Day 8: I am a Goddess (Repeat as needed)

I'll just start by saying that today was a better day than yesterday. Since they were predicting snow today (insert blood curdling scream here), I brought out my serious winter parka from the back of the closet. Found this in the pocket. Felt like a good omen.

Day began with dropping Rocky to the groomers. He LOVES riding shotgun with Mummy. I put the seat heater on for him and we rolled out.

Are you kidding me with that face??!!! A love!!!!!

Although my photography confidence is waning, I still grabbed my camera when I left the house this morning, so there must be some seed of hope deep inside me. Or it could be my fatalistic optimism kicking in again. In any event, I took about 100 photos today. Here's six that I'm pleased with:

Off to my more satisfying creative activity...knitting! Good night, y'all.

Day 7????

I think I'm off on my days of Lent. And since I just burned 20 minutes searching the Google-box for a numbered Lenten calendar I figured it's not so much about the number but the practice.

Spent the entire day giving the house a major cleaning. Pulled out beds, glued stuff back together, organized the yarn. I always find comfort in cleaning. It allows me to feel I have some control over something in the world and Lord knows I need to be reminded that I do, in fact, have some control over something in my house these days. Grabbed the camera and headed out to pick up the boy.

I took this photo today outside the Norfolk Public Library. Mother and child...it's been a day. I liked how the male shadow hovers in the background...boy, does THAT feel familiar. A strong presence, to be sure, but the mother is in the foreground. 

Anyhoo...

I posted this on my Superhero Photo Flickr group. I'm so intimidated. All the photos seem so much more artsy than mine. I deleted at least 25 crap photos just to post 4. I snap the picture, thinking it's going to be this powerful shot, but when I get home, it just looks so flat. I barely had any comments on the pictures I'd already posted. I'm suffering from creative anxiety. Screw it. I'm just going to keep at it. It's the only way I'll get any better.

PS: And I'm going to stop reading the comments!

PSS: Three deer jumped in from of the car on our way home this afternoon. We stared at each other for about 3 minutes before I remembered I had my camera in the car. I knew as soon as I pressed the button my shutter was too slow and the picture would come out blurry. That said, someone in my online could post this and I would think it was totally artsy...me, not so much. I think it's all in the attitude. Maybe I'll play with it and make it into something. We'll see.

Day 3 and 4: I'm in love again

Had myself a little adventure today (Day 4). The man and I headed to Shadow Pines Alpaca Farm in Exeter, RI. I only have three words to say: I'm in love. Are you kidding me??!!! Look at that face. How can you not fall in love with these beautiful creatures.

I defy you not to love this guy!

And since we were right around the corner from Narragansett, we headed over the beach for a quick walk. It was so beautiful today. This is probably one of the best shots of us together in a long time. The Man indulged me because his face doesn't show.

From there, we headed up 1A to Wickford for a delicious lunch of Clam Chowder and sandwiches.

We walked through the downtown and this sign jumped out at me. Since it's my word of the year, I've started snapping photos of interesting open signs. It's amazing how many "signs" I see when I stay aware enough to see them. (I'll be posting more of my Open photos later.)

PS:

Here some shots I took yesterday (Day 3) at In the Loop. My assignment for this first week of Superhero Photos is to carry my camera everywhere and basically shot everything. So, that's exactly what I did.

Day 2: Creating young creators

Today, my challenge was to carry my camera with me everywhere and "Elevate the Ordinary". Thursday means Kids Knitting. It was small class today because of the school vaca, but I enjoyed as much as when all the girls are there. We got to really talk and giggle and knit...which is pretty much how my own knitting class went on Tuesday night. Lord, we carried on like nobody's business. Kintting has been such a joy in my life. Such a gift. I'm glad to be able to pass it on to the next generation.

The circle remains unbroken.

Day 1: Superhero-ing for Lent

So Lent starts today. I love Lent. I love the idea of focusing for 40 days. It could be changing a bad habit or developing a new one. Giving up something bad for me or adding something good for me. I love the idea of being intentional for 40 days. Last year, I wrote everyday for 40 days and that was really fun. It got my creative juices flowing, which I loved, and it made me pay attention to the details of my day because more often than not, the inspiration for the day came from the mundane, ordinary things that make up most of my days. But boy there was some good stuff in the mundane.

This year, I'm going back to the creativity well. I've signed up for a 6 week online photo course called Elevate the Ordinary led by Andrea Scher of Superhero Photo and Superhero Journal. Every Monday through Thursday for the next six weeks, I will be getting a prompt to inspire me to get out my camera and shoot creativity, freely, and outside the box-ly. My first assignment came today and I choose the prompt: Elevate the Ordinary.

I've had the wire mannequin for a while and I just love her. I bought her for a mixed media thing, but I could never come up with the right project. So she's been sitting on my bookshelf waiting patiently. Today for her day. In this course, we are to be bold, make mistakes, get outside, use the natural light, and generally get a little "out there". I'm just now getting comfortable using more of my camera, and it felt good to get outside and play today.

Coincidentally, or not so coincidentally, my day ended with a phone call that brought me back to something that I thought I was not going to able to accomplish, but there will be more on that later. When I don't fight Creativity, she can be soooo rewarding.

Day 1 of 40 Days of Creativity...here we go.