picture fall...day 17.

ummmm...i am a little behind in posting my picture fall photos.

this is my assignment from day 17.

the prompt was...

BOUNTY

i stumbled across this pumpkin patch on an early evening drive.

this

is

nothing other than

PURE

eye candy

for me.

PUMPKIN HEAVEN

really...

i just wanted to lay in the middle of it.

in beauty,

Pamela

day 248....365 project.

in beauty,

Pamela

day 241....365 project.

pumpkin patch time...

in beauty,

Pamela

day 236...365 project.

in beauty,

Pamela

old photos, playing...and a project.

i think i am working on a project.

i'm not quite sure yet what it is...but maybe...just maybe it might be a

bliss book.

for those of you who have been around for the past 3+ years...

you know me by my bliss e-mails.

you know...the ones i used to send out on a near daily basis with photos and words of inspiration.

the ones i stopped sending out because i wasn't FEELing it any more because of life circumstances.

i so did not want to send something out that i wasn't FEELing mySelf.

i made the decision it would have been

an untruth to send them.

so i stopped.

~*~

anyway....

in the past couple of days something VERY exciting happened.

i was contacted by a feng shui artist/decorator asking for some of my images she had seen and was interested in using.

so...i had to dig DEEP DEEP into my photo archieves to find them.

in the end...she was unable to use them for sizing reasons.

but...WHAT AN EXCELLENT LEARNING PROCESS it has been...and i am so grateful someone wished to use them....whether she could or couldn't...the EXPERIENCE was part of the journey.

~*~

but...wow!

i found some fabulous photos i wanted to share with YOU.

they have been patiently waiting to be seen.

and

i

started

playing with them.

~*~

this one i am going to send out as a postcard to a pen pal.

(more on that in another post)

kind of 1960's ish

~*~

and this one....

mmmmmmm....i love the tones.

~*~

and...

i don't know why i like this....

but

i

just

do.

as i am going thru the photos...i am thinking...i would like to have a small little book of them with words to look at.

something pretty to pick up and look thru

when i need to remember

beauty and the journey i am on.

in beauty,

Pamela

team up thursday...

theme this week for team up thursday.....

MORNING

my partner faith and i were on the same page for this theme.

the top photo is a self portrait of faith laying in her bed.

the bottom photo is mine of my bed.

neither one of us wanted to crawl out.

in beauty,

Pamela

***team up thursday can be found at http://mentalinventory.blogspot.com/ ***

day 188....365 project.

weed...

i pulled well over a ZILLION of these in the last 2 days...

i love my job as a gardener.

~*~

this particular area i worked in was landscaped beautifully with pine trees, birch trees, trees i don't even know the name of and bushes.

~*~

a wooded garden

that had not been cleared, cleaned or touched all summer.

there were a ZILLION weeds.

8 full hours of weeds.

instant gratification once an area had been worked on.

i do love my job.

~*~

i took water breaks in the grass....

happy grass.

i prefer taking a break in the grass rather than in an office breakroom.

~*~

and

i

found

a

treasure...

in beauty,

Pamela

***a special note...i am in the process of transitioning my http://www.earthbeone.com/ website.  as with life, passions evolve and change.  i am a firm believer change is GOOD.  and i actually enJOY it very much....ALL of it.  please watch for a new tab on my earth...be one site that will link you to a new featured blog  http://walkinginbliss.blogspot.com/  it is a work in progress and is unfolding slowly.  i will continue to post my photos here on essence also.  my bliss blog will be similar to the bliss e-mails i sent out nearly a year ago... again...it is all unfolding at it's own pace.  watch for a new link to it on this site also. ***

day 162...365 project.

smile....

gotta love it when they smile for you ~**~*~~*~

picture summer...day 13.

day 13 assignment...juicy fruit.

raspberries...my favorite.

i am house~sitting, cat~sitting and garden~sitting at the lovely~bro home this week.

rose has a luscious raspberry patch with berries begging to be enJOYed.

this morning's simple pleasure...picking juicy ripe raspberries for breakfast.

in beauty,

Pamela

picture summer....day 11.

day 11 assignment....indulge yourself.

and i did.

after a little more than 2 weeks of slowly detoxing my body of sweets, soda and then some, i decided to treat my~lovely~self  to a little bit of chocolate.

not all of them...

just 1.

