Photos of new growth in the gardens …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective
While in Florida recently, I stepped outside one evening and was surprised to see a brilliant post-storm vista unfold. Fortunately, I had my cell phone with me and was able to catch a few photos as the sun yielded the horizon to nightfall.
This week’s challenge invites the photographer to use perspective to make the subject of the photo look like something other than what it is. The scene that I photographed was the view as I accompanied my mother to her mailbox. I used perspective to hide the street and cars and to compose the image, capturing only the elements I wanted to remember. For more on this week’s Photo Challenge …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Object
Weekly Photo Challenge: From Lines to Patterns #2
Lines and patterns in a cherished crotchet afghan made by my cousin Kim.
View from Lines to Patterns #1.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside + Masala (Chai) Spices for Tea
It is cool and dreary here today in Manhattan, Kansas – the kind of day that makes a person want to stay inside and curl up with a good book and a cup of tea. So, I made some Masala Spice Tea. Hmm, wonderful!
Masala (Chai) Spice Blend
7 T. granulated sugar
2 1/2 t. ground cinnamon
2 t. ground ginger
2 t. ground cardamom
2 t. ground cloves
1/2 t. ground allspice
1/2 t. ground nutmeg
1/2 t. ground black pepper, optional*
Combine sugar and spices in a 3/4-cup glass jar. Close the lid and shake the jar until ingredients are well blended. Store at cool room temperature.
Suggested Uses: sprinkle on top of buttered toast, or on top of muffins or coffee cakes before baking; use instead of sugar in Chantilly Cream, coffee, tea, hot cocoa, or hot cider.
* The black pepper yields a hot flavor that works well in coffee, tea and hot cocoa; but I omit it for use in baked goods, hot cider and Chantilly Cream. If you are not used to hot flavor in your beverages, the pepper might become an acquired taste.
To make Masala (Chai) Spice Tea
2 c. water
2 T. + 2 t. Masala (Chai) Spice Blend
2 T. + 2 t. Assam or Darjeeling black tea, Jasmine green tea, or Honeybush herbal tea
2 c. milk, almond milk, or soy milk
Bring water to a boil in a medium pot. Add spice blend and tea leaves. (It your tea is bagged, leave it in the bags because the crushed tea is more difficult to strain.) Stir in milk, almond milk, or soy milk. Simmer gently for 5 minutes. Strain tea into a warmed pot and then strain again into warmed tea cups. Enjoy!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea
This is a photo that I took in Vero Beach, Florida. Whenever I see ocean waves, they remind me of one of my grandmothers who used to love to paint seascapes.
For more on this week’s photo challenge …
Daily Prompt: Close-up/Superstar
The Daily Prompt has invited photographers to post a Superstar-style close-up today. How could I not post another picture of one of our dogs? Today’s model … our beautiful Abbey.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus
Painted Lady butterfly enjoying some flowering May Night Sage …
The Focus challenge.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh #1
Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgic
This is a house down the road from where I spent the summers of my childhood – as did my parents and aunts and uncles. It was old even when I was a little girl and old, I imagine, when my grandparents built their camps. It is built against a hillside and sits on the lakefront, a stone wall separating its front yard from the water. A paved road sits behind the house. I have walked down that road and passed this house countless times, wondering what it was like to live there when it was built. I know that there weren’t many houses around then – there weren’t many when I was a girl. Most of the houses there now – many bigger and all more modern – have been built in my lifetime. I think that is why this house captures my imagination so still. Amongst all the changes I have seen, it has always been there – a reminder of my past, all those walks, so many summers, so many memories, of people long gone and of how things used to be. More on this week’s photo challenge.
A Taste of Morning 