Christmas Blues to Merry and Bright... Feel the Holiday colours and Spirit! How to avoid the holiday blues…Feel the holiday Spirit. Open your hearts…that’s all you have to do. Do something new, make something, bake, do something different…Give something from the heart. Help out at a local food banks. Shop local, encourage your local merchants and artists, Donate to a local charity instead of office exchange gifts, get involved, help out in a community or school events, bring toys to charity or hospital with your children, visit a retirement home and just listen to their stories for a while… you’d be giving the best gifts and you will feel the joyful glow of the holidays…that’s the spirit of the season! (which should last all year long…its growing :) A few nights ago after my oldest son left after our weekly family dinner to go study for exams and Hayden went off to bed… the holiday movie the Grinch (with Jim Carry)..was on the TV. I just had to watch it, I had never seen it before…The first time I saw “The Grinch”, it was New!!!! I was a young child, but I’ll never forget it, I only knew French at the time but somehow understood it all as I watched this in timeless Classic in English, the message of Christmas was clear…it didn’t come from a store, it didn’t come all wrapped up, it wasn’t about the gifts of the feast, the tree or the decorations…it was all about the Spirit. The light, the glow inside…I understood! Also do something classic…go to your local Christmas parade, Christmas shows, watch Christmas Holiday specials, with the kids or by yourself, because we all need to take a Holiday cheer break during the busy festive holiday season to regroup our Spirits. |
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| In Honor of Remembrance Week Some of my fondest memories as a young girl was on Sunday afternoons at my grandparents home. I loved to watch my grandfather paint for hours. I learned about composition, colours and landscape simply by watching him paint. He would paint such landscapes as this capture. I would often hover and dance around him asking lots of questions. Other times I would simply watch when he didn’t know I was watching, sitting at the top of the stairs because that’s when he was in a magical creative zone. I can still remember the scent of the oil paints, his cologne, all combined with a delicious aromas of Sunday family dinner cooking. I still love Sundays...some things we never forget. His spirit is often with me when I go on nature walks. He was the best teacher without knowing he was teaching ;) He was also also a Canadian Veteran, but I remember him as my grandfather, a dear man and Soul that has made a huge impact on my life. |
| HellOoOo November.... HellOoOo November and Thank you October for your beautiful colours. Every season, every month, every day, every hour, every instant has it's gifts. "The name 'November' is believed to derive from 'novem' which is the Latin for the number 'nine'. In the ancient Roman calendar November was the ninth month after March. As part of the seasonal calendar November is the time of the 'Snow Moon' according to Pagan beliefs and the period described as the 'Moon of the Falling Leaves' by Black Elk." Photo taken in a stream in the woods on a fall hike. |
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| Autumn Aligment... When you allow you to align with yourself, you are aligning you with you’re true authentic self, this is achieved by the virtue of balanced thoughts and emotions within. You are what you think and feel. When one is aligned, it’s a great feeling, it’ s like an awesome golden energy glow within which stems from you're center core and then radiates onto the other world. It's an expansion of yourself…therefore when you allow yourself to be yourself, you are allowing this expansion, you are allowing yourself to be all that you have become. The more people allow themselves this gift of expansion, the more the whole world will feel this alignment weather they are aligned or not. |
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| In Remembrance... Lest We Forget Let us Remember, Lest we forget.....Remember the men and women who fought for our country, for they are our heroes! We have all that we have because of them…we are blessed and fortunate to live in such a wonderful beautiful and free country because of them. Their Spirit lives on... Let us honor our Heroes today at 11.11 with a moment of silence, prayers and gratitude. Fill your heart with love and peace for a better tomorrow for all. Peace to all! |
| Fall Contrast Contrast is s good thing. It lets us figure out what we like and don't like in life. If there would be no contrasts then how would we know what we like or don't like. It's like a buffet of all the foods that we like, if there where no new foods to taste how we like new things, how would we evolve? If everything was the same all the time, life would be boring. Life's contrast are like gifts. Once we know what we don't like or want in life the closer we are at reaching for and getting what we do like and want in life ... |
| The Well Being Place Managing and keeping balance is part of everyday challenges. Here’s a bit of a secret, always find a better feeling when you don't feel well being and it puts you on the path of feeling better, it works for everything. It’s kind of like this picture, the good feeling place is like an inner glow, you get there with feel better then you do thoughts of what you are thinking about, your feel better thoughts will then radiate in your vibration as well being. |
| Giving Thanks ~ For Bountiful Blessings With all that is going on in the world with the economy these days; it is now even more important then ever to count our bountiful blessings rather the dwell on the things that we do not have. What the world needs is not for people to get stuck in the spiral negative energy of fear. Do the opposite, the more we are grateful for what we do have to more we are sending out good energy into the world around us. Thanksgiving is for giving thanks for our many blessings....if we all did this everyday, the world would be a much better place, ! When you say "I Give Thanks" with genuine gratitude.... You will feel its joy instantly....for these are gifts of true of blessings Happy Thanksgiving...Blessings and most of all enjoy! Maddylane |
| Following your Path.... I would like to share a story with you. I was out early one morning this week shooting horse pictures for a client. It was very misty outside and on the way back somehow I got lost on the small back country roads. Then a feeling or an inner voice said, keep driving about a half mile more down this road. I had a feeling I would find something special and this is what a found. What a scene, I was blown away. The moral of my story is that we should always listen to our inner voices they always lead us on the right path. It was like I had found my path, so i'm calling this capture Maddy's Lane. View More photos & inspirations by Maddylane |
| Canadian Maple Leaf ~ Frosted around the Edges When fall meets winter ~ This Canadian maple leaf capture was the inspiration for a very cool creation that I did as a tribute for the up coming winter Olympics.... so stay tuned, I will reveal the creation within the next few days. The town of Hudson has Olympic fever, because the Olympic Torch will be coming to our town early next week, on December 8th ;) View More photos & inspirations by Maddylane |
| Lighting the way to the Olympic Torch relay in Hudson ~ The Olympic Torch came to our town ~ The Olympic Torch Relay in, Hudson Quebec, December 8th, 2009 ~ photo of Hudson's silver-medal Olympian Evert Bastet over the cheering crowds. The whole quint little of Hudson was in a frenzy, the Olympic and community Spirit was buzzing! The excitement was at its highest that I had ever seen here. It felt like WHO ville on Christmas night from the Grinch story, when the whole town united in spirit and song to sing the most poignant O Canada song I had heard for the flame. I was proud to be Canadian and proud of my home town. It was really an amazing night and event. The energetic cheers from the crowds even made us forget it was cold outside. This is a moment that i'm sure we will never forget! Cheers to the athletes and the people of Hudson, the spirit of the season. Thank you for coming to our small town we are really in the Olympic Christmas spirit now. View More from the Olympic Torch relax in Hudson |
Light & Joy Feel the glow of the season. Make, share, donate and give something from the heart. It's a about celebrating the light in Christ for only to see our own to share with others... |
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Dreams can come true ...if you want them too! What stands between you and your dreams ~ usually simply you. (Meaning ourselves ~ we are the only ones who is the hindrance or the power between ourselves and achieving our desired goals and our dreams). Change the way you think about things and you can changes and reach your dreams. The above photo and thought description is my interpretation of this quote by Henry Miller. "One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." Visit My NEW Photo Gallery for photo prints, Miy Photo Store for Photo Stock images by Maddylane |

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