World Through My Lens 10.2024

Shutterbugs and photo-lovin’ friends glad to have you join me for The World Through My Lens 10.2024:  Everyday Images and Sunday Stills.  Again today, I am joining Kym at A Fresh Cup of Coffee for her Every Day Images photo challenge. Kym describes the challenge as a way to be more intentional about watching for interesting things in life that she can capture with her camera.

Every two weeks she publishes a few words or phrases to focus on, and looks for opportunities to take pictures of these things.  As I have done in the past with other challenges I have participated in, I will just be sharing my photos once a month.  Here are the photos for May, June, July  August and September.

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Glad to be joining my friend Terri at Second Wind Leisure Perspectives for her Sunday Stills series.  Terri provides the prompts for her series 1 photo a week for a month at a time.  She shares her pictures once a week while I share a month’s worth of images at a time.  She is one outstanding photographer.

• season (quarterly):  give me all the fall things – the flavors, the fragrances, the colors and textures.  Give me all things pumpkin.  This was the office for Beat Creek cabins all decked out for the season.

• wide and/or narrow:  we visited the Silver City Museum during our 3-day getaway.  This impressive mosaic mural was along the side of the building.  You know how I love Dia de los Muertos, so you know I had to snap loads of pictures of both this entire piece of art and some up close shots of the details.

• action:  trick-or-treating, just saying our thank yous and heading for the next house.

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• perspective:  tried to snap an artsy perspective of this chess board for my interpretation of this prompt.

• orange:  borrowing from the Silver City mosaic again for this prompt.  Aren’t these monarch butterflies so bright and cheerful?  For people of Mexico, monarch butterflies hold a special place in their Dia de los Muertos traditions. Monarchs represent the souls of their ancestors returning to visit them for this celebration of life.

• heavy:  these weights are just that.  We have begun going to the gym again after a 4-year hiatus.  As a result, I’m heavy(ier), too.

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• at home (monthly):  this week I have been able to walk more which means I was FINALLY able to put out some fall decorations.  I always like to create an ofrenda in memory of the beloved family members we have lost.  This year, though, I got my decorations out so late that I didn’t set up my Dia de los Muertos altar.  I miss it.

• at work (quarterly):  my ‘work’ responsibilities changed when I retired, and changed again when I broke my foot.  I have had to find new ways to do everything and often get so frustrated in the process.  Here I am, emptying the dishwasher on one foot with my broken foot on the knee scooter.

• gold:  the fallen leaves made the ground and walk around Big Ditch Park look golden.

• dessert:  we enjoyed a late lunch at Jalisco Cafe in Silver City and finished our meal with the largest, fluffiest sopapillas I had ever seen.

• leaf:  well, leaves.  Plural.  Leaves in green, gold, yellow and pistachio.  And the water in the creek reflecting the vivid blue of the sky above.

• travel:  our 3 day trip was delightful.  Hope we can travel more now that PC is retired.

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• yard (quarterly):  early in the spring, 1 of my goals was to get this bougainvillea to bloom.  I fed it Miracle Gro regularly, and made sure it was receiving plenty of water but only had 2 blooms.  Now that fall is here, and it is time to give this plant a haircut, it has blooms in abundance.  Our blue agave cactus has had lots of babies this summer and looks plump and beautiful, too.

• harvest:  selecting our pumpkins from those harvested for Walmart.

• spooky:  one of PC’s friends goes all out decorating for Halloween.  This creepy clown peers over his rock wall at passers by.

• vintage:  the building that housed a little pub where we had lunch one day on our trip.

• web:  a couple of years ago about this time, I participated in an online crafting class offered by Jennifer Chamberlin to make these cardboard box buildings.  I decorated mine with bits of Halloween and Dia de los Muertos scrapbook paper.  And across the top, I draped some spidery looking gauze to mimic webs.  For the address numbers on the houses I used the dates for the holidays, 1031, 1101, 1102.

• inside and/or outside:  this tree was both inside the porch and outside the porch on the front of the cabin.

Sunday Stills 10.2024

• 10.06.2024 leaves and trees:  the bed in our cabin in Pinos Altos had windows all around and a skylight just beyond the foot of the bed.  This was the view at sunset on our first evening there from one of those bedroom windows.

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• 10.20.2024 monthly color challenge: black (and/or) black and white: I love ballet and ballet shoes.  Found these blackened shoes hanging in a coffee shop we visited recently.  I find their black color such a contrast to pale pink traditionally associated with ballet slippers.

• 10.27.2024 eerie:  October and March are El Paso’s windiest months.  I snapped this shot of our mountains almost completely obscured by a recent sand storm.  Gusts this day measured around 60 mph.

Your Turn

What have you captured lately in your lens?  This silly broken foot had really put a damper on my picture taking until our trip to New Mexico.  Hard to look for prompts when you are rarely leaving the 4 walls of your own home.  And none of the prompts for any of the challenges have asked for pictures of crutches, a knee scooter or wheelchair!!  So grateful that we were able to high-tail-it to the mountains for a 3 day change of scenery and lots of photo ops!!

Thank you for spending some of your busy day here with me.  Hope you will join me in visiting Kym at A Fresh Up of Coffee and Terri at Second Wind Leisure Perspectives to check the images they’ve captured for these photo challenges.

Hoping to start PT next week for my tootsie.  And the fall spring cleaning that didn’t happen in the spring or the summer is NOW underway.  Looking forward to whipping this foot and this house into shape.

Hugs and kisses,