Wednesday Walk in Living Color

in #wednesdaywalk5 years ago (edited)



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Being outside, nature at my feet always gives me a sense of overall wellbeing. One of the reasons that I love #WednesdayWalk by @Tattoodjay. It promotes a healthier lifestyle and fosters that natural connection to living things.

Breathe. Breathe again. Can you feel that sense of peace?



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I decided to walk it from my neighborhood. The rain had lifted, but, there was still the remnants of her swift fury. Water pouring from places that were not natural to the landscape, looking for a place to call home.

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There are all sorts of new color popping up everywhere. The grass has been allowed to grow wild and free while the flowers put out their blooms. Eventually, they will manicure it to a more tame look. I kind of like it a little on the wild side. But, that is just me. The difference between the State Park looks and the Estate look. Which do you prefer?

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It's always the little things that catch my eye or grab my attention. The shape of a leaf, the magic of a rainbow, the way your voice sounds when you are excited about life. Small, tiny little catches in the fabric of life.


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Waking around the pond isn't very far, but, it will give me a mile. Enough to take in the beauty of the day and short enough to fit in my busy morning. I look around me and the artistry of the scene washes over me, to have this view every single day, I know that I am blessed. It's not so much the neighborhood, but, the feeling I get as I am walking through life. The view. My view. And I love how it makes me feel.

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What does your view look like?



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Today is #WednesdayYellow #ColorChallenge by @Kalemandra, who colors my world every single day. This flower is dedicated to her.

Take a peek inside of my mailbox. The swallow has come back this year and was not amused that took possession of her house. So they build another and I just didn't have the heart to take it down. No sooner had she added the fluff, but, then she added a few eggs.

Every time I go to check my mail, she eyeballs me with those beady little swallow eyes. I try not to stare or meet her eyes. Hey! I ain't afraid of no bird!!! Maybe.

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Let the sun shine in on your life
So the joy may touch your soul


And just like that, this walk is over. Brought to you by @dswigle (Denise! That's me!) for the #WednesdayWalk creator @Tattoodjay. You can find his explanation of how to be a part of this here!




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Thank you for visiting my post 💖 Because of you, I come back to post again and again, I am encouraged by you, for the time you take to visit, comment or even upvote. For all of these reasons, I am eternally grateful. Don't ever forget what a wonderful world we live in, people. Let's hold hands around the globe and make this earth really spin. Some days, it is not as easy to see, how wonderful it really is. Kindness counts. Wherever you go, whatever you do.


I always post this poem down at the bottom of my posts. It is one that has become so near and dear to my heart. I only post the most famous part of it, but, wanted to post it in its entirety today.

they set my aunts house on fire
i cried the way women on tv do
folding at the middle
like a five pound note.
i called the boy who use to love me
tried to ‘okay’ my voice
i said hello
he said warsan, what’s wrong, what’s happened?

i’ve been praying,
and these are what my prayers look like;
dear god
i come from two countries
one is thirsty
the other is on fire
both need water.

later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered,
"where does it hurt?"
it answered,

"everywhere"
"everywhere"
"everywhere"

warsan shire



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Oh that's such a cool and pretty swallow's nest! What color are the eggs?

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She hasn't let me see them yet! She just laid them yesterday late... I will let you know tomorrow. I am sure she will fly off them tomorrow. She wouldn't budge today!

Thank you for stopping by, Violet! As always, have a most amazing night!

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Oh my goodness, a swallow made a nest in your mailbox? She doesn't mind your mail each day, lol Oh my goodness!! We recently had a couple of birds build a nest in the palm just outside our front door and just going out the door was dangerous! They would swoop down, it was scary. Luckily they weren't around too long, I kept telling them we were safe, not to worry :) I just love springtime, all of the fresh green and new life. We are indeed blessed aren't we? Enjoy your day! Hope you have loads of sunshine!!!

Do you know what is so funny? I just had a family of doves that we're living in a Flower Basket on my porch. They had their flock of 3 and they just finished fledging, it seems like they were hatched and out in no time. Not one week later, the swallow came back, because it was there last year also and the year before that, so I think it is a family but that keeps inheriting the house. Anyway, it is actually the newspaper box underneath the actual mailbox come up but still every time I go and get my mail I get chastised by mother swallow.

I couldn't agree with you more, spring is an absolutely amazing time of the year and as always I hope you have a most wonderful day. Sunshine always, if only in my heart.

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Ohh the colors and details of nature you shared ere are so beautiful, so your letter box is now a nest, does the mail still get delivered to it or do you have a second one

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I thank you so much for your always kind and generous words.

Thank God the letter box is closed so she couldn't make her nest there but she did take over the newspaper part of it for the better part of three years now. I really don't mind and it's kind of funny when I go to get the mail oh, she just sits there and looks at me and after I leave she flies away. Anyway, the eggs are laid and I expect any day now for little swallows to be popping out. The Dove family that build their nest in one of my flower baskets on the porch didn't take any time to grow up and fledge. I don't think they even have their license yet. L o l

As usual, I hope that you have a most wonderful day and that you were taking advantage of this most spring-like day. I hear that it's going to be a hot weekend!

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OHh Ok its the newspaper part, now that makes more sense to me I was a little confused, but then again that is not unusual LOL
Will be cool seeing them hatch and grow and then fly away

Ohh yes it was such a lovely day I did sneak in a walk after lunch, and so wanted to play hookey and not go back I must admit, but I did the adult thing and went back to work

Perhaps I didn't explain it very well, but yes, it is in the newspaper part. We just dashed off the doves that were in a flower basket on the porch.

