Scavenger Hunt Sunday

Yep it's SUNDAY already!!
And each week I think to myself, self this week I will start earlier.
And well, as usual I left my prompts until last minute.
But I did manage to get a few while we were in Galveston this weekend
to watch a reenactment of the Battle of Galveston, so here we go . . .

1. Stacked:  A kettle on an iron grate stacked on top of some stacked firewood. A double stack, yeah me!

2. Winter Wonderland: Well, if I lived in the Panhandle of Texas that would be easy...but I'm on the coast and the only snow I've seen was when they brought in a snow machine to Galveston at Christmas. So the next best thing - take a tree scene, turn it into a black and white and invert it - and bingo, a winter wonderland!

3. Sweet:  After our little adventure today, we stopped in to my favorite chocolate store and lucky for me everyone else had the same idea because that meant I could stand in line a little longer to shoot a few of these....raspberry truffles! (SOOC and slightly cropped)

4. Hole: Before the reenactment we visited the living history enampments where they were preparing their guns with gunpowder. This gentleman was a little surprised when I asked him if I could get a pic of the front of the gun . . .  come to think of it, I was too!

5. Frozen: I thought I was going to have to pull out an archive on this one until I remembered the other morning and how I entertained myself with my coffee, again!  Here you have steam, that I froze with my camera. Yes, I'm easily amused, lol!

Oh, boy I'm excited! I'm pretty sure I'll have most of my prompts before Saturday this week!

Continue to fun, go check out more scavenger hunts over at Ashley's . . . 

Love, Kim

XO

A Sunrise . . . . .

 . . . is the opening of the day.

I don't think there is anything comparable to watching the sun rise. Until just about 4 years ago I had never watched a sunrise, certainly not over a large body of water. I find it a little humorous though that the thing that most frightened me about moving here is now where I find so much joy. I can't even imagine not being able to get up early, well maybe not the early part, and partake in the watching of something so incredible. It's such an amazingly powerful experience, something we take for granted everyday. But everyday as the world turns, and we can pin it down to an exact time, the sun will rise. It ascends over the horizon as if by magic and makes everything new again. Besides the obvious beauty of it, I think it also represents for me consistency in an inconsistent world. That no matter what is happening in my life, I can count on the sun to rise. And right now, I need that more than anything.

"The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man."

       ~Author Unknown

And every time I have watched the sunrise it has been with the same painter, the only thing that changes are His brushes and His palette.

"Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset.

Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. 

No reward is offered.

They are gone forever."

- Horace Mann 

I would love to watch one from a skyrise in the city, with a balcony of course so I could take pictures! So curiously I wonder have you ever watched the sun rise?

Hope you are all having a peaceful day.

Love, Kim



Linked up with Communal Global and . . .

Looking . . .

Two

one looking out

one looking in

each wondering

what lies on the other side

each hoping

they will be met in the middle

just as they are

without expectations.

{Mortal Muses theme: Looking out-Looking in}


Love, Kim
XO

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

Get your motor running, head out on the highway,
looking for adventure, on scavenger hunt Sunday . . .

Personally I'm hoping this week is better than last week,
as I hit a few unexpected bumps in the road.

And now, for your Sunday drive  . . .


1. One color:  Which one color doesn't belong? On our way home from watching the sunrise this morning we decided to stop at the local farmers market, of course we hadn't expected to stop and had no cash, other than a dollars worth of quarters, which did buy us three turnips! ; ) 

2. Laundry:  I stumbled with this one, I mean laundry? Now if I were in my old house I might have photographed my awesome laundry room, but . . . since I'm not, you get this awesome bottle of laundry soap!

3. Empty: I was quite excited not only to find this Olive shell, but to find there was no one home! No I wasn't at the beach today, although I could've been since it was nearly 80 today. I took this in my make-shift beach, sand in a platter! ha

4. One dozen:  My daughter made cookies today, here you see them, and now they are gone!

 5. Soft: We went for our first sunrise of the year, and everything about it this morning was soft.



I'm looking forward to seeing how everyone interpreted these this week,

and to see what we are looking for next week!

Until then,

Kim XO