Today's Picture to Ponder Photos
The upper photo is a very bright Full Moon, early in the evening, adorned with clouds and framed by trees in Green Cay Wetlands.

The lower is a cut Saturn, also known as Donut, Peach in a Ceramic Dish

These two may likely seem to be a strange combination of photographs. "What might be the theme?" you could be asking. The lower peach photo is part of a series I describe on the Photography and Transformation blog, per my intention to post fruit photos daily for a week.

My attraction to the peach photo here has nothing to do with the peach itself. When I view the image, I'm caught up in the almost abstract quality of it, when I don't think about what the main object is. For me then, it's simply the play and repetition of lines and textures, as well as, very subtly, colors.

The moon photo also has an abstract quality and feeling and given the colors and shapes are somewhat similar to those in the lower photo, I thought it would be interesting to put them together on one "wall", our Picture to Ponder page.

Today's Self-Reflecting Queries
Today, I invite you to look into your life to see:

1. where there may be situations, projects, people that you keep totally separate and distinct - compartmentalized.

2. Is anything, or anyone, standing out, as you look at this here?

3. What elements are there that brings this/these to mind now?

4. Is there any commonality with/among what you are noticing? If so, do you see a way in which putting them together might empower you, them or the situation?

5. If "yes", I invite you to have fun creating something new.

My Story of the Day leading to these queries:
There is really not much of a story today beyond the photos that caught my attention. As usual, the queries evolve as I wrote.

Actually the full moon photo was an unexpected one in that it was very late and almost dark when I started my Green Cay Wetlands walk. I almost left my camera in the car thinking it would be too dark to photograph. Then that voice in me that reminds me to ALWAYS take make camera, "You never know what will show up," had me bring it along.

I was so glad I paid attention, for shortly after I started walking, I had one of the "on-rare-occasions" magical sighting, at least for me!

Have you ever experienced glancing up at the moon and seeing it as a HUGE globular, ball of light, which doesn't last for very long? Although not huge this time, I did, as I was walking, see an extra large and very orange light beyond the trees.

I scurried to catch it, with my thankful-I-had-it camera, and "grabbed" what I could in photographs, mildly chastising myself for not having started walking from the opposite direction, where I would have seen more of the moon show earlier than I did.

Once again, I could dwell on possible missed opportunities or, more powerfully, be with those that did develop.

I'm sure additional queries could come from this for you. If that happens, certainly, be with and expand on whatever it is that comes up.

EXPANDING ON WHAT IS -
At the suggestion of a now new subscriber I put the ONION STORY together in one PDF where the text and photographs flow together. By reducing the size of the photos, still fully viewable, I was able to manage a nice and meaningful flow.

I see this as an introduction to a book, or portion thereof, and have made it a LIMITED TIME gift offer for Picture to Ponder subscribers. Go to ONION STORY #1 for your copy AND

for those who have already requested and received the 2 PDF combo, I will be sending you the link for the new combined piece. It's not necessary for you to request it again.

FIREFLAG PLAY
In the nature of fun, if you have not already done so, 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."

SUBSCRIBER BONUS
Again, simply go to ONION STORY #1, fill in the form with your name and email and, in the reply email you will receive, confirm your interest .