Midlife – travel, fun and adventure
I love quotes! I have been waiting to share this one with you for a while now and this week's Eclectic Corner #12 is just the time and place! I'm not saying that this relates to me but..... And though she be butlittleshe isfierce. Shakespeare I'm hoping that this sign balances out my (perceived) fierceness …
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Today's every day is an adventure photo is of my walking/running track, which I know very well by now. This is just one section of my route. I love the fact that it winds off into the distance, enticing you to come along and see what adventures await around the next corner. At this time …
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A walk around a garden which is slowly subsiding into winter, gave me this surprise today. It's on the magnolia tree so I can only assume it's a seed pod. There are many of them on the tree, all fluffy white with a beautiful colourful centre piece. It made my day with it's ethereal beauty!! …
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On our way to participate in a Parkrun on Saturday morning, my daughter and I both stopped to snap a photo of the lake. The temperature was just in minus figures and lake was warming up and coming alive with the steam rising off the water. It was beautiful. This is my adventure shot for the …
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The Opera Bar at the iconic Sydney Opera House is usually a bustling place full of visitors and locals enjoying the glorious harbour views with a drink or two. This is a very different look! Off season is the prompt for this week's photo challenge and we're asked to show what off season means to …
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We start life in a nest-like environment and as we grow up we gradually leave the nest for adventures. Some of us then become empty-nesters. This is day 6 of my photo project, Every day is an adventure! It's all about finding the adventure in the everyday and I'm aiming to post a photo a day …
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Shadows, hills, valleys, afternoon light - what's not to love?? My new photo project, Every day is an adventure, is all about finding the adventure in the everyday. I don't think it matters where we live, what we do or how we do it; if we keep the spirit of adventure in our lives it all …
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Every day is a new adventure is very true for these beautiful children from Africa. Sharon, Gloria and their leader Aunty Penny were in town as part of a well known children's choir concert and we were asked to host a group for the night. We have hosted similar groups over the past few years and …
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It's time for Eclectic Corner #12. Week 2 calls for a piece of writing on the theme of 'Perspective'. 1st Tuesday of each month, Week 1 = Photography - Click here to see my photo post from last week. 2nd Tuesday of each month, Week 2 = Poetry or written piece 3rd Tuesday of each month, Week 3 …
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Day 3 of my daily photo challenge - Every day is a new adventure - and I have chosen my frosty windscreen art photo from an early morning at the gym last week. I had scraped my windscreen, a bit haphazardly, and when I got into drive home this was what I saw. I thought …
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Yesterday was Day 1 of my new Every day is an adventure project and I featured water tumbling over a local waterfall. Well today's photo is all about Fire, taken at a bonfire night over the weekend. What fun it was to watch the flames flicker and dance in the dark. This photo appealed to me …
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How exciting - a new project!! Every day is an adventure is a new project for me, where I will post a photo every day for 365 days (not necessarily taken that day) - sometimes with words, sometimes without. I believe that everyday should be an adventure! The photo might be mundane, might be exciting, …
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Not the end of the world as we know it... don't panic! The end of the birthday month, with my youngest daughter's birthday this week. (The fact that she's now in her late 20s doesn't mean she stops being my baby girl!). As I mentioned in a recent post, I wasn't expecting that, I wrote …
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At certain times of the year we have our very own vivid light show. The hill/mountain overlooking our town glows red with the late afternoon sun. I managed to capture it looking vivid just this week! It is my 'natural' take on the vivid theme for this week's photo challenge. Last year I was in Sydney and …
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I couldn't have said it better myself! It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it. John Burroughs (Winter Sunshine) I was on my way to work on a frosty freezing cold morning. I had to …
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My blogging friend Lucile has nominated me to join the Free Style Writing Challenge - something I haven't done before! It's a timed writing challenge with a topic given by Lucile with instructions not to edit, correct or change your writing once you've started. Just write for 5 or 10 minutes on the set topic. …
Perspective means different ways of looking at things. It's also this week's theme for Justine's Eclectic Corner #12. Way back in March 2014 Perspective was also the theme for the Daily Post's weekly photo challenge. I remember using these photos then and like them so much I've recycled them for this week's post (I hope nobody minds …
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