A Photo a Week Challenge: Light the Night

Posted by pausesandclicks on 06/27/2018
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Timing wasn’t the best for me this week for this particular challenge as I’m up “in the Soo” where the sun starts to light up the horizon at 5 a.m. and isn’t completely set until close to 10:30 p.m.  Even after a very late dinner last night the sky wasn’t completely dark  behind the International Bridge that connects the two cities of Sault Ste. Marie, USA and Sault Ste. Marie, Canada.

And this photographer, after a full day of landscaping around my son’s new home and over 20,000 steps on my Fitbit, wasn’t willing to stay up any later for more pictures!

Instead, I’ll leave you with a few shots from the middle of the last few days. Days blissfully full of crisp air and brilliant blue skies, things this Louisiana resident misses in the summer.

 

 

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We’re on to Seattle in a few days so perhaps the next challenge will be more conducive to my vacation plans.  In the meantime, greetings from the UP!

A Photo A Week Challenge: Opening

Posted by pausesandclicks on 06/20/2018
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I’ve discovered the more I go through this particular opening, the more everything about my life falls into place.

It’s even better when someone is there to open the door as this gentleman was doing for everyone at Holy Family Catholic Church in Abilene, TX last Sunday.

I suspect I went out of a sense of obligation for many years but even during those decades when I was distracted and certainly not as attentive as I should have been, I was still absorbing the message, the music, the traditions and the beliefs.

The foundation of my faith was always there. Due to my parents the mustard seed was sown.

I’m thankful for that.

God never wavered.  He just patiently waited for me to come back.

 

A Photo A Week Challenge: A Study in Light

Posted by pausesandclicks on 06/13/2018
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I’ve touched on this often in my posts, those twenty-seven moves in thirty-five years as a military spouse. Those moves affected so many parts of my life.

All of those addresses and not once did I really have much of a choice of the house I lived in. We rented the houses, or were issued them.  Only once did we buy and my husband found and bought the house when I was still in South Dakota with sons in school and he was already in Virginia.

But this time, this first retirement home….this home I got to choose.

Here’s the reason I fell in love with it.

This is where the light first slips in, as the sun rises behind the house.


Making it’s appearance through generous windows the rest of the morning.

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Ending An Era of Sorts

Posted by pausesandclicks on 06/06/2018
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It seems a somewhat feeble ending….to end with something old rather than with something new but the last Daily Post Photo Challenge asks us to post favorites.

I wouldn’t classify this as my favorite post but it’s my first one, published in November of 2011, and although I don’t think I’ve revisited it in many years, it still explains exactly why I do this, and it contains one of my early favorite photos:

https://pausesandclicks.com/2011/11/13/moments/

In the beginning I struggled with content so I found a photo challenge called P52 that another blogger hosted then switched over to the Daily Post Photo Challenge in January of 2013.

Over time the posts and the weeks just sort of piled up, one on top of the other, until six and a half years have gone by.

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Finding My Place

Posted by pausesandclicks on 05/16/2018
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For twenty-two years this was my place in the world.

Then came life as a military spouse.

Until, quite suddenly (in retrospect, that’s how it felt!), after 27 moves in 35 years, and after no sense of true belonging or sense of physical permanence anywhere, that part of my life came to an end when my husband retired in 2015.

 

Two moves and three years later we’re settled with no immediate plans to move and nothing speaks to me more than planting a perennial garden at the address we now call home.  Up until now I’ve always been a container garden person….seldom having two growing seasons in a row to experiment with what worked.

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