When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. – Marcus Aurelius
My mornings these days – are not quite the same as before the pandemic. Maybe yours are the same as before – or a bit different too? Anyway, a look at your morning – or Any morning – is the challenge for this week. Maybe there is a special morning that you will never forget – you could share it with us!
When the virus hit my world, in order to sleep better, I had to move upstairs to my daughter’s old room. So the first thing I see when I open my eyes to a new day – are fluttering butterflies. Feels good! And I do sleep better up here. I find harmony and peace.
This room is where many of my potted plants spend their winter season, waiting to come out in the sun and the fresh air again. What better place is there for me to spend the night?
Here I also grow new plants for the next season – these little ones are tomatoes in the making. I guess I love seeing plants, animals and people, grow –
In the hallway I pass the standing mirror, and a glance into it before closing the door, reveals Emma’s sewing machine waiting in stand by with her summer hat on top.
Before I go downstairs, I sit for a while with my new colourful plant puzzle – very relaxing and Mindfulness My way.
On coming down into the living room, I am usually met by a yawning Milo and a snoring Totti…(So…hardly ”met” really…), Totti is extremely good at snoring, so I hear exactly where he is. My husband tells me the dogs miss me terribly, but they have now accepted my strange night habits. Please click to enlarge if you love them –
Finally – coffee (Emma’s mug…). And the morning paper is a must. After a rather solid breakfast, I spend the rest of the morning out in the forest, enjoying the Wood Anemones while they are still flowering. Now on their last due to the dry weather and strong winds.
Morning has broken like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
Praise for the singing
Praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the world
(My favorite song from younger days, when Cat Stevens still was – Cat Stevens.)
We are looking forward to saying Good Morning to all of you! Be it your morning, any morning or some creative twist.
A big thank you to our guest-host John Steiner of Journeys with Johnbo for ”Going Back the Second Time Around”, which brought many lovely memories from you – and tips for new memories to be made!
Have you seen these:
- Sue is treating us to the most charming little village in France
- Everest Base Camp and the cutest chalet ever from Pam
- Anne and her best friend
- Chasing the bloom – and succeeding at ramblingranger
Next week, April 25, #94: your host will be Amy of The World is a Book
As usual we wish you a lovely week, stay safe, stay well – and maybe make a phone call or two to someone who needs it.
Leya 
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Hello Ann-Christine- this is a beautiful post. ❤
As usual, I'm a bit behind the parade when is comes to posting on my blog and commenting on others. An advantage is seeing a bigger picture. This one is quite soothing. Thank you for sharing one of your mornings.
Jane
Jane, thank you for reading and commenting! If someone is behind it is me – I struggle to keep up with everyone.
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Very Nicely written Ma’am. Impressive 🙂
Thank you kindly.
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I feel like a kid who is handing in her homework at the last minute!!! Wishing you well.
https://lindylecoq.com/2020/04/24/lens-artists-photo-challenge-93-a-week-of-mornings-report-from-the-edge-of-a-continent/
Thank you for handing in, Lindy! Hope everything is well with you too!
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Delightful! Your daughters room is quite lovely … and those plants. Beautiful room for a new day! Love those pooches …
Glad you enjoyed them, Julie! Just wish she would come home for a visit soon…
this is my first time here and loving the website. But to my great surprise i see the words to Morning Has Broken which is one of my all time favorites and sung at my young daughters funeral. I lost her when she was just 10. so to see it here touched my heart and made this now my favorite place to go to online. ….. thank you so much 🙂
I am so sorry for your terrible loss, and hope you found comfort and joy in this post. Thank you for visiting, stay safe and well.
Lovely perspective of the butterflies image! Thank you for the challenge and i’m gonna share the post about one special morning, when we woke up with 1 meter of snow one morning. For South of France it was a rare sight 🙂 https://yurirasin.com/2018/03/06/the-last-song-of-winter/
Thank you, Yuri – and that must have been something special in the South of France!
Oh yes, I must say it wasn’t fun for some people but I surely enjoyed it!
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A really great challenge for this week. I tied it into a project I have been working on:https://wp.me/p2owKx-1CZ
I really like those butterflies!
Cheers, Amy
Glad you like it, Amy!
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Thank you Ann-Christine for such an uplifting challenge! Here is my post: https://mycolorfulexpressions.com/lens-artists-photo-challenge-93-morning/
Thank you, Sylvia! We must try to stay positive!
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https://fairplay740.wordpress.com/2020/04/22/lens-artists-photo-challenge-93-morning/
Your morning theme inspired a jocular poem (but it really happened) and a collection of morning views from Rome last april. I hope you are all well. Your mornings are gorgeous. ❤
https://mexcessive.photo.blog/2020/04/22/day-22-l-a-mornings/
Loved your poem, Manja – and the gallery is super as usual! Hope you are all well too!
