Ignore if it bores you.

I was asked to blog my progress in my art classes, but if you aren't interested I can certainly understand.  I'm not bragging when I post my pictures, basically just passing them along for what they are worth and hope we all see progress over time.

Sorry they got washed out in the process.  Our lesson was about value, contrasting light to dark.  These are supposed to be opposite values; where there is light value in one, the second has dark value.  I'll have to work on my photography, though.  I'm enjoying the process of down loading pictures from my camera and inserting them into my blog, now that I have figured it out.

I walked instead of running today, even though I have to say it takes about the same amount of time for the same distance.  The sun came out on my way down the trail. I noticed a man, who had to be older than myself, dusting off a bench beside the lake and settling down to soak in the warm rays.  We shared our appreciation for the results of the sun's glorious beauty on the lake, as I passed by.  My parting comment was for some reason,"Where there is the sun (or how ever you want to spell it) there is always hope".  I always did want to share my dad's pulpit.

On the way home, I thought I would try walking up the hills backward to give a few other muscles a chance to be sore for a while.  My sister does this in her exercise class,  so it must be a good thing to do.  However, a gal was coming down the hill behind me on her bike and warned me she was there. It was time to turn around and watch where I was going.

I think it is ok to look back from whence we came once in a while in our life.  But we don't want to spend too much time there.  We won't make much progress if we don't turn around and concentrate on where we are going in our life.

That isn't just true in our goals set to move us forward, but it can be said about the mistakes we made in the past.  Take recycling.  So you threw it all in the garbage before.  Now let it go, turn around and make it right.

Guess I'd better bake today.  Looks like we have run through most of our holiday goodies.  Besides what else do we elderly retirees have to do all day?