Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reward

This morning, I walked while chanting the Sri Lalita Sahasranama. This is a sacred text that I ideally would be chanting daily. As I walked, I was pulled by the desire to be focusing on the beauty around me rather than reciting the chant. I have felt that pull many times before, but it was particularly strong today.

Then the question “Isn’t focusing on the beauty of Mother Nature a spiritual practice too?” came into my mind. Of course it is; about that I had no doubt. I realized what wanted to be doing was to immerse myself in nature, taking photographs to share on my blog and in the GreenFriends newsletter I organize monthly.

For the rest of my walk, I continued my chant, but if I felt called to stop and look at something and/or take a picture, I did. Sometimes I felt literally “called” in that it seemed like a song bird or crow was calling out to me.

I felt “rewarded” for being flexible in my definition of spiritual practice by capturing several beautiful photographs.

I suspect that tomorrow morning I will be going on a nature walk!

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Loon Lake, British Columbia

A few weeks ago, I attended a retreat at Loon Lake Resort in British Columbia, Canada. The area was so beautiful.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Another Rule of Thirds

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Symmetry

One of my all time favorite photographs is a good example of symmetry!

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Depth

I set off on a walk to search for “Depth.” I took pictures of a winding road that could be “Depth,” but then felt drawn to look over the side of a hill. That view was “Depth” to me!

As I reviewed the photo, I became intrigued by two objects that were in the center. What were they? I went back to the hill to look closer.

What was a fire hydrant doing in the middle of the woods? And what was the yellow circular object?

As I write this post, I’m wondering if there are also one or more objects just to the right of the fire hydrant. “Depth” had led to a mystery. Maybe sometime I will crawl down that hill and take a closer look!

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