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Weekly Challenge: Victory …

The prompt: In your photo this week, focus on the win, the victory — that moment of glory and pride you’ll remember forever.

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I don’t bake often, almost never, but when I do it’s never been from scratch… until last year when I wanted to surprise my daughter with a homemade cake that I had baked.  I wrote this post on my other blog and thought I would share it here today as my ‘victory’ challenge :)

I Can Bake ! …

It took me 51 years but I finally made a cake from scratch.

Last year for my daughter’s birthday I wanted to surprise her with something she would not expect… and a homemade cake would definitely be that.

I gathered my stuff together and began my new experience.

This ‘new picture’ Betty Crocker Cook Book by the way isn’t all that new.  It was given to me by my dad 51 years ago.

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I even melted some chocolate to add to the pound cake…  thought it would give it some oomph and who doesn’t like at least of dash of chocolate in a cake.

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Into the oven it went and then it was only a matter of waiting to see if it would come out of the cake pan in one piece !  Yay… it did.

My creation

Maybe the baking powder would have made it a little taller but I like to think of it as a petite pound cake.

The victory cake complete with candles :)

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Weekly Challenge: Treat …

The prompt is: This week, share with us a photo of something that you consider a marvelous treat.

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Cliche though it may be, a treat for me was when my daughter took me into NYC and we went to Dylan’s candy store… and also stopped at Serendipity II for their famous frozen hot chocolate which I adore…and do not share :)

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Weekly Challenge: Careful …

The prompt this week is to show something careful…  I’d certainly be careful about parking beyond this sign :)

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Weekly Challenge: Happy Place …

Weekly prompt: Where do you go when you need to think? What do you do when you need to restore yourself, to ready yourself to take on the coming week with energy and verve? How do you get your sense of humor back? How do you recharge your groove?

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There’s no doubt in my mind as to where my happy place is… it’s Martha’s Vineyard… it’s where my heart and soul reside and where I feel restored and peaceful and happy.

I know I use a lot of photos from the Vineyard here, and I have been trying to use pictures from other places…but this week’s challenge HAS to be the Vineyard… just no way around it :)

My happy place is the Tabernacle in the town of Oak Bluffs … no matter when I’m there I go and sit quietly and listen to my inner voice.

Peace. Serenity. Beauty.  Home. Memories.

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Weekly Challenge: Change …

My interpretation of change. I think the fortune cookie fortune is the perfect touch. :)

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Weekly Challenge: Grid …

This week, make a grid the centerpiece of your photo. Next week, they can lapse back into our photographic subconscious, but this week, let’s give them some time in the sun!

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I couldn’t decide on just one so I didn’t :)

Office buildings, Vancouver, British Columbia…

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Weekly Challenge: Monochromatic …

This week’s challenge is monochromatic photos…

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Weekly Challenge: Connected…

This week, show us how two (or more) things — people, objects, places — come together.

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Two paintings connected by knitting.

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The Dingmans Ferry Bridge connecting NJ and PA.

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Nubble Lighthouse, Cape Neddick, York, Maine

Except for boat the only way this island is connected to the mainland is by this bucket/gondola on a cable of some sort … something you’d ever get me in :)

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Weekly Challenge: Today Was A Good Day …

The prompt: For this week’s photo challenge, select and share a series of photographs. You can piece together what you consider an ideal day, recount a memorable day, tell a (visual) story, or show us some of your favorite things.

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A lot of thoughts came to mind about what would constitute a good day… I just didn’t know what to post about… my favorite places, favorite people, foods, vacations… I was torn.   And then this morning a perfect opportunity arose.  My daughter Deb and I go out for coffee every Saturday morning and today we took a mini 3 hour vacation to Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey.

Got our coffee and pastry at the Main Lake Market…

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and then sat outside and enjoyed our respite.

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Weekly Challenge: Beneath Your Feet …

This week’s challenge is to look down and document what’s beneath your feet.

These pictures were taken of the stairs at the Thomas Edison Nat’l Historic Park in West Orange, New Jersey.

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