Brenda's Photo Challenge--PLAY

When I first heard the theme for today's photo challenge, I thought that should be easy because so much would fit the theme. But the more I tried to decide how that theme fit me and my life and how to capture that with pictures, I really found it difficult. It has given me time to think about how "play" or "leisure time" fits into my life. My life is pretty full of "responsibilities" currently and I have spent some time evaluating the balance.

My conclusions are:

1) I find joy and pleasure in the midst of routine responsibilities and that doesn't lend itself to photographing.

2) My blog time is currently my primary source of designated "play" and you all see it so why take a picture of it.

3) My other, very closely related, purely pleasurable activity is taking scenery type pictures. I share these with you all the time.

So Sharon at Funky Fairy Tales has provided a great challenge for me and helped me appreciate the value of "playtime." But none of that resulted in photos to post.

So last night I reviewed some of the pictures I had taken at various times of the family pets to post. This one is my "grand-dog" this last Christmas when my dil was helping TUCKER get in the Christmas spirit by letting him PLAY reindeer.


The next picture is of my precious Little Bit of her first Christmas when she liked to PLAY, "Let's re-decorate the Christmas tree." She would take the ornaments off several times a day and my part in the game was to put them back or clean up the broken ones. She absolutely loved climbing that tree. Strangely enough she's not done that again after that first year.

And now Little Bit is PLAYING like she is a soft drink!!

This last picture is one of my favorite pictures of Little Bit. My son, Stephen is a drummer and he was practicing with his drum pad. She wanted to PLAY drums, too!!


Be sure you check out the other participant's photos by going to the Brenda's Photo Challenge Blog.