#SquareRenew…move forward, renew
Wordless Wednesday…family outing
Posted: May 15, 2024 in Animals, squaresTags: #SquaresRenew, animals, birds, ducklings, ducks, squares
Move forward…family
Posted: May 14, 2024 in Art, squaresTags: squares, murals, wall art, #SquaresRenew, move forward
I loved this mural for the challenge, but hadn’t taken the photo at a distance enabling me to convert it to a square, rather than a horizontal rectangle, without cutting out some of the quail. Enter my friend, image compare. Two squares and you get the entire family moving forward. Voilà!
Move forward…turkeys
Posted: May 13, 2024 in birds, squaresTags: #SquaresRenew, birds, Nature, squares, wild turkeys
Earlier this year during a trip up Mt. Lemmon, we stopped for a flock of wild turkeys crossing the road, steadily moving forward. I guess they knew it wasn’t Thanksgiving.
#SquareRenew
Renew in red
Posted: May 12, 2024 in One Word Sunday, squaresTags: #OWS, #SquareRenew. sunrise, One Word Sunday, renew, squares
#SquareRefresh
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO ALL MOMS, whether a mom by biology or by love
Breaking! Cotton balls grow on trees!
Posted: May 11, 2024 in Six-Word Saturday, squaresTags: #SquaresRenew. burgeoning, #SWS, Nature, Six-Word Saturday, squares
Six-Word Saturday and #SquaresRenew (burgeoning)
Quintessential desert burgeoning
Posted: May 10, 2024 in Nature, squaresTags: #SquaresRenew, burgeoning, Nature, squares, yucca
I love these yucca, which I consider one of the clan of Dr. Seuss plants, quirkily attractive and distinctive, that seem to have sprung from someone’s imagination…which I guess they did: from God’s. ❤️. They’re definitely burgeoning right now.
#SquaresRenew
Thursday Doors…renew
Posted: May 9, 2024 in squares, Thursday doorsTags: #SquaresRenew, #ThursdayDoors, classic cars, squares, Thursday doors, VW’s
Classic cars have obviously been renewed, making today the perfect intersection of Thursday Doors and Becky’s Square challenge, “renew” being one of her words and these VW’s obviously having doors. Ca ching!
That thing on the door is a swamp cooler, a not-particularly-effective way to try to cool a car without air conditioning. To me it looks more like some sort of weapon, but maybe that just says I read too many thrillers.
Now for the non-square. I love the headlights that look like eyes with eyelids.
And once again another Thursday has come (and maybe gone, depending where you live.) The weeks are flying by and the hot weather gets close and closer. Maybe I’ll attach a swamp cooler to my head. 😳😁
Wordless Wednesday…refresh
Posted: May 8, 2024 in squares, Wordless WednesdayTags: #SquaresRefresh, refresh, squares, Wordless Wednesday
Moving forward
Posted: May 7, 2024 in squaresTags: #SquaresRenew, horseback riding, personal, squares
Me at about 12, moving forward in one of my favorite ways.
#SquaresRenew 5.7.24
Lens-Artists Challenge #298 – To Be Young Again
Posted: May 6, 2024 in Lens-Artist Photo ChallengeTags: Lens Artists, Lens-Artists Challenge #298 – To Be Young Again., To Be Young Again, youth
“Youthfulness is about how you live, not when you were born.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
There are a number of poems with the title: “Oh, to be young again,” putting into poetic words what most imagine is an almost universal desire. I’m not sure I’d want to be young again, at least in the sense that many mean it. I wouldn’t mind being 50 or even 60 again, but to go back much farther than that? Probably not.
“Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret
However, Tina’s challenge/theme this week for Lens-Artists is “To be Young Again” and I think I’ve found some instances where that wish might be appropriate.
Hmmm, I just re-read her post and realized the she wants us to feature children. I’m getting worse at blindly following directions as I get older, but I’ll try. This next group is comprised of young, non-human children”, such as this baby mourning dove we found in a next in a bush outside my parents’ house.
“Enjoy your youth. You’ll never be younger than you are at this very moment.”― Chad Sugg
I think a squash blossom is a kind of young. If you don’t think so, feel free to consult the squash.
This fern is definitely not an adult yet, but it might be at any moment. Enjoy childhood while you can.
Ducklings are so cute when they’re young and not too bad when they grow up, unlike goslings, who are cute when young and annoying as grownup geese.
On a final, solemn note, those in the cemetery at Omaha Beach would certainly have expressed a desire to be young (and alive) again. Seeing the ages on these crosses helps me appreciate without question the privilege of getting old.
Tina, thanks for not kicking me out for not following directions very well, but I really just initially missed the children requirement in your post. Besides, you know how I’m always trying to push the envelope, perhaps a privilege of age. 🙂