It’s Friday!  Time to link up with Lisa Jo for Five Minute Friday.  Friday is a time to “write for five minutes not worrying if everything is just right.”  Come join in the fun HERE.

Today’s Prompt:  ORDINARY

I glanced out my kitchen window this morning and spotted a seahorse.

Well, not a real seahorse, a stick seahorse.  Does anyone else see it?

I once shared with you this photo. It’s the Schnauzer tree I drive by each time I travel into town.

Do you see the striking resemblance to a real schnauzer?

And, here is the bank robber tree.  I nicknamed it Armed and Dangerous…beware of trees with guns. 

So what’s the point of this post?  Ordinary things are not just ordinary…take time to look closer.

When I was in high school, my friend Kerry came up to me at lunch and said, “Did you see those clouds earlier today?

“No, why?”

She then proceeded to tell me about these clouds that looked like flying saucers.  Apparently, they were really cool because she went on and on about them. It amused me.

Later, when my mom picked me up from school, the first thing out of her mouth…”Did you see those clouds today?”

I laughed.  What in the world?   I told her I did not but Kerry had.  The next time my mom and Kerry saw each other…they talked about these clouds…clouds they happened to catch a glimpse of on one ordinary day.

I wish I’d seen those clouds too.  But, I wasn’t looking.

We make this mistake all the time, don’t we?  We forget to look beyond the surface of ordinary.  We do it with people. We do it with things. We do it with events.

My husband shared this great video with me the other day and it reminded me that seeing beauty is all in the way we perceive something. Make time to see the ordinary in an extraordinary way today!