Tag: waterfalls

Thankful November 18th: Traveling

  • Castle Thun, Switzerland
    Oberhofen Castle, Switzerland
  • Solothurn, Switzerland
  • St. Colomon and Neuschwanstein
  • Ceiling of St. Gallen’s Cathedral in Switzerland
  • Fast moving train
  • The bottom of The Bean
    The Bean, Chicago, IL
  • Russell in Scotland
  • At Dunfermline Abbey
  • Bath Abbey ceiling
  • Stonehenge in sepia
  • Joe's Farm Grill
    Joe’s Farm Gill
  • Millenium Bridge, London
    St. Paul’s
  • Doune Castle, Scotland
    Doune Castle
  • Jedbrough Abbey
  • Crowd at the Globe
    At the Globe, London
  • Russell and his favorite bridge
  • Westminster Abby, London
    Westminster Abby

I know that I’ve already expressed gratitude for the earth and its beauties, but I am also very grateful for the chance I’ve had (and continue to have) to travel many places around the world and also close to home. When my husband and I got married, he hadn’t traveled much. A couple of years after we married, I convinced him that we needed to take a trip to Great Britain to visit a nephew who had been transferred to London for a year, along with his wife and three boys. It was the best thing that could have happened to us. Since then, we have made a few more trips across the pond to the east, across the pond to the west, and headed down south for my first experience in Mexico (besides Tijuana). I’m looking forward to many more adventures around this amazing globe we live on in the near and distant future.

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Thankful November 2nd: The Beauties of the Earth

  • Castle Thun, Switzerland
    Oberhofen Castle, Switzerland
  • Queen's View Scotland
    Queen’s View, Scotland
  • Fishing at Little Lyman Lake
  • Backlit leaf
  • Perfect pink dahlia
    Pink dahlia
  • Pfeiffer Bay in Big Sur
    Big Sur cove
What a wonderful world

For the beauty of the earth,
For the beauty of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies,
Lord of all, to Thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise.
Folliott S. Pierpoint, 1835-1917

I have been lucky enough to do a bit of traveling around this amazing planet on which we live (that sentence structure is a nod to all of my English professors at the University of Utah). I’ve been to Asia, Europe, Mexico, Great Britain, and most of the United States of America. Everywhere I go, I find beautiful things to photograph and wonderful people who fill my heart with happiness.

A Photo a Week Challenge: Green

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I might make this an annual challenge. St. Patrick’s Day is tomorrow, and I will of course be wearing green. And eating corned beef and cabbage. I am Irish on both sides, and I love green. I don’t remember the name of this waterfall, but it was one of my favorites on Kauai. And look at all of that green!

IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A NEW PHOTO OR TWO (OR MORE) FEATURING THE COLOR GREEN.

Everyone is welcome to participate, even if your blog isn’t about photography.

Here’s how it works:

  1. Each week, I’ll come up with a theme and post a photo that I think fits. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Thursday, when the next photo theme will be announced.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “A Photo a Week Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
  3. Come back here and post a link to your image in the comments for this challenge.
  4. Follow nancy merrill photography so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements.