A Focused Journey: Finding a focus on the other side of 50.

I believe everyone’s life has a purpose. We are here to discover that purpose then use whatever gifts were bestowed upon us to make this world a better place. Some of us are fortunate as we know at an early age what that purpose is. Others, well, we go along, often digressing from the road that will take us there. This is me. Now on the other side of 50, I am finding my way back to that road that will lead to my life’s purpose. Welcome to my journey.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

My interpretation of this week's challenge:
1. CAMOUFLAGED

Koi staying hidden within the shadows of these pond grasses

2. NUTTY

Discovered in a an antiques shop specializing in cookie jars

3. OLD STYLE

How many of you can name this oldie?

4. HAPHAZARD

Fliers posted on city lamp post.

5. MONOCHROMATIC

Can you guess what this is?

I had so much fun participating in this challenge. Yesterday was my birthday and we spent the day in Ann Arbor, going there specifically to see the Matthaei Botanical Gardens Conservatory.

Were you able to identify #3 and #5? #3 is a stove top toaster.

#5 was taken through this:

Kaleidoscope: looking through the lens.

I had a wonderful birthday and enjoyed participating for the first time in Scavenger Hunt Sunday.

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7 comments:

JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/February 16, 2014 at 9:01 PM
I enJOYed your first scavenger hunt. I think its fun. Glad you came over and visited my post. Thank-you!
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Cathy H.February 16, 2014 at 9:27 PM
You did a fantastic job! Your interpretations are so clever! I love the Kaleidoscope shot!
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IdaFebruary 17, 2014 at 12:14 AM
Happy Belated Birthday. I really enjoyed your hunt photos.
No I would not have guessed that was a stove top toaster nor a photo taken through a kaleidoscope. That was pretty cool.
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Sarah HuizengaFebruary 17, 2014 at 5:36 AM
I was going to guess something with coals for number 3. Guess I was wrong. Happy Belated Birthday. I must get to Ann Arbor this year. College daughter is thinking that is a possibility for grad school.
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21 WitsFebruary 17, 2014 at 9:44 AM
Wow, great composition and style behind your lens for these shots today! Mr. Nutty is too cool!
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UnknownFebruary 17, 2014 at 1:07 PM
Happy Birthday a bit late. Sounds like you had a good day. Great photos! I love the angle you shot the toaster from. It took me a minute to recognize it. I'm used to seeing it from above. The kaleidoscope shot turned out nice. Very pretty photo of the goldfish scene.
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aspiritofsimplicityFebruary 17, 2014 at 3:38 PM
I recognized your toaster being somewhat old school myself. Your monochromatic is very cool!
Happy birthday.
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THE JOURNEY

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could

The Dark Night Of The Soul
By Saint John of the Cross
Translated by A.Z. Foreman

Songs of the soul rejoicing at having achieved the high state of perfection, the Union with God, by way of spiritual negation.

Once in the dark of night,
Inflamed with love and wanting, I arose
(O coming of delight!)
And went, as no one knows,
When all my house lay long in deep repose

All in the dark went right,
Down secret steps, disguised in other clothes,
(O coming of delight!)
In dark when no one knows,
When all my house lay long in deep repose.

And in the luck of night
In secret places where no other spied
I went without my sight
Without a light to guide
Except the heart that lit me from inside.

It guided me and shone
Surer than noonday sunlight over me,
And lead me to the one
Whom only I could see
Deep in a place where only we could be.

O guiding dark of night!
O dark of night more darling than the dawn!
O night that can unite
A lover and loved one,
Lover and loved one moved in unison.

And on my flowering breast
Which I had kept for him and him alone
He slept as I caressed
And loved him for my own,
Breathing an air from redolent cedars blown.

And from the castle wall
The wind came down to winnow through his hair
Bidding his fingers fall,
Searing my throat with air
And all my senses were suspended there.

I stayed there to forget.
There on my lover, face to face, I lay.
All ended, and I let
My cares all fall away
Forgotten in the lilies on that day.

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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

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