The space between allows for a pixelated view of the powerful waterfall, but the distorted perception stops me from having a complete experience and divides me from fulfillment.
However, I appreciate these challenges for the kick in the pants to review my files for appropriate images to use. How about you? I haven’t been out shooting much lately (I’m basically a lame, fair-weather photographer, and it’s COLD outside!). I hope you have a terrific day and get to do or learn something NEW today!
Happy Thursday. I fell in love with all the layers in this photo, taken recently in Newport, Rhode Island. The sky…the horizon…the ocean…the waves (in all their various strengths and sizes)…the birds, the wet sand, the drier sand. Therefore, I would edit this quote just a bit… I’d add that we are the sum of all the layers and layers of our experiences. Because I believe one experience wouldn’t be quite the same without a previous experience. It’s the layers of experiences, not the individual experience that make us what we are. What we will, eventually, become.
I hope you have a great day and get to do or learn something NEW today.
Happy Monday. Wow…I’ve participated in 2 photo challenges within a week! (I must not have a time-consuming job anymore! Haha!) Here are my entries for Lens Artist Challenge #363. The rules were to go through our photo archives and find at least 5, but no more than 10 of the following: Zig-zag lines, something with green eyes, some cool jewelry, something circular, something rectangular, something with a design, something with a pattern, something with a bumpy texture, something with a soft texture, something with water in it, a set of keys, something glass, a zipper, shoelaces, or art supplies.
I took the challenge a step further and challenged myself to find any 5 from one trip. These all came from our 2017 trip to Europe. I chose the photo above as “something rectangular”.
Here’s something with a pattern:
…something zig-zag (does this roofline count?):
…something circular:
…something glass (do “glasses” count?):
…something with a bumpy texture:
…something with water in it (does the Mediterranean Sea count?)
That’s about it. I guess I didn’t take any photos of cool jewelry from the British Crown Jewels Museum that I remember going to on that trip (maybe photography was not allowed?). But hey, I found more than 5 photos for this challenge! Win.
That’s it for today. I’m off to find something NEW to do or learn. I hope you do too!
Happy Friday! It’s been a while since I joined in on a photo challenge. So, when I saw this week’s #362 Sports, Sporting Events, and Fun Games challenge at Wandering Dawgs, I thought of a fun event we recently attended and wanted to join the challenge. This baseball game was played at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. The players dressed up in vintage baseball uniforms and played with rules from 1867. That means NO baseball mitts (they weren’t invented yet), and many other slight variations from current baseball rules. It was a lot of fun!
And other miscellaneous NEW experiences:
Thanks to reading Travel Means Life, I was “in the know” when we saw several Quilt Gardens in Indiana.
Then, in Genesee County, New York, spotting quilt blocks on barns, houses, or sheds etc. is a thing! There is even a website about it {HERE}. Are there any other quilt related I-Spy-type hunts that I don’t know about??? :o)
And lastly, I thought I’d list the random museums we’ve visited in the last few weeks….just so you know that we do more than hike to waterfalls and visit national parks, haha!
We’ve visited:
Jell-O museum! (Did you know there’s such a place?!?)
The Corning Glass Museum
The Safe Haven Holocaust Museum
The Detroit Art Museum
The world’s largest Christmas store! (Bronner’s)
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Town of Stafford’s Historical Museum
The George Eastman Museum and House Tour
I think that’s enough for now. I gotta go research more NEW things to do, see, or learn about! Have a great day!
Happy Monday! Boy oh boy, if you want to visit waterfalls, the Finger Lakes Region of New York is where to go! We hiked to different waterfalls nearly every day last week! I’ve added 12 NEW waterfalls to my 100 Waterfalls Bucket List! Only 20 to go until 100!
To be clear, I’m not counting some we attempted to see. Some were duds – hardly any water at all (it is August, after all. Namely Aunt Sarah’s Falls, Hector Falls, and Shequaga Falls were the duds :o). But most were fantastic! Here are a few photos.
