Photo Blogging Challenge (September 2025): Life enjoyed

Life enjoyed.

There once was a time when this phrase would make me laugh. Not because of the saying, rather because one of the neighboring cities to me spent upward of $25,000 to re-brand their image and such. And the company came up with Life Enjoyed.

It never stuck.

Instead of taking what it had always been known as (the City of the Hills) and just giving it an updated look and feel, the then-Mayor (who was a fantastic person) and the city government went all in.

The whole thing never caught on. So, in the end, they had a new and updated look and the “Life Enjoyed” eventually faded off into the sunset. And City of the Hills never left.

But they did have an updated and whimsical look to things, which is really what they needed anyway.

For me, though, as time wore on — I like the phrase and the saying. Just not for a city to brand under. We, as people, however, should embrace something like “life enjoyed” because it’s what we have to do to stay as close to being sane as possible!

How was September for you? Was it truly “Life enjoyed?”

Share your link down below. Here’s my five for the month!

1. Good pals

I had to lead off with this one — this is Harper and Layla. Layla is the daughter of friends who traveled with our group to Canada for a geocaching event. And over the course of the four or so days, Harper and Layla became very good pals. It was fun to watch. There’s a bonus photo at the end of this post of them as well!

2. Early morning views

Walking the final morning at the caching event near our Air BnB. So pretty.

3. Final of the summer

My final baseball game of the summer. A nice day for a game and always enjoyable to keep a scorecard.

4. Found it!

The last trip to Canada was again for geocaching (for the most part). This was grabbing the oldest cache in Ontario.

5. Harper and Signal

Harper doesn’t always do well with Signal (the mascot of geocaching) and often tries to steal the glove off the hand. This time, knowing who was in the costume, she seemed to calm hearing his voice and we got this photo!

BONUS

One more of Harper and Layla. She was carrying the stick and sharing with Harper.

There’s my five (plus one) for life enjoyed! Let’s see what you came up with! If you took part in this month’s challenge, make sure to link up below.

And for those of you who participated, make sure you try and get to other people’s blogs and comment (here, too!).

Let’s continue to grow this challenge and have a strong community. Come back and check out the others who link later on, too! NOTE: We have a Facebook group for those who participate in the challenge and are interested. I’ll post any announcements there and hopefully ithere.

** CHALLENGE CHANGE **

From this point forward, I am going to do the next theme at the bottom of each linkup. Also, the posting date will now be the first of each month, thus giving you the entire month to take the photos etc.

That means it’s a one-stop shop! Hopefully this helps out with everybody.

So, below is the linkup for September. Make sure you drop your link there.

OK, so it’s time to keep on moving! And our theme for the month? One word. How to interpret this? One word for the post? One word per photo? Something else? Have some fun! Remember to come back on (hopefully) November 1 to link up and check out the theme for that month! I’ve set a calendar reminder for me, so let’s see if that works!

Photo Blogging Challenge: September results

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