Wild Wednesday
Tag: ocean
Riding it out
Beautiful Storm
I started working on this image during my “time out” yesterday. I feel wonderful today, and very well rested. The beach scene is not quite where I wanted it to be, but it will have to do. For now. Striving for perfection is exhausting, so it’s “good enough.” I’ve come to the conclusion that—even with […]
Read MoreNot an Island
I am not an island, That is what I have been told. But I am alone when at sea, it seems, Paddling out in the cold. I am not an island, Isolation takes its toll. But the fish and birds accompany me, While the ocean feeds my soul. Written for the Word of the Day […]
Read MoreAlways Optimistic
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so. David Brooks
Read MoreThe Outsider
Standing at a distance, As the crowd wails, Arguing over scraps, The outsider watches. Quietly dreaming, Anticipating, Waiting patiently, For the endless sea to call… Word of the Day Challenge: Endless Have a beautiful day everyone!
Read MoreGlimpses
Magnificent Blue Glimpses of wonder at sea Glorious Creatures Word of the Day Challenge: Glimpse
Read MoreRolling in the Deep
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” —Henry David Thoreau—
Read MoreWipe Out
Word of the Day Challenge: Spray
Read MoreA Mother’s Love
Infinite Ocean Hearts restored by your embrace Like a mother’s love
Read MoreOn the Rocks
Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. —La Fontaine
Read Morethe Boardwalk
Footprints left behind, In the ocean of my mind, Memories captured. —JanetHaiku #6 I’ve shared this image before, in Pier Madness, but it was severely manipulated and I don’t like that version anymore. The girl taking the iPhone pic is an old schoolmate, and our friendship was the inspiration behind the Haiku. It’s still raining, […]
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Stay Golden
Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. -Robert Frost I’ve definitely learned some new techniques over the course […]
Read MoreA Moment in Time
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis Last night I viewed my previous image via my cellphone, and I felt a little knot in my stomach. It barely resembled the piece that I had looked […]
Read MorePier Madness
Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses. -John Goddard- I am checking another item off of the 55 things list; took a photo underneath a pier. In all honesty, it may very well be the first time that I even stood under a pier! That I can remember, […]
Read MoreA New Life
Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over… she began to fly.
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