Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #193 – They Say It’s Your Birthday…
This week, John (Journeys with Johnbo) invites us to show what is special to you about birthdays.
“I try to see every day as a celebration.” — Maya Angelou
Celebrating with colors.
I love to add more colors to our yard. This spring, I planted hydrangeas, daisies, and more for my birthday. 🙂
Celebrating with music. A group of people danced through the night to celebrate someone’s birthday on a cruise. 🙂
Celebrating with good food.
Oh yeah, travel and plan to travel. 🙂
“Be present in all things and thankful for all things.” — Maya Angelou
Celebrating with surprises. When a good friend of mine told me about her mother’s birthday, I decided to make a photobook for her mother. My friend told me that her mother looked through the photobook a few times a day. And, even when her memory began to fade, she still insisted on flipping through the photobook every single day.
The tulips are so pretty, Amy!
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Amy, I enjoyed seeing your great pictures this week and especially enjoyed reading about the photobook you made for your friend’s mother. So kind of you and it meant so much to her.
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What a wonderful way to celebrate your birthday by planting flowers.
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Oh, those tulips! Be still my heart — they are sooo pretty!
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Such wonderful ways to celebrate! Making a photo book for your friend’s mother was such a thoughtful thing to do.
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Thank you, Beth. My friend told me a number of times of how much her mother had enjoyed the photo book. 💖
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I’m so glad you enjoyed my post about the colours of the earth. I enjoyed your post about all the different ways of celebrating – especially the dancing one – something about the angle and the graphic floor make it really unique!
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Thank you! It was so much fun to watch them celebrating and dancing…
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These are all wonderful ways to celebrate, Amy. Travel, food, planting flowers, and so on. Beautiful photos, too. I love that you planted flowers and made a photo book for your friend’s mom. Take care and have a good week.
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Happy to share these moments with you. Thanks to my friend for letting me make the photo book for her mother.
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Planting spring flowers for your birthday is a lovely idea 🙂 Mine however is late October so I associate it more with autumn leaves than with flowers!
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Thank you, Sarah! I love fall leaves.
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Me too – fortunately 😆
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Great interpretation of this challenge Amy. I loved the images and their color.
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Thank you, Anne! Glad you enjoyed these spring colors.
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Good food, good cheer and the best present of all: travel. Just the thing for holidays. And great photos, needless to say 🙂
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The flowers win the day Amy 🙂 🙂
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Happy to share spring colors with you. 🙂
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Those tulips are absolutely beautiful Amy.
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Wonderful colors in those flowers Amy! They can brighten any day. On another note I am reading The Book of Hope , Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams. Today is her Birthday and she is the grand age of 88 and is still going strong!
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Thank you, Ann! Good to know the book, it on my list now. 🙂
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I’m on board with flowers, food, and travel. Fun post, Amy.
janet
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Thank you, Janet! Fun to share with you. 🙂
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I like your take on the challenge. It is interesting to see how different writers put their own take on the challenge.
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Thank you for this fun theme!
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Gorgeous. The first capture is sublime.
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A beautiful response Amy and I especially love your image of the glorious tulips! 🌷
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Lovely post Amy! The flowers are so pretty!
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Thank you!
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What a beautiful post, Amy!
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Thank you, Sofia!
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I love your response to this challenge 😀
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Thank you, Cee! 😊
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What was in the book of photos you gave your friends mother? Sounds very thoughtful.
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Photos of places she loved, the last trip she made to Alaska on her birthday, and her families (including her brothers/sisters) and close friends. They were sent to me by my friend, I just selected and put them together into a story. I made a portable size, so it was easy for her to carry around. I have never met her mother before.
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You have a beautiful heart!
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🙏💖
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Hi Amy / the down view of the cruise photo came right after those flowers and had such a beautiful floral feel even tho it was people dancing –
Also / nice to end with the inspired quotes – good food for thought for birthdays and any days!
☀️😊🌸🌺
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Thank you, Yvette! There are many ways to celebrate, but flowers are my fave. 🙂
Appreciate your comment, as always. ❤
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☀️☀️☀️😊
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Great celebrations. Beautiful! Great looking salmon dinner! Salmon is a fave of mine.
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Thank you, John! Good to know salmon is your fave. I, too, enjoy salmon. 🙂
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Loved your response on this one Amy! You covered the gamut of birthday celebrations and I love that you planted flowers for yours and did a book for someone else. Terrific! I did a similar thing for my cousin when her husband passed away. He was my inspiration for moving into digital photography (a long story). It was all photos of them in various events. She was so thrilled because as a photographer she had very few photos with him in it, whereas I had many. She said she looked at it every day.
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The photobook must mean a lot to your friend, Tina. My friend’s mother had an extroadinary life, so I decided to make a photobook for her though I have never met her mother before.
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I love those tulips! 🙂
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Thank you, Pit. 🙂
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You’ re welcome, Amy!
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