The top photo is Rainbow Falls at Watkins Glen State Park in New York. The best part of that hike is that you can see many little falls on your hike (something like 19 in a span of 2 miles), like these little ones:
Ithaca Falls near Cornell University was a good one:
A favorite is the Middle Falls at Letchwork State Park in New York:
Although the Upper Falls at Letchworth were great too!
The hike up Stony Brook Creek in Stony Brook State Park was a nice (and a good workout!). It is a well-maintained trail with rock or wooden steps placed at the steep areas. I Googled how many steps there were. Here’s what my friend Google told me: “Stony Brook State Park has approximately 800 stairs, though a specific count is difficult as trails are a mix of stone, wooden, and dirt steps. The trails, particularly the Gorge Trail and West Rim Trail, are known for their many steps, with the West Rim Trail’s section sometimes called the “thousand steps”. We hiked up the gorge trail and came back on the West Rim trail. Here’s a photo from one of the Stony Brook trail waterfalls:
I hope you have a great week and get to do or learn something NEW!
We’ve been visiting several NEW (to us) botanical gardens on our travels. I can’t help myself from snapping photo after photo of the lovely blooms or foliage! And if they have a butterfly or bumble bee on them – extra bonus!
This tree in the Cornell Botanical Gardens caught our eye. The tree had a rectangle cut out of it with a wind chime inserted in the trunk, but it was still growing! We asked a gardner about it, and she said a few years ago, they had to cut down the tree, because it was a safety risk, but this year, it is obviously sprouting new growth! If you saw my “New thursday thought” post from yesterday, this tree would also apply…where new growth appears, so does hope!
Here is a link to an article about cutting the tree and inserting the wind chime {Link HERE}. You’ll see the photo of the tree looks vastly different!
I have many more photos of blooms, but they might have to be uploaded another day.
I hope you get to do or learn something NEW today!
Recently, we visited Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio. What a unique national park! It’s basically in the middle of some towns and very close to a large city – Cleveland, Ohio. It was made a national park because the beauty of the area was being threatened by development. We rode our bikes on the Erie-Ohio tow path, then made our way to this awesome waterfall. I’ve wanted to go here ever since Nancy at Two Trails One Road recommended it! It did not disappoint! Thanks, Nancy! We rode further on the tow path and saw this awesome bridge. I believe it’s called Station Road Bridge:
After lunch, we hiked to Blue Hen Falls. However, after visiting Brandywine Falls, these falls were a bit underwhelming (especially after a semi-difficult hike), but hey, any waterfall is worth it in my opinion! I’m thinking perhaps there might be more water in the spring rather than the hot days of August!
On the drive back to our campground, we stopped in the cute little town of Chagrin Falls. We bought an ice cream cone and enjoyed their falls right in their downtown.
Toward the end of the week, we hiked the short distance to Minnehaha Falls and Cascade Falls in Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park. The Minnehaha Falls has a glass bridge that you can walk over the large gorge that the waterfall flows through. Again, I’m thinking there would likely be more water in the springtime than there was in August. But I’m counting them both toward my 100 waterfalls!
So, the bucket list stats are at 29 out of 63 national parks and 68 out of 100 waterfalls. We’re getting there. Being retired will likely speed up the progress!
Have a great day! I hope you learn or do something NEW today!
Happy Thursday! In honor of National Lighthouse Day, I thought I’d post a few photos of lighthouses that I’ve seen in the last two weeks – and update my Lighthouse List.
The top two photos are of the William Livingstone lighthouse on Belle Isle, Michigan.
And this one is the Milliken State Park Lighthouse, which is close by – just across the Detroit River from Belle Isle.
I’m not sure I’ll count these as “visited” because I was so far away. But these are the Cleveland Harbor Main Entrance Lighthouse and the Cleveland Harbor East Breakwater Lighthouse – taken from across the harbor. Then again, maybe I’ll count them. I just learned they are privately owned, so you can’t visit them without permission. These photos will have to suffice.
Have a terrific day! I hope you get out and learn or do something NEW today!
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