Focus on Life: Week 28 ~ Patterns

When I was a young girl (gosh, now that is a long long time ago), I used to hunt for agates.  As a family, I grew up vacationing in the northwoods of Wisconsin.  We stayed at a lovely resort with rustic cabins every summer for a couple weeks.  Such wondrful memories I have of fun filled summer days there.  Seeing old friends every summer from far away places like Chicago and Milwaukee.  Which really aren't that far but when you're a little girl it seems like worlds away. 

Some of my free time I spent looking for agates each morning in the lake water.  Agates often have wonderful patterns of banding.  Each one is different, like a fingerprint.  The sun would shine and the agates were often a translucent red and I could find oddles of them.  My pockets I'd fill and bring them to the steps of the cabin to show my Mom and Dad.  It was a wonderful time of my life and to this day I still look for that shiney red color when I am in a lake or river.

But no agates for this post.  :(

Everyday I load up my 2 dogs and we go to a local park that has empty fields and paved trails.  We spend an hour or two there every day.  Even in the winter.  At the end of the paved trail is a lake and the dogs love to swim there.  Every day they are so excited and happy happy pups.

Last Saturday morning as I was walking back to the truck I noticed some lovely shadows of leaf patterns on the pavement.  I always carry my cell phone (so please excuse the quality of these pics) and had a delightful time photographing them.  I love love leaves so this was quite fun for me.  I really need to go back with one of my good camera's and re-take some of these.  Please click to enlarge them.

 

 

 

Well, shucks, a couple are rotated the wrong way and I can't fix that.  :(

 

Then I noticed this morning the lovely pattern of black specks on my Asiatic Lily.  I took this yesterday with my phone as I was running out the door to go shopping with a friend.

 

 

And lastly, we stopped at a garden center on our way home yesterday and I was captivated with the Koi pond.  I loved the water plants. 

 

 

Again, I am unable to rotate the photo properly so you'll have to use your imagination.

 

Have a good weekend and upcoming week.  It's going to be a hot and muggy one here.