I Am In Control of My Time

Mt. Fuji is in the background through the clouds.

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My Blessed Home

Hi! My favorite color is GREEN. So, obviously, I love trees and plants and flowers... My favorite flower is the gardenia. My grandmother had a flowering plant in front of her house and she always had one or several gardenias floating in water on the kitchen table. She died 21 years ago this March. When I moved into my house 5 years ago in April, I didn't know I had a gardenia bush next to my front porch. My mother-in-law came over with a few friends a month or two later that first year and one of them said, "You have a beautiful gardenia bush." "I do?!?! Where?" She brought me to my front door and just ahead of me before the steps up to the house was my very own gardenia bush! I looked up at the sky and said, "Thank you, Grandma, for blessing our new home!"  :-)

 

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5 Love Languages

The Five Love Languages:

Words of Affirmation

Quality Time

Receiving Gifts

Acts of Service

Physical Touch

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Patience

“Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.”
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson --- San Francisco Conservatory

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Inspiration

“No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.”
--- William Blake --- Santa Monica, CA

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Nothing is Ever as it Seems

To many, this may look like I drew the lion in the grass with Photoshop, but that’s not the case. I did not touch anything in this picture. It is exactly as I took it.

Interestingly, the reason the lion looks like a painting is because the pixels are spread out which makes the details softer. At the time I shot this picture, I was just transitioning from film to digital and had a small point and shoot 5 megapixel camera. If I had a camera with more megapixels, I’m not sure I would have gotten the same effect in the photo. That’s where the magic happens. I zoomed in to frame the lion with the tree in the background, but let the camera focus. This made the lion appear like a drawing or painting because of its natural camouflage in the red oat grass. 

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Excerpt from: Moments in Time Captured Forever; You Don't Need a Good Camera to Take Good Pictures.

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Beauty

“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
--- Confucius --- Kenya, Africa

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