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Paris, changeable weather, so sunny an hour ago, moveable feast and replaceable buildings.

On the right was Hopital Laennec, founded in 1634, now future high end condos being air lifted a stone at a time over the city very busy streets.

Happy Halloween everyone!!

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The fog makes it a bit difficult to watch the band's field show! 

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Once in a while we get a Marine Layer of fog from the coast moving east in San Diego.  This is the fog rolling off in the distance in the morning.  This is a hike I often take near my house-Black Mountain trail...

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Sunrise on Lake Ontario.

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Niagara Falls, Canada.

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These Wind Turbines are dependent on the Weather to produce electricity in England.  They stir up very mixed emotions especially off this coast!!

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As Lisa Dawn mentioned in her blog post, it rained here in San Diego this morning.  This is very unusual since we only receive about 7 inches of rain the entire year and it's almost always December through April.  
Lucky for us the downpour was right on time for our Weather theme!

I ventured out right after the rain stopped and spotted this beautiful and sparkly scene....

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Lone rose left in the garden.  Winter is near! 

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When I looked out this morning I saw white on the ground and  few flurries. The first thing that came to mind was, "winter, cold dark nights". I then recalled what  a dear friend told me. "Think of seasons changing as a time, especially winter - a time of renewal - a time of rebirth - a new planting - the start of a brand new cycle".

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After a hot, cloudless day a strong wind brought in high cirrus clouds followed by low dark ones.  As the sun began to drop we saw this eerie and strange phenomenon that produced a rainbow and sun rays.  It lasted for about thirty minutes.  

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We actually had a little bit of rain today in San Diego; here are a few rain clouds (along with a few rather ugly power lines...).

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The rainbow after St Jude hit East Anglia in Brancaster

Reflection

Wonderful afternoon in Long Island. I had to take a photo of the pumpkins ...and just realized as I was looking back at my phone pics that Gemma and Seb had been " reflected". 

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A rainbow that formed over my kids daycare on Friday...it just hit me - its a reflection...right?

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My adorable niece (and fellow blogger Meg's daughter) checking out her reflection in the mirror!

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Looking at this 3 year old photo never gets old! 

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James and I always love looking at photos and reflecting on all the memories.  Just a few of our photo albums.  The top photos show their first birthday on the left (as you look at the pic, James is on the left and Luke on the right)  and the one on the right was taken in Central Park sometime later (James is on the right and Luke is on the left.)  xo

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This is someone that I adore. My son's girlfriend.

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My reflection.

Brought many hours of joy to me and my brother reflecting on the past and laughing at old memories. Got quite a few giggles out of it! The small girl is me and the little boy with me is my baby brother.

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How many can you see?

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took this photo of Safari Ants in our birdbath at Kisampa only to realise that the photo has good 'reflections'.   Safari Ants, as you probably know crawl in lines, if disturbed they attack...big time...
they are so fast up your legs!!  if you leave them in their line they are harmless. Can you see from this picture the 'guards' lining their path?

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I had to wait all week to get out in the evening and practice a nighttime shot.  The water was calm on the pond last night so the reflections of the lights were just right.  I just need a bit more practice with the photography part shooting at night.

Reflections.....

.....of the dining room and breakfast buffet at our hotel in Uruguay.

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A 'reflective' Saturday as we add new fish 

to the rejuvenated aquarium at my mother in laws house. 

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First filming session with my Toronto actor pals. My friend Tyler takes a moment of reflection having watched back his performance. He was very good. You saw it here first people.

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About to have dinner before the theatre and there was this amazing reflection

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Reflecting on a super busy week and this helped remind me that I'm doing all of this for these kids.  The 37th Annual Mt Carmel Tournament of Bands is this Saturday.  There are 34 bands performing, starting at 8am.  The last band (ours - GO MC!) performs at 9:30 pm.  It will be a fun but crazy day.  The web site for the tournament is www.mchsbandtournament.com if you want to take a look. 

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Adapting to the reflection I see each day as my body grows (and grows and grows)..... Anticipating the arrival of my third child. 

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This building is on the UCSD campus and I stopped to capture the tree while walking with Lisa, Pam and Betsy!

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While driving here, there, and everywhere this afternoon (a typical afternoon), I couldn't take my eyes off of the pink hue under the clouds... a reflection of the setting sun. I took ten minutes out of the chaos to make my way down to the beach to get a better look.  The pink reflection also looked so pretty on the water. This is happens to be one of my favorite places to escape and reflect on what's important. Thanks project52, I needed that!

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I went for a walk with my fellow P52 bloggers to the UCSD campus and saw this beautiful reflective building.  That's me on the right taking the picture.  Can you spot Lisa Dawn, Wendy and Pam in the photo too?

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The sun reflecting on glasses.

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Reflection - hard one
Life to me is like a river, turns and twists, never knowing what is around the bend. To some this is just a picture of an amputee. To me it is a foundation that has given me substance and strength of character. It is a reflection of my life, one that is never forgotten. My reflection in the mirror is never blurred and the glass has no cracks. Skies are more blue and the sunshine more golden.

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re·flec·tion (r-flek'shun) careful or long consideration or thought, to muse

I photographed this through glass, so I was very glad there WASN'T a reflection in the glass.  :-P 

Yay for morning walks at the zoo!  

Simplicity

A simple horse .

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So I just tried to keep my life as simple as possible this week and I only took one picture. It made choosing a picture for the blog really simple. Here is a simple childhood game.  Guess Who.

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Stumbled upon this "natural playground" today created by trees that had fallen down from Hurricane Sandy. Loved the simplicity of the playground, created just from trees and other things found in nature.

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 simpler times...

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Another handmade masterpiece.  Luke created this vase in art class several years ago.  I snip lavender from my garden for it reminding me of that sweet boy.  Like his mom, he loved lavender.  xo

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The outhouse at the cottage. You get used to it when there is nothing else.

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It's Vegemites 90 year anniversary this year, and what's more simple than our Aussie iconic breaky spread!?

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A struggle until I looked the word up in Google!  "The Religious Society of Friends (The Quakers) practise the Testimony of Simplicity which is the simplifying of one's life in order to focus on things that are most important & disregard or avoid things that are least important" So where do I go but Oxted's local Quaker Meeting House to take this photo.  Sometimes it is worth procrastinating as the photo is there all the time!!

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A simply perfect dessert - apple pumpkin pie and coffee - from my favorite cafe in Julian, California.  Actually, this was my lunch.  Life is short - eat dessert first!

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Teahouse, by Ai Weiwei. A sculpture made of tea, exhibiting at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.