{photography, beach cottage love, and random happy things}

Hello & Happy Wednesday to you!

I hope your week is moving along just fine:)

I have to tell you that Indiana is just crazy....it really knows just how to toy with my emotions. Beautiful one day....rain the next.....
But last Sunday I was able to enjoy a splendid day!

I spent the day practicing my photography skills, driving around Lake Michigan, enjoying the beach cottages and just plain enjoying the day with the one I love:)

I have been thinking about adding a fine fine art photography prints to my shop....or maybe photo cards with little inspirational sayings??? I don't know.....but I do know I love taking pictures!

I think it's sooooooo important to really spend your days doing that which makes your soul sing.

When I look back on this journey...i'm on....I am pleased to see just how far i've come. I feel like I am moving in the right direction.

I moving forward in living the creative, inspired life I see myself living.

We all have dreams, don't we!?!?!?

and trust me, I think that having dreams is beyond important.......
but more important.....is enjoying each and every day.
I am learning....just how fragile life is.
Life is about today.  What you do each moment of your life matters.
Dreams are absolutely necessary ....just as is choosing to be happy no matter what your situation.

Enjoy each day

and truly take time to cultivate that which makes YOU happy.

As I was enjoying my day with my husband.......I started to really think....while I would more than love to one day move away.
Maybe I am here to learn the lesson of appreciation.

To really learn to appreciate just what life has to offer.

To learn to appreciate the person that I am....right now.

To learn to appreciate the beauty that

I am already surrounded with.

While....I don't live near the ocean,
I do live near Lake Michigan and am very thankful that I do have that:)
So much beachy happiness right in my own "backyard!"

So much inspiration.....
Maybe my focus should be more on what I can appreciate than on what I am unhappy about.
Not that you shouldn't change what you are unhappy about.
But if you can't change what you're unhappy about then change the way you think about it:)

I could live in any one of these spaces!

And ....they aren't even on the ocean.

They are on the lovely Lake Michigan:)

I just love them all!
Sorry the photographs aren't fabulous.....
We were just taking a drive and I was more than driving my husband bananas with...
"slow down, stop, wait, oh wait, darn it ...I can't get the picture...I really love that one...on & on:) "

Anywho...the point that I have been trying to share with you is to really take a look into yourself and just appreciate.

Appreciate everything.

Appreciate the one your with.

Appreciate your children {if you have them}

Appreciate the friends & family who love you

but most important.

Appreciate who you are....right at this very minute.

Appreciate just what you have to offer the world.

I appreciate that I am married to a man that drives me completely crazy most of the time but always loves me for just who I am:)

He loves {or at least pretends to love} my gypsy spirit!

and I have to tell you...the day I was trying to photograph my shells and my jewelry....it was beyond windy.

Poor guy....my urchins just kept blowing off the ledge and he was nice enough to keep picking them up for me:):) Now that's love!! heehee!

I appreciate that while I ride this highway we call life......I am moving forward on a path that is created by me:)

I am choosing to follow my gypsy spirit...a little of this and a sprinkle of that...and oh wait...i'd love to do that too:)

Do you spend your days appreciating your life?!?!!?

In a blink of an eye.....it's over....at least that's what my great grandma used to tell me and she lived to be 92. "Blink your eyes and that's how fast your life goes!"

Hope you have a happy, inspired, appreciative rest of your week!!!

"We grow neither better nor worse as we get older, but more like ourselves." May Lamberton Becker

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