Running Through Fountains

The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge is a weekly challenge shared by four photographers who announce a new theme every Saturday. This week’s challenge is cooling. I did not expect the Mile High City, Denver, Colorado, to be so hot the week following Memorial Day. Our first real visit to Denver was three days at the beginning […]

FOTD: Zinnias at Sunken Gardens

Taken at Sunken Gardens, Lincoln, Nebraska on 5/29/18. Posted for Cee’s Flower of the Day, 7/15/18

Quintessential Chicago

Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week challenge this week is the word quintessential. She writes: “According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, quintessential means perfectly typical or representative of a particular kind of person or thing.” Typical Chicago? Skyscrapers, Sears (Now Willis) Tower, Navy Pier, Chicago River, architecture… Chicago skyline, including Willis Tower Chicago skyline with […]

FOTD: Water Lilies at Sunken Gardens

Photo taken at Sunken Gardens in Lincoln, Nebraska on May 29, 2018. Posted for Cee’s Flower of the Day, 7/14/18

FOTD: Lily at Sunken Gardens

Posted for Cee’s Flower of the Day, 7/13/18.

FOTD: Flowers at Sunken Gardens

For the next few days, I will feature flowers I photographed at Sunken Gardens in Lincoln, Nebraska. Posted for Cee’s Flower of the Day, 7/11/18.

RDP #41: Vintage on Route 66

The Ragtag Daily Prompt for today is vintage. There is a lot of “vintage” everything on Route 66! Vintage chairs, Seligman, AZ Vintage trailer outside Bagdad Café, Newberry Springs, CA Vintage jukebox, Bagdad Café Vintage heater (?), Elmer’s Bottle Ranch, north of Victorville, CA Vintage Marines poster, Elmer’s Bottle Ranch Vintage Texaco gas pump, Elmer’s […]

YDWP: Supercilious Haiku

I’ve heard this word, but I admit I had to look it up. Once I read the definition, I wrote a four-stanza haiku about the first person that came to mind. Posted for Your Daily Word Prompt: Supercilious. SUPERCILIOUS: DJT Supercilious Super-silly and trumped-up So full of himself. Pumped at his rallies His base always […]

CFFC: Lincoln’s Sunken Gardens

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge for this week is to take something from a photo she posts and use it as the topic of the participant’s post. Possible subjects for Week 1 Photo – Geometry, bushes, window, brick, curtain, green, tan, wall, building, dark red, tree. On May 29, we visited Lincoln, Nebraska. One of the […]

RDP #40: Dappled

The Ragtag Daily Prompt for today is dappled. Dappling often frustrates my attempts at getting clear photos of glass doors or windows. However, in these photos, being dappled is a good thing! Between cabins at Blacks Cliff Resort, Lower Kaubashine Lake, Wisconsin Stairway to the lake, Blacks Cliff Resort 4th of July sidewalk, Arlington Heights, […]