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I hope I’m not to late to submit.. I really wanted to get a current fresh morning shot.. https://thankfulbylily.wordpress.com/2020/04/22/lens-artist-93-morning/
You are never too late! Thank you!
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Lovely morning images, Ann-Christine. The coffee mug looks very inviting and the wood anemones are delightful.
Glad you liked them, Sue. Love Emma’s mug and borrow it often. The anemones are gone now, but they are a spring treat for us in Sweden.
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Loved your post, Pam – and thank you for making me ”wonderful”!
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Your flower and puzzle photos are my favorite this week. 😀
I went through my archives and found some of my favorite morning photos.
https://ceenphotography.com/2020/04/21/april-21-squaretops-lens-artists-challenge-top-of-the-morning/
Thank you, Cee! Soon completed that puzzle now. Looking forward to your favorite mornings.
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Hello again Ann-Christine, Eivor and Pearl’s contribution for this week’s lovely challenge is here: https://whippetwisdom.com/2020/04/21/tanka-clean-sweep/
Thank you, dear Xenia!
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Sounds like your mornings are nice. Oh yes, and one does remember the days when Cat Stevens was just a singer, and the mornings that one saw were by going to sleep too late in the evenings.
I’ve been writing about the lovely mornings that the lock down has given me, but for today I’ll leave a link to a different kind of morning: https://anotherglobaleater.wordpress.com/2020/03/30/the-dance-of-the-cranes/
Thank you so much! The strangest things happen ion early mornings…
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Here’s my very mixed selection of morning photos:
https://davidmsphotoblog.com/2020/04/21/lens-artists-photo-challenge-morning/
Thank you!
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Hi Ann-Christine, I’m back with my post.
https://theshowersofblessings.com/2020/04/20/lens-artists-photo-challenge-93-morning/
Yay – welcome!
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Oh, such a pretty post! I think I would very much enjoy such a morning! 🌄
♥ Thank you!
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Here is mine for the week
https://norasphotos4u.wordpress.com/2020/04/20/lens-artists-challenge-93-morning/
Thank you, Nora!
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Oh my AC – your mornings look and sound incredibly lovely and peaceful. The pups – OMG – showing Sean 🙂 So, so sweet!! And I am now obsessing over your table cloth. lol. Thank you for the shout out – I really appreciate it. Have a wonderful day 🙂
Ha – my table cloth? Well, it’s my favorite one – happy colours and made by an artist I love.
yes – the table cloth! beautiful! can you share the artist? 🙂
It is a Swedish artist, Lena Linderholm. https://lenalinderholmshop.se/
Living in Provence!
LOVELY things! Thank you for sharing.
My pleasure!
And I will give the doggies a hug from you ;-d
YES please!! 🙂
♥♥♥ Done!
Also, I’ll have a post in the next day or so. Trying to be creative!
To me you sound like always being creative, Pam.
ha – thanks! I try!
Ok AC! Here is my submission! It was a FUN morning 🙂
https://i-choosethis.com/2020/04/20/lens-artists-photo-challenge-93-morning/
I can understand that! ♥
Simply wonderful post!
Here is mine: https://photographias.wordpress.com/2020/04/20/lens-artists-challenge-morning/
Thank you – and so is yours! ♥
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I can see why you sleep so well in the room with the butterflies. So delicate and beautiful!
Yes, thank you, keeping me sane really!
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Beautiful subject and photos Leya! Here is my contribution: http://www.travelways.com/october-morning-by-the-lake/
Glad you enjoyed it, Tatiana!
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His better half was having breakfast. 😊 https://photographyocd.com/2020/04/19/the-eyes-have-it/
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That looks like a lovely room to wake up in. I sleep upstairs too with Velux windows so I can lie in bed and look at the stars on a clear night.
That sounds like a dream! When the children were small, they used to have those glowing stars in the ceiling – but you have the real deal. ♥
I love this challenge. I am in my garden every morning: https://anthropologist.wordpress.com/2020/04/19/lens-artists-photo-challenge-93/
So glad you resonated with this challenge – and a garden is a haven – these days a blessing!
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Hello amiga – such a fitting theme this week. I would really enjoy waking to those butterflies – and the new plants remind me of hope and what we have to look forward too.
here is my post for this week:
https://priorhouse.blog/2020/04/19/street-shots-while-social-distancing-lens-artists-photo-challenge-93/
Thank you, yes – we have to hope for the future and for a better future than what we had!
Well said
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A beautiful post Ann-Christine and your daughter’s room looks like a peaceful sanctuary. I’m linking a few images from this morning’s walk. We had overnight frost and a slight haze in the sky while the sun rose. Take care and stay safe and well: https://tranature.com/2020/04/19/silent-sunday-a-new-dawn/
Thank you, Xenia! You are a master of harmony in your images, as always.
