Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy

What makes me the happiest girl in the world? Speaking to my three nieces via Skype. I love seeing their smiling happy faces when the connection clicks on through. They show me their new school outfits; sing me new pop songs and even play the saxophone.

It’s truly a beautiful happy moment. One I take with me when I head to the beach for some Autummer sun.

Pizza also makes me super-duper happy. So happy that I do the happy-happy pizza dance. Since moving to Sardinia I’ve had a long running phrase when signing letters or emails to my three little nieces and they get a good kick out of it, which makes Aunt Jenny beyond happy.

The phrase?

I love you more than Italian pizza!

What makes you happy?

This is my response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy

Weekly Photo Challenge: Mine

These traditional Sardinian sweets are handcrafted with patience and care. I wish I could say that I made these sweets but alas I didn’t. I did however eat my fair share; all of them mine.

Which one would you like to try?

This is my response to this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Mine.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary

A solitary beach setting in the late afternoon daze of summer.

What does solitary mean to you?

This is my response to WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life

This weeks challenge is all about people and the things they do. I’ve never been one to photograph people as I prefer rolling landscapes and blue waters, so I’ve dug a little deep to find some people pics. I hope you enjoy.

Two days ago a mistral blew through northern Sardinia and we headed to the beach to roll in the waves. Elated to see about eight surfers in the water, I knew what I had to do next; out came the camera and I snapped away. Surfing is an everyday occurence (when the weather permits) for many surfers in this neck of the woods.

A few years ago I made my way back to Canada for a visit. Along with my sister and her beautiful family we drove to Gatineau, Quebec to visit my sister’s in-laws. We had many beautiful adventures: walking among the freshly fallen rustic leaves and watching the ripples fade in a mirror-like pond.

We also went tobogganing!

Prague is one of my all time favourite cities, and I don’t like large cities. I climbed the bell tower and snapped this photo of everyday life in Prague.

My girlfriends and I packed up the car and drove to New Hampshire for a four-day long weekend. Surprised to see the New Hampshire Police force using this mode of transportation; I guess it’s part of their everyday life, I sure had a giggle.

In 2007 I had the pleasure of traveling to Santorini, Greece with this group of fabulous travelers. I have been a member on Virtual Tourist since 2005 when I was searching for information on Brazil. These people are a wealth of information and are a great group to ride a donkey up a steep mountain with. I would do it again, yes I would!

Now the following photo shows my everyday life, albeit six years ago when I was running around as a waitress in a busy restaurant overlooking Niagara Falls, Canada. I loved my job, really I did. This photo is dedicated to one special person, and all the douchebags that don’t tip!

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Near and Far

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. The beautiful palm is near while the ocean beckons me; far in the distance.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Near and Far

“He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.” – Chanakya

My favourite street cat catching warm sunshine on a hot tin roof. I’m not even sure if this photo qualifies for this week’s challenge; the roof tiles are near and the sweet orange kitty is far.

This is my response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Near and Far.

Travel Theme: Curves

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“Sometimes Mother Nature decides to throw us a curve ball,” – Charles Bronson “My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; … Continue reading

Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit

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A photographic journey around the world – my free spirit through the eyes of others. I would have preferred to fill this post with photo’s of my three beautiful nieces instead of my silly mug but there are some things … Continue reading

Travel Theme: Silhouette

Fridays are full of fantastic photo challenges and Ailsa’s travel theme this week is a beautiful display of silhouette(s).

Where in the world am I?

It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.” -Oswald Spangler

A BIG congrats if you can tell me where I am.

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.” H. P. Blavatsky

Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario, Canada

Want to see my favourite silhouette? Trust me, it’s pretty cool.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban

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Another fantastic theme this week: Urban. Seeing as I don’t live anywhere near an urban center, I had to dig deep into my photographic archives to find a suitable photo(s). Urban Amsterdam Urban Copacabana Urban Fira Urban Bern Urban Verona … Continue reading