One Small Positive Thought…..

August 6, 2021August 20, 2022 / Donna Robinson Photography / Leave a comment

💭”One small positive thought in the morning can change your entire day.” ~unknown

Have a great weekend!

~Donna

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“Just One More Try……”

July 13, 2021 / Donna Robinson Photography / 2 Comments

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to just try one more time.” ~Thomas Edison

How many times have you come close to giving up on something but then decided to give just one more try and then found yourself succeeding? I know I have🙋‍♀️.

I’ve also witnessed this first-hand with our 8 year old granddaughter, recently. She is a very good horse rider/whisperer. She excels at this beyond her years. But, one of her horses, a rescue horse, is very frisky and doesn’t really like to be ridden.

But, with the help of her father and a strong determination to gain the trust and confidence of the horse she set out to conquer both hers and the horse’s fears. She must have tried 3 – 4 times to get on the saddle. With each and every try and her father by her side, the horse and the rider began to bond and soon trusted each other.

The triumph really paid off the next week at horse camp when she was the only rider (and probably the youngest) who was able to control the one of the more mature (and larger) of the horses! ❤

What are you trying to succeed at? Don’t give up….keep giving it “just one more try.”

Cheers!

~Donna

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“Without Rain, Nothing Blooms…..”

April 27, 2021 / Donna Robinson Photography / 7 Comments

“Without rain, nothing blooms. Learn to embrace the storms in your life.” ~unknown⁠
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While not all storms are created equal they do serve a necessary purpose in our lives. They break us down, they nurture us and we grow from the process.⁠
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Are you embracing your storms?

~Donna

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Spend More Time With Nature…..

April 8, 2021August 20, 2022 / Donna Robinson Photography / Leave a comment

“The more time you spend with nature, the deeper your understanding of life will be.” ~Nitin Namdeo⁠

There really isn’t more I can add to this statement. How about you? Don’t you find the more time you are outside and with nature you understand aspects of your life better?⁠

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Friends Make the World Beautiful

January 26, 2021November 4, 2021 / Donna Robinson Photography / 5 Comments

“Friends Make the World Beautiful.” unknown

Such a simple statement about how beautiful true friendship can be! You don’t need to have a lot of friends and sometimes the friends may not live close by. But the best of friends do make the world beautiful!

Cherish your friends!

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For the Love of Photography – Sunny Sunflower

July 12, 2020August 20, 2022 / Donna Robinson Photography / 8 Comments

For those of you who have been following me for a while, you may remember a post from a few years back titled For the Love of Photography “The Accidental Sunflower Garden” . The post was about two (2) beautiful sunflowers growing wild in our backyard thanks to a few leftovers from our backyard critters. They were so much fun to photograph that summer. One photo even managed to make its way into my Etsy Shop as both a greeting card and matted print.

So, you can image my delight when the same thing happened this year! Lucky for me, this time they were growing on the lower section of our yard and within easy reach of my macro lens.

When I discovered them, there were three (3) scraggly little stalks each growing at different heights. From a distance they weren’t much to look at except for a few buds and one (1) bright yellow flower standing tall with its face pointing towards the morning sun.

As I moved closer to the tallest stalk, I noticed the brightest flower was surrounded by a few other buds each waiting for their chance to shine.

Macro photography of a sunflower

Macro photography of a Sunflower

Rain droplets on the Sunflower petals

Clearly, the sunflowers had another purpose in their short lives. The garden insects quickly found them and began to nourish on their sweet nectar and delicate petals.

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Green bug devouring the Sunflower petals

Fortunately for me, the bees didn’t seem to mind my camera lens snooping around them.

Bumble Bees gathering nectar

But my favorite shot is the one below with the detail of the disk florets beginning to take shape. Don’t you just love the geometric shape growing from the middle outward?

Disk Florets beginning to take shape

It’s been a few weeks now and the flowers are beginning to shrivel up and the stalks are slowly drooping towards the ground. I’ll miss my little sunflower garden once the blooms have all faded away. Hopefully, if they’re left undisturbed, they’ll dissolve into the earth and will come back bigger, stronger and brighter next year!

Donna

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A Wink, a Smile and a Wave Goodbye!

August 25, 2019August 25, 2019 / Donna Robinson Photography / 8 Comments

If you’ve followed me for the last few years, you know I’m easily entertained by Hummingbirds. I have two (2) feeders hanging in our garden just above the bicycle, surrounded by plenty of color from the knock-out roses, petunias and the butterfly bushes.

I could literally sit for hours watching these little fairies feed! There is just something so magical about them. Perhaps it’s their small and mighty stature. Most likely though it’s the challenge of getting the right shot before they speed away!

So imagine how excited I was to see our granddaughter’s hummingbird feeder and all the activity around it. Our son and daughter-in-law purchased a new, all red glass feeder this year and hung it just outside their kitchen window to better watch them feed. They said it didn’t take long to attract the hummingbirds and it quickly became a non-stop feeding frenzy!

It seems the consistent bright red color of the feeder draws them in. This little guy put on quite the show for me that afternoon. Literally, just when you thought his feeding was over he reappeared dancing around feeder taking quick little sips of the nectar.

It was almost as if he knew I was watching him, because just like that he turned and peered into the window as if to give me “A Wink, a Smile and a Wave Goodbye.”