SPS + Challenge !

Show us a portrait today, but focus on something other than the face. Give it a go and show us your results!

Three

The cardinal number that is the sum of two and one and a prime number. Find 'Three' in your space.

Staircase

A series of steps to facilitate passage from one level to another. Find 'Staircase' in your space.

Hinge

A device for holding together two parts such that one can swing relative to the other. Show us 'Hinge' in your space.

Carve

To cut or chip in order to form something. Find 'Carve' in your space.

Discard

To get rid of as useless or undesireable. Show us 'Discard' in your space.

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Water

A liquid that is essential for plant and animal life. Find 'Water' in your space.

Tip

The pointed or rounded end or extremity of something slender or tapering. Find a tip in your space.

Aroma

A distinctive and typically pleasant smell. Show us an aroma in your space.

Fruit

A sweet and fleshy product of a tree or plant. Show us some fruit in your space today.

Instruct

To provide with information, to teach or give instructions to, show us 'Instruct' in your space.



Today Martin Luther King was celebrated in the USA. I participated in a community prayer circle and then a march to the local Martin Luther King Center. The image above is a wonderful mural that is painted on an outdoor wall at the center. Included on the mural are Dr. King's Six Principles of Non-Violence. A few have been abbreviated. The full version are as follows:

1. Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.

2. Nonviolence is an effort to achieve a reconciled world by raising the level of relationships among all people to a height where justice prevails and persons attain full human potential.

3. Nonviolence attacks forces of evil and acts of evil, but never persons as evil. Nonviolence believes in the ultimate good of every person and seeks reconciliation.

4. Nonviolence accepts suffering without retaliation for its moral power toward achieving a goal.

5. Nonviolence avoids internal violence of the spirit as well as external physical violence.

6. Nonviolence believes that the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice.

"Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love.

Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism.

It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another."

Martin Luther King, Jr. 1957

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Square

A geometric shape with four equal sides. Show us a square in your space today.



A stack of wedgits. A cool building block toy.

Jolly

Merry, full of fun, delightful and enjoyable, show us Jolly in your space today.

Sport

An athletic game or pastime, often competitive, involving physical capability, show us 'Sport' In your space today.



A photo of my husband playing Ultimate Frisbee with a group. This photo kind of struck me as funny as it seems all these people are running in different directions and it kind of makes you wonder what are they doing?

Handle

To touch, hold or move with the hand or a part of anything designed to be held or grasped by the hand, show us 'Handle' in your space.

Technology

The application of mechanical or scientifics for industrial or commercial use. Show us Technology in your space.



I was so good this last year that Santa brought me an iPhone for Christmas. Love the little bugger.

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A photo of a newt.

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Self / Someone portrait Saturday + a challenge! Go on, just give it a go! Take a portrait from an unusual angle.





Here is one of my daring daughters at only age 2.5 climbing up an unusual curved climbing ladder.




This is a second one I actually posted last September for another prompt but I liked it a lot and thought to share it again.

Old

Made, built or having lived for a long time. Show us something old in your space.



This is an old marriage certificate from my husband's paternal side of the family. It dates back to 1884.



Both of us have been doing some geneology research. A good free web site is www.familysearch.org My most successful tracking is from my mom's maternal side of the family. I began by tracking back from my great grandma Ida born in 1901, who was the 10th of 16 children. Her mother married at age 16 and had her first child at age 17 and her last child at age 44. My great grandma was born in Joseph, Sevier, Utah but her parents were both born in England. It appears both her mother Sarah Briggs born in 1868 in Accrington, Lancaster, England and her father William Roberts born in 1863 in Dorzington, Worstershire. England traveled over to the United States with their parents somewhere between the years of 1868 and 1883. It is fascinating to read through the list of names that makes up my ancestors and travel back through time. The furthest back I got was to a relative born about 1551 in Bolton-By Bollan, Yorks, England. Some of the family names as I travel back were Roberts, Ross, Briggs, Fielding, Howarth, Parkinson, Holden, Page, Quiney, Tolly, Dugdale, Lee, Dorrell, Wilson, Willson, Atkinson, Read, Battersby, Battersbie, Peele, Agnes, Hirde, and Baxter.

Homemade

Made by your own hands rather than factory made or shop bought. Show us something homemade in your space today.



A sampling of some of the felt crowns I have made for my daughters, my friends children and some adult women friends.

Sphere

A round, ball shaped object. Show us a sphere in your space.

Heart

A representation of a persons thoughts and emotions. Find some heart in your space today.

Beginning

To welcome in the new year, the definition of our first word is 'the source, origin or commencement of something. Show us 'Beginning' in your space.



This is the beginning page to a book called Imagine A Woman In Love with Herself by Patricia Lynn Reilly. I read this book some time ago and have referred back to it many times.

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