Life's Choices
Life's choices are like clouds.
Sometimes the way is clear,
to decide between black and white.
Occasionally the choice is grey,
and we call on experience,
prayer, and common sense.
We may be tempted by.....
beautiful oranges and yellows.
Make your choices wisely.
Photograph by Martha on the way home from work.
Nikon S51 - As photographed 08/21/2008
Life's choices are like clouds.
Sometimes the way is clear,
to decide between black and white.
Occasionally the choice is grey,
and we call on experience,
prayer, and common sense.
We may be tempted by.....
beautiful oranges and yellows.
Make your choices wisely.
Photograph by Martha on the way home from work.
Nikon S51 - As photographed 08/21/2008Photograph by Martha
Poor free verse by Troy
Poor free verse by Troy
How do you make your choices?
Prayer, Experience, flip a coin?
Leave a comment.
Inquiring minds want to know!
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78 comments:
Troy, that is quite a monster cloud there! So ominous looming over your head! Your poem is quite good! Bravo for you for trying! As for me, I don't know when I'll get my skywatch up. I've been up all night just polishing up Edition #82 of I and the bird. My brain is fried but I had to come say hi before I go back to bed!
Well that looks very cool! Gorgeous, Martha!
How I make my shot decisions?
90% gut and 10% planning. ;)
Cheers, Klaus
Look at you. Poem and photo to boot. Great contrast. Have a great weekend. Pappy
That is an awesome shot Martha! Well done. Just working on mine now and will post shortly.
Thank you for your response about the indigo in the rainbow. I'm glad you didn't take offense - none was intended.
I can see the clear / white too! It is like the experiments in the lab as a school child - spinning the spectrum colours fast to produce... white! I see it in the rainbow too.
Ain't God clever? ;0)
PS My decisions as if you hadn't guessed - on a wing and a prayer sometimes, but mostly just prayer. :0)
Amazing shot Martha .. the lower black clouds look like someone is raising their arm to the heavens... cool
How do I make a decision ... I think about the pros/cons and then do what I feel is right ... tho as an Aquarian I often act before I think it out ... lucky for me Husband is a very grounded Virgo
:-Daryl
Great cloud shot and poem!
A couple of rules of thumb on decision making:
* When in doubt ... don't
* When your heart leaps "Yes" the inner urge is so strong ... go for it.
* Nurture oneself, practice to recognize the still small voice ... then heed it ... the better one gets it works even for the small things.
Great capture, Martha! That upward-reaching dark cloud has an ominous, and somewhat 'evil' look, but the sky above is beautiful.
I'm a 'gut' decision maker, I fear. "Fools rush in ..." I have learned over time that I have to live with the *consequences* of my decisions, and remembering that is sometimes enough to cause me to proceed carefully.
I like your poem, Troy.
Troy/Martha: Very nice clouds and verse for SWF. I see a big guy on the ground directing a dragon to attack. Did you see that Martha.
wonderful picture and love the works you put with it.
It looks like you had a beautiful sky yesterday also.
I have had the chance to go back through most of you post and it looks like we have done and photographed alott of the same things. Great site.
gorgeous clouds
My SWF : in here Thanks
Very nice shot.
My decision making depends on my mood. Sometimes I just make then and other times I cogitate for hours
i believe i saw crocodile :D
Hope you have time also to visit me in here Thanks
Fabulous photo! Your question reminded me of a scene in one of my favorite films (No Country for Old Men):
Anton Chigurh: What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss.
Gas Station Proprietor: Sir?
Anton Chigurh: The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss.
Gas Station Proprietor: I don't know. I couldn't say.
[Chigurh flips a quarter from the change on the counter and covers it with his hand]
Anton Chigurh: Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Call it?
Anton Chigurh: Yes.
Gas Station Proprietor: For what?
Anton Chigurh: Just call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Well, we need to know what we're calling it for here.
Anton Chigurh: You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair.
Gas Station Proprietor: I didn't put nothin' up.
Anton Chigurh: Yes, you did. You've been putting it up your whole life you just didn't know it. You know what date is on this coin?
Gas Station Proprietor: No.
Anton Chigurh: 1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Look, I need to know what I stand to win.
Anton Chigurh: Everything.
Gas Station Proprietor: How's that?
Anton Chigurh: You stand to win everything. Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Alright. Heads then.
[Chigurh removes his hand, revealing the coin is indeed heads]
Anton Chigurh: Well done.
[the gas station proprietor nervously takes the quarter with the small pile of change he's apparently won while Chigurh starts out]
Anton Chigurh: Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.
Gas Station Proprietor: Where do you want me to put it?
Anton Chigurh: Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is.
[Chigurh leaves and the gas station proprietor stares at him as he walks out]
A picture of contrasts. As for my choices - they are for myself to make.
Great capture. love it.
"Life´s choices are like clouds..."
Beautiful quote and shots.
A very unusual photo. Lovely. And I like the verse as well.
I can see why you keep the glass clean. These are very nice photos.
Lovely image and not poor verse at all Troy - very nicely done!
Depending on the situation - prayer, experience, or flipping the coin all work.
Great photo, Martha.
How I make my decisions: I think and think and think. I'm a cautious-type person. I rely a lot on intuition in the end. Some might say that's God. ;-)
That is a frightening but beautiful sky.
Love that dark cloud!
Libras have a very hard time deciding on things...back and forth on the scales. I usually go with my gut feeling. My instincts are usually right.
A very dramatic photo.The poem isn't bad either :)
You captured a strange but beautiful sky in this one.
Lovely cloud formations and colors!
You two never cease to amaze me ... this really is a great posting. The poem and picture are a joy to see and read.
