Today's Picture to Ponder Photos
Sections of a dehydrating Gold Delicious Apple that had been in the refrigerator for some time.
Today, as I started clicking through photos in my MacIntosh's iPhoto program to make a choice for feature photos, these apples caught my eye. It was the humor I saw in the sideways glance and winking eye of the apple half in the lower photo that first grabbed my attention.
In the upper photo, I think it's the somewhat unexpected structure of the apple that we see that I find so interesting. And, "yes," for those of you who, along with me, see faces in my photos, I do see the two eyes.
Today's Self-Reflecting Queries
Today, I invite you to look into your life to see:
1. Are there things you've been saying you would do and then haven't?
2.
If "yes," is there an intention you wish to declare, something that will make it easier for you to follow through?
3. Are there any games you would like to create for yourself to have them happen, especially when you get stuck?
4.
Are there "permissions" you need to be giving yourself? - Perhaps, simply allowing yourself to have fun?
My Story of the Day leading to these queries:
Last month, you may recall, I documented the peeling away of the layers of an onion. If you missed it, you can see some photos and start following on the SECOND PAGE of the blog.
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When I started out photographing the onion, my original plan had been to do daily postings on the blog of vegetable photos, continuing with fruits the next week. In preparation for the latter, one day I pulled an apple from my refrigerator. I discovered that it had been in there long beyond the time for tasty eating. The apple did, however, make an enjoyable photo subject.
In the meantime, I got so caught up in the Onion Story that I went well beyond the original intention of one week of vegetable photo posting and totally lost interest in continuing on with the fruits.
As usual, after I made my choices I started second guessing them, "Should I even do the apple? Is this the right choice? What about the lighting, color, quality, etc. etc." And I decided to stick with my first instincts, at the same time uploading onto FlickR several more of the photos which you can see by simply clicking on APPLE- INSIDE VIEWS.
As always, it's when I start writing that the SRQ themes develop and for today, I saw, that once again they are falling into the Intention - Completion realm, with a little bit of the "trust" factor thrown in. The latter for today is trusting that there are those of you out there for whom something in these apple photos, and subsequent queries, will be making a difference for you.
On the lighter side, it could be as simple as checking your refrigerator for the credible edibles.
In terms of completions and incompletions, I have been looking this week at places in my life where I have incompletions. Mainly they seem to be in those areas where I had set intentions. And, I'm taking little steps this week, stages of completion.
As I've stated, in prior issues of Picture to Ponder, when I remind myself of my stated intentions, it becomes easier to complete and there is a lot less brain "chatter". And, sure enough, a couple of major things have been accomplished already, beyond what I thought was possible, in some long lingering projects I had dropped, as well as in current ones.
To conclude here, insofar as it relates to today's discussion, I am commiting for the next week to the daily posting of fruit photos completing on the earlier expressed intention of a month ago, staying open to what might occur.
Given, I'm making up the game, I will also give myself the permission to use some
photos I took a few weeks ago when I thought that would be my next activity.
Is there anything to which you would like to commit for the next week, something that might not already have been on your list?
As always, do remember to have fun. You can even divert momentarily and have some fun with
FIREFLAG PLAY
In the nature of fun, check out FIREFLAG LEAF, TALKING IN THE WIND, an 18 second video clip I posted on YouTube. I suspect many of you could create some great expressions that could be coming out of his/her "mouth."
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