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PastSquare Challenge, Last Day To Join!

On By DianaIn Past Squares, square challenges19 Comments
  • In The Pink and FLOWERS!

I thought I would join one last post with Becky B’s PastSquares’s Challenge for the month of October. This is where we can share our favorite square from a previous theme or if we have leftover squares from a previous theme. It just opens up such a whole bunch of square photo challenges that I have missed in the past and Becky has kindly provided all the square challenges that she has done. It can be a bit overwhelming to decide what to share but I’m going to put something together. I hope you enjoy!

I thought I would try and share one photo of each themed previous square challenge and I am not sure I have all the square photos needed but I’ll give it a try! 😀 I may combine some like I did above for “In The Pink” and “Flowers” pastsquare challenges.

This PastSquare photo is from the challenge “Trees” best view through the ears of my horse Chloe looking at a Jacaranda Tree!

I joined Becky’s square challenges late last year and have enjoyed sharing photos that I make square in shape and fit the theme’s she provides. The “Tree” theme was one of my favorites and so is this photo above! As I look at the list of past theme’s, I am not sure I have photos to represent all theme’s. But I know looking at something that isn’t exactly the name of the theme we can use our imagination a bit to “fit” a photo into a theme. You will see what I mean as I progress and see what I can find in my archives.

I may have used this in a challenge before but this is for the theme “Sky” isn’t the sky so expressive!

This photo is taken at the barn where I board my horses not far from my house in my hometown. This was taken last winter and I may have used it in a previous challenge. I can tell you that I don’t have time to research where and when I’ve shared all these photos, could be coffee shares, smile posts or trail rides! Haha, or challenge posts! How fun to share again!

Ha! I didn’t think I had a photo for “Circle and Squares” but here you go! Circle ball with the square tiles! And cute grandson!
This photo is for the theme “Roofs” and I’m combining “Perspectives” as those mountains look closer than they are because of the snow!

This is turning out to be fun looking through my archives, like I am on a treasure hunt and I am checking off the boxes of each themed box! I don’t really take many photos of roofs, so this one will work just fine and I just love the perspective as how huge and close those mountains appear when they are covered with snow. This is taken on the street I live on about 2 years ago when we had a lot of rain which in turn means a lot of snow in our local mountains. A sweet photo! ❤

This is one of my son’s cats and a photo they took and can you believe those “Bright” “Blue” eyes? Just an amazing photo!
I found a photo for the theme “Lines” and I am so excited when I found it! I thought I’ll never find a photo with lines in it! Wow!

Haha, I get so excited over the silliest things. I couldn’t believe it when I saw the lines in this portable cage for the guinea pigs. I take care of my daughter’s guinea pigs from time to time and we have to put them in here so we can clean their cage. I combined another two themes above for the theme “Bright” and the theme “Blue”. I’m wondering, can I find photos for all the themes? What’s next?

  • This is a perfect photo for the theme “Top” as you can’t get up on top of anything higher than the kitchen cabinets! 😀
This is for the theme “Kinda” as aren’t they kinda in a shape of a heart? I think so! I ❤ them very much!
My phone is looking “Up” for this photo and I am thinking this works perfect for that theme! 😀
Aww, my family in Arizona (grandson is in the stroller). This is for the theme “Spiky” as I think spiky cactus works perfect! And a very cute photo of this precious family!
Aww, I had to use this for the theme “Time” as time can be fleeting, but we need to make the most out of the TIME we have and so for those of you that have lost, this was sent to me from a friend for my beloved horse Zack who passed earlier this year. I picture him running free which makes me Smile! ❤
This photo is for the last theme on my list, the hardest one in my mind “Word’s containing the word light” Sunlight shimmering on the ocean! This is the Pacific ocean not far from where I live. ❤

I did it! I didn’t present them in any particular order but I think I got them all from the list provided, I’ve shared every theme. Here is the list I used and I hope I didn’t miss anything but I’m very close if I did. Flowers, Sky, Circles and Squares, Roofs, Time, Spiky, Blue, Lines and Words containing the word light. There is Top, Perspectives and Kinda, Up, Bright and Trees. This was a ton of FUN and I hope you enjoy and I am so happy to join in on Becky’s wonderful Challenge of #PastSquare Challenge! Thank you so much for visiting! AND Thank you Becky!!

