Visiting National Forests, travelling around the Pacific Northwest and taking lots and lots of pictures with family are some of my all time favorite activities. It is also fun to share our world with WordPress and in the past few months my Dad started his first blog and my sister began her second. I always look forward to seeing their posts and can usually identify the pictures in my reader before scrolling down to see their post title.
Occasionally we have the same ideas for challenges but our photos and perspectives are different enough that I don’t worry about posting something from the same location, on the same day.
Until yesterday…
I had two ideas for Alisa’s Travel Theme Big but knew I wouldn’t have time to write the post until Saturday. I clicked over to my reader a during a few Friday afternoon work breaks and discovered that my Dad beat me to posting not just one of them but both!
Now I had to get creative, which I guess is one of the benefits of participating in a challenge. A chance to look outside your regular posting routine and think about something from a different angle.
I’m willing to bet my Dad doesn’t have a picture of “Number 4 BIG” in his archives. 🙂
If you would like to see my first two ideas for “big” please take a look at the very prompt Around and About the Pacific Northwest: Travel Theme Big 1 and Travel Theme Big 2.
Northwest Frame of Mind 
I have to move fast to keep ahead of you.
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We can say great minds think alike. 🙂
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I sense a wee bit of family competition.
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All in good fun. 🙂
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Love it…the image and the back story! Nothing like a bit of (healthy) competition…..
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Thanks Sue. :). Healthy competition keeps us on our toes! And makes life interesting. 😉
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But of course! 🙂
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I agree with Sue on all counts
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Thanks Jo. 🙂
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Thanks for sharing the fun experience 🙂
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You’re welcome. 🙂 It was a fun thing to share!
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I like your take on the theme! And being B&W, the photo “speaks”: even louder. Beautiful.
PS: A new photo challenge – you are welcome to participate! http://esengasvoice.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/eses-weekly-shoot-quote-challenge/
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Thanks Ese, I’m happy to see you like this photo! What a great idea for a new photo challenge – I’ll take a look and see if I have something to enter. 🙂
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I think its great you and your family have a shared interest 🙂 Wish I could get my dad doing a blog. Love your picture too! x
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Thanks Amanda. 🙂 How fun if your dad started a blog!
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Between me & you, he retires at Christmas, so I’m hoping I can get him into it. I’ve subscribed him to both my blogs to wet his appetite 😉 x
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Great plan!
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http://andreasch45.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/komm-deinemengelnicht-ins-gehege/
For you Sunday
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Thank you Andrea. 🙂
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http://andreasch45.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/kaugummiorakel/
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Had I not had my hands full with “big” adventures and children with BIG personalities in toe, I would have done something similar too – though I probably would have posted the tree trunk with all the cousins acting like themselves in front of it. Or wait, now that I am home again, maybe I will anyway…stay tuned 🙂 while I find my charger to upload my pics.
The family that blogs together…umm, how would you fill in that one?
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Big personalities is a great take on the theme! Your tree trunk will look a lot different than Dads with all the kids around it. 🙂 I’ll take a pass finishing your last sentence!
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great 🙂
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Perfect!
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Thanks. 🙂
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