Frozen in Time

My mom’s favorite color was lavender. My favorite color is purple. So this week, it’s all about purple. Purple, purple, purple. Hurray for purple!

In honor of Mother’s Day (in the US) next Sunday, this week’s topic is Mother. My mom is not around anymore, although I am a mom now, so I hope to be able to find some way to remember my mother in photos this week as well as celebrate my own motherhood, but there are so many other things I can think of that fit this topic. How about you?

Last week, I dutifully wrote my topic post on Sunday and set it to publish early Monday morning and for some reason it didn’t. And for various reasons, I didn’t notice it until later in the week. It is Sunday afternoon as I type this and I’m again going to set this to post early Monday morning, and hopefully it will work this time, but if not, I will be checking as soon as I wake up on Monday morning to see if it did! (It didn’t. Back to the drawing board.)

This week’s topic is Bright. At first I was going to limit it to bright colors, being Spring and all, and the world being filled with bright colors, but then I realized bright could be a lot of things - bright lights, bright smiles, etc., so we’ll stick with the broader topic of bright and see what you can come up with! Have fun!

Well, I thought this had published on Monday, but for whatever reason it didn’t. So it’s late - VERY late, and for that I apologize!

Tomorrow is Tuesday was Earth Day in the Northern Hemisphere and Friday is Arbor Day in the United States, so in honor of those two days, this week’s topic is: Nature. This is pretty wide open and since it’s Spring (although I’ve heard tell of snow in some parts - what’s up with that?), it seems like a great time to celebrate nature in all her glory.

National Library Week started yesterday, so in honor of that noble institution, this week’s topic is Literary: books, reading, libraries, bookstores, etc.

A week from tomorrow is Tax Day in the US, so the topic of money came to mind, but to make it a little easier (and possibly more interesting), I’m stretching that into “metallic” - think gold, silver, copper, etc.

I did actually set this to post early this morning, but for some reason it didn’t - sorry about that!

In honor of April Fool’s Day tomorrow, this week’s topic is “funny”.  I realize it’s a little more abstract than the last few topics, but I have faith that those of you who use the topics will come up with something amazing!

The first day of Spring was actually last week, but there was too much going on last week to give Spring its due, so Spring is getting a week all to itself. Hopefully most of you are seeing the signs of Spring wherever you are, and if not, well, there’s more than one meaning for the word spring! Here the temperature is supposed to reach a very warm (for March) 90 degrees today, so Spring is in full swing here!

This week is a trifecta of important days. Today is, of course, St. Patrick’s Day, Sunday is Easter and Thursday is the first day of Spring (not to mention Holy Week).

I’m going to save Spring for another week, so this week’s topic (should you choose to use it) is: Green! What else could a (part) Irish girl choose after all? And feel free to throw in any Easter type photos you want to as well!

I got really ambitious several weeks ago and planned out the weekly topics for the rest of the year. A lot of them revolve around whatever holidays are happening during that week, but there are not (unfortunately for me) holidays every week that are conducive to being a weekly theme. So, I had to fill in the blanks the best I could and some themes I like better than others.

However, those of you who have participated in the weekly themes have never failed to amaze me with what you come up with for the theme. You inspire me to look harder at the world around me. I’m sure that this week’s theme, “Transportation”, will be no different should you choose to use it. I await your interpretations!