Lately I've been taking the photo hunt themes quite literally, so hopefully this will at least be a wee bit different, though still fitting.

Nakhi is from ancient Egypt, and currently located at the Royal Ontario Museum where he is not normally on public display, but used for teaching purposes. Nakhi is covered by special protective glass in this display case.

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Upcoming Themes:

October 8: Waiting
October 15: Public
October 22: High
October 29: Broken
November 5: Light
November 12: Two
November 19: Wet/Rain
November 26: Hand-written
December 3: Ripped

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I believe in love and love requires peace.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

I blog for peace because so that all the children of the world can grow up without the type of fear and terror only wars can bring.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

Wordless Wednesday

I blog for peace because my friend's little girl is being bullied at school. Bullying or being bullied physically, or verbally is not some childhood right of passage, but a form of youth/peer terrorism. There must be zero tolerance for bullies, and bullying behaviour. Peace is key and something we all must teach our children.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

I blog for peace because it is a far greater state of being than to live with war.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

I blog for inner peace today, and by extension one hopes that will lead to an outward calm and peace.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

I blog for peace as a way of honouring all of those souls in the past and all those living in the present who wish for it and worked towards achieving it.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

When I look at my children and think that one day they may have children of their own it is easy to wish for a world where those future generations will only know of war through history books as opposed to news and current events.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

Honey bee busy at work.

Another view of the honey bee and bright yellow flower.

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Upcoming Themes:

October 1: Covered
October 8: Waiting
October 15: Public
October 22: High
October 29: Broken
November 5: Light
November 12: Two
November 19: Wet/Rain
November 26: Hand-written
December 3: Ripped

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I blog for peace in the hope that it can be achieved in my lifetime.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

I believe in the "we" as opposed to the "us and them" view, which will hopefully lead us to peace. Blogging for and about peace makes me feel I am making my contribution to the "we."

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

Happy International Peace Day! What a great way to reflect on our reasons for wanting peace.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

I had the opportunity to meet with some of our young Canadian soldiers this past weekend at a festival here in Toronto. What a great group of young people. I blog for peace today for them, so that they never have to be sent away into an armed conflict, that would be my wish for them. Peace.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

And on those days I do find it more difficult to blog for peace I turn to words such as these, which inspire me:

We can reject everything else:
religion, ideology, all received wisdom.
But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion.
This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith….
Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple.
The doctrine is compassion.

--Dalai Lama,
Ethics for the New Millennium

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

Some days it is very difficult to want to blog about peace, but I do because it is important to remind myself of the greater good, and how we all deserve to exist in peace.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

Listening to Neil Young and some of the great anti-war music you cannot help but be inspired to think about and imagine peace.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

I actually have a lot of good examples for the "wooden" theme, but I have decided to take it quite literally.

Happy weekend and happy photo hunting! Thank you for stopping by.

Upcoming Themes:

September 24: Yellow
October 1: Covered
October 8: Waiting
October 15: Public
October 22: High
October 29: Broken
November 5: Light
November 12: Two
November 19: Wet/Rain
November 26: Hand-written
December 3: Ripped

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With peace we can concentrate on solving some of society's greater problems such as famine, and sickness as opposed to creating them through armed conflicts.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

I blog for peace because I love nature and our environment. Fifty days of peace blogging!

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

I blog for peace because wars are very expensive and eat up resources that would be better served helping humanity and not harming it.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

I blog for peace for all the mothers out there who have lost a child due to war and violence. As a Mom I am afraid to even imagine the suffering such horrific pain and tragedy causes.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

It has been 10 years plus a day since those awful events in the USA, which sparked two wars, and millions of people suffering, and yet nothing has truly been resolved because of it. Another reason to want a true and ever lasting peace. Wars solve nothing, and only bring further fear, uncertainty, and mistrust.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

In Remembrance...........

I blog for peace in remembrance..............

I blog for peace for the millions of people out there that are unable to do so.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

My favourite "greasy spoon" in Sauble Beach, Ontario, Canada.

Happy weekend and Happy Photo Hunting! Thank you for stopping by.

Upcoming Themes:

September 17: Wooden
September 24: Yellow
October 1: Covered
October 8: Waiting
October 15: Public
October 22: High
October 29: Broken
November 5: Light
November 12: Two
November 19: Wet/Rain
November 26: Hand-written
December 3: Ripped

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I know I am one small voice within a choir, but every voice helps.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

I blog for peace because it reminds me how lucky I have it living in Canada and not directly affected by war as so many of my fellow human beings are. I wish we could all live in peace.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

Today is the first full day of back-to-school for many children, but other children have had their education disrupted or taken away because of war. It is for all children that I blog for peace.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

I blog for peace because I believe in the peace movement.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

I believe it is something that we all hope for, and that is peace throughout our shared world within our lifetimes. At least I hope that we all want peace.

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Yesterday Matthew and I took a long walk from the bottom of Roncesvailles and King up Jameson to Queen West, all the way eastwards to Ossington, and then north to Dundas Street West. We like discovering new things, and walking throughout various neighbourhoods in the city of Toronto provides the scratch to that particular itch in a way that driving or even cycling just can't.

Despite the heat, and sudden thunderstorm we did discover and see a few cool things.

Along King West we noted a bunch of utility trailers parked near the fence that runs parallel to the train tracks and Lakeshore, and wondered what that was all about. I guess it was a weekend for moving in and out of the many lowrise apartments and rooming houses that dot the area.

A few people had brought lawn chairs and from this vantage point were watching the opening day of the Canadian National Exhibition Airshow, which was occurring out over the lake and at times directly overhead. A lot of people were out on their balconies as well, particularly along Jameson where we stopped in a little parkette beside the Parkdale church to refresh with our water bottles.

We continued along resting only once again in the park area of the CAMH hospital. Along the way I enjoyed an authentic Sicilian ice coffee, fair-trade, stopped in a few vintage shops, and bought a really cute sundress for $5 bux, and poked around a great used bookshop at Ossington very near Queen where I picked up a copy of Body Snatchers and Ghouls.

We ended off the day at a Trinadadian Roti Shop, which was just scrumptious and I must go back and do a proper review on the blog.

Blogging for peace is a good reminder that no matter how frustrated and upset I personally can become it is better for my inner peace to let go, forgive, and imagine a better world.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

I blog for peace because there are currently several wars happening around our globe and people suffering as I type this.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

Aside from the fact that some people view graffiti in and of itself as wrong, I'm thinking this example may not be what was intended. Looks like a gas mask went horribly wrong???? Maybe he or she had been interrupted??????

Happy weekend and Happy Photo Hunting! Thank you for stopping by.

Upcoming Themes:

September 10: Greasy
September 17: Wooden
September 24: Yellow
October 1: Covered
October 8: Waiting
October 15: Public
October 22: High
October 29: Broken
November 5: Light
November 12: Two
November 19: Wet/Rain
November 26: Hand-written
December 3: Ripped

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I blog for peace because I support the idea of a world free from war.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!

I imagine all of the great things we could do and the strides we as humans could make if we were free from the burdens of war.

Mimi's 100 Days 100 Reasons challenge. How many reasons can we find to Blog4Peace? Don't you want to see what everyone comes up with? Simply post this logo on your blog or FB page with one reason each day for the next 100 days. Let's go!