“Piano Lesson” Austin, 2016
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Wordless Wednesday
“Piano Lesson” Austin, 2016
Tag: snapshots
Photos/images that I have made. Sometimes with a description, sometimes just the photo.
“Piano Lesson” Austin, 2016
Wordless Wednesday
“Pretty Lights” Cedar Park, 2016
“Dinner” Cedar Park, 2016
“Baking Station” Cedar Park, 2016
Wordless Wednesday
“Evening Clouds” Cedar Park, 2016
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Shine
“Afternoon Light” Cedar Park, 2016
I love the light at this time of year. 🍂
By the way, I am sharing my snapshots on another site. Just pictures, no words. Please take a look!
Weekly photo challenge – Shine
Around the Kitchen
“Fresh Baked Yum” Cedar Park, 2016
こんばんは！Hi, how’s it going?
At my work, we have a weekly food and/or drink social hour, where the company brings in food and we all eat and hang out. Today there were desserts including giant cookies, brownies, fruit tarts, lemon bars, etc. 🍪 I had to try one of the peanut butter cookies, but I kind of regret it. You see, I don’t eat sweets often, and so my body is ultra-sensitive to sugar, and I’ve also grown accustomed to less-sweet Japanese desserts. 🍡 I don’t know if those are less sweet, or if American desserts are just ultra-sugary, but at any rate I wasn’t feeling so great after eating that cookie. It didn’t help that the cookie was enormous!
Back at home, Mariko was baking a beautiful loaf of bread, and you can see it in the photo above. Pretty, isn’t it? To me, the fresh bread is like a dessert to me! I can eat good bread and butter all day. ❤️🍞
While thinking about my daily photo 📸, I looked around the kitchen to see if there was anything interesting, or something I’d like to capture so that years from now, when we are living far away, we can look back and see part of our everyday lives.
We have many “kitcheny” things in the house, so I took a photo of one of the shelves where we keep some oils and vinegars. In Lightroom I used the same preset that I applied to the bread photo. I really like the “look” of the photos from that preset. That’s one thing I love about Lightroom – the ability to adjust the settings and them save them to custom presets. I think it’s a nice way to develop a photographic style.
“Mad Scientist Supplies” Cedar Park, 2016
I hope you had a nice Thursday!
おやすみなさい！
– B 
Hello, and goodnight
“A Cat and Her Boy” Cedar Park, 2016
こんばんは！
Due to beer and wine at happy hour, plus pizza dinner, tonight’s post will be short. In fact, I’ll just leave you with a photo of our cat, Yuzu, and her boy, Koa.
おやすみなさい！
– B
Everything Happens for a Reason
“Evening Light” Cedar Park, 2016
こんばんは！How’s everything going?
Today I read a great blog post about positivity, and in it there was the saying, “Everything Happens for a Reason” and I started thinking about that particular phrase for the first time… and I actually don’t agree with it, at least in the way that it is commonly interpreted.
I don’t believe in fate or destiny, predetermined by a god, gods, or other supernatural presence. No, I think that an infinite amount of events are in motion for whatever reason, natural or man-made, and that in our normal daily lives, we’ll come into contact with some of these events. It’s just being in the right place at the right time. No gods necessary.
Why do we feel the need to believe that everything happens for a reason? Isn’t it enough to know that the thing has happened, and now we have the chance to react to it, and hopefully in a positive way?
I suppose for some it might be comforting to believe that a god or spirit is controlling everything, but to me, that is a frightening idea, especially when you see the unfortunate things that happen to innocent people. (Birth defects and leftover landmines come to mind)
Anyways, the phrase “Everything happens for a reason” seems like the first part of a longer phrase, the second part being, “… so look for the silver lining”. But then why not just remove the first part altogether and simply look for the positive in everything.
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Today’s photo is of our breakfast area in our house, and the evening light coming in. I thought it looked nice. I like to take snapshots of the mundane things… they might not be great photos, but they are glimpses into real life. There’s some value in that, I think.
I hope you had a nice Monday!
おやすみなさい！
– B
