I have long admired my online friend, Jill Conyers, for many reasons. Those reasons will become apparent when you join her, along with me, on her journey to capture her one little word for 2011. The idea of this photo challenge is to honour your word each week of 2011 and post it. My word? DO. Her word? Embrace. Your word? Join in and let us know!
This is how I captured DO this week:
THE STORY: First thing on Thursday morning I was running behind and had to rush our Norwegian friends to the rink for their semi-final game. The drive to the rink was breathtaking - we slowed down to take in all of the sparkling monochromatic landscape of gray, silver and white frost on all of the trees, bushes, and grasses on the side of the road on our journey. Guess what? No camera!
WHY DO? I had to go back home to collect my kids to attend the game. Normally I would be so focused on getting them to the game on time, combined with the knowledge that the later it got, the more things would melt, that I would have figured "I'll get it next time". Next time never comes. With that in mind, I grabbed my camera along with my kids and my fingers crossed and we headed to the rink. As we travelled north most of the stunning frost had melted. My heart sank. Just as we were reaching Dundas and Bronte there was a huge field, full of frost. I pulled onto a little side street, grabbed the camera and captured the photo I wanted! (Not only that, I encouraged Claire to bring along her camera and she got some great shots too. No use in just one of us benefitting from my word!) Two things accomplished: I didn't wait for next time and I actually pulled over. I've never just pulled over to get the shot -I've always wanted to but was afraid I'd annoy someone at best or cause an accident at worst! It really is the little things.
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JOIN: I'm thrilled my friend Jill has offered us all an opportunity to keep on track! I don't know about you, but weekly accountability is good for me. One LIttle Word | Captured is the perfect way for me to incorporate my one little word in to my life. What about you?
