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Weekly Photo Challenge: Celebration!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Celebration!

I’m participating in the Weekly Photo Challenge for 2011.  Here’s how it works. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog anytime before the following Friday when the 

Weekly Photo Challenge – Waiting

Weekly Photo Challenge – Waiting

I’m participating in the Post a Week 2011 Photo Challenge.   Here’s how it works Each week, the challenge provides a theme for creative inspiration. We take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog. This week’s theme is 

Post A Week Challenge: Family

Post A Week Challenge: Family

I’m participating in the Post A Week 2011 Photo Challenge.  Each week we are given a prompt.  This week’s prompt is “Family.”  I’ve never smiled more while writing a post.  I’ve also never been closer to weeping while writing a post.

This is my “newest” family.  My husband’s father’s side of the family.  We were married in July and Richard’s family came to celebrate with us from Barbados, Jamaica, Canada, Florida, and Baltimore.  I married into a great family.  My grandfather-in-law in the orange shirt front left, and his wife, my grandmother-in-law in the turquoise outfit, were so inspirational.  This is my second “newest” family.  The men and women of the house that I’ve lived in for the last 6 years, until I got married.  These friends have become siblings, I’ve been a bridesmaid and a grooms-maid for two of my housemates.  They’ve sat with me while I cried, laughed at stupid movies late at night, prayed with me and fed me.  Ok, this family has been with me since birth.  This is my mom’s side of the family.  My Grandmother couldn’t make it, and one of my cousins was about to have a family, but this is the family that I’ve hula’d with, made up cheers with, went to camp with, swam across lakes with and sauna’d with.  

This family too has been with me since birth, but was significantly smaller that year.  I was the first born grandchild on my dad’s side of the family, and almost thirty-one years later my grandpa still calls me “numero uno.”  I’m almost certain that this is the only Spanish this 100% Swedish American man knows.  My Grandmother danced to Justin Timberlake “I’m Bringing Sexy Back” at my wedding.   

Weekly Photo Challenge: Breakfast

Weekly Photo Challenge: Breakfast

I am participating in the Word Press Post a Week Photo challenge.  Each week participants are given one word as a prompt and then share a photograph or a series of photos. Most weeks I’ve been taking pictures that week in order to share them 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Wonder

Weekly Photo Challenge: Wonder

I’m participating in the Post-A-Week 2011 challenge.  This week’s challenge is “Wonder.” I was filled with a sense of wonder today as I walked along the Mississippi River at Hidden Falls Park and Crosby Farm Park. I loved caves, tunnels, crevices, and passages as a 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Windows

Weekly Photo Challenge: Windows

The confirmation students at Park Avenue UMC and the Tronix students at Park Avenue Youth and Family Services collaborated on a service project last night to get the garden ready for winter.

I love the window that these tomato cages make for the scene.

My co-workers, Keisha and Nichole did a fantastic job leading the group, and it was cool to see kids working together across the lines of age, race, culture, income level, language, and program affiliation.  I didn’t take this picture, but my camera was in so many different hands last night, I couldn’t tell you who did.

 

 

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Hidden

Weekly Photo Challenge: Hidden

You drive a neighborhood every day. Come home from work, hungry and ready to get dinner on the table. Your attention is on what needs to get done, not on what is in front of you. You leave your home early in the morning. Late 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Opportunity

Weekly Photo Challenge: Opportunity

The Post A Week Photo Challenge continues, this week our theme is “opportunity.” I loved Halloween as a kid.  My mom was a supervisor at a fabric store when we were growing up and would sew our costumes at the end of the summer in 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Possibility

Weekly Photo Challenge: Possibility

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I’ve decided I want to post more pictures. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now.  I will be posting on this blog once a week.  I’ll be participating in the Weekly Photo Challenge at WordPress.

I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. Therefore I’m promising to make use of Weekly Photo Challenge, and the community of other bloggers with similiar goals.

Each week, a WordPress blogger chooses a theme, this week it is possibility.

If you already read re-imagine-imago, I hope you’ll encourage me with comments and ideas.

Katie Matson-Daley