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2016 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Nostalgia

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2016 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge
~Nostalgia~

What kinds of experiences stir emotions for the past within you?

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Baking a cake always makes me feel nostalgic and always makes me miss my Mom.
My Mom was one of the best cook and bakers that I’ve ever known. I’ve so many fond memories of her culinary creations.
Whenever Mom would put a cake in the oven, she’d warn us not to walk heavy, jump, stomp or run through the house because it would make the cake fall.
With a smile in my heart for Mom, I usually ask my family to walk lightly when I have a cake in the oven.

 Wishing you all sweet nostalgic thoughts
& fun with the WP photo challenge!

*Just a note
I’m guessing a store-bought box cake mix wouldn’t be as apt too fall because they’re so mathematically engineered for maximum results.
I suppose a cake made from scratch with plain flour, baking soda or baking powder might have a bigger chance of falling.

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2016 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Edge

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2016 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge
~Edge~

This week, let’s keep our angles sharp and heart rate fast.

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This is a crop from a photo showing the Sun at the edge of a passing storm.

Don’t mind the bugs and the dirt, I took this photo with a mobile phone held up to our car’s front windshield. It was such an amazing showy sky that I couldn’t resist.

I thought I’d also post another crop from the original that shows some amazing clouds above the edge of the storm.9-14-2016-2

Wishing you all fun with the WP photo challenge!

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2016 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Mirror

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2016 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge
~Mirror~

“This week’s challenge is all about reflections.”P8110023

I love how this hummingbird feeder reflects
the ground below and the sky above upside down.

 Wishing you all fun with the WP photo challenge!

 

2016 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Frame

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2016 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge
~Frame~

“Use your surroundings to capture a different point of view.”
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 Wishing you all fun with the WP photo challenge!

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2016 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Rare – Skookum Doll

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2016 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge
~Rare~

P1050186My husband inherited a cedar chest and amongst the few things left in the chest was this doll. I didn’t know anything about the dolls before this one. This is a Skookum doll. We don’t know who bought it nor when. It may be over 70 or 80 years old.

This Skookum Doll is 11 1/2 inches tall.
He has a banner that says ‘Painted Desert Park, Ariz.’
His legs are squared wooden dowels.
His shoes and leggings are felt.
He wears a headband.
He has a folded blanket wrapped around him so that it looks like he has folded arms.

*The Skookum Dolls aren’t authentic Native American Dolls. They were first made by a woman named Mary McAboy in 1913 and were produced until the 1960’s. The first ones she made she carved the heads out of apples. There was a problem with shelf life of the dolls. When they became popular as souvenirs, she teamed up with a manufacturer and started making the heads out of composition or plastic.

 Wishing you all fun with the WP photo challenge!

Here’s a couple of links for further reading:
Skookum dolls http://www.skookumdolls.com/

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