This week amid record snowfall, wind and excruciating cold I have been wistful for warmth. I’ve been dreaming of Florida beaches, remembering the smell of orange blossoms, longing for the feel of sun on my shoulders, and squinting up into reeling snowflakes to look for any sign of our own, long missing, sun overhead. So when I saw this week’s photo challenge, juxtaposition, I immediately connected the heat of a Florida orchard with the snow blowing past my window.
And came up with this:
It’s still snowing today. What was once beautiful is now viewed as something to get through. I know spring is not that far away…but from where I sit right now it feels like an interminable, never ending struggle.
I look forward to checking out other photographers’ version of juxtaposition. You could have all sorts of fun with this topic. It should be a great diversion from focusing on the weather. Give it a try! You have till next Friday to post your own juxtaposition composition. If you click on any of the links in this paragraph you’ll see a few of my favorites from this week.
I hope you go out and find something that shouts juxtaposition to you, I can’t wait to see it!
Change Is Hard 
January 25, 2014 at 3:11 pm
Glad to see you’re hanging on to your sanity and sense of humor!
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January 25, 2014 at 3:27 pm
I think, given the winter you have been having, spring needs to come a little more quickly.
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January 25, 2014 at 3:28 pm
It;’s too bad oranges can’t grow in the snow! What a beautiful contrast they make.
Coincidentally, as I drove down main street today, I noticed the newly refaced ambulance station. It was all shiny and new, and the house sitting next to it has a roof covered in a blue tarp, waiting to be fixed. Then there’s the original firehouse, cute and quaint, sitting right next door to the 1970’s version of a fire house, will a newer version be erected to its right?
I didn’t take a photo, but someone else did!
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/West-Sand-Lake-fire-station-improvement-vote-is-1866824.php#photo-1479092
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January 25, 2014 at 4:27 pm
mmmm frozen orange juice – got me craving dried orange dipped in chocolate 🙂
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January 25, 2014 at 5:17 pm
Great image for the challenge. Thanks for the pingback. 🙂
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January 25, 2014 at 8:56 pm
Mommy NEVER buys oranges. She says smelling oranges gives her headaches. We think our Mommy is just wierd! I guess its a good thing we dont live in Florida. In any case. We Like your sense of humor putting the oranges in the snow. Maybe thats how they make orange flavored water ice.
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January 26, 2014 at 10:05 am
Homemade orange cycles, pawsome idea
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January 26, 2014 at 11:23 am
That is the coolest juxtaposition, Dawn! Love it. I didn’t see the photo challenge, but yesterday pondered putting something colorful outside in the snow and photographing it. Will keep this idea in the back of my mind. (What else do we have to work with besides snow, right?)
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January 26, 2014 at 12:32 pm
Glad you had fun with this one Dawn 🙂 I’ve been considering it, but we’ll see if I get around to it come Friday.
Perhaps an orange slushie will help get you through another day or so of cold. Never mind. Make that a hot orange tea 😉
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January 26, 2014 at 1:00 pm
I hope the snow goes away for you soon Dawn. It fun for a little while, but if just gets too bad! We has so much rain and wind right now it feels like it will never stop and each time we get a storm we lose a bit more of our coast. 😦 Mum be very grumpy about it. Also our internet keeps going off! Stupid weather!
~Lickies, Ludo
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January 26, 2014 at 4:03 pm
Outstanding job! It’s easy to be aggravated at winter’s refusal to leave, isn’t it?
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January 26, 2014 at 9:19 pm
Very cool idea to put oranges in the snow!
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