Scavenger Hunt Sunday but on Monday!

Family, not always picture perfect, but it is what you make it.  

Well this was the picture I submitted (not thinking it would ever be accepted) and it was accepted and as a result was featured on Lenscratch and is being published along with the other entries in this category that were featured by Aline Smithson.  In a way, getting this accolade has been the catalyst for me really starting to think about what photographs can say and mean and lead onto, a bit like this blog. 

Family.
  

My immediate family is Anders the husband I adore, me and the son which we both absolutely wholeheartedly adore, Dexter.

As I have been really very unwell with the flu, I am so glad to have had my two boys with me and we have had a lovely time together.  My sister didn't manage to make it over after all which was a disappointment, but given that I was so unwell, it was probably for the best as I would not have wanted her to catch this.  We did however have a wonderful Christmas, and one of the presents I received was a fantastic book on the past 150 years of photo journalism.  I have not picked up the camera for the last few days, but now that I am feeling a lot better I am about to start playing with it and the new lenses which were under the tree.

Christmas, much like motion has passed in a blur.  The one thing that for us that has held true is sharing of lots of unconditional love for us make us feel safe and secure.  We had a lovely Christmas Day, it was simple and really nice.

and the prettiest package of all was Dexter as he is just one big bundle of wrapped up love and was just so happy on Christmas morning seeing what Santa had brought him for being such a great boy.

Glow, well that is something that you feel when all is right with the world.

and then you feel all sparkly and happy!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

I start to think

  

my mind wanders as it is taken over by the colour pink

and burns a bright path against backdrops of blue, green and red

this hunt is all fuzzy and I cannot seem to get a structured form

into something of beauty, in which to lose myself.

Tiny floral pink flowers!

Scavenger Hunt words are like hooks, 
sometimes to be found in books 
for which we are programmed to look out for,

as we try to make sense of the farthest corners of our minds,

we playback and rewind

searching for answers instead of sometimes just letting be

and floating in the beauty of colours

 a kaleidoscope of colours

which bring about happiness and still

the feeling of the mellow in a solitary leaf 

as it forms a blanket on the ground
on which to rest and blissfully get lost in tranquility.




Autumn is the death of summer, but yet it makes me feel even more alive,

my senses are more heightened with the purples and blacks of darker nights, 
pointing the way

I am neither mourning or celebrating the passing of a season

I just feel alive, like I am here

excited, alive, annoying!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

In China, during October they celebrate Golden Holidays, which is apparently a week long vacation where people enjoy some r and r!

Wonder what people do during this time, and what memories they create during that time.

surely everyone wants to have memories that bring them joy

Like reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when you were little for the first time....

or even more simple, right now, eating golden corn on the cob, with golden salted butter that dribbles down your face, mmmm

I know I have memories that include at least one of my perfect boys

So lets follow Dexter down the yellow brick road you never know what memories will unfold.

Golden hair, golden light, my hearts delight all shiny and bright.

Or maybe a sweet smelling rose for my other delight

 yep my other golden haired boy whose aftershave smell is lingering,

oh when I think about it my senses are tingling, past, present and future!

Oh now just thinking about that smell makes me want something that is fruity!

can't you just smell that I'm feeling peachy......

....... Anders does have a nice bootie!

from so many angles!!!

Oh, behave I hear you saying, and yes I shall!

No need to bring in the police, or send me to jail

Will you let me out on bail?

I will keep my thoughts clean, read on and that will be seen!

 I was just being a goon!

unless you want to bring in a sheriff at a local saloon 

in the form of the Beatles song Rocky Racoon!

That would be just dandy!

I love, love, love that song, one of my favourites.  You know I really do love hearing it I can play it on repeat and sing at the top of my voice to it, especially in the car!  It is such a great song, I am now singing do, de doo (thankfully you can't hear though)!!!  Are singing it you too?  Shaking your peach to the music? ha, ha, ha I am!!!

Simple but true, a sign that says I love you

or maybe you prefer to say it with a simple yet very beautiful golden flower

What about sports, well I have already blogged about Dexter getting a gold 1st place for his kickboxing, although the cup was silver in colour!


Let's ask the golden haired lovely "Dexter what sport should I photograph"?

Yep, your right, no need to answer as it is right under your nose, football!
I can live with that and your golden smile on.....

 ..... or off the pitch lights up any cold autumn day.

maybe not the washing of the smelly, sweaty and dirty sports clothes - pooie..... (lucky for me it wasn't my turn to do the whole team, that day however I know is coming!), 

yep, Dexter I am sure you think that is funny!

I still love you, and here is a golden biscuit which smells divine having been freshly baked.  It has a fruity cherry on the top, is simple and sweet and will go down well with a glass of milk after a good workout on the pitch!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday inspired by Ashley at Ramblings and Photos 

Favourite tunes inspired by ACoLab

Have a great Sunday!