Thank you Ann-Christine 💜 xxx
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waking to the morning within a sanctuary of color, peace, memories, and glorious light
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Here’s a link to my ”morning” post for the challenge. Take care and stay well! https://pilotfishblog.com/2020/04/19/lens-artists-photo-challenge-93-morning/
Thank you, Patti – wishing you a calm and creative week!
Now I can imagine you in your beautiful home with your family and those 2 wonderful, adorable dogs!
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As always, a beautiful post Ann-Christine. I loved your choice for this week’s challenge although my personality in the mornings is not something you’d want to see!! Your mornings sound peaceful and beautiful, filled with most of your favorite things. I am happy you find solace in being surrounded by your daughter’s things even if she cannot be with you in person. Happy Sunday to you and thanks for the moment of joy.
Tina, thank you – and I am really no morning person either. But I love mornings! My medicine now is exactly what you noticed – being surrounded by my favorites. And taking it slow. Pace is a key word. I hope you have found your way too, and that the golf courses soon will open!
Stunning … beautiful … magical … clam!!!!!
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It would not seem right if you didn’t acknowledge your feelings in words and photos, Ann-Christine. I’m enchanted by the butterfly mobile. I love your choice of theme about how we greet the new morning, which in your case is with all the lovely things that give you comfort – your dogs, your plants your daughter’s things. I’m not such a morning person, but I will have a look in my photos to see what I have that fits.
If possible we have to do what we can to feel OK during this tough period. Your observations are accurate and I am grateful. Also the possibility of a slow start – is essential to me. I imagine you find some good moments with your dogs as well. ♥♥♥
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My dogs are not actually very restful, Ann-Christine. They are extra noisy at the moment alerting us to the increased foot and dog traffic past house as more people are home during the day and walking their dogs. 🙂
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It’s always a beautiful morning. here is mine https://travel-with-tech.blog/2020/04/19/morning-after-the-storm/
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What a lovely way to start the day, Ann Christine, butterflies and plants and doing it all at your own pace. I’m all for a quiet start. The wood anemones are beautiful, such a pure white.
My way is the only way for me these days. And thank you for a lovely comment. It made me smile – you noticed the slow pace.
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Here is my entry.
https://max510.com/2020/04/19/lens-artists-photo-challenge-93-morning/
Ciao Max – and I am rather OK – hope you are well too!
”So the first thing I see when I open my eyes to a new day – are fluttering butterflies. Feels good! And I do sleep better up here. I find harmony and peace.” – What a lovely start to a post, that just gets better as you read it.
And what a lovely comment – much appreciated!
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Of course, waking up with butterflies hovering over you is a wonderful way to start the day. Thanks for sharing your mornings. 🙂
You are welcome, Ana – the best time of the day. And yet I am not a morning person.
Nice choices for this week Ann-Christine. Great shot of the hat on the sewing machine. Well done 🙂
Thank you – suddenly saw it in the mirror now that I sleep upstairs!
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I love the picture with the mug on the table. It’s quite peaceful!
Nora, I try to have very peaceful mornings – so glad it shines through, thank you!
what a beautiful world you are in, Ann-Christine. thank you for sharing. i love your words, your photographs, the quote and yes, Cat Steven’s song – is a favorite song with morning prayers. here is my contribution: https://lolawi.blog/2020/04/19/morning/
Glad you enjoyed it, Lola. And that tune is a beauty.
You’ve a wonderful haven for staying in, Ann-Christine. The little vignette with your daughters hat in front of the window is such a comforting view. And how wonderful to wake up to butterflies. Stay well and sleep well. 🙂
A lovely comment, Steve. Thank you, and stay well you too.
I love the butterflies!! And I do like the idea of sleeping amongst the plants and seedlings.
They do help me feel good – and it is a joy every morning to look at them. Tomatoes, especially, grow very fast, so every day something has happened!
They do. We planted tomato seeds for my son when he was very small so he could see where food comes from and not get bored having to wait for growth to happen 😀
Such a good idea! So did we, and they still do it, both of them. To my joy!
The hardest thing about this ‘crisis’ is being apart from our loved ones, Ann Christine. I can feel the yearning. I feel it too. And I often sing that song to myself. Stay well, lovely lady 🙂 🙂
Thank you – I agree. And that song I sing to myself quite often too – it is a beautiful tune. Stay well milady!
Thanks sweetheart. Doing my best 🤗💕
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Great shots. You’ve captured light and detail in a nice balance whilst keeping the scenes feel relaxing and cosy.
Here’s mine for this one:
https://stupidityhole.wordpress.com/2020/04/19/other-end-bend/
Glad you find them relaxing too!
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So much greenery! And, of course, Milo and Totti are the winners for me. They would make any morning a joy for me.
Thank you, Debbie – they are my particular gems those two!
