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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Positively FUN

 by Mauverneen



Are we having fun yet? It's said Time Flies when you're having fun. So we must be, because time is flying. Have you noticed? Although the days are longer for a few months, they seem shorter. Not enough time. Not enough time. I read somewhere that over the next couple of months there are three days where the earth will spin faster. Why? And how do they know this? https://www.livescience.com

The Fourth of July was this past weekend. There were picnics and cookouts and pool parties and fireworks. Lots of fireworks. Fun. Not so fun for some.  

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. Not just little girls, or young girls, but older 'girls'. Women. Women wanna have fun. Everybody wants to have fun. And we should. 

Everyone's idea of fun is different. Parachute out of a plane? Climb a mountain? No thanks. Hot air balloon ride? White water rafting? Yes please. And it can change. What you once thought was fun as a kid may not sound so fun now that you're an adult. But the memories? Ahh. They can bring a smile and we say "Boy, that was fun."

We all need a little fun. So give it some thought - but not too much - Find the time and go do something fun! 

As always, words and photos are my own, and require permission to reprint.
                                       However, feel free to share the blog in it's entirety. In fact, I encourage it!
  Interested in photo prints? Contact me! maureenblevins@yahoo.com

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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Positively Tuesday Reboot

by Mauverneen



July already! July 1st, to be exact. The Half way point. I haven't posted here for about a year. I think it's time I restarted. I guess I needed the break, but it's time to start being positive again! At least on Tuesdays!

After a week or so of hideously humid weather, this morning was glorious! Look at that blue sky! It's such a pleasure to step outside and not break into a sweat, to be able to sit it the shade and revel in a cool breeze. 

Here's the deal: We all try to banish negative thoughts and words from our Tuesdays. I'll share some photos, stories, positive quotes to help get us through the day. I would appreciate it if you signed up for my Positively Tuesday blog. It only comes out on Tuesdays and I send you no other emails. Never. 


On Saturday I had the pleasure of being part of an author fair. Two of my cohorts from my writers group were also there. We had a fine time checking out the other authors and visiting with each other. Holly Coop, poet and Sue Mydliak, paranormal novelist.





Hope to see you here next Tuesday!


Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Positively Photos

  by Mauverneen

Me, in Prague. We climbed to the top of this multi terraced garden (I'll have to look up the name of it) the first of two such gardens that day. There was a wedding shoot going on, and when our group snuck in to take our pics against this wonderful view, someone in the professional group took our phones, posed us, and took our photos! 

Everyone knows I take photos - lots and lots of photos. I have boxes of them from when I had a film camera, and a couple more boxes from my relatives who have passed on. And now, in the digital age, I have hundreds if not thousands, stored on my computer, on camera cards, on thumb drives, on - well, you get the picture.I've been trying to clean up my digital files lately, so as to free up space on my pc, spending a little time each day on the effort. A daunting task, given my trigger finger. If I had been doing this all along, as I downloaded new batches... but I didn't, so... Going forward, I'm going to be more diligent. I have been deleting duplicates, blurry pics, and those that make me think 'why did I take that?' 

I took this during Covid. We all had a lot of time on our hands. Since I have always liked puzzles, it was a good way to pass the time, and many of us were posting our puzzle progress on FB. Do I need to save it? Not really. But it does remind me of that time and how isolated I and everyone else felt, and how we did just about anything to keep from going crazy.

On my trip to Prague and beyond, I took right around 2,000 photos. Sounds like a lot, but one of my daughters pointed out "you were there 10 days, so that's 200 a day. Not a lot for you." My kids know me well. 

I did not take this photo. I'm the one in the white jacket. One of our group was speedier to the top of the hill while the rest of us debated about going up now (it was raining) or waiting until later and hoping the rain would stop. There was the option of lunch - soup was a high priority at the moment. The rain got heavier, so we opted for lunch. The rest of us never did make it up that hill.

The point of all this is not that I take photos, but what they mean to me. Yes, they are a record, yes they are fun to look at, but to me, they are more than that. When I look at a photo that I took, I remember almost everything about it. I know where I took it, when, who I was with, and whatever little tidbit of information associated with that moment is stored in my brain. It often takes me down the rabbit hole. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's poignant, sometimes it's downright sad. But it's always like taking a little trip in a time machine. 

June 2018. My family was attending a graduation celebration and we ended up at the London House at the end of the day. It was just getting to sunset, a fog was rolling in, the air was cool, and we all sort of wandered around, taking in the view for a bit. 

Photos - A time machine. We all have our own.

As always, words and photos are my own, and require permission to reprint.
                                       However, feel free to share the blog in it's entirety. In fact, I encourage it!
  Interested in photo prints? Contact me! maureenblevins@yahoo.com

and visit my website: http://mauverneen.com

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