They took no time in hatching, growing and fledging. Wow!

Oh, yes, it was absolutely perfect out! Hookey sounds better and better to me every day! Sigh...

But, yes. As long as I am on the payroll. I gotta keep going!

Yeah we gotta do what we got to do it’s going to be another one of those days I want to play hookey but no early meetings so I will go fir a walk somewhere in the city at this stage I have no idea where.
Any suggestions?
Have a great day
Ps you probably did explain it well and I missed it 🤔

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I am partial to the likes of St. Patrick's Cathedral, which will be open for the lunchtime walk. The view of it in its entirety is spectacular. Well, you know that.

The other place that might be different is going down to the Chelsea neighborhood, which actually runs from maybe 15th to 43rd street, more or less... but the Historic District (20th to 22nd St. between 8th and 10th Ave)has architecture from the 1800s. Chelsea was NYC first theater district, did you know that. There are remnants of it. The Chelsea Hotel used to be a writers haven and I guess you could call it a landmark and I haven't been there in a while, but love the Pier down there. You can grab the subway and head to the Hudson Yards. (Never thought I would send you to the Meatpacking District, eh?

I am a huge fan of their architecture so you would find me wandering, head looking up into the clouds.

I do plan on going back to St Patricks, but at Midday it can be so crowded and you know i hare crowds, plus I did not bring in my wider lens today so will save that for another day when it’s cloudy and not so nice

I d love the Chelsea area and have not been there for a while another area i must revisit, The Chelsea Hotel was all surrounded din with scaffolding and such last timeI saw it it would be good to see how it was then

Most Likely I will just do a walk around Midtown, I want to stick to the one hour max for lunch and a walk, so I can get out early LOL

How about the FlatIron District? I love that building and the area's architecture?

Or the NY Public Library? That is a photographers dream inside there.

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What absolutely beautiful views, just love it! One can almost smell the plants by looking at your photos, we do live in an amazing world! Wednesday walk certainly is making us really see and appreciate what's around us not so!
We have a swallow's nest at our front door entrance. They built it out of mud many many years ago and return every spring, renovating it from time to time as one can see the newer layers. We know they're back when we see the dander on the floor, then hear the chicks chirping later on, quite amazing that they come back to the same spot, must be the new generations coming back to the family home;)

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I love swallows! Just so graceful when flying. Our swallow family didnt return to their nest so a house finch family moved in. They have babies peeping up there!

Well I am in the same boat as you! I can wander around for ages just shooting the most mundane things! Nature is so amazing. I try to not spam to many silly shots because I get a kick out of how things look, especially close up.

Here is my view today:

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Now That's What I Call a view! I hope you take a picture of that just so you don't forget what it looks like when you are comparing apples and oranges down there in Virginia. I might as well call that West Virginia actually. It's so far west that you almost share the Border. But it's Virginia on a technicality.

You got me on that! I do have a habit of taking pictures of the most mundane pieces of landscape every single day. It might be a flower or a piece of a tree or a blade of grass. Bad habit, for sure!I know you understand that. There is so much out there that Is still calling out my name, begging me to photograph it!

Do you hear them calling my name?

I thought it was funny that a finch moved into the swallow's nest, do they usually do that? Some birds won't reuse another's nest or perhaps I am just naive. You try not to spam too many pictures? Nooo. Say it isn't so!

Thanks for the always kind comments and laughs. As always, I hope you have a great night!

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Here momma is swooping to the nest!

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Not a bad habit at all. I always enjoy them. You never heard the Old Man complain of spam :)

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Yes I am used to it. Mine are always shortest ;)

Oh, I liked one of the tree branch close ups a lot. And rainy pool lake, too.

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There's something so redeeming about trees up-close-and-personal, isn't there? I can see the veins of life running through them. I want to thank you for stopping by and then leaving kind words behind.

As always, I wish you a most wonderful day!

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Oh wow, @dswigle ! The colours in this post * __ * !! The gorgeous, rich, beautiful COLOURS that you captured in your photographs!!!! AMAZING <333333333

I feel so enriched inwardly now! A rejuvenating post !!!! The colours leapt off my screen and into my eyes and I feel happiness :D :D :D

And hahahah, your mailbox is a birdie-house :) That is super cute !! OMG~

Thank you, Spidey! You really are so kind! I feel so lazy (overworked is more like it) not getting over to different posts, for that, I apologize. Someday, life will slow down and I will be able to leisurely go from one post to another.

Those birds make me laugh. A small price I pay for having the best guests in the world!! As always, I bid you a wonderful night!

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Hey Beautiful! I LOVE these photos! Such crazy quality and the mail box?!!! Hahahahaha super sweet! Thanks Denise for such a lovely post and Wednesday walk!

Thank you so much @sallybeth, my lovely, lovely friend! How can anybody go wrong with spring? Everything is super colorful and Super Fresh and just beautiful. That is the third set of birds that have lived in my mailbox. I'm pretty sure they're all from the same family, but it always makes me laugh when I cry out to the mailbox and I get a set of eyes looking at me.

The dove family that lived in a Flower Basket on my porch have their family and they fledged before I could blink an eye. I was telling somebody I don't think those kids even got their driver's license before they left. Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving such a kind and thoughtful comment.

As always, I wish you a most wonderful evening!

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