Thank you
Tom
Great photo. I love all the color.
Troy, poor free verse?! Whatever! Great shot by Martha and beautiful poetry by you, despite what you say! Glad you finally got some rain! Hooray... I'm about to get my share too.
Nice poem and such amazing photography!
Mine is here;
Sky Watch #8
Great SWF photo! Very well done!!! I think that I make by decisions 60from prayer, 20 experience,20 gut! Are your posting your averages at the end of the week?
Intense, great SWF!
Love both of them.
Ah, yes! the dark cloud looks like a cat ready to pounce! Beautiful.
Choices? Intuition, mainly.
´Wow! Two different formation, colors on one sky frame!!! Great shot!
I enjoy skywatch and so do I enjoy your photos too! =) Thanks for sharing God's beautiful painting...
Visting from ViennaDaily, happy skywatching!
I really enjoyed this picture. What an amazing event of contrasts and color.
It took quite a long time to start the comment and I still don't know what I feel in this moment.
Something beetween aaaaahhhh and ooohhh, Yes, Aladin and ghost!!!! *****
Kind of looks like a camel to me..
Whoa, that looks like soot... Where's the chimney sweep?!
Gosh, I WISH I could say I make my decisions prayerfully, but too many times, I come to the realization that I'm in a pickle because I neglected to pray first... That's when I have to send an s.o.s. up, you know.
Strikingly beautiful photograph. :-)
that is an amazing photo
An interesting cloud formation, I like it.
What an AMAZING photo! The dark cloud just blows me away with the pretty colors behind it.
My choices are too often made just with my very sensible head. More of them need to be made with prayer. That's the problem with having a very sensible head.
So dramatic and beautiful!
scary but very nice! Nice capture of colors!
Martha, what an incredible catch, There may be more fish in the sea where that came from but it takes a great angler to catch them!
I ask my guardian angel to sort out nutty problems for the greatest good of all concerned when I go to sleep, usually the anwser is there on waking or soon after when you least expect it. Works every time.
That is one awesome cloud! Great photo and verse.
Important decisions prayer.
The options in your questions remind me of how a former Tarrant county sheriff told the Star-Telegram that he decided promotions by flipping a coin.
Beautiful capture Martha....I like the colors..
wow? gorgeous!
experience, gut feeling in that order.
Want to see how the Mumbai sky looked this morning at 0644hrs? Click here
Ominous cloud just like the ones we saw in Mumbai a fortnight ago.
Great capture.
Decisions - some thinking, pearls of wisdom from elders(sometimes) and finally prayer for getting the answer.
Happy Skywatch Friday!
Mumbai Skywatch
Beautiful, and I love the poem. Have a nice weekend:)
Hmmmmmmmmmmm! Gut reaction I guess, women's intuition? Then a good think! All over a cuppa!
fantastic dramatic shot. love it.
in answer to your Q?...
i go with prayer & xp.
I love dramatic clouds. And your is wonderful! Lovely colors and wonderful taken!
How I make my shots: I go every day and look up in the sky. When I see something I thik it's nice. I just photograph it and look at it when I'm home again. On sky-shots I never planning;)
Hello MARTHA and TROY,
Clouds show 'moods' too I quess? They show love, or sadness, even happyness, the red sky is warm a cool-blue sky (like in GREECE) can be 'cosy', whatever they say, its good to me..
'Choices' have to be made always tho.. I make my Photo-choice emotionally, I mean "by how I feel that moment",that can be 'technical or dreaming, even art-like, also sad or whatever mood is possible" When I look back at another moment to that photo, I can feel the 'feelings' I felt while posting THAT particular photo.
Here is my SKYWATCH:
www.joannwalraven.blogspot.com
Greetings JoAnn-D-Eyes (Holland)
Happy SWF
Very fortunate and very stunning.
Surprisingly, it has just been a drizzle, not much rain yet. The ponds are filling, but it has definitely not been worthy of all the fan-fare.
Ah that is pretty site of the sky...
I love the picture the cloud looks very cool love the colors
So pretty!
Lovely poem!
the photo is stunning, the colors are remarkable.
I try to make my choices based on experience but emotion sometimes gets in the way.
Wow, excellent shot and beautiful prose, nicely done Troy, btw, it looks like the eagle nebula,lol.
I meant Martha for the image, very cool Martha.
So beautiful. I love the poem as well.
Fascinating pic! Somehow I see pink flying suacers here!
Love the moody sky!
Wow -- that certainly is unusual...
Way to go, Martha...
What a unique sky shot … and lovely poem … well matched. I’ve used all of the methods mentioned … and many others, but open-hearted prayer works best ;--)
Hugs and blessings,
Beautiful sky~watch capture! Love that dark cloud! :) And beautiful verse! How I make decisions...
Thinking,prayer too with some, and gut instinct mainly~ and experience~try to learn from my mistakes..:)
Happy weekend to you!
Happy sky~watching!
Cat
guess I like the verse as much as for the photo~~
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Willow x o
This is a wonderful post. Martha did a excellent job on the photo. It is awesome. To answer you, I pray, I talk to my husband. I email my best friends. My quote of the the day on my Longhorn SWF touches on this. Yes, I had longhorns in Alabama on mine!
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Beautiful cloud. About decisions - my most recent major decision was kinda decided for me. Well, I had to decide to go along with it...
We've been having some excitement here in Laos. My SWF offering shows scenes of floods and sandbagging over here.
Such contrast.
Very pretty.
Nice color, too!
Nina at Nature Remains
Lots of mantras
Interesting clouds! I see a Viking reaching for gold in that sky shot! Beautiful.
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