30 Day Winter Photo Challenge Day Twenty - "Angelic"

"Angelic" by Debi

"Angelic" by Shannon

Today Debi's photo is of her mom and her mom's dog. I bet the dog isn't angelic all the time!

I went abstract today. To me, the color and the shimmer were angelic. Can you guess what it is?

30 Day Winter Photo Challenge Day Nineteen - "Pine Cones"

"Pine Cones" by Debi

"Pine Cones" by Shannon

Debi chose a snowy pine cone with vibrant red today. I chose my cookies-in-progress. There are pine cones in my photo, I swear.

30 Day Winter Photo Challenge Day Eighteen - "Affection"

"Affection" by Shannon

"Affection" by Debi

Mine, an affectionate selfie of Jude and me in the car when I picked him up from daycare.

Debi's, her candid photo of my Dad, or her "Bobert" as she playfully calls him.

30 Day Winter Photo Challenge Day Seventeen - "Deer Oh Dear"

"Deer Oh Dear" by Shannon

"Deer Oh Dear" by Debi

This was a tough one, I thought. But in the end, as I stood in Teavanna trying to decide which aromatic tea to purchase, I thought this photo was perfect, because "Oh dear" I wanted to buy them all!

30 Day Winter Photo Challenge Day Sixteen - "Ornament"

"Ornament" by Debi

"Ornament" by Shannon 

Thank you, list-creator, for today's simple theme. Debi chose to photograph a cardinal on her tree, which was very insightful because it is my favorite bird. (They represent my Indiana upbringing, because it's the state bird.)

In my photo, our elf Chippy the Bailey (long story about his name) overlooks our front room and the sometimes mischievous George.

30 Day Winter Photo Challenge Day Fifteen - "Gracious"

"Gracious" by Shannon

"Gracious" by Debi

I hadn't planned to take a photo of Jude for this day's prompt. In my mind, "Gracious" had a religious connotation, or on the other hand, it could mean thankful or accommodating. So since I had trouble with the word itself, I turned to the dictionary:

gracious

[grey-shuh s]

adjective

1. pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.

2. characterized by good taste, comfort, ease, or luxury: gracious suburban living; a gracious home.

3. indulgent or beneficent in a pleasantly condescending way, especially to inferiors.

4. merciful or compassionate: our gracious king.

5. Obsolete. fortunate or happy.

 

I chose to focus on "kind." So when Jude enthusiastically put his guitar in the donation box at his school that morning, I took a photo to remember his gracious act.

 

Debi's photo depicts her friend's dog, who is there for her every day during her visit. She said, "This kind, gracious, generous dog gives me loving and soothes my spirit every day..."

 

I think a lot of animals are gracious, aren't they?

 

 

30 Day Winter Photo Challenge Day Fourteen - "Winter Landscape"

"Winter Landscape" by Shannon

"Winter Landscape" by Debi

My stepmom and I are still doing the 30 Day Winter Photo Challenge that I found on christinagreve.com, via Pinterest. It's a bit easier for me to complete the challenges because I am at home, but Debi is staying at a friend's house for a few days. I think her depiction of an angel on her friend's tree is nice and wintery. To get my photo, I drove about ten minutes north of our house so I'd get a good view of Mt. Charleston. How I wanted to keep driving all the way to the end of the road for a cup of hot chocolate by the fireplace in the lodge! Oh well, another time.