I don’t often post twice in one day, but today the new Color Hues Challenge went up, and it’s also the final link-up to the Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt, kindly hosted by Mary-Lou. You can find my previous link-ups here and here. I managed to find all the items on the list as well as two of the alternates. No excuse for not having a photo of a local landmark; it just fell off my radar.

So here are the final photos.

A Breakfast of Champions 

Not sure this qualifies as a breakfast of a champion, but it’s reliably my breakfast of choice: a No-carb egg bake that I make, cut in squares, and freeze with a selection of fruit.

Favorite Time of Day

I love evening, especially when we’re near the water and can capture the sunset. I’m quite sure we regularly have lovely sunsets in Rochester, but to capture them I need to be in the right place at the right time, which rarely happens. This was taken at Big Twin Lake in Michigan in August.

Head in the Clouds (and in the water!)

Window Views

I had several window views, but decided on this one: the view from my craft room looking out at our front yard.

Your Marie Kondo Moment

Sadly, I neglected to take a Before photo, but I’m proud to say that this photo was taken just this week, and the drawer was organized in early August. I think I finally came up with a system that works! Needless to say, there were a few items that left the house all together, and a few put away to see how often we really need them (Haven’t pulled any out yet.)

Your Best Doodle Art

I have a tiny sketchbook where I randomly choose things to draw and watercolor. I’ve gone through and created a frame on each page with a credit card which gives you an idea of its size.

An Exit

I’m quite sure if I’d been more attentive, I could have found a more creative response to this prompt, but it didn’t happen. I was alert enough to capture this in Traverse City, Michigan during the last day of our trip in August.

Decades of Sharing

Interestingly, this was the most difficult prompt for me. I can only be sure that these items are from the 80’s because all three moved with us from our previous house. We’ve lived in this house for 36 years now. (That seems totally amazing to me.)

And finally, my most beautiful landscape of the season. In fact, it’s not my favorite photo from the summer, but it’s one of the few that truly quality as a landscape–a result I’ll chalk up to the pandemic, and not much travel this summer. The cloud photo above might suffice as well. This view of Seneca Lake from the Boundary Breaks Winery was the last capture for the scavenger hunt, taken just last Saturday.

Thanks, again, Mary-Lou for compiling the list and encouraging me to be on the lookout for opportunities to capture a slice of our lives.