Xingfu means happy and blessed in Chinese. Even though 2014, the year I started this blog, was a busy and, at times, difficult year that is the word I thought of for this space. Mama not because I have many children but because I seem to fall into a caregiving role. Sometimes I feel like Mama to the world.
The name XingfuMama means Happy Mama with undertones of being blessed.
Welcome to week 15 of Pull up a Seat. Take a load off and share a favorite perch by linking your post to this one, either with a comment or ping-back. For more detailed directions go to Pull Up a Seat page.
I have a question for you all: is it helpful to have me list links to entries for the previous weeks? I do so to try and make it easy to take a look at the wide variety of photos that people enter, but it does take a little time…and the risk that maybe I miss someone, or misspell something. What do you think?
Thank you to everyone who participated this week. It is always fun to see the variety of ideas.
Here are mine for the week:
From a visit to the Arboretum at South Seattle Community College in September:
More random:
For Wordless Wednesday.
Wandering about as I try to backup and organize my archives and create a system for moving forward I ran into these clematis photos from last May. Since I have been experimenting with post processing in LightRoom lately, I tried out a couple of techniques.
The second picture used techniques described by Bren at Ryan Photography.
The second photo above uses a LightRoom preset from Julie Powell that is from her Sunday Stills class.
Posted for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Advent wreaths count down to Christmas, in reality they probably predate the concept of Christmas and are part of “pagan” celebrations of the solstice. I like the idea of advent, gradually preparing for our celebration of the change from darkening to lightening (Christmas is fundamentally that: a celebration of the return of light to a dark and weary world) and have “celebrated” it in my own ways for many years now.
This year I decided that I will try to add to that celebration participation in the “TimeSquares” Photo Challenge by each week during Advent.
From our visit to London last June:
From this past week, time passes so quickly:
Welcome to week 14 of Pull up a Seat. Take a load off and share a favorite perch by linking your post to this one, either with a comment or ping-back. For more detailed directions go to Pull Up a Seat page.
Thank you to everyone who participated this week. It is always fun to see the variety of ideas.
My contribution for this week: a gallery of sweet, seasonal seating from various gingerbread houses and villages.
Over to you.
From this morning’s dog walk, for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
A few pictures of ways in Weifang, Shandong Province, China, for Son of a Beach’s Which Way Photo Challenge.
For Wordless Wednesday and Cee’s Flower of the Day
It’s time to wear gloves. I took these walking the dogs a couple of weeks ago, on the first frosty morning.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Cold
Welcome to week 13 of Pull up a Seat. Take a load off and share a favorite perch by linking your post to this one, either with a comment or ping-back. For more detailed directions go to Pull Up a Seat page.
Is 13 unlucky? It doesn’t feel that way to me. Seems like a good time to thank everyone who has been participating in this challenge. It has been a lot of fun for me to see the wide variety of posts people think of for this one simple topic, I hope you are enjoying it also.
Thank you to everyone who participated this week.
Here are my offerings for this week, these were all taken in Weifang, China a couple of years ago.
Dil se Dil tak...
come on in, stay a while, but first wipe your feet (I just had the floor done)
Capturing the beauty of God's creation through the lens of a camera
Various Things On My Mind
My two cents about travel, life and easing into retirement
Life lessons from the beeline
My Journey through Still Life Photography
Flower photos and the mind
Images brought to you by Bren and Ashley Ryan
"Pay attention to the world" -- Susan Sontag
Creative Exploration in Words and Pictures
The Cricket Pages
Expressing Thought Through Photography
relax, center, and stretch your photographic skills. Namaste.
Your second chance to be creative. .
To See a World in a Grain of Sand...
