Small Reflections: HF#133 - Checking out Late Afternoon Skies

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Friday, April 24, 2009

HF#133 - Checking out Late Afternoon Skies

Make Time for Small Reflections

My heart goes out to
everyone affected by
Myrtle Beach fires ...

From the deck above
the garage my evening skies
obscured by wires

often dramatic ...
as the photos I've collaged
and shared here today.

Click to embiggen for better viewing.
Find others participating in ...
Haiku Friday, SkyWatch and Looking at the Sky this week.

See also today's Haiku Sky Watch Friday at
Happily Retired Gal and Sacred Ruminations

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your
house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience." Robert Fulghum

16 comments:

nature ramblings said...: I always enjoy your thought for the day. So True!!!! Nice grouping of skys. The wires always add a little something and they are so hard to get away from. Thanks for sharing. Happy Friday!; April 24, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Enigma said...: A great collage. Wonderful blues!!! Buts what is in those contrails? LOL. Thanks for sharing!; April 24, 2009 at 8:53 AM
Quiet Paths said...: I just love your sky and palm trees. You are right; we need fewer wires in our lives!; April 24, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Pat - Arkansas said...: Lovely skies in your collage -- wires and all.

I do like the Fulgham quote. Thanks!; April 24, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Tarolino said...: You have a wonderful talent for finding these great quotes for us to chew on. Combined with your collages of those wonderful skies of yours these posts are a true joy.; April 24, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Ari_1965 said...: Our brief hat wave is over (hit 90F yesterday) and we're going back down to 50s. My kind of weather. The skies haven't been the shades of blue in your photos--we've mostly had that pale, almost pastel, shade of blue that often goes with buffeting winds and hot temps.; April 24, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Maude Lynn said...: Gorgeous colors!; April 24, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Ralph said...: You could view these wires as abstract props in your wonderful collage...; April 24, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Dianne said...: I've never seen anyone make power wires look as beautiful as you have!; April 24, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Kim said...: Great photos! I love the way the light is hitting the clouds.

I played too over at Look at the Sky on Friday! Come on over. :); April 24, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Linnea said...: Awesome skies and collage...you never disappoint me. The sky was full of interesting clouds when you took these shots. Thanks for sharing and enjoy the weekend...; April 25, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Susan Cook said...: Terrific photos. They look like storm clouds. Thanks for sharing your view.; April 25, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Gattina said...: Beautiful skies !; April 25, 2009 at 10:14 PM
2sweetnsaxy said...: Those are wonderful skies! Great collage. I should try doing those more often.; April 26, 2009 at 7:38 AM
Tumblewords: said...: You do have some gorgeous skies!! Always a joy to see your photos...; April 27, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Misty DawnS said...: I especially like the shot in the bottom right - with the touch of orange.; April 28, 2009 at 2:03 PM

Currently ...

... I'm thankful to have encountered the 'Food Court Flash Mob Hallelujah Chorus to share here at Small Reflections. I've also shared a Beautiful Meditative Video and a delightful Random Act of Culture (that happened at Macy's) at Sacred Ruminations ... just because.

I'm also grateful that I've created a personalized 1st edition 'Labyrinth Journal' for my friend Susan. I've written a second version that I plan to publish & share with others very soon.

My sister & her husband arrived in town on Wednesday, November 17th and will be around for a few months ... so that's pretty 'kewl' too!

Remember ... you can find me sharing at Giraffe Journal and Labyrinth Journal when you don't see anything from me posted here.

Hope all's well with you and yours!
Hugs and blessings,
Virginia

FYI - My previous Gratitude Lists can be found at Happily Retired Gal, at WordPress. It is my intention to keep this 'Daily Gratitude List' in my sidebar indefinitely because I believe it makes sense to focus on what's right in our lives regularly. Click for:
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Evolution of my blogs
Late in October of 2007, I started playfully exploring possibilities here and at SacredRuminations ... the site where I joined Carla's Sacred Life Project. I published daily on both sites initially, but in mid-January of 2008 I gave myself permission to cut myself some slack & rethink things. Since committing to Blog 365 at Small Reflections, I've continued to publish daily here, but I'm thinking about alternating days and/or experimenting a bit with a variety of possibilities in an attempt to balance my online activities with my "real life" ... without giving "short shrift" to either blog. Therefore, it's all a work in progress, and I hope you'll bear with me.

In October of 2008, I celebrated my 1st Blogoversary here at Small Reflections on the 22nd & at Sacred Ruminations on the 23rd.

I completed Blog 365 in 2008 with a total of 378 posts here at Sacred Ruminations, 234 at Sacred Ruminations, 20 at BlogRolls, Bling & Blurbs, and 30 at Happily Retired Gal for a grand total of 662 ... all in 366 days!

In 2009, my sister & her husband returned to So Cal for 4 months and I had less time to blog. Even though they're on the road again, I'm finding it challenging to recapture a daily blogging habit. Click for more specifics about this.

In October of 2009 I celebrated my 2nd Blogoversary here at Small Reflections & at Sacred Ruminations and in November of 2009 I celebrated my 1st Blogoversary at Happily Retired Gal. Little did I know what would follow when I entered this 'virtual' world.

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My Blog Blasts for Peace:
Sacred Ruminations- The Strength of Gentleness
Small Reflections-A Revolution of Music
Blog Rolls & Bling - What if? (a Colorful Alternative to Bombs)
and last June:
Thirteen Thoughts on the Topic of Peace
Peace in Every Step

My Peace Globes are below
Clicking on them will take you to the related 'Bl0g Blast' post also.
"It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear .... It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to." Marilyn Ferguson

Food for Thought

(or reminders for myself)

"it takes courage to become who you really are." e.e. cummings

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

"How you handle the situation IS the situation." Stephen Covey

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." Lao-Tzu

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." William James

"At mid-life more than any other time, we have renewed opportunity to create health by expressing our creativity fully." Dr. Christiane Northrup

"It is never too late to be who you might have been." George Eliot

"Things are only impossible until they're not." Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows." Ralph Waldo Emerson

More thoughts

"We have been so eager to give our children what we didn't have in life, we have neglected to give them what we did." Anyonmous

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

"There are events in life that cannot be explained or changed. I acknowledge them, feel them, and I release the rage, guilt, loss, anger, and grief." Dr. Christiane Northrup

"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." Bernadette Devlin

"The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity." Edmund Burke

"In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us." Virginia Woolf

"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and their unlimited imagination." James Michener

"If you think you can, or think you can't -- you're right." Henry Ford

More Thoughts ...

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do." Georgia O'Keefe

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true." Richard Bach

"Telling stories causes others to remember what they have always known." Anonymous

"Character is the bridge between our beliefs and our behavior. Character is the glue of personality, the connective tissue that makes a person whole, integrated, a person of integrity." Joan Konner, journalist

"What you choose not to look at in life, rules your life." Lynn Andrews

"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit." Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"When a woman changes her life for the better, her entire family (whether or not she has children) generally benefits. She sets the tone. The well-being of the family and of society itself depends upon women becoming and remaining healthy. So we owe it to ourselves to put ourselves first and take the time we need to heal." Dr. Christiane Northrup

Friday, April 24, 2009

HF#133 - Checking out Late Afternoon Skies

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