A Rose by any other Name ...

Make Time for Small Reflections
Mosaic Monday is in the next post

Walking recently
I happened upon this rose ...
is it not lovely?

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Today's Flowers
Mellow Yellow Monday
Ruby Tuesday

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." Marilyn vos Savant

Reflections & Shadows - Fur-Kids at the Beach

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Multi-tasking this weekend ... just because ;-)

More photos from Dog
Beach with canine reflections ...
and some shadows too

An 'inverted' view
yields a dif'rent perspective
of the reflections


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Weekend Reflections, Camera Critters,
Pet Pride, Shadow Shot Sunday, and Mosaic Monday
Click if you missed Molly's Adventures at the Beach & Doggie Spa
As usual, I've also shared Mosaics at
Happily Retired Gal and Sacred Ruminations

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." Roger Caras

Molly's Adventures at Dog Beach & the Doggie Spa

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Mostly

Monday Molly played
at Dog Beach with canine friends
while I took photos

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Outdoor Wednesday

Watery Wednesday

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday

Midweek Blues

In the afternoon
I dropped Molly off at a
local Doggie Spa ;-)

13 photographs
featuring my Molly girl ...
loyal canine friend!

Mosaic with Poster Edges



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Thursday Thirteen

Small Reflections ... Smile Back
Click to see 13 Things I'm Grateful For at Sacred Ruminations

I'm celebrating my 1st Blogoversary
at Happily Retired Gal on Wednesday, November 25th.
Hope you can drop by when time permits!
How time flies ;-)

Thought for Today
"The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog." Ambrose Bierce

Ms Kitty admires her window reflection ...

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Scroll down for Mosaic Monday

Late to share this week ...
struggling to recover
from a nasty flu ;-(

Kitty Reflections

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Camera Critters and Pet Pride



Accented Edges

Palette Knife

Rough Pastels

Solarize plus Invert

Solarize plus Invert plus Poster Edges

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See also my other Mosaic Monday posts this week at
Happily Retired Gal and Sacred Ruminations

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"If cats could talk, they wouldn't." Nan Porter

Mellow Yellow - Mosaic - Blue Monday

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Camera Critters & Pet Pride are in the next post

More photographs from
my sister ... in Alaska
RV traveling

I don't know how they

manage sharing this small space

but somehow they do

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Scenes along the Alaskan Marine Highway

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Blue Monday
Mosaic Monday
Mellow Yellow Monday
My other Mosaic Monday with photos from my sister's travels.

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Thought for Today
"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence." Erma Bombeck

Molly meets Ned from Syracuse, New York

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Molly made a new
friend this week ... his name is Ned
visiting all month.

Just 18 months old
tall and eager ... New York pooch
likes to run & play ;-)

Originals above ... Poster Edges in the middle

... and some random experimental tweaking below

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Thought for Today
"How can you live in the present and appreciate every moment? Choose to see all things lin light. You can change your life by changing your mind." Marianne Williamson

T-13 ... Thankful for my Just Joey Roses and more

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Haiku Friday Sky Watch is at Sacred Ruminations

5 versions of my
Just Joey roses collaged
along with 8 thoughts

makes 13 ... all right?
Sharing quotes that remind me
gratitude expands

as we count blessings
paying attention to small
moments every day

All year I've added
one thing I'm thankful for here
at Small Reflections

The mosaics look
much the same until you click
to 'embiggen' them

1. "We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude." Cynthia Ozick

2. Original - Straight out of the Camera

3. "Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds." Theodore Roosevelt

4. It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others. James Smith

5. Fresco Filter

6. We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder

7. "God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" William A. Ward

8. Stained Glass

9. "Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day." Robert Caspar Lintner

10. Palette Knife

11. "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." John Fitzgerald Kennedy

12. Poster Edges

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Thankful Thursday
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13. "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice." Meister Eckhart

Small Reflections ... Smile Back
and one more for good measure ... just because ;--)

Thought for the Day
"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving." W.T. Purkiser