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The spirit of… :LAPC & WOTD

The spirit of a sea creature living on, forever guarding its seaside home

Fiery red maple leaves, trembling in autumn’s cool showers

The edges of never-ending books, revealing themselves on rolling hillsides

A single golden leaf, capturing the last rays of summer’s sun

The spirit of ancient flora and fauna preserved, dancing to their final song

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge (LAPC) – Warm colors

Word of the Day Challenge (WOTD) – Maple

SoyBend

Centered in Bend, Oregon, my blog branches out into nature, history, and art-related topics.

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  • Excellent choices, Siobhan. The photos are beautiful. I really like the crab image. The red is so vibrant. I also like the color contrast of the single yellow leaf against the green. It shows the power of warm colors.

  • Love your thoughts and the simplicity of the golden leaf has to be a favorite. I love the line...The edges of never-ending books...

    • Thanks, Donna! I've always liked the one of the aspen leaf. The funny thing is... WordPress did not save what I had written to go along with each image yesterday. However, sometimes when you have to start from scratch, you produce something better. ;)

      • Thats true. It was great. I think there have been lots of glitches with WP lately. We have all been battling with tags and pingbacks. Such is WP life. But your post...super nice Siobhan.

  • Terrific choices Siobhan. Saw your note below re WP - aaarrrrgh!! But your post is perfect, excellent recovery! My favorite of course is your closing image. I'd love to see those objects live.

    • Thank you, Tina! Those were some of my favorite fossils seen on our trip last spring. The loss of part of that post reminded me I should probably save the written part somewhere else as insurance. Ooops!

  • A lovely response to these challenges Siobhan :) I saw your comment about losing part of the post and saving written parts as insurance. I always write my posts in Word first, and save them, then copy and paste the text into the blog. I've been doing that since my early days on Virtual Tourist which had a bad habit of crashing just before you pressed publish! It doesn't take any longer and could save lots of time if anything goes wrong mid-post.

    • Thanks, Sarah! Yes, it's easy to save the writing in Word, with the added bonus of using editing tools. Sometimes I'm just lazy and compose posts only in WordPress, but I learned my lesson this weekend. 😊

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