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About lifelessons

My blog, which started out to be about overcoming grief, quickly grew into a blog about celebrating life. I post daily: poems, photographs, essays or stories. I've lived in countries all around the globe but have finally come to rest in Mexico, where I've lived since 2001. My books may be found on Amazon in Kindle and print format, my art in local Ajijic galleries. Hope to see you at my blog.

For Lens Artists Challenge: To Be Young Again.

 

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For Lens Artists Challenge:-298-to-be-young-again

Possibilities, For Cee’s FOTD May 8, 2024

 

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For Cee’s FOTD

Bird Baths, For Whatsoever is Lovely Week 18

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I loved watching these birds bathing in this pool. Unfortunately, the photos of their actually splashing around didn’t come out as well as the ones of them perched on the rocks before or afterwards.

For the Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge

Ice Plant: FOTD May 7, 2024

This one knows how to stand out from the crowd. Click on photo to enlarge.

For Cee’s FOTD

Feline Gamble/Renewing the Catfood for #Squares Renew

 

Feline Gamble

Stocked up on sustenance for my cats
and stowed it in a cupboard that’s
just outside my kitchen door.
(That’s what I built that cupboard for.)

The only problem seems to be
that closet lacks security,
but that is no problem, is it?
Unless cat burglars choose to visit!!

Go HERE for a kitty serenade.

 

For # Squares Renew

Dried Beauty, For FOTD May 6, 2024

Jade Plant Bloom, well past its prime.

For Cee’s FOTD

The Numbers Game #20. Please Join Us!!!

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Welcome to “The Numbers Game #20”  Today’s number is 141. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.

This prompt will repeat each  Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below.

Ice Plant for FOTD May 5, 2024

 

 

This species covers the dunes near the ocean in California,fills a pot in my garden in Mexico.

For Cee’s Weekend FOTD

“Casting Stones at Sunset” For The Sunday Whirl Wordle 653

Casting Stones at Sunset

Please accept this shiny pebble that is laden with the ghost
of each hand that selected it to cast against a post.
Gasping as the forest shadows gathered ’round the flight
of birds that scattered––vanishing into the shattered light.

When fluttering wings return at last, the blistered day can rest
as each winged creature returns now to its nest.
Mingled in the treetops, they sing the end of day,
then put away their voices until the sun’s first ray.

 

For The Sunday Whirl Wordle 653 the prompt words are: pebble shiny laden ghost mingled blisters gasping vanishing  scatter forest shadows

African Daisy for FOTD May 4, 2024

For Cee’s FOTD