Moments of Solitude: Weekly Photo Challenge – Beloved

“In this week’s challenge, share with us something that is beloved.”

Moments of solitude are something beloved by me.  To sit on my roof by myself and watch the clouds in their infinite variety of shapes and colours, like these mammatus clouds the other morning…

Or on a cottage balcony, way up in the hills, looking down at city lights…

Or having breakfast by myself in a town in a country a long way from home…Time alone…with a book, with a cup of tea, with a journal, in nature…lovely…

Weekly Photo Challenge – Beloved

 

Simple Ritual: Weekly Photo Challenge – Satisfaction

“This week, share a photo of something that brings you satisfaction. It can be monumental, minor, or something in between.”

I sit on the roof, drinking tea, writing in my journal……watching the sunrise. Simple, repeated ritual.Satisfaction.

Weekly Photo Challenge – Satisfaction

Focusing on a Lizard…Again: Weekly Photo Challenge – Focus

“This week, share a photo that represents focus to you. Are you a stickler for getting in close to your subjects and capturing every detail, or do you prefer a more ethereal look that illustrates the sensations of the moment? Or both?”

I had left the cup out overnight. In it was a little leftover ginger tea sweetened with honey. In the morning, something else was in the cup…a little lizard.

Having climbed in, it couldn’t get out again.

I like the way in which the tea and the glass and the lizard’s translucent skin affect the focus…

PS I’m adding this a few days after publishing my blog post to assure readers that the little creature was fine after its ordeal. Right after taking my photos, I rested the cup on its side on a window sill and the lizard crawled out and ran away.

Weekly Photo Challenge – Focus