Photo Of The Day By Kate Messer

Photo By Kate Messer

Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Mumma Takes A Rest” By Kate Messer. Location: Nova Scotia, Canada.

Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Your Favorite Places and the OP Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage and several images from the Assignment Gallery are picked to be featured in The Best Of Assignments section in the print magazine. To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them.

Originally Published December 9, 2015

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