~*~

ok...

maybe 2.

in beauty,

Pamela

picture summer...day 10.

day 10 assignment....memory maker.

i am finishing up my 40th year in life.  the day i turned 40 i felt there were going to be many changes in my life this year....and there very much has been.  a loss of a job/career, a divorce, a loss of material items such as a home and coveted garden, and so many other changes one can't even imagaine including the loss of who i thought i was....keyword  THOUGHT. 

i am learning who I AM...and am returning to mySELF thru the process.  and the amount of personal growth has been an amazing journey...one that will continue on~~~>~>>~~>>

so when i think of a memory maker for this project...HORSES come immediately into my mind.  throughout this 40th year of my life, horses have shown up continuously...thru friends, clients, aquaintenances and adventures...they just show up.

i will remember this year as 

the year of the horse.

so fitting...

as 

horses symbolize

FREEDOM 

GRACE

STRENGTH

ADVENTURE

and

PERSONAL POWER.

and

that has been

my

40th year.

in beauty,

Pamela

10 summer photos....#3.

assignment....what is in your fruit basket?

raspberries....

i love to use vintage glassware to hold fruit. 

especially colored glass.

 i love raspberries.

my grandmother grew them in her garden on her farm.

we picked buckets full

in the

summer.

the color of the raspberries look so pretty in this green bowl.

and...i LoVe how it looks sitting on my outdoor glass table

this morning on the deck.

mmmm....breakfast.

what is in your fruit bowl?

i would love to see.

in beauty,

Pamela

fairy hammock....

mmmm.....i found a fairy hammock the other morning...

there were several...

but

 this one caught my eye.

soft

comfy

and

pretty

and

very

earthy.

i would love to lounge on it.

in beauty,

Pamela

house~sitting continued........

i just returned from my 5 night 6 day house~sitting experience....
mmmmmm....it was so fascinating to watch life unfold from a different space....but i quickly realized it was from my "own" space....one separate from another's. 
i love my own space.

non~the~less...

my friend cathy has a quiet restful home.

and i was so fortunate to be able to be in it.

her decor would be similar to mine...

fairies....

and so many "things" from the natural world.

it was very easy to be in my "own" while

in her energy.

her bed....

divine and lush and welcoming.

i dreamed

fabulously.

note the statue in the window

a naked woman

i love naked women statues.

feminine

and i will leave it at that.

i spent most of my free time lounging with a book....serpent of light...on her balcony.

if not reading...i was admiring the scenery (see earlier post).

with pansy faces

smiling

at

me.

thank you cathy.

i really enjoyed

your

space

and the many

gifts it brought me.

in beauty,

Pamela

day 121....365 project

eye candy~~~>  while house~sitting.....

bliss...

no one saves us but ourselves.  no one can and no one may.  we ourselves must walk the path.

~buddah~

mmmmm...walking in my own~~~~>~~~>

love~for~love

Pamela

http://www.earthbeone.com/

bliss...

i love old buidings....they are so intriguing....weathered...and still standing...serving a purpose they are only aware of....perhaps a gift to my appreciative eye. this one is on the property next to my childhood home. i have always liked it...funny...in the 17 years i lived next to it...i never have been inside. an eye sore to some perhaps...but a gem to mine.

in beauty,

pamela

http://www.earthbeone.com/

bliss....

mmmmm....my mom's garden.

in beauty,

pamela

bliss....

choose differently this day...

in every moment we have choice...is your glass 1/2 empty or 1/2 full.

today choose 1/2 full...and watch the magic unfold ~*~

live every moment with a full glass.

in beauty,

Pamela

day 98...project 365

iris....