for granted... we must enjoy it every minute of everyday.... we just need to look around us!  I think all these photo challenges have helped us look and appreciate better.  We find beauty while trying to fulfill them that we might have over looked...  so a great big thank you to our host and hostess of these weekly games.

CAN YOU SAY, "AWE"?

Albert Einstein said that wonder is the source of all true art and all
science. "He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer
pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes
are closed."

I remember standing in rapt awe when I gazed upon the wonders of the
ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu in Peru. That amazing city was
built above the clouds, and it was more than the high altitude that
took my breath away. Can you say, "Awe"?

I'm reminded of the little girl who rode a train with her mother.
Looking out the window, she exclaimed, "Look! A horse!" And a moment
later, "Look! Houses!"

She gave every indication of keeping this up, so her embarrassed
mother apologized to the man next to her. "I'm sorry my daughter is
going on like this," she said. "She still thinks everything is
wonderful."

When do we stop thinking everything is wonderful? When we grow up?
When do we stop saying, "Awe"? Does growing older mean growing jaded?

And must we travel to faraway places to marvel once again? Can't we
experience wonder and awe today - this moment?

The slice of raisin toast I ate this morning was no less marvelous
today than when I first tasted it. But I did not notice how good it
really was. I think that few things are commonplace in themselves –
it's our reaction to them that grows dull over the years.

A man on his way to lunch happened to notice a visitor in Venice's
Piazza San Marco standing among the pigeons and gazing in apparent
rhapsody at the Doge's Palace. After his meal he noticed the same man
still studying the magnificent structure. Curious as to whether he'd
been standing there all morning, he asked the man, "How long have you
been here?"

"Twenty six years," came the reply, "and I never grow tired of it."

As Einstein observed, those who will "pause to wonder and stand rapt
in awe" will TRULY LIVE. They will see what others miss. They will
feel what others cannot. Life will be for them both exquisite and
mysterious when they learn to say, "Awe."

  ~ Steve Goodier
From "Your Life Support"

GATOR'S TRIPLE PLAY CHALLENGE

 

GATOR'S TRIPLE PLAY CHALLENGE

 

For more info click on the cute little gator below:

 

 

Sun kissed mountain peaks
majestic in the sky.
Beautiful angry ocean mist
spraying up so high.

Old worn and tattered flags
waving in the breeze.
Fills my heart with joy,
brings me to my knees.

Still I want to travel and see it all,
the beauty around the globe.
But returning to see Old Glory fly,
will be a beauty to behold!

       
This is my country! Land of my birth!
This is my country! Grandest on earth!
I pledge thee my allegiance, America, the bold,
For this is my country to have and to hold.

(What difference if I hail from North, or South, or East, or West?
My Heart is filled with love for all of these.
I only know I swell with pride from deep within my breast.
I thrill to see Ole Glory paint the breeze.
With hand upon my heart I'm thankful for my native land.
For all I love is here within her gates.
My soul is rooted deeply in the soil on which I stand.
For these are mine, my own United States.)

This is my country! Land of my choice!
This is my country! Hear my proud voice!
I pledge thee my allegiance, America, the bold,
For this is my country to have and to hold.

 

       

PICTURE PERFECT FRIDAY ~ PLEASANTVILLE

 

   
PICTURE PERFECT FRIDAY  


   


OUR HOST THIS WEEK IS JOHNOH Before running off on a wonderful weekend HEATHER  PICKED THE THEME AND IT IS:   PLEASANTVILLE   Have a great time Heather!!! Can't wait to see pictures and hear stories!!!  


To join in the great fun of Picture Perfect. Click on the link below:                 Cousin Haley (My contacts will recognize her from the resent pictures of my grandson's birthday!) A young lady just as beautiful on the outside as she is in her heart !!!      

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EVERYONE HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!




 

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." ~ John Lennon — John Lennon

IMAGE & WORDS ~ WEEK 6 ~ SKY

   
                Our Host this week is Joel And the theme he has chosen is: SKY

 

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PICTURE PERFECT FRIDAY ~ LIGHT

 

 

PICTURE PERFECT FRIDAY

 

 

Our Hostess this week is CHERIE

and the theme she has chosen is:

LIGHT

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Light, what a beautiful theme.  My first thought was of this Hibiscus I took when visiting my mother last April 16, 2009 in Cocoa Beach, Florida, as the sun light just seem to shine right through the flower.  It was taken with my Kodak Z740 Digital Camera.

