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FitAmbitiousBlonde, Life...Take 2!

Be Scared and Do It Anyway....

“Why am I doing this??”  That is a literal question I ask myself at least once, if not several times, during each ride I set out on. Mountain biking for me is challenging, like really challenging. It pushes my body and mind to extremes that I haven’t experienced in any other sport or endeavor I have taken on before or since. There are points during each ride that I feel like quitting. The route gets tough. My lungs start screaming for air. My legs begin to feel like they are on fire or I am just faced with terrain that…
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Writing to Freedom

Walking with Beauty

Spring has arrived at Lake Wedington. ~ the glory of spring nature's resplendent beauty bursting with color ~ The last of the red bud blossoms. Spring was in full bloom on Monday at Lake Wedington. This has become my new favorite park with a nice mix of water, fields, forests, proximity, and light traffic. I must have taken over 100 photos and am still editing and deleting images. I'm so grateful that I was hiking and photographing earlier this week before our weather went crazy. Yesterday we had snow flurries and overnight temperatures of 24' F. I had to bring…
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Island Traveler, This Man's Journey

17‑Mile Drive of Pebbles on the Sand

When the Sun is out to play, 17-Mile Drive transforms into an Oasis of beauty and escape. We can go back to the same place and experience everything differently. My son was 10 when we drove to 17-Mile Drive. It was raining. The Sky was crying all day and the Ocean grieving with it. So depressing that we lost interest to come back. 5 years later we decided to give it another go and this is what we saw...and exactly what we felt...Oasis like no other. On a rare day, a portal into the realm of Pebbles, a multi verse…
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ben Alexander, The skeptic's kaddish

Momentary heartbeats, or: Silence

Jerusalem, Israel We live in Jerusalem, our apartment at an intersection on a major thoroughfare, the central north-south artery running through the city center. This is convenient for a family with no vehicle; a bus stop rests just outside our window, making the Jerusalem downtown readily accessible. As you can well imagine, we constantly hear the sounds of traffic from our home. Ambulances, police cars, honking, stop announcements from passing busses... Our landlord told me that he could never live in such a noisy place as this (his grandparents were the ones who purchased and once lived in this apartment).…
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Allison, A Farm Girl's Life

Forest Portraits & Sunflower Fields

Hello, my friends! This post is going to be kinda weird. I have two completely different photoshoots for you guys today: a collection of self-portraits I took back in January on a foggy/cloudy day, and a cheerful, summery set of sunflower photos left over from this sisters photoshoot. I love them both and I'm excited to finally share them together since they're almost too small to post individually. Enjoy some out-of-season photos! :D We'll start with the wintry ones. I wanted to take some photos in the fog, but sadly this was basically the only one I got before it…
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TheTravellothoner, Bombay Ficus

Cauliflower Based Pizza Crust And Recipe

This Cauliflower Pizza Crust recipe is a healthy veggie-packed option that is naturally gluten-free and grain-free. It is perfect for people who still want to eat their pizza, while following a low-carb or food combining diet. Note : Scroll down to the bottom of the page for ingredients and specific instructions. How to Make A Cauliflower Pizza Making a cauliflower pizza is straight-forward, but a little labor intensive. If you start with fresh cauliflower, you’ll need to steam it until tender. (You can skip this step by using frozen cauliflower– read further down in this post for more info). Then, you’ll pulse it in a food…
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koolkosherkitchen, Renard's World

Dark Movies or Dark Chocolate?

"Everything in this room is eatable, even I am eatable, but that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies,” announces Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, dropping a transparent hint that points to another charmingly sinister character, brilliantly played by the same actor, the Demon Barber Sweeney Todd. https://youtu.be/SslkCJQGEOc Yet Depp's Willy Wonka is all charm and no malice in the beginning, all radiant smiles and warm welcome, as he takes the children on a tour of Chocolate Room. https://youtu.be/OMFQtY6655E Oh, the Chocolate Room is gloriously multicolored with splendid trees, luscious grass and…
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Gail’s Snapshotsincursive

Watermelon Salsa

What's Cooking in Gail's Kitchen? Foodstuff Redefined: Watermelon Salsa! Want a conversation-starter? The next time you're in a group, pose the simple question: "Do you eat watermelon WITH or WITHOUT a sprinkling of salt?" Then stand clear and let the debate begin. Some insist that a pinch of salt awakens the taste buds. Others believe it interferes with the natural sweetness. Me? I gotta tell you, I kinda prefer the whole sweet & salty thing. Like mixing buttered movie popcorn with kettle corn. But that's another story. WATERMELON SALSA Ingredients: 1/4 pound seedless watermelon, rind removed and cut into chunks…
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Andrew Petcher, Have Bag, Will Travel

Monday Washing Lines

  Welcome to my latest theme. Monday Washing Lines. I liked this one for the way the colour of the washing compliments the shades of the building. Villajoyosa is a wonderful place, an ex-fishing town, now a Spanish holiday resort of coloured houses with twisted rusting balconies with rattan blinds decorated with overloaded washing lines and pot plants gasping for water, all looking longingly out to sea. It reminded me of Burano in Venice, Cinque Terre on the Italian Riviera and of Milos in the Greek Islands. It is a Challenge. Do feel free to join in…
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Baydreamer

Were you born to shine in one special way?

What makes you really stand out? Since I loved to sing ever since I was nine years old, I had always dreamed of singing professionally when I grew up. Performing solos in school and special concerts encouraged that dream right along. So, maybe belting out a tune or crooning through a ballad on stage was my way of shining. If we’re gifted with a talent, shouldn’t we share it with the world? This musical topic was paramount in one of my past stories, “The Way It Was” so it may seem familiar to some of you who read that tale…
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