Change.

Project 52-Sweet Shot Tuesday

Tuesday Muse

Tones on Tuesday

Outdoor Wednesday

It started with a nice walk in the park, along the river.

Just one Caterpillar, climbing up my Hubby's leg. At the time we were having a deep discussion about changes, as we were walking. Thinking that we might have to readdress our goals and what our timelines were working out to be.

And along came a Caterpillar.

 

If you can get past the phase of Caterpillars eating every leaf in sight and spinning cacoons here there and everywhere, and wait the time it takes for them to morph into a beautiful butterfly, then its not so bad.

Caterpillars change. The change is inevitable. They either die or they change.  

 

Its the same with change. Its inevitable. You can't stay the same, stagnant and going nowhere. Change makes sure it moves you, even into unknown territory. You must change. 

And there are many ways to suffer the death of not moving with the change. 

We talked about the changes we were facing, the fact that those things we wanted might not be the things we needed. 

 

 

Its strange how Caterpillars all congregate onto one spot on the trunk of the tree. Why there? 

Its kind of like thoughts. You get something in your mind It stays there, going round and round. And grows. It eats into the wood. It marks the spot, especially if you don't do anything to rid yourself of it.

We had a lot of things to wade through and search through to get to the bottom. It was marking the spot. 

We had to address it. 

One day the butterfly will emerge. 

We will see the change.

 

 

Pink Seems to be my Color!

Macro Monday

It took quite a while for flowering pink blossoms to show up, but now that they are here, I can't get enough of them. I hope you don't get sick of my little obsesssion!

 

Project 52 Sweet Shot Tuesday 

I just feel that as they are only here for a little while, you have to seize the moment, so to speak. I wait all year for pink, and it is always worth the wait!

 

Ruby Tuesday 

The little splashes of red amongst all the pink is like tiny jewels. I love it!

 

Tones on Tuesday 

Pale to Light to Dark Pink to Red, lovely tones. 

My Bleeding Heart

Project 52- Sweet Shot Tuesday

Tuesday Muse

Ruby Tuesday

My bleeding heart

For a couple of reasons.

 

It will pass. 

I have it on good authority, 

Thanks, Lora.

This Old House

Project 52 - Sweet Shot Tuesday

Tuesday Muse

Tuesday Around the World

Outdoor Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

My sister and I recently took a road trip from Medicine Hat to Edmonton to see my niece, her daughter graduate from her Caregiving course. We rented a car, filled it full of our bags, our snacks and drinks, and our trusty set of directions located on a private Facebook message about how to get from here to there in no uncertain terms! You know the kind, go this many miles to this road turn right and continue till you get to this road, turn left and so on and so on. We had about  6 hours of travel and barring our stops for more food and those freshen up stops we made it to Edmonton in 7 hours. Pretty good, right??

 

We had a blast in Edmonton, and really enjoyed proud Mom and Auntie moments watching Tracey receive  her Certificate. We shopped till we dropped. We ate more food in three days than most eat in a week. But like all holidays, they must come to an end and we had to go home.

 

That is where the challenges began. Have you ever tryed to take the list of directions that brought you to one place and turn it around so it can take you back to where you came from? 

Well, needless to say, we ran into a few directional difficulties (detours) and we ended up travelling down a couple of roads that were not exactly on our backward map.

 

It can't be a mistake if it takes you to places you might never of seen had it not been for that unplanned detour, can it??? 

 I would never of seen this abandoned relic of an old house sitting in the middle of a farmer's field had it not been for that particular detour!

 

I stopped short of climbing through the barbed wire fence that surrounded the house to get closer and take better pictures of the place. 

I have been known to do that on occasion. Probably not the safest thing to do around these parts. I have been told that there are Rattle Snakes in this province and that the farmers don't take too lightly to trespassers on their property. 

 

This old house has seen better days. Its covered inside and out with graffiti, broken windows, peeling boards and surrounded in brown grass.. It has broken stairs and furniture inside. The elements have taken their toll. 

But it has history and if it could, probably a story or two to tell. 

And I would of never seen it if it had not been for that darn detour. (Detour- that's my story and I am sticking to it)

I'd love to tell you exactly where this place was but we were kind of lost, you know, the detour!!

In the Pink, part 2

Pink Saturday

I waited a long time to see some pink blossoms. Most of my friends in B.C. have already been talking about Cherry blossoms for over a month now. In fact they say their blossoms are already past their lifespan. 

So finally, ours is starting to bloom, and I couldn't be happier. 

I thought I'd probably never see blossoms here in Alberta.

 

Its always windy here, so it was hard getting some photos that weren't blowing in that wind. 

At times the wind blows like crazy, and the air feels full of dust. Tumble weeds blow down the street and pile up on fences and against the sides of homes. 

 

Camera Critters 

This tiny LadyBug was trying to gather some food and not get blown away into the next yard.

Today's Flowers

Lots of little buds that still are set to open.

 

Macro Monday 

These pink blossoms really signal the arrival of Spring for me. I was beginning the think it wasn't going to happen!

 

Ruby Tuesday 

These colours won't be around for much longer and I have waited so long for them, that I am loving being out and seeing their fleeting beauty. 

Finally, I am in the Pink!

Project 52 Sweet Shot Tuesday

Tuesday Muse

Tones on Tuesday

I have been waiting weeks for pink! And finally finally I found some. I found it right in the front yard after returning home from spending a few days away in Edmonton. 

These lovely pink blossoms bloomed while we were gone and greeted us as we drove up the driveway. I had to wait until the next morning to get some photos as it was just getting dark in the late evening when we arrived home.

 

The next morning I got up, dressed fast and grabbed my camera and raced upstairs, all excited to take some photos and what did I see. 

Wind. Lots of wind. 40 km/hour winds with gusts of wind up to 100 km/hour. 

And the wind lasted for two days. It blew and stormed and blew some more. 

At that rate, there would not of been a pink petal left to photograph.

 

So if I wanted any kind of photo of pink blossoms and I did, I had to get out there in a hurricane (it felt like one anyways) and hope I could adjust my shutter speed up high enough to take photos. And not get knocked over. And keep my hair from flying in front of the camera and into my eyes.

Oh, the challenges.

 

So these three photos are the start of my adventure on windy days taking pink blossom photos. I am glad I got them as today they look worse for wear, the edges of the delicate pink blossoms looking more ragged and turning brown. 

I will be posting more in the next few days. I would post them all right now but my internet is slower than molasses right now. 

I was patient trying to take these so you will have to come back and see some more- be patient!!

Blue Flowers

Today's Flowers

Sunday Snapshot 

Macro Monday 

I am posting a few more photos of Blue roses for you all to enjoy. 

Winter has been long and a bit lingering, so to enjoy some flowers right now, we head out to the store.

 

Blue Monday 

Bright blue against a background of white Baby's Breath, gorgeous!

 

We have to rely on store bought bouquets of flowers here, as Spring is slow to arrive here. Things are greening up a bit, and you can see the beginnings of Tulip and Daffodils growing, but flowers are only found in a flower shop at this time!

 

It shouldn't be long though and flowers will appear!!