Squaring with Photos!

~Diana ❤

Tree Square With Lots of Smiles!

On By DianaIn square challenges, TreeSquare, weekly smile14 Comments
I could not resist taking a photo of these beautiful flowers on a trail ride!

Welcome to my #treesquare post hooking up with BeckyB for this month of July and all things trees! I am also calling this my #weeklysmile post as I just LOVE trees and thought not only are trees so important to our planet, they also make me smile. I have an idea of a theme and it doesn’t include this first photo which technically isn’t really a tree and I thought it was a good opener. 😀

This is one of our palm trees in my front yard. They are getting pretty tall and are so pretty!
Looking up at a freshly trimmed palm tree! I think this looks so cool!
This was from our trip to Hawaii a year and a half ago! Everything is so green and pretty!
I thought this was such a pretty photo at the Aquarium of the Pacific. We visited late last year and I love all the palms!

By now I think you see my theme for the trees. Yes, it is the beautiful palm trees. I just had to look them up and there are about 2600 species of palms. Most of them living in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate climates. They are very much a part of Southern California landscape. California is such a big state that it could actually be two states if you were to cut it in half as not only does the climate change but so does the landscape and tree-scape. Northern California is home to the giant sequoias, a far cry from palm trees! It is such a diverse state. So much to see and do in California! 😀

My palm tree at night with a full moon!

This just makes me smile! There are so many trees out there and I have seen some beautiful tree posts with gorgeous tree photos. This is just a sample of the palms that are around and I really didn’t want to let another week go by as I really wanted to share my tree square post and thought this would make a great smile post too!

I hope you all have a great rest of the week!

Smiling, Tree Loving Gal,

~Diana ❤

TreeSquare Challenge; I Love Trees!

On By DianaIn square challenges, TreeSquare14 Comments
A beautiful tree with a cool treehouse on our walk to breakfast! I LOVE IT!

Welcome to my #treesquare challenge post for BeckyB’s Challenge for the month of July. I absolutely LOVE trees almost as much as I love flowers and thankfully many trees have flowers so I’m in love with this challenge. I hope to share more than just a couple of posts of my tree photo collection. I may go through my photos to see what I have taken over the last few years as well. I was visiting my daughter this last weekend when we came upon this tree house on our way to breakfast. She lives in a small town in Orcutt, and breakfast was around the corner. We had a wonderful time there and the weather was PERFECT! Always cool as she lives near the ocean along the California coast!

My daughter with some beautiful trees in downtown Riverside!

This was the weekend before last when my daughter was home visiting us and her best friend. We had a girls day where we shopped and ate in downtown Riverside. Lots of cool old buildings with lots of mature old trees! We had a fun day together and I couldn’t resist a photo or two of our outing!

Beautiful tree lined street, an outdoor market and my daughter’s bestie standing to the left. Oh, my daughter is way off to the right reading something and I don’t know the people on the bench. 😀

I often like to have a theme as that is how my brain works. I think with this treesquare challenge my theme is visiting with family and a few different locations with beautiful trees. I may not always have a theme, but when I can make it work it helps with the flow of my thoughts and I hope makes my posts more enjoyable! I have one more tree photo I will end with as I was with my son and his wife and my grandkids this last weekend. I was visiting my daughter when my son called and said they wanted to drive to California for an impromptu visit! So we left my daughter’s early to meet up with my son and family.

Happy 4th of July! waiting for fireworks with a beautiful sunset with a tree lined view!

As we waited for the fireworks to start we watched the setting sun and I asked my son to take a couple of photos for me as I left my phone inside. We were at my daughter-in-law’s Aunt’s house, so sweet they invited us all to join them for a BBQ. It was a great time and I was able to spend some time with my grandkids too. It has been such a busy last couple of weeks, but it’s all a GOOD busy! With lots of fun, love and family time. I hope you enjoyed my tree photos and I thank you for visiting and thank you Becky for this wonderful challenge!

Tree Crazy Gal!

~Diana ❤