FOTD: Orchid

Cee’s FOTD 1/17/20

APAW: People at Work in the Middle East

Nancy Merrill’s weekly A Photo a Week challenge has the topic of Work. On our trip last year to Egypt and Israel, we had the opportunity to photograph and meet many people at work. In Egypt, we witnessed several craftsmen working at their craft: We also encountered agricultural workers and fishermen on the Nile. In […]

FOTD: Palms & Flowers in Tel Aviv

Cee’s FOTD also includes plants, so I am posting another photo taken exactly one year ago today, on January 16, 2019, our last day in Israel. We took a bus tour around Tel Aviv and I snapped lots of photos from the bus, including this one, of a small green area with palms and some […]

January Squares 15: Sunlight on Stained Glass

Stained glass windows are pretty even from the outside, but of course, more glorious from the inside when the sunlight shines through them! The photos below were all taken at the majestic and wonderous Cathedral of Cologne, Germany. The windows there were spectacular! Becky’s January Squares, ____light

FOTD: Hidden Behind Squash Leaves

Cee’s FOTD post for 1/16/20 (a rose in hiding) inspired me to post this photo I took last August at our community gardens. There is a red flower (a zinnia, I think) hidden among these squash leaves, and there’s also a partially visible ripe butternut squash (my favorite)!

FOTD and CFFC: Tulips & Spring in Des Plaines

All these were taken in May in Des Plaines. Tulips – mine and my neighbor’s My garden in nearly full bloom Spring is the season for gardening! Neighborhood spring scenes Cee’s FOTD 1/15/20 CFFC: Spring Scenes

FOTD: Hotel Bouquet

Taken exactly one year ago today, this bouquet decorated the lobby of our hotel in Jerusalem, the Ambassador Hotel, greeting us as we returned from a long day of sightseeing! Cee’s FOTD 1/13/19

CFFC: Winter Scenes

Sometimes it snows here in winter; sometimes it doesn’t. But it always gets cold! Fall, winter and spring can be unpredictable! Here are some of my favorite winter photos, posted for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – winter scenes. This is our new house on Halloween – our first major snowfall of the year (that day […]

FOTD: Flowers By the Water

One of my favorite photos of the Chicago Botanic Gardens is this one, the brilliant orange-red flowers standing in contrast to the reflections in the water behind them. Cee’s FOTD 1/12/20

January Square 11: Moonlight

I have two square photos of moonlight. The first one was taken last March, when the full moon was rising over the houses across the street in our Des Plaines neighborhood. The second one was taken a few nights ago, when I knew the moon was full but it was cloudy. So the second photo […]