Beautiful Things Photo Walks by Kristin Wallace

Secret Place

About a year ago I started a fun photo project. I walk around my neighborhood or anyplace I happen to be and take pictures with my iPhone. I look for little things that anyone else might miss. It could be a scatter of fallen leaves or the roots of a tree. Unusual things, different angles, super close-ups. I am usually drawn to bright colors and patterns. I post my favorites on Pinterest, with cute titles.

I showed my pictures to a friend who is a professional photographer and he seemed impressed. Said I had a good eye, which I appreciate since honestly I have no idea what I’m doing, other than finding things make me stop and look closer.

Thought I would share a few here.

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Kristin Wallace is the USA Today Best Selling Author of inspirational and contemporary romance, and women’s fiction filled with “Love, Laughter and a Leap of Faith”. Her latest release is out this week! Coming Home To Paradise: A Shellwater Key Tale. It is a companion to Book 1 in the series, Left Turn At Paradise. You can get both now on Amazon as well as Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kobo, and Google. For more info visit Kristin's Website

The sweetest and most encouraging romance I know

Today, I'd like to introduce you to the sweetest and most encouraging romance that I know. The author is L.M. Montgomery, who's best known for her Anne of Green Gables series. My favorite book of her, however, is called The Blue Castle.

This books starts on a dismal note: "Valancy wakened early, in the lifeless, hopeless hour just preceding dawn. She had not slept very well. One does not sleep well, sometimes, when one is twenty-nine on the morrow, and unmarried, in a community and connection where the unmarried are simply those who have failed to get a man."

When Valancy learns that she's seriously ill, she decides to make a drastic change in her life, a change that will bring her the happiness she craves, and this is told in such a charming way that I have read this book so many times that I can't count it anymore. It all starts with one quote: "Despair is a free man -- hope is a slave." When Valancy realizes that, she decides to do exactly as she likes for the short time that still remains for her. I rooted for her as she finally stood up for herself and answered back to all her dreadful relations who were so unkind and thoughtless.


However, the thing I love most about Valancy is her craving for anything that's beautiful. She herself isn't, not in the eyes of society, but she wished she was - oh, how she wishes for beauty, not only for herself, but also in her surroundings. Ugliness around her makes her soul shrivel, and this is a feeling I understand so well that Valancy and I became one as she slowly unfolded her petals and became a strong and - indeed- beautiful woman.

If you feel the need for a little pick-up, the need for courage to be just as you are, then I can only recommend this book to you. Let me know if you also have feel-good books, books that you turn to when you're in need of comfort and a hug.

Beate Boeker
USA Today bestselling author
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