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  M y   O n e - Y e a r B l o g i v e r s a r y A Daring Leap "The best journeys answer questions that in the beginning you didn't even think to ask." ~Unknown O ne year ago, I started a blog of my own. Why? Well, I don't actually know... Becoming a blogger was never on the list of things I wanted to do or try in my life. Then two of my real-life best friends ( Hailey and McKayla ) showed us their blogs (on September 22nd, 2022), and that's how my two sisters ( Louise and Yokoshi ) and I were introduced to Blogger. At the time, Yokoshi and I were considering how we'd show our work to the world (Yokoshi's digital art and my photography). Blogger seemed like the best place to start with. At first, I wasn't sure if I even wanted to commit to a blog of my own since it seemed like a lot of work (which it is if I'm honest). But before I knew it, I was putting together my first blog and my first posts. I created a profile on February 1st, 2023, and pub

~ S n a p s h o t s ~ ... 2 0 1 8 ... "Stop worrying about what you have to lose and start focusing on what you have to gain." ~Unknown A Beautiful Summer Evening (June 25th) G reetings, my fellow readers! 😊 Finally, here is the third post in my Snapshots series! The main reason it took me so long is that I had to finish sorting through all of my 2018 pictures and upload them to OneDrive... In May 2018, I got a new camera for my birthday (which I am forever grateful for). You will notice that my pictures (at least most of them) are of a higher quality than before. Therefore, it became much harder for me to choose less than 50 favourites... (Don't worry, there are less than 30 pictures in this post). I also wanted to note that in 2018, my family and I welcomed several new animals to the family (a box turtle and three kittens). I had several very good and adorable pictures of them, including our three guinea pigs who we already had at that point. But I decided not to inclu

  A   T h o u g h t o n L o v e "Happiness is more precious than silver. Love is more valuable than gold." ~Matshona Dhliwayo Note:  P lease keep in mind that this post is for entertainment purposes only. These are just my thoughts and theories and are not intended to offend or label anyone. A  timeless question asked again and again with each coming generation: What is the meaning of love? For thousands of years, we humans have tried to find a simple definition of what love is. Poems, songs, plays, movies, and books have attempted to explain it. Philosophers, scientists, and common folk have tried as well. Is it a chemical or hormonal response? Is it an illusion; a figment of our imaginations? The truth is that love comes in very many forms, making it quite the challenge to assign just one definition to it. I just now tried to look up the meaning of the word itself to see what would come up. I didn't want to fill up this blog post by adding all of them, haha...😅 But

  ~ A n o t h er   M o d e l   A n i m a l   P h o t o s h o o t ~ ... 2 0 1 8 ... "Practice takes practice." ~Sharon Rowe My Safari Ltd. Frisian (158805) named Morona rearing before a pond. (Aug. 23rd) H ere is a second post ranking my best model animal pictures from 2018. You will notice that these are more vivid and have a higher quality, since I got a new camera in May 2018. The majority of these were taken as I was experimenting with what my camera was capable of. The model animals I used were Schleich, Safari Ltd., and some flocked horses that belong to me and/or my sisters,  Louise  &  Yokoshi . I sorted the pictures from best to least, making this post's cover photo my favourite from 2018. My flocked horse, Elvira, travelling over a lovely creek. (June 25th) Louise's flocked horse, Eldorado, glowing in the sun. (June 25th) Louise's flocked horse, Eldorado, not glowing in the sun. (June 25th) My Schleich Eagle Owl (14738) perched in a pine tree. (Aug. 2