Compassion Joy Dare

My Compassion blogging friend, Jill, has started a monthly blog link up called Compassion Joy Dare. This is a way for each one of us to share about the blessings God provides through our involvement with Compassion. While I didn’t receive letters from any of my Compassion kids this month, it was a month filled with some wonderful blessings:

Compassion friends met up with a fellow Compassion advocate for breakfast on our trip down to Southern California

Compassion blog month participated in Compassion’s blog month to help find sponsors for over 3,160 children

Compassion Share & Tell

started a new blog link up for Compassion sponsors to share what they are mailing to their sponsored children each month

Compassion trip

received our Compassion trip brochure with some tips to help us prepare for our trip in January!!

Jill has made it really easy for each one of us to participate in her Compassion Joy Dare blog link up. Once you have written your own blog post, sharing your Compassion blessings from the past month, be sure to link up with Jill at her blog, Compassion Family.

I would love to hear what Compassion blessings have happened in your life this past month!

Dinner Table Talk

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As a family, we are blessed with the opportunity to have a sit down dinner together most nights of the week. One of the things I like to find to keep conversations going at our dinner table is a daily calendar which make us all think. In years past, one of the calendars we enjoyed was based on one of our old favorite TV game shows, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Since we haven’t been able to find one of those calendars the past couple of years, we have had to venture out to find some new challenging calendars.

This year, we have been going through this top tens list calendar. Some of the lists are rather easy to complete. Others? Well, let’s just say, we sure do learn a lot when we encounter some of these lists. Like the one above. We thought we were doing pretty well when we wrote down the following nine fruits:

  • mango
  • kiwi
  • pomegranate
  • apricot
  • kumquat
  • papaya
  • plantain
  • pluot
  • acai berries

Can you believe we only got one answer right?!?

Now, are you up for a challenge? In the comments below, let me know what fruits you think are the top ten most delicious and least-known fruits. In the meantime, we have some research to do….

Capture Your 365

I really meant to try to take more photos last week to match up with the daily Capture Your 365 prompts, but after taking over 200 pictures at our annual church beach trip, then working through all those photos in Lightroom, I didn’t get but a few photos for this week. Oh well, life moves on…

dolphins
dolphins

ISO 100, 200mm, f/5.6, 1/800 sec

So this first photo doesn’t really fit any of the photo prompts for last week, but I just had to share it! We were watching these dolphins all afternoon at the beach, and at first, I wasn’t sure if my 200mm lens would be able to capture these guys out in the ocean. It wasn’t until I loaded the photos into Lightroom that I saw this image. I was so excited to have captured this! I did have 8x10 prints made of this photo to send to our Compassion kids along with some dolphin facts and printables I found on Pinterest.

on a board
on a board

ISO 800, 82mm, f/4.2, 1/4 sec

Day 260 – On A Board: Yes, I know we are officially in autumn, but summer is my favorite season! The nights and mornings are cooler here, but we are still seeing 80 degree temperatures during the day. Just warm enough to sit outside in the afternoon with bare feet. I am soaking it in while it lasts.

moon
moon

ISO 800, 135mm, f/16, 1/4 sec

Day 261 – Sugar and Spice: I really should have done some baking on this day, but I didn’t. The moon was so incredibly full and bright on this night. I love to be reminded to take moments like this to just be still and be amazed by His creation.

morning sun
morning sun

ISO 100, 50mm, f/16, 0.6 sec

Day 262 – Morning Sun: Unless I get up really early, throw on some clothes, and drive down the road, there is no way I am going to photograph the morning sun. So I thought I would experiment with a little bit of sun flare on this one with a small aperture. Probably not one I will print and hang on my wall, but fun to play with.

Have you been working on the Capture Your 365 challenge?

Photo Treasure Hunt: Yellow Treasures

Welcome to another week of our Photo Treasure Hunt! This week, Jill and I have been on the hunt to find yellow things to photograph. Here are a few yellow things I found:

cheerios
cheerios
Nancy Drew books
Nancy Drew books
In 'n Out Burger
In 'n Out Burger
flowers
flowers
lemon
lemon
Pooh Bear mug
Pooh Bear mug

Now that I have shared my ‘yellow’ photos with you, I hope you are able to share your ‘yellow’ photos with us! Here are just a few rules for our blog hop:

Link up by posting blog post URL- not just blog URL

Link back to one of us (grab button if desired)

Visit other blogs and leave comment love.

Be sure to take note of next theme and start collecting more photos.

We reserve the right to remove any links that don’t fit the link up theme or that we find inappropriate

The Photo Treasure Hunt theme for this next week is……red! So get out there, take pictures of red things. Then come back next week to join in on our Photo Treasure Hunt blog hop!

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