Home is Where the Heart is

There's no place like home. - Dorothy

Home is where we hang our hats. It’s where we gather around the dinner with family and friends. Home is a warm cozy blanket in the winter and the breeze blowing through and open window in the summer. It’s is sun-ripened fruit in the fruit bowl and hot soup in the kettle. Home is popcorn and ice cream sundaes. Home is children, pets, and partners. Home is a good book and a vase of fresh flowers. And on a great day, home is nice natural light flooding in for the perfect portraits of the people we love and place we love to be.

Home is where we feel as ease; where we let down our guards, where we love without reservation, and hope without limits. Home is where we choose to live and perhaps even more, home is where we come from, where we’re rooted, where we grow.

Us Shutter Sisters as well as the fine folks of Aaron Brothers are eager to see your interpretations of this month’s One Word Project’s theme home. They are holding a photography and art contest that begs the question Show Us Your America which for many of us is home so it just seemed like a perfect fit. Although the contest is specifically about Your America*, we hope the word home will open your hearts and minds to infinite possibilities. The theme is up for interpretation. Enlighten us.

They say home is where the heart is. And I know it’s where my heart is. I’m sure the same goes for many of you too. It’s reflected in the many sincere and sacred images you have been willing to share with us in our Flickr Pool. Offering us a glimpse into your life says a lot about this community and I for one feel at home here, with all of you.

We’re looking so forward to celebrating August with a word as rich and meaningful as home. I can only imagine what kind of delights will await us over in the One Word Project Flickr Pool. And like months past, we have a special place here to feature some of the photos that are shared so be sure to visit to OWP blog daily to see some of them showcased.

*For US sisters, please read the rule of eligibility carefully to be sure you’re in one of the eligible states for the contest. For those of you international sisters, don’t fret, join us in the OWP and show us your home in our Flickr pool too, no matter the continent or the miles between us, home is home and we want you to share it.

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A special thanks to Aaron Bros and the Show Us Your America contest for sponsoring this months OWP. For more about what fantastic products and services Aaron Brothers’ stores provide, check out their website or better yet, pop into one of their many stores. You will LOVE it, I promise.

And for Show Us Your America Photography and Art Contest information, go visit the website and pick a shot from your arsenal that creatively shows them your America...your home.

Comments

[djbeat]

home can mean so many things; from the broadest sense of place - my country, my city, my land - to the most private & personal - the things that bring me peace - my son, my husband, a book in the garden, snuggling with a pet. today it is my bb boy in the garden.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/djbeat/3779721077/

[shelli - mama of letters]

It's very hard to pick a photo for this! I don't know what I'm going to enter, but I kind of like this photo, which I title, "Trick or Treating." Since my birthday is on Halloween, it's always been an activity I enjoy, and now that I have a son, it's more fun than ever:


http://www.mamaofletters.com/Site/Portfolios/Pages/Domestic.html#3

[kosenrufu mama]

here a post about home... and its life.
http://esterdaphne.blogspot.com/2009/07/la-nostra-casa.html

[lifeineden]

Oh I am so excited! We just bought a new home in our new town. Once we close and move in later this month you KNOW I'll have photos for the pool. Good bye apartment living!

[Linda Steider]

I'm excited to be participating for the first time, but not sure I managed to get my photos included into the group. I followed all the links but think I just ended up setting up a Flicker account. Unless there's already over 5000 photos submitted for 'home'!

[Lucy]

So sad the contest doesn't include my state. But I wrote about it on my blog and will try to upload some photos to the group. Thanks for giving me an outlet for my story.

[summer]

With 2 small children in a relatively big city we spend a lot of time at home...I look forward to sharing as the month wears on.
Here is a look my daughter would only be comfortable enough to give me at home...
http://outrightlight.blogspot.com/2009/07/indy-ryan.html

[Donna Good]

I am so excited about August!

[Lecia]

I love this theme! Here's mine for today:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/a_day_that_is_dessert/3784011720/

[renee @ FIMBY]

Home, now this is a topic I can relate to. Home is where I live, work, cook, eat, raise & educate my children, love my husband, garden and do everything else important to me. Unfortunately I've recently stopped flickring because it complicated my life more than it added to it. Darn, I'd love to participate. Oh well... such is the price of simplifying live.

Here are a few recent home shots:

http://fimby.tougas.net/homemade-candle-thriftstore-pottery
http://fimby.tougas.net/snuggling-with-my-boy
http://fimby.tougas.net/summer-breakfast

[Liz]

i think i'm part mermaid---i always want to go in the water :) always home

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilybeth29/2985184861/in/set-72157594587515983/

[joy]

Wonderful concept! I'm at home in Michigan & the outdoors!!

[Jill]

I love the idea of an image of home as a state of mind. I have to thing more about this one, but something that feels personal and universal simultaneously.

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