ZIZO week 47

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Miriam Rogers

Dogs Day Out

I love visiting the beach by my brother’s home in South Wales, there is always something going on and today was no exception. Today was Dogs Day Out. There were ever so many of them running up and down the pebbled beach but just one was in the sea swimming up and down the shoreline and in and out with the surf all by him self. (Yes it could have been a her, I didn’t get a chance to look)

From where we were watching he appeared to be all alone and such a long way out. We couldn’t see any one to whom he might belong, until we climbed the bank of pebbles.
Down the other side of the bank, by the water, was a gentleman throwing a stone at for the dog, stone after stone, throw after throw and the dog kept on swimming to where the pebble disappeared into the water, he almost came back to his master once but then he changed his mind and off he went again.

Dogs and the beach, perfect for each other and a great opportunity for a ZIZO.

This lovely meme, which I have missed posting to, is Helena’s

Thankful For…

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Miriam Rogers

16th November

17th November

FMS October Alphabet Challenge

I’ve been playing with a phone app called Photoviva, such fun! Take one of your photos and touch part of it with your finger and it smudges the colour. It looks a bit like a painting.

Six Words

Posted on November 16, 2014 by Miriam Rogers

On Sunday

Adrienne’s word for Friday 14th October was CROSS
Thanks to Maureen at Josephina Ballerina for the idea.

Why? because I have never been able to master it, so I suppose I’m cross with me, not the cross stitch. Is there a craft you’ve not been able to master?

The theme for Capture Your 365 in November is Giving Thanks

November 15th

This may be controversial, but for me, it works.

and Octobers Alphabet Challenge with FMS

November and Me

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Miriam Rogers

Sian over at High in the Sky posted a beautiful Lay Out yesterday journalling how she feels about November. She wondered what others felt this month.

Here’s how I feel in November.

Looking in my Christmas drawer and the feeling of Oh! I’d forgotten I had that…

Leaves in all their glorious colour. Picking them up, taking them home and photographing them. Yes again! I love them, they make my heart sing

Resolving to post the Christmas cards on the first of December

Winter boots, hat and scarf, my new winter coat and of course a new hat. Orange this year. No I don’t think I look like a pumpkin!
Wolley tights and a shorter skirt…all ready for when the weather turns. You can smile but in 2012 we were in the garden sitting around the fire on Christmas eve!

Winter food, casseroles and puddings. It’s the only time of the year I make them.
Checking the sloe gin, is it ready yet?

Lists, endless lists for Christmas.
Booking my delivery slot at the supermarket and never remembering what size turkey to buy and remembering the year I made notes for the following year, one of which said: Buy a bigger turkey. “Bigger than what?” my husband said. Yes I had forgotten to write down the weight of the ‘too small’ turkey.

Sorting the bed linen for Christmas guests.
Changing the curtains and covers in our bedroom from summer white to winter red.

Armistice day. Standing in the freezing cold in years gone by, remembering and giving thanks.
A special friends birthday, the day of her passing and her funeral, Oh! so many memories.

A daily photo challenge with a theme of Giving Thanks.

The feeling of Oh! It’s ages yet and then the feeling of OMG it’s the first of December tomorrow.

The constant invitations begining with “Oh! we must… before Christmas”. Why can’t “we must”… in July?

November, a time for pausing, to take stock:
of time passing,
and seasons changing.
A time for planning,
for gathering and
Giving Thanks.

Thank you Sian