a bounty of beautiful

This past month I have been awakened by the beauty seen through all of your lenses. You have brought a bounty of beauty to the One Word Project this month. Your commitment and contributions to the project are deeply appreciated and admired.

The final winner of the last Diana camera and a copy of Katherine Center's book Everyone is Beautiful is Jackie(aka SmoothPepple) with this surprising and delightful diptych. When someone can show you the true beauty of everyday life via a laundry basket and new blooms (together in a perfect pairing) you know anything is possible and beauty can be found anywhere, if you know how to look for it.

Today, in honor of the final day of beautiful, you may either share a photo of yours that fits the bill and bids adieu to March and/or you are free to link to a favorite from our pool. The choice is yours. Whatever you choose, make it beautiful.

A special thanks to Katherine Center and Ballantine Books for sponsoring such a wonderful month of imagery. We loved every minute of it.

Comments

[Marcie]

Yes..I have to agree. There is true magic and beauty in the simplicity and colors of the laundry basket combined with that of the spring blossoms. Congratulations!!!

Here's one of mine...taken on a rainy end-of-March morning:
http://www.marciescudderphotography.com/index.php?showimage=734

[Mrs. E]

Love the laundry basket photo. Such a great eye.

Playing with a new camera here.

http://erickfam.blogspot.com/2009/03/through-eye-of-new-lens.html

[Alicia]

A month of beautiful!

http://aliandsethinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/03/have-beautiful-wednesday.html

Shutter Sisters, WONDERFUL and inspiring project!

[sebrina]

Such a beautiful month and I must say thank you again for choosing my photo!! I took this picture yesterday and it says beautiful to me!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunmamma/3398572553/

[Elizabeth]

Great choice!

[Puna]

As I look through the One Word Project submissions, I'm struck by how the images make me feel. Thank you all!

Here's my small contribution for today.

http://lifesignatures.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/something-beautiful-for-today/

[CarrieJ]

Wow! Trulu BEAUTIFUL! I love the rainbow in the laundry basket! Amazing capture!

Here is a little bit of spring beauty.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59369873@N00/3322895840/

[Toni | Daily Vignette]

Not your typical scallops and lace, but beautiful to me:

http://dailyvignette.com/2009/03/31/scallops-and-lace/

[kristin]

beautiful. meeting like minded flickr friends from far far away. dani from WA on my beach in ME! http://www.flickr.com/photos/14811117@N02/3400177616/in/photostream/

[shelli]

This has been a very fun project! Thanks.

Here is an image that is both beautiful and sad to me. Besides the subject matter being sad, I'm also sad because it's the last day I'm posting an image from a photographic project. But I also think it's one of my favorites from the project:


http://www.mamaofletters.com/Site/The_Focal_Point/Entries/2009/3/31_Infant_Grave.html

[kristin]

one more for march... what a beautiful month it has been. today is the last day my baby is 2. tomorrow when she wakes she will be 3! the time rolls on. today i want to soak up all she is right now, on this day, this moment , her last day of 2.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14811117@N02/3400998903/

[spread your wings]

a beautiful treasure, and my daughter's hands to hold it
This is the most beautiful bird's nest we've ever found - a place of growth and comfort and protection... home. the birds even added a little sparkle to their home.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/autumnsun/3368734929/in/set-72157613443592199/

[kimberlee]

This is from the pool. A photo by fanglord2

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fanglord2/3323747501/in/pool-shuttersistersonewordproject

[Kelly]

this was such a wonderful month - I know I've already won something, but I can't resist leaving a photo, you know... ;-) you guys are terrific inspiration! http://www.flickr.com/photos/8702729@N02/3401844306/

[Jackie]

OMG!!!!! OMG!!!!! I am squealing with glee! Thank you, thank you, thank you! All I can say is this community of women create so many beautiful images, that I am completely humbled! and awed on a daily basis! and inspired by all of these images!

[ManfredKZ]

Very nice, beautiful composition!

I share with you this simple thing:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22781088@N02/3384361535/

Cheers

[Sara]

Captured by accident on a cloudy day. I love the way the sky turned blue!

http://indigoamethyst.blogspot.com/2009/03/surreal.html

[melinda]

this is beautiful Jackie! greatgreat work!

[Sandra Amdor]

Oh how I love the fierceness of March, but how I can't wait for April. Here is a photo I took on the first break in the fog on a cold day on the coast of Oregon.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/55956299@N00/3402334814/

[Oliag]

I love the dyptich chosen for today...that's what beauty truely means to me...the everyday...I'm am offering one pic of windblown March beach beauty...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22733432@N08/3385459430/

[Diane Schuller]

CONGRATULATIONS to smoothpebble -- lucky you and lucky to all the wonderful people who won a Diana!

In keeping with Katherine's book "Everyone is Beautiful" I have chosen to focus on people rather than things for my favourites. I hope you'll check these three out:

camerashymomma
http://www.flickr.com/photos/camerashymomma/3366168439/in/pool-shuttersistersonewordproject

simple effulgence's
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simpleeffulgence/3361136286/in/pool-shuttersistersonewordproject

diane, life's sweet ordinary
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27458974@N00/3344060763/in/set-72157614727001131/

Thank you for having this truly beautiful month!

[simple effulgence]

I'm sad to see March go but I am excited for the new adventures of April...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simpleeffulgence/3402673526/

[Leslie]

Such beautiful natural light.....

Here's my goodbye to March...

http://lesliephoto.blogspot.com/2009/03/beauty-in-small-things.html

[Karyn]

it's just my cat, but when he holds still for a freakin second...he's actually quite nice looking and sweet

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayak57/3390117348/

[Just Jinny]

I love this blog. I might not contribute much, but I read every day.

However, here is the beauty I found today...

http://realworldgirl.blogspot.com/2009/03/wishes-on-breeze.html

[melody is slurping life]

Poignant choice.

Congratulations, Jackie.

[camerashymomma]

beautiful beautiful beautiful.

and i can't wait for the start of april :)

[claudia]

great choice!

the more I look at this one, the more I like it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurohunt/3390886322/

thanks for a great month, looking forward to April.

[Georgia]

Dear March,

I bid you adieu with this.
http://itsjusthowiseethings.blogspot.com/2009/03/you-whose-day-it-is-get-out-your.html
Thank you for bringing us beautiful Spring.

-Georgia

[katherine center]

So grateful to everybody for all the unbelievable beauty that appeared in the Flickr pool this month. It was awesome to behold, and I feel so proud to have been a part of it!

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