Frustrated

I have just spent a good part of my day getting quite frustated with Blogger -- why don't the pictures go where I want them too? I really do not want to go back to wordpress because I really like this template and I don't like any of theirs right now, but after today I am reconsidering that option. I see lots of Blogger blogs with pictures so it can't be that hard -- which makes me feel pretty stupid -- a feeling that I really do not like. I am trying one more time with this post and then . . .

It happened again -- the picture went to the top of the page and I had to move it -- which I guess is not that big of a deal except that sometimes it messes up the spacing of the text or other pictures. Maybe a call to my computer wiz daughter . . .

O.K. I give up -- time to call the computer wiz and see if she has the answer.

Oh -- these are just some pictures I took in a mall parking lot awhile ago. The sky was a perfect sky blue and the clouds were perfect puffy cotton-like clouds. The light post looked cool too against that perfect blue sky.

P.S. I have now edited all my posts so that they look right, but I decided to leave my frustation post here anyway -- just as a reminder : )

Monday Meanderings -- Part 1

On his day off  hubby and I like to drive the back roads, often with no particular destination planned, but just to relax and enjoy the drive. I even bought a map that shows all the back roads in Ontario. Hubby would probably skip the map and just drive, but I like to know where I am and more importantly, I like to know how to get home from wherever we end up.

This week we drove on some gravel roads and came upon this really cool railway bridge. Part of the fun in these drives is to take pictures of things we see and do along the way.

Hubby bravely ventured into the ditch to get this picture of the water tunnel at the side of the bridge.

I took this picture inside the main tunnel.

It always amazes me when I find grass growing out from the rocks.

My hubby -- the rock climber -- whenever there are rocks to be climbed -- he will climb them.

To be continued . . .

Dandelions

I chose my blog template it is simple and I just liked the way it looked, but it has caused me to notice the dandelions a little more. While out driving the other day I saw a number of fields just full of them and they really were quite pretty. I didn't get any pictures of the fields, but I did take a few by the side of the road -- the detail -- even in a weed is amazing.

Baby Feet

There is something so sweet and precious about baby feet -- especially when the belong to your very own grandson.

Taking Time To Relax

A few days ago hubby and I took a little break for some relaxing time together and this is where we went. It takes less than 15 minutes to get there -- we both enjoy it and it doesn't cost anything -- you can't beat that.

I think there was a sailing class happening because there were a lot of sailboats all together going around in circles.

A couple more pictures of the view we enjoyed together. You can see even more pictures of this place here.

A Fresh Start

About this time last year I discovered blogs. I had known about them before that, but last April was when I discovered that there were so many  really great blogs out there by so many great people about so many things that inspired me. I felt connected somehow to others who in some way were like me -- sometimes it was in the things we liked or things we did or what we dream about --I felt like I was a part of something good. 

I quickly became quite addicted to reading  many of these blogs and then of course I had to have a blog of my very own. I actually started a couple blogs before settling on one which I blogged happily away on for a number of months. But, after a while I felt frustrated and wasn't sure why I was doing this whole blogging thing. I took some time off to sort through my thoughts and feelings about blogging, coming to the conclusion that I had strayed away from my original goal which was to have fun and just be me. I began to feel that I had to measure up to some invisible standard of what to write about and of how often I had to write instead of just writing because I enjoyed it. I had started out wanting to share my life and who I am, but somewhere along the way I lost track of that -- it may not have showed to those who were reading my posts, but I knew that something wasn't right.

So, I have said all that to say that I am making a fresh start.

I have been trying for much of my life to live up to others expectations -- trying to fit into a box that was just not the right size or shape. I am trying now to throw away all the boxes and  learn how to just be me. So in this blog I plan to express myself through words and pictures without having to do it the way I think is expected, but the way I want to. Sometimes I will post quite regularly and sometimes my posts will be more erratic.

Thank you for joining me on my journey of  "Simply Being Me".

You can find my previous blogs here and here.