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Your morning is cheerful, Ann-Christine. My daughter’s room used to have glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling. We removed them when painting the house some years ago. I have mostly outdoor pants because our house faces north and south and doesn’t have too much sunlight. I’ll be back with my post!
Miriam – those stars we had as well, but when they became teenagers, they re-painted their rooms and the stars disappeared. Instead Emma made and painted those butterflies. Looking forward to your Morning post!
Now my daughter is doing projects with her daughter!! ❤
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What a lovely morning setting and routine..perhaps I should look for a puzzle and try something new. Thanks for sharing.
Well – I am glad if you got inspired for a puzzle! I have made my mornings more fun and harmonious – and the puzzle is a treat. Soon completed though…so I will have to buy a new one. It would be nice to have a puzzle made out of a photo of one’s own.
Yes, that would be a great idea. Have a superb day 😊
You too!
Here’s my contribution from when my dad invited me join him for a few days while he was at a conference last December: https://chava61photography.photo.blog/2020/04/18/lens-artists-photo-challenge-93-morning/
Thank you! Always good to be invited to something nice!
Ah, great theme, A C! Good to read of your mornings…
Thank you, Sue! My mornings are very helpful to cope with the coming day.
Good!
I’m back with my contribution for this week.
https://sustainabilitea.wordpress.com/2020/04/18/lens-artists-photo-challenge-93-morning/
janet
Thank you, Janet! Wishing you a beautiful Sunday!
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Best post ever. I forwarded it to several members of my family. I’m sure they will love it and be inspired by it.
Michael, always positive and encouraging. Thank you for being out there – for me, and for us all. I hoped to send some inspiration with this post – and it warms my heart you sent it to your family. ♥ Wishing you a beautiful Sunday.
Thank you, my friend. Hope your Sunday is beautiful too.
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Beautiful images Ann-Christine… Love the reflection of the bedroom. Here is my contribution. https://brashley.photography/2020/04/18/lens-artists-photo-challenge-93-morning/
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Your mornings are quite nice, I’d say! And I love that Cat Stevens tune.
I love that tune…love his voice and the soft music. Thank you, Sandy – I have made my mornings as good as possible. Wishing you a lovely Sunday!
You also!
Beautiful morning photos and thoughts, A-C. I love your plants and flowers, your Milo and Totti are so sweet, and Wood Anemones are so lovely. Your colorful plant puzzle is a cool choice. 🙂
Glad you enjoyed my thoughts too, Amy. We are all in this, so a glimpse into how my life works right now felt OK. And – I have soon finished my puzzle. Have to buy a new one!
What a lovely home you have, A-C! Thanks for much for giving us these glimpses of it and of your life. I love mornings, so I’ll be joining this challenge in a bit. Have a wonderful weekend.
janet
Thank you, Janet – wishing you too a lovely weekend!
I’d forgotten the Cat Stevens song. That brought back a memory! Thanks again for giving me the opportunity to guest-host last week. I now have a modicum of an idea of what that involves for you, the ”gang of four” that keep us challenged each week!
Good I helped bringing back a memory too, John! Thank you again for generously hosting!
This is a fabulous post, Ann-Christine. Your thoughts, the quotes, and your images all beautifully express your feelings, thoughts, and impressions of morning during this time and place. Cat Steven’s song is a favorite of mine, too. I hope you have many wonderful mornings ahead and that you soon see your daughter.
Thank you, Patti – I am glad you found my feelings beautifully expressed. I was into posting from some glorious mornings I have had through the years, but as we live in corona times, I stayed with something from my world right now. Hope you have wonderful mornings ahead too!
It was beautiful, A-C. Both the words and images. You–too–enjoy the mornings ahead.
Thanks for the reminder to enjoy my mornings more!
We should, shouldn’t we. It is the most glorious and quiet time of the day!
yes. Leya, mornings are great for taking photographs 🙂 https://solaner.wordpress.com/2020/04/18/lens-artists-challenge-93-morning/
They are – I hope to see many gorgeous morning images!
🙂 I guess, you will 🙂
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EXCELLENT THEME!! Beautiful photos. Love your place and all your plants. I love dogs, too. I was reading that the puzzle business is booming right now. Good for them!
P.S. Excellent Aurelius quote. Great Cat Stevens song, too.
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An excellent theme and post. I love the butterflies hanging from the ceiling
Glad you liked my morning – and the butterflies are comforting.
Thank you so much, John. Glad you enjoyed them – I first had some lovely morning shots of the sea and the forest in mind, but then – we are all affected by this corona pandemic, so I think sharing experiences are valuable. Ha – so the puzzle business is booming? Well, my puzzle is soon to be finished, so I will be a customer again!
What a lovely way for you to start your day! Looking forward to the challenge.
Ah, I am happy to have found my way – looking forward to seeing your morning!