 

 

    ONE LIGHT, ONE SUN, ONE SUN LIGHTING EVERYONE. (And Everything.)            

Grateful Dead ~ Ripple

Remembering...


If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine
And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung,
Would you hear my voice come thru the music,
Would you hold it near as it were your own?

Its a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken,
Perhaps theyre better left unsung.
I dont know, dont really care
Let there be songs to fill the air.

Ripple in still water,
When there is no pebble tossed,
Nor wind to blow.

Reach out your hand if your cup be empty,
If your cup is full may it be again,
Let it be known there is a fountain,
That was not made by the hands of men.

There is a road, no simple highway,
Between the dawn and the dark of night,
And if you go no one may follow,
That path is for your steps alone.

Ripple in still water,
When there is no pebble tossed,
Nor wind to blow.

But if you fall you fall alone,
If you should stand then whos to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home.

La dee da da da, la da da da da, da da da, da da, da da da da da
La da da da, la da da, da da, la da da da, la da, da da

Aren't They All Our Children????

 

 

 

AREN'T THEY ALL OUR CHILDREN?

There are few things in this life more difficult to experience than the loss of one's child. Jim Wallis, in WHO SPEAKS FOR GOD tells about a sad and terrifying incident that occurred during the tragic war in Sarajevo not too many years back. A reporter who was covering the violence in the middle of the city saw a little girl fatally shot by a sniper.

The reporter threw down his pad and pencil and rushed to the aid of a man who was now holding the child. He helped them both into his car and sped off to a hospital.

"Hurry, my friend," the man urged, "my child is still alive." A moment or two later he pleaded, "Hurry, my friend, my child is still breathing." A little later he said, "Hurry, my friend, my child is still warm."

When they got to the hospital, the young girl was gone. "This is a terrible task for me," the distraught man said to the reporter. "I must go tell her father that his child is dead. He will be heartbroken. "

The reporter was amazed. He looked at the grieving man and said, "I thought she was YOUR child."

The man replied, "No, but aren't they all our children?"

I think that is one of the great questions of our age. Aren't they all our children? It is a question that deserves an answer.

Aren't they all our children? Those who live under our roof and those who reside with another family? Those to whom we are related as well
as those whom we have never known?

Aren't they all our children? Those on our side of the border as well as those on the other side? Those of our nation no more or less than
those of another?

Aren't they all our children? Those who worship like us and those who worship differently? Those who look like us and those who do not?

Aren't they all our children? The well-educated and the under-educated? The well-fed and the under-fed? Those who are secure and those who are at risk?

Aren't they all our children? The highly valued and highly esteemed as well as the castaways and the lost?

Aren't they all our children? Aren't they all our responsibility? ALL of them? Ours to nurture? Ours to protect? Ours to love?

I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that the survival of our world hinges on the answer to that question.

To say they are NOT all our children is to condemn the world to more struggle – family against family, group against group, nation against nation.

Aren't they all our children? If we say yes, can we ever again pit them against each other? "If we have no peace," said Mother Teresa, "it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

Aren't they all our children?

There may be no greater question for our generation. And how we answer that question will determine the shape of our world for years to come.

~ Steve Goodier

         From "Your Life Support"

 

 

 

 

WISHING EVERYONE

A WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY!!!

IMAGE & WORDS #5 ~ SEASONS

     
            Our hostess this week is Milli And the theme she has chosen is:   SEASONS       To join in the fun... click on the link below:      
I was very excited when I saw the theme this week as I had noticed this weed (lol) when I took my bananas & berries outside to the sunshine to photograph them so I wouldn't have to use the flash
(for my Picture Perfect Friday this week).  I thought the colors were pretty so when I got home yesterday morning I went out and made a few pictures of it while it was still around just to see how they would turn out. Since it was taken yesterday June 6, 2009... it went with this quote and now I have time to sleep for work tonight ~ haha. Will do my visiting tomorrow and look so forward to seeing every ones SEASONS!  
                                                       

PICTURE PERFECT FRIDAY ~ THE LETTER "B"

     
    PICTURE PERFECT FRIDAY       Our hostess this week is Heather, and the theme she has chosen is:   SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH THE LETTER "B"       To Join in the fun, Click on the link below       Always fun when we get to pick and choose
part of the theme ourself! On the way home this morning I stopped at the store.... Won't be difficult to guess what I will being having
for a snack the rest of the week!!!             Taken a few minutes ago with my Canon Rebel XS       BANANAS & BERRIES