{"id":2456,"date":"2018-06-14T21:40:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T04:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2024-07-29T23:07:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T06:07:13","slug":"photofriday-theroadahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/photofriday-theroadahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Friday &#8211; The Road Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u2019re on what feels like a never-ending road, it\u2019s easy to lose perspective. We forget where the road is leading us and fail to look at our surroundings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/47-1024x682.png\" alt=\"The Road Ahead | Uncluttered\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/47-1024x682.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/47-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/47-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/47-1536x1023.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/47-370x247.png 370w, https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/47-270x180.png 270w, https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/47-570x380.png 570w, https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/47-740x493.png 740w, https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/47.png 1621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This photo reminds me to stop and consider the space I\u2019m in. Look around. Take in the beauty. Notice the shadows, clouds and mountains that are within view from the road we are on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href='https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unclutterednw.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D2456&#038;text=If%20you%E2%80%99re%20on%20what%20seems%20like%20a%20never-ending%20road%2C%20don%E2%80%99t%20forget%20to%20look%20around.%20The%20road%20will%20end%2C%20but%20hopefully%20after%20you%E2%80%99ve%20had%20a%20chance%20to%20enjoy%20the%20view.&#038;via=UnclutteredNW&#038;related=UnclutteredNW' target='_blank'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">If you\u2019re on what seems like a never-ending road, don\u2019t forget to look around. The road will end, but hopefully after you\u2019ve had a chance to enjoy the view. <\/a><\/span><a href='https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unclutterednw.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D2456&#038;text=If%20you%E2%80%99re%20on%20what%20seems%20like%20a%20never-ending%20road%2C%20don%E2%80%99t%20forget%20to%20look%20around.%20The%20road%20will%20end%2C%20but%20hopefully%20after%20you%E2%80%99ve%20had%20a%20chance%20to%20enjoy%20the%20view.&#038;via=UnclutteredNW&#038;related=UnclutteredNW' target='_blank' class='bctt-ctt-btn'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This view will fade away. The road will end, but hopefully not before we slow down enough to enjoy the view on our life-long journey.<\/p>\n<h4>Inspired Life Action:<\/h4>\n<p>Make two observations about your surroundings. How do they relate to your current journey? How do they help your see the road ahead differently? Regardless of the miles traveled or the miles remaining, there is value in appreciating your environment and regaining lost perspective.<\/p>\n<p><em>This image is one of the more than 92,000 digital images in my personal photo collection. My love of <\/em><em>photography and preserving memories is what led me to develop customized photo organizing services. <\/em><em>To schedule your photo organizing consultation email me: <a href=\"mailto:linda@unclutterednw.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">linda@unclutterednw.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u2019re on what feels like a never-ending road, it\u2019s easy to lose perspective. We forget where the road is leading us and fail to look at our surroundings. This photo reminds me to stop and consider the space I\u2019m in. Look around. Take in the beauty. Notice the shadows, clouds and mountains that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48,46],"tags":[64,53,49,50],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-inspiration","category-life-list","category-photo-organizing","tag-goals","tag-inspiration","tag-photo-friday","tag-photo-organizing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unclutterednw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}