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Summer Daze for Lens Artists Challenge #406

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Probably my alltime favorite, captured on a soda straw at my favorite beach resturant in La Manzanilla
I was just sitting there minding my own business when suddenly. . . .
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Because it conjured up a wonderful afternoon in the San Miguel Botanical Desert Gardens with my dear departed friend Joe and my long-unseen friend Dale.

 

For Lens Artist Challenge #406, the prompt is “Summer Daze.”

The Turning Point, for Lens Artist Challenge #396

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“…That big hour of decision, the turning point in your life… it just doesn’t come suddenly. You’ve trained yourself for it while you waited — or you’ve let it all run past you and frittered yourself away.” ( From “The Autumn Garden” by Lillian Hellman.)

I love this quote and have it taped to my computer desk, actually.  This was the best I could do at illustrating it. I really to believe that everyone has some creative talent within but we just have to find it by “doing” and letting it come out.

 

For Lens Artists Challenge #396 the assignment is to illustrate a favorite quote.

Easter Egg Hunt for Lens Artists Challenge #391

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So here are this year’s Easter Egg Hunt photos.  My neighbors Sergio and David generously offered to entertain the doggies while the kids were here to guarantee the safety of the eggs Marie Jose and Yoli helped me to hide. Of 108 eggs filled and searched for, only 8 were not found, even after I offered a 15 pesos reward for each “unfound” egg found. A frenzied, much-motivated search did not reveal these overly-hidden eggs which caused one small girl to ask if it was a joke…ha. At any rate, wish I’d gotten a photo of everyone but I was kept busy trying to insure that everyone got their share of eggs and only one of each color or pattern so everyone received exactly the same mixture of candy. Pizza and Jamaica and watermelon and corn treats were enjoyed by all and the hammocks were enjoyed as well, as you can see. This is my favorite activity of the year, along with the pinata party at Xmas. A week before this hunt, Carmen discovered an egg hidden a year ago..candy still inside..while she was trimming greenery. Hopefully the 8 remaining eggs will be found sooner than that and not by the dogs!!! Happy Easter to All.

For Tina’s Lens Artists Challenge #391

Juxtaposition for Lens Artists Challenge

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Cat vs. dog plus front vs. back/a tiny bird juxtaposed against a vast far off environment? front vs. back, tall vs.short / contrasting flowers regarding color and shape.

For Lens Artists Challenge 386, the prompt is Juxtaposition.

“Dreamy” for Lens Artists Challenge

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And so to bed, to dream of the next day’s adventures

The Lens Artists Challenge  prompt for this week is “Dreamy” (The illustrations are from my  book Sunup Sundown Song.)

You Gotta See This!!!!, for Lens Artists Challenge #367

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For some reason, I just love the photo of this rhinoceros beetle. It was crawling on my garage wall and I just liked the color mix as well as the holes in the surface of the wall that echo its spots.

I also loved this display in a beauty shop. Imagine doing anything at all with nails like these!!!!

And this is another favorite photo of mine. Taken at the Archaeological Museum in Mexico City. I took the photo from the back so it was reflected in the glass in the front which also reflected the wall behind. I love the effect.

For Lens Artists Challenge #367:Everyone should see this!

“Longing,” For Lens Artists Challenge 365

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Longing

This morning’s church bells’ constant bongings
woke me to familiar longings.
Coded as they were in dreams,
when I awoke, they split their seams
and spilled into my conscious thought.
Futile to yearn for what I’m not.
No longer young or lithe or trim,
no passions spilling from my brim.
No husband, mother, father, lover.
No guardians to watch and hover.
I’ve grown away from most of life,
connections severed as with a knife.
Still, I do not long for these.
I do not pray on bended knees
for what is past or what is lost,
for I know pining’s pain and cost.
My longing, now, is just to see
what life’s plot is left to me.

For Lens Artists Chanllenge, the prompt is “Longing.”

“Quiet Places, Quiet Times” for Lens Artists Challenge 35

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For Lens Artists Challenge 364, the prompt is “A Quiet Moment.“

“Doors” for Lens Artists Challenge #361, Aug 21, 2025

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Bedroom glass doors reflected in hot tub

 

For Lens Artists Challenge #361

Lines, Colors and Patterns, for John’s Lens Artists Challenge #359

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For John’s Lens Artists Challenge #359—Lines, Colors, Patterns