Small Reflections

Welcome to Small Reflections

"Nothing is ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Duck photo source: Lisa's Chaos

I hope you enjoy your visit. If you're looking for something specific, check out the links to posts by category in my sidebar and down a ways. They'll assist with tracking down different types of posts found on each of my three blogs. You might also enjoy checking out the other sites: Sacred Ruminations, Blog Rolls, Bling & Blurbs, and Happily Retired Gal.

I hope you'll look around & leave comments
then visit me at my new blog ...
Giraffe Journal
and/or website ... Labyrinth Journal
both self-hosted at WordPress
where I publish as myself
rather than under a
pseudonym.

I've not had much time for posting or blog visits, but if you're interested I hope you'll find time to check out my new blog, Giraffe Journal or my Labyrinth Journal website ... both self hosted at WordPress.

Thanks for your visit and have a delightful day ;--)
Hugs and blessings,

Monday, October 19, 2009

Travel Photos from my Sister - British Columbia

Make Time for Small Reflections

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

Liard River - British Columbia

Original Mosaic
created by me with photos from my sister
slightly 'tweaked' by me with PSE6

Until embiggened
dif'rences seem minimal ...
Click and you will see!

Accented Edges

Ink Outlines

Palette Knife

Poster Edges

Click to embiggen for better viewing
... and for others participating in
Mosaic Monday
Blue Monday

Outdoor Wednesday

Watery Wednesday

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday

Midweek Blues
I've shared two more mosaics today
Mellow Yellow Mosaic Monday at Sacred Ruminations and
Mosaic Blue Monday - Ruby Tuesday at Happily Retired Gal
... just because ;-)

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"All through my life, new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child." Madame Marie Curie

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Aloha's Growing on Molly ... Gradually

Make Time for Small Reflections

Little dalmatian
follows Molly everywhere ...
As Aloha grows

bigger and stronger
Molly likes her company
more each time they play.

Click to embiggen for better viewing

for others participating in Camera Critters and Pet Pride
I've shared Birds from my Rainy Day Walk
at Sacred Ruminations too.

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

1:30pm Sunday Addendum
Here's a link to Aloha's BEACH video from Aloha's dad
added in comments & transferred here. Enjoy you guys!
Aloha's Beach Visit Video

Thought for Today
"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of." Sarah Orne Jewett

Thursday, October 15, 2009

T-13 and Haiku Sky Watch Friday-Rainy Skies

Make Time for Small Reflections

13 cloudy skies
collaged in this mosaic ...

Finally, some rain ;--)

Click the link above
to see a mosaic of
rainy day photos

shared yesterday at
Happily Retired Gal ...
absolute delight!

Click to embiggen for better viewing.
Find others participating in ... Thursday Thirteen
Haiku Friday and SkyWatch this week.

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness." Adeline Knapp

Monday, October 12, 2009

Ruby Tuesday

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

Found outside a shop
in Lake Arrowhead last week ...
I just had to share ;--)

Original

Poster Edges

Solarize

Glowing Edges

Click to embiggen for better viewing
and for others participating in Ruby Tuesday

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience." Miguel de Cervantes

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Pet Pride & Mosaic Monday - A black lab at play

Make Time for Small Reflections
Camera Critters is in the next post ... Wild Alaskan Bear mosaics

More photographs from
my sister who 'hit the road'
when she retired.

Once upon a time
they traveled in this 5th wheel
towed with Chevy truck

but they got tired
of the 'hassles' ... trading it
for this Pleasure Way

I don't know how they

manage sharing this small space,

but somehow they do.

This pooch lives with friends
on a lake in Washington
Playful Labrador ;--)

Lake Sammamish, Washington

Originals ... straight out of the camera

Poster Edges

Click to embiggen for better viewing ...
for others participating in Pet Pride and Mosaic Monday.
Click to see yesterday's Camera Critters
Wild Bears in Alaska mosaics too.

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing." Mark Twain

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Wild Bear in Alaska

Make Time for Small Reflections

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

Originals sent by my sister
then 'tweaked' and collaged by me

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

Poster Edges

Accented Edges, Darkened

Watercolor Filter, Lightened

Click to embiggen for better viewing ...
for others participating in Thursday Thirteen
Haiku Friday & Camera Critters

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." John Muir

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Outdoor Watery Wednesday - Midweek Blues

Make Time for Small Reflections

Mostly

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

Original Mosaic
created by me with photos from my sister
slightly 'tweaked' by me with PSE6

Poster Edges

Watercolor

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

Click images to embiggen for better viewing

and for others participating in

Outdoor Wednesday

Watery Wednesday

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday

Midweek Blues

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." Mary Byrant

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:
2010 Lists - July, June, May, April, March, February, January
2009 Lists - December, November, October, September, August, July June, May, April, March, February, January
2008 Lists - December, November

More About Me

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How I Became a Blogger

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.

Click to find ...

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

Monday, October 19, 2009

Travel Photos from my Sister - British Columbia

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Aloha's Growing on Molly ... Gradually

Thursday, October 15, 2009

T-13 and Haiku Sky Watch Friday-Rainy Skies

Monday, October 12, 2009

Ruby Tuesday

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Pet Pride & Mosaic Monday - A black lab at play

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Wild Bear in Alaska

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Outdoor Watery Wednesday - Midweek Blues

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