Joy List Monday -- another list in photos and more grump fighting ideas

This is the last Monday in July. Can you believe it? The summer is flying by. I don't always do a good job of savoring the moments or of fighting off grumpiness but I'm glad that I'm keeping my daily Joy notebook and making lists on my blog. Taking photos helps to savor the moments and I've been trying to do a lot of that. With Instagram and with my real camera, too. So today's Joy list will be in photos again this week. Looking back at my Joy lists and at my photos can be a good place to look for ideas on how to improve my mood, too. For example, there's always flowers:

And spending time with the guys I love

in beautiful places.

And if you have to spend your one day off cleaning and doing laundry and running errands...

"Hello," strawberry shake.

Discovering secrets in my garden is one of my biggest Joys. I recently found that I have lots of cucumbers coming along.

And even one big enough to pick.

It's technically supposed to be a pickle, but I couldn't wait. And it was good.

What wasn't good was how the photos from my sewing shoot turned out.

Over exposed. Strange positioning of my hands (and other body parts). Flowers growing out of my head. All perils of a tripod and a timer and shooting outside when one minute it's cloudy and the next the sun is glaring. Basically, the worst part is that you can't really tell what these tops I've sewn look like and when that's the whole point... I will just have to be patient enough to wait until I can have the help of a certain photographer.

I hope your week is off to a Joyful start. And if you need to create some Joy, there's always painting your toenails and spending time with a four legged friend. Never fails.