DO WHAT YOU LOVE. EVERY DAY...

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OH HAPPY DAY!!!

Spring has sprung!

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Ahhhh…look at how happy the soon-to-be proud pappa is!!!

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My last flag picture at the CS Granite. I was surprised and happy that they did get new flags! They really look great!

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I thought I'd be drinking iced tea out in the courtyard by now...

Oh well. Just gotta make the best of it!

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I FOUND THEM!

These are two pairs of earrings that I thought were lost and gone F.O.R.E.V.E.R!!!!

But as I was cleaning out some boxes while rearranging my bedroom yesterday I was shocked to come across these! I had no idea they were in there, nor do I have any idea how they got there! But, that’s ok!!! I’m just so happy I found them! Yay me!

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Oreo Fudge Cremes. Bad. Very bad.

They are so good. Very good.

Oh, that’s bad…

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Untraditional Easter

Since we were gone for a long weekend, we didn’t have our traditional Easter at our house. We wanted to make sure we got to see Tony and Casey, so we had supper together at Olive Garden. Not what we would have done “normally” but it was fun, and we even brought their Easter basket to the restaurant with us.

Oh, how I love these two!

Happy Easter!

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Octopus Salad anyone?

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Overland Park, Kansas

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It is REALLY spring in Kansas City!

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Anybody know where this is?

 

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The first time I took “flag” pictures this January (go HERE to see original post) I did not get the picture I really wanted. I could not get close enough because of the snow. But today I went and tried again, and I’m closer to the shot I had in mind. I think I might go back yet another time when it is not quite so windy (and maybe they will replace the tattered flags by then!) 

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Today is a brighter day!

And my sense of humor seems to be returning…

 

 

 

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snort…

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Am I the only one who struggles to find joy and fun and beauty to shoot every day? Am I the only one who gets in a rut and “allows” my feelings to squash my creativity?

Cheryl said “not all pictures have to be cheery”,  and while I appreciate that, I could still not bear to post sad, gloomy, “less than” joyful pictures.  Because my life is NOT sad or gloomy and I have an enormous amount of JOY!

But sometimes, some days, some weeks just plain suck the life out of me, and this certainly was one. Sorry to all of you who hate hearing that. I just want to be real to you.

It’s ok, though. I know this is a passing and fleeting moment. I know what a difference a day (week) can make. I know that “in ALL things God works to the good for those who love Him”. I know that “there is weeping and crying at night, but joy comes in the morning.” I know that “He who is in me is greater than he who is in the world”.

So I wait for that “joyful morning”. It might be tomorrow, or the next day, or a week from now. I will try to pick myself up and capture the many, many things I find joyful in my life. I still have been taking pictures (below the following shot) each day, but haven’t been posting. But maybe tomorrow will be a turn-around day for me.

“For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.” 

2 Corinthians 4:6-12

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