Artful Photos: Soviet Art

If you would like to share artwork you have photographed or created, please include a link to your blog in the comments! I would love to see the art other bloggers have admired! In early January, Dale and I went to the Chicago Art Institute, to see a couple of temporary exhibits. One of them […]

APAW: “A Crowd of People Stood and Stared”*

Nancy Merrill’s “A Photo a Week” (APAW) topic for this week is Crowd. *From A Day In the Life by the Beatles

Collaborations, Songs and Messages

Originally posted on Out an' About:
I’m sure you’ll agree that one of the best parts of blogging (if not the best part) are the connections we make. In the two plus years I’ve been blogging this space has changed and it now feels so full of life, almost like a cosy cafe gathering with…

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Messages of Faith, Love, and Joy

Frank Jansen at Dutch Goes the Photo! has a weekly Tuesday Photo Challenge. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. provided the inspiration for a concert I attended last weekend by Chicago Sinfonietta, an orchestra which celebrates diversity and aims to redefine classical music to attract a wider audience. The orchestra always has some sort of activity […]

WPC: Winter Silence

Silence is a good topic for winter landscapes. There isn’t much sound when everyone stays indoors, keeping warm, perhaps, while enjoying the view of fresh fallen snow. Animals hibernate. Snow muffles sound. Non-migrating birds are too busy finding food to sing. I took these photos today, a cold, blustery day, of a deserted park behind […]

FOTD: Memorial

This rose was left to honor firefighters, or a particular firefighter, at a memorial in front of the St. Paul state capitol. This shows more of what the memorial looked like: Cee’s Flower of the Day, 1/17/18

CFFC: V is for Violin, Valentines and Vincent Van Gogh

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge continues with the alphabet – this week’s letter is V: words starting with v that have at least six letters. Giant violin (fiddle) – Sydney, Nova Scotia – Canada My friend, Marcia, playing Christmas carols on her viola!* Valentine cookie Salad made with vegetables: kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage, and tiny shrimps, […]

Artful Photos weekend: Ivan Albright

Ivan Albright was an American painter, born 1897 and died 1983. The Art Institute of Chicago permanent collection contains a few of his works; these two in particular struck me. The painting below is titled “A Picture of Dorian Gray” which the artist painted for the 1945 movie version of Oscar Wilde’s 1891 novel. He […]

WPC: Weathered

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge this week is Weathered. Krista says that she looks at “these relics from the past and wonder what they’ve been witness to over the years…They’ve survived decades of sun, wind, rain, storms, and even floods.” Here are my interpretations of weathered: My mother on her 96th birthday: An old building at […]

FOTD: Dahlias

Cee’s Flower of the Day, 1/13/18 Taken last August at Chicago Botanic Garden