4. Find one thing you enjoy looking at
My lilac tree in springtime
My lilac tree in springtime. (c)2020
Gratitude Scavenger Hunt – #4
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Gratitude Scavenger Hunt – #2
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2. Something to give someone else to make them smile.
Flowers, Rocks, Trees.
What makes you smile?
Mental Health Monday – Do Something Small and Manageable
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Retreat
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Take some time to smell the flowers and really look at them. Continue reading
September – Back to School – Quotation
“Autumn is a second spring where everry leaf is a flower.”
-Albert Camus
August – Vacation/Staycation – Photo/Art
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A variety of road trips, top to bottom: rental car, Celtic shield pin, Days Inn motel sign, Via Aquarium entrance, pansies on the path, crosswalk, Ballycraigy welcome sign, Erie Canal Cruises. (c)2018
July: Sum Sum Summer: Photo/Art
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May: Flowers and Birds: Photos
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Mid-morning sunshine through the lilacs and pines. (c)2018
Buds are still formng! (c)2018
Close-up. (c)2018
Close-up. (c)2018
My Pin Collection – 3
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L-R: Kids playing, the initial K (this was the first gift I received from my students as a teacher), Teacher’s desk, Child, Wooden heart, 2 figures dancing, NY’s Odyssey of the Mind, inside the Odyssey pin, Fall cornucopia, US Navy MWR name tag. (c)2017
Flowers, Clockwise: Starburst in purple and green, Daisy, Daffodil, Rainbow stones in a butterfly. This one was my mother’s. She collected butterfly pins and other accessories. I think this one is my favorite. (c)2017
Christmas Collection, L-R: Spode porcelain wreath, Silver penguins, Clay/ceramic SNopwman, Copper-colored wreath with snowman, Streetlight. (c)2017
Clockwise: Delaware, Winnie-the-Pooh, Strasburg RailRoad, Duran Duran, Daffy Duck. (c)2017
25/52 – Summer
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Summer Word Art. (c)2017
