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Lens-Artists Challenge – Finding Peace

March 5, 2023

It’s been a while since I’ve participated in photo challenges but since this is the year that I’ve decided to get back to my blog, this seems like the perfect challenge to start with. Following are some things where I find peace. Our cabin in the north woods of Minnesota is so peaceful and we … More Lens-Artists Challenge – Finding Peace

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Weekly photo challenge – Beloved

February 3, 2018

I couldn’t help but think of my mother when I saw this week’s theme.  She just died in December and she was so beloved by so many.  In honor of Goldie Leiderman Nadler Katz, April 30, 1923 – December 15, 2017.

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Weekly photo challenge – unusual

July 25, 2017

I think I got this one in under the wire.  Isn’t there a new challenge every Wednesday?  In any case, here are my picks for this week’s theme:

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Friend

June 4, 2017

For this week’s challenge I present my interpretation of friend.

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Solitude

February 4, 2017

In response to this week’s photo challenge, I present photos that evoke solitude.  Click on the link to view other entries and enjoy!! And I’ll finish with one of my favorites from our trip to Spain in 2010 when my little girl was still a little girl…….seemingly all alone on that beach…..

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Ambience

January 14, 2017

This photo came up in my alternating wallpaper on this computer and immediately I thought of the photo challenge.  The quiet, peaceful ambience of a street near the Picasso Museum in Barcelona.  In the early morning hours before the hustle and bustle that is surely about to take place.  Enjoy.  Click here to see other … More Weekly Photo Challenge – Ambience

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Look Up

July 9, 2016

I haven’t entered the challenge for a while. Summertime is just not conducive for blogging, especially here in the frozen tundra.  But I’m up early and I’m home this weekend and I have several photos to enter for this one! Click on the link to view other entries or to enter yourself and enjoy!!

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