Sunday Stills....Where you Sit

 

I am not averse at all to sitting and this is one of my favorite spots....when the wrens will let me that is. They hatched a second batch of little ones this week and are downright snobbish about who comes out here.

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This is of course not my photo
However it looks as if I liked sitting
there too.

Sunday Stills...in my Bag

 

This challenge could be interpreted a lot of ways I guess. There are a lot of bags in our lives, some of them useful and others preceded with the word "old". 

I haven't carried a traditional woman's purse in decades. However, a camera bag and a utility bag are a whole 'nother story.

From a pocket "chainsaw" and compass, to a portable phone charger, ponchos, sunblock, tasty little mints, and a good, solid, field guide to the birds...oh, and matches. Can't stand not to have matches in case Jack London's To Build a Fire comes true with me in the cast....I have everything I can think of that will fit in these bags.

Plus camera and spare camera and binoculars, without which I would be blind and unable to communicate in my favorite fashion.

Also: fishing license, tick remover, nail clippers, lens cleaners, spare camera batteries, tiny card shaped knife kinda thing, athletic tape and other first aid stuff....and more, much, much more.

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Sunday Stills...Flowers

 

Sorry I keep doing these on Monday. Sundays are very busy days for us, and this week was no exception.

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Sunday Stills...Red, White, and Blue

 

Friends and family know I have always wanted a cannon...

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Sunday Stills....Outfit of the Day

 

On Monday because we were birding hard on Sunday.

This Ruffed Grouse is a master of camo in this subtle, yet elegant, outfit of feathers.

Meanwhile, Sir Baltimore Oriole is clad in his clown suit today, enjoying a nice, juicy mulberry.

Tufted Titmouse has no interest in fashion, today or any day.

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Sunday Stills....Morning

 

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Sunday Stills...Look Up

 

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Sunday Stills...Leading Lines

 I forgot this entirely this week and was only reminded when I saw that some of my good blog friends had put their entries up. As we didn't make it to the railroad tracks or any of the local powerlines, here are some from this winter....leading you into the heart of the storm I guess.

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Sunday Stills, my Favorite Color

 

I like blue real well too.

Sunday Stills...New Beginings

Peggy's first ever soccer game
Great fun!

 Thanks to Home on the Range for reviving this favorite...we always loved Sunday Stills.

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Sunday Stills.....Home

Home is so many things...... The structure itself...we live in a monstrous Victorian that is still full of surprises after all these years.... Like the Easter Eggs in movies and games...you never know what little carving or molded strike plate or such that you might find.

Home is also family of course and ours is busy and close and full of interactions all day, every day.

These guys are important to our home...but sometimes we tend to think of them more as home wreckers

It is also favorite objects, plants, animals, the tangible things that make up our world.

And the land....can't forget about the land.

Then there are the intangibles that make up our spirit lives....home is a huge thing there. I love to be home so much I am nearly a hermit.....I am looking forward to other people's takes on home as well.

Sunday Stills....Happiness Is

I could fill this post with photos of family, cows, plants, birds, frogs, road trips to exciting places, babies, and everything around me. They all bring joy every single day. It has taken over six decades but I am contented a good deal of the time and happy often.....something some people are born with and others have to work for. I work for it because it is worth it. Oftentimes I fail. I fight with fear every day, irrational but powerful. I expect most folks do. Prayer helps with that, but it is always there. We are so terribly fragile....

Anyhow I had to think about this for a while....and finally decided that I am closest to how I imagine Heaven might be on the porch at the cabin on the lake at sunrise.

So, here are a couple of the sunrises of fire and tinfoil that I enjoyed this summer.

Hope your day is happy.

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Sunday Stills...the Letter T

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Sunday Stills....Going Buggy

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Sunday Stills....Clouds in Black and White

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Sunday Stills....Muscle Cars

The muscle car that lives in our driveway

And has taken us all over the East Coast

It runs away to Washington DC every week

'Cuse 4 life....that was typed by the owner and driver
I was just going to say that this is my least favorite view of it....
heading off for the big city.

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