Welcome to my April 2018 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

Today, E is for Everyday. 

Wabi Sabi is about valuing imperfection, but it is also about seeing beauty in what is real and authentic, finding joy in the good, bad and the ugly.

I like to take pictures of the ordinary, without worrying if the ordinary looks nice or is symmetrical or pleasing to the eye.  Sometimes the original pictures work, but I like to play with post production to enhance the raggedness of ordinary.  And nothing does that better, for me, than black and white.

So here, for today’s wabi sabi, is the imperfection of the everyday.

Thanks for visiting my Letter E, A to Z Challenge post.  You can find links to more blogs participating in this challenge at Letter E, A to Z Challenge Master List (Google Docs).  Stay tuned for F is for… Tomorrow!!

Welcome to my April 2018 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

Today, D is for Dusty things. I think I’m finally organized. There have been some old years (2017) creeping into my basic posts, and I keep getting the link wrong to the letter challenge spreadsheets, but I believe I have it together now (fingers crossed).  AND I have a theme before 9:00 pm 🙂  Still trying to figure out E for tomorrow though…

Anyway, dusty things.  It was easy to find a couple of pictures from the Medalta factory trip, but then I tried to find some dust around the house.  I was both relieved and sad that I didn’t find dust to photograph for you 🙂 I did, however, find an old mask we used when we were fixing up the house before we moved in (back in 2012) that we obviously haven’t needed in awhile!

While dust is usually annoying, when you are trying to keep a house clean, it has a certain quality about it when seen in abandoned or preserved spaced.  The look of things that were left behind, never to be used again.  Those things have a haunting quality about them when covered in a thick, or thin, coating of dust.

Thanks for visiting my Letter D, A to Z Challenge post.  You can find links to more blogs participating in this challenge at Letter D, A to Z Challenge Master List (Google Docs).  Stay tuned for E is for… Tomorrow!!

Welcome to my April 2018 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

Today, C is for Crumbling leaves.  Well, it was until I added a fourth picture of bread.  Why?  Well, because my A to Z challenge posts are always by the seat of my pants, and I spent all day today (in between work, of course) wondering what letter C should be, and then what pictures would work.  I thought crumbling was good, but I only found these three pictures of a leaf in my files (because I was too late, and didn’t have enough time, to take new pictures today).  Then I found the bread, which looked crumbly to me.  So, phew.  Crumbling things!

I like taking pictures of things that are falling apart, because it happens to all of us, and it’s part of the beauty that is life over time.  Plus crumbling things have all these textures that you can get close to.  I just like them!

Here’s hoping tomorrow I will be more organized.

Thanks for visiting my Letter C A to Z Challenge post.  You can find links to more blogs participating in this challenge at Letter C, A to Z Challenge Master List (Google Docs).  Stay tuned for D is for… Tomorrow!!

Welcome to my April 2017 Great and Powerful 2017 Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

Today, B is for Bricks (crumbly and old)

Once again, these pictures are from my trip back to Saskatchewan last September, although they were not taken in Saskatchewan, but in Alberta during a side trip to Elkwater Lake.

While we were staying in Elkwater Lake, we took a jaunt to Medicine Hat and visited Medalta Potteries.  Now, the Medalta Pottery factory has been closed since around 1960, but it is now a museum where you can walk through the old kilns and the old factory, and yes, they allow pictures. This was wabi sabi heaven!  You will be seeing more pictures from our journey to Medalta in coming posts.

Now, here are some of those crumbly and old bricks in the preserved kilns.

Thanks for visiting my first A to Z Challenge post of 2018.  You can find links to more blogs participating in this challenge at Letter B, A to Z Challenge Master List (Google Docs).  Stay tuned for C is for… Tomorrow!!