The Life in My Years

This week Tina’s Lens-Artists Challenge is Treasure Hunt. The mission should we choose to accept it (Yes that’s a nod to Mission Impossible) is to search for specific items from the list below and present our images of those items. Extra credit items are a bit more challenging.

• Challenge Items: Sunrise and/or sunset, Something cold and/or hot, a bird, a dog, a funny sign, a bicycle, a seascape and/or mountain landscape, a rainbow, a church, a musical instrument, a boat, a plane, a waterfall
• Extra Credit Items: An expressive portrait of one or more people, a very unusual place, knitting or sewing, a fish, an animal you don’t normally see, a bucket, a hammer, a street performer, a double rainbow, multiple challenge items in a single image.

Grand Teton National Park provides a mountain scape, a sunrise and a sunset. 

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over.” ~ John Muir

My dog Lexi gets two nods plus the featured image. 

Boats in the Pacific and boats in the Atlantic

“I would rather feel bad in Maine than good anywhere else.”   ~ E. B. White

One of our favorite local places to visit is Half Moon Bay, on California’s Central Coast.  Before heading home we often visit the small open air fish market.

We saw expressive faces on the street performers of New Orleans and Quebec City. 

Ain’t no place like New Orleans. It’s one of kind.  ~ Aaron Neville

This vocalist in Quebec City’s Lower Town played the mandolin and to the crowd with his expressive mugging.