The world needs serenity and peace and calm more now than maybe it ever has in recent decades. The images I chose for this blog post are from about 10 days ago, which seems like a lifetime ago. So much has evolved so quickly in the past week in our world due to the COVID - 19.

I have so few words to share, my brain is tired from what has been happening. I hope you get some sense of peace from my images and those of my friends in this blog circle. I am grateful that the beautiful outdoors and nature cannot be closed. Even if it’s just a walk down your street, in a park or in your own backyard, try to enjoy a few moments of fresh air and nature.

My two friends and I went out for a snowshoe in the mountains about 10 days ago - we laughed and talked, enjoyed the snowfall and fresh air, stopped for pictures and ended our afternoon with a well deserved meal. I will look forward to more days like that when all this craziness has disappeared.

The trail essentially followed a creek bed and the creek poked out of the snow periodically.

Still seeing signs of the 100 year flood in 2013 - so amazing.

Stay safe and stay healthy, friends.

The Serenity Project is a collaborative photography project featuring images that bring a sense of peace and calm. Please continue our circle to to see what has brought my friends serenity this month.

Follow the link to see what brought Iris Nelson, Metro Phoenix Photographer, serenity this month.

Enjoy this month’s circle with my talented friends.

At the beginning of the year, a friend of mine shared a story on her Facebook page about a man who experienced and photographed an entire year of sunrises - all 365!

It got me thinking.

I am not a morning person - I wake slowly and find it hard to get myself out of my comfy bed. I knew there was no way I could ever get up for sunrise every single day of the year. Well, if I really had to, of course I would, but I didn’t really want to. However, I thought, I could probably do a weekly sunrise. That’s doable, right?

So, early in January, I decided to give this a try. I set a goal to shoot 52 sunrises in 2020, one a week. I didn’t tell anyone besides my husband that I was going to do this. I wanted to be sure I would stick with it! Here we are, the end of February, two months in and I’m still on track! My plan is to try for “Saturday Sunrises” - this way, I have a set day to go out and I get what I get, and I’m not just cherry picking good sunrise days. That means, not every sunrise or image will be spectacular and it gives me a challenge to find some way of photographing the morning either way.

I am keeping notes on each sunrise - location, weather, challenges etc.

Here are the first 9 weeks! Because I started a little behind, I made up the difference while on vacation in Maui, where getting up for sunrise was a little less of a challenge.