Friday, April 19, 2013

Focus On Life~Week 16~Take A Walk

Grab your camera, open the door and step outside into the fresh air.  Take a walk!  Whether you walk to your favorite chair on the porch, walk a few miles down a rural road or a busy city street, take a moment to be aware of the beauty of the world and let it's grandeur energize your soul, inspire your mind and jump start your creativity.  Step back and look at the wide world around you and capture a shot of the landscape in front of you.  

I wish I could have actually taken a walk, but I had to settle for going through my garage onto the driveway.  I'm thankful I could walk at least that much!  These pictures are looking at my back yard and the last one is looking across the street from my driveway.  






I look forward each spring to the blooming cherry tree.  I hope to go out in a couple of days and take some close up shots of the gorgeous pink blossoms.  The yellow forsythia is fading now, but I love seeing the yellow flowers and pink blossoms together.  Nature is always inspiring, but I'm especially inspired in the spring when color starts popping up everywhere.

Visit Sally at The Studio Sublime to see what others saw when they took a walk!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

xo Annette xo


28 comments:

  1. Your blooming trees are gorgeous! ours are just about to bloom and soon our whole town will be flowers everywhere you look!

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  2. What lovely colors on your trees! You are lucky to have so much green, too.

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  3. Blooms are always gorgeous - but a cherry tree blooming is the most beautiful sight I miss mine - in my high-school yard we had a few Japanese Cherry trees. You know how they say you don't really know what you had until it's gone?! I miss those trees incredibly...
    Thank you for sharing!

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  4. Nothing blooming here yet so it was nice to see your cherry tree. We got 4 inches of snow overnight. Thanks for sharing!

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  5. Hi Annette,
    Beautiful! I love all of the blooming trees they are so pretty, but so sad the blooms are short lived.
    Therese

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  6. You have a beautiful backyard! Lucky you :-) The pink tree blossoms are such a pretty sight. Thanks for sharing!

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  7. Oh so lush, beautiful! I would love to have such blooms right now. I have wedding pictures in from of them and I never realized in the planning that they would be there - and in bloom. Special treat that day! thanks for the reminder

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  8. your trees are a fair bit further along than ours... so, so beautiful! i adore all the blossom :)
    have a great week!
    no 18 on the list

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  9. Beautiful photos your garden is lovely, we are still waitting for spring to arrive but slowly the weather is looking better, at least the snow has gone!!

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  10. Lovley flowers.. wish my forsythia was blooming... DOn't have a cherry tree!

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  11. No leaves on the trees in my backyard yet. Winter is in it's final stages here. We recently had an ice storm. I can't wait for the explosion of green leaves and colourful flowers to come. I love cheery blossoms.

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  12. The pink cherry blossoms are just beautiful!

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  13. I love cherry blossoms and look forward to them every spring.

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  14. How beautiful! I think EVERYONE is ready for winter to be gone!

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  15. I'm with you on the blooming trees. Around here they are the indicator that Spring is really here. My front yard is filled with pink "snow" right now - haha!

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  16. Gorgeous photos! It certainly looks like spring has arrived in your area.

    Our trees are blooming too, but the temps have turned very cold. In fact it was sleeting yesterday.

    It seems Mother Nature is toying with us here.

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  17. You are so right about those cherry blossoms. I guess their short showing is the price we pay for their beauty. Just lovely.

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  18. The cherry is stunning. I just love them

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  19. Gorgeous shots! Cool that you don't have to go far to see all that color. Forsythia is something I miss in my garden.

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  20. Gorgeous photos of those trees - I just love spring when all the trees bloom out and some many things to take pictures of!

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  21. Well, how lucky you are to have THAT view! We're thinking about putting trees in front of our deck; I would have to have one of those flowering cherries...hmmm....thanks for the inspiration!

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  22. The blossoms are so pretty. When my oldest son was little he said, "Look, Mom! PINK trees!"

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  23. You have a very pretty back yard and all those cherry blossoms!

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  24. What a lovely view! All of the colors are wonderful. Gotta love spring!

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  25. I love the pops of color against all the green!

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  26. Love your photos! I used to have a cherry tree in my backyard as a child and it was so lovely when it bloomed - it was my favorite!

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