Going Out in a Blaze of Sunsets

It’s the last day of Becky’s January Square with the topic of ____light, and I am ending my participation with refracted light, such as the light that makes sunsets so colorful! South Dakota Tanzania Illinois (Mississippi River) Illinois – Arlington Heights Mont St.-Michel, France Egypt (on the Nile) On the Caribbean Sea

The Changing Seasons, Jan. 2020

A NEW CHALLENGE! Here’s what the host, Su Leslie, has to say about it: “About The Changing Seasons The Changing Seasons is a monthly challenge where bloggers around the world share what’s been happening in their month. If you would like to join in, here are the guidelines: The Changing Seasons Version One (photographic): Each […]

On the Hunt for Joy: Sitting in the Sunshine

The subject of Cee’s On the Hunt for Joy photo challenge this week is Sit in the Sunshine. There was plenty of sunshine in the heatwave in Europe last summer. This is how Dutch people enjoyed time in the sun. Along the canals of Amsterdam On a riverside beach

Many Angles of Devil’s Tower

I was looking through my photos of our trip to the Dakotas when we took a side trip to Devil’s Tower, because I had just drawn a picture of it with pastels, and was thinking about Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week – her topic this week is taking photos of an object from 3 […]

Dutch Goes the Photo: Trees

Jansenphoto’s Dutch Goes the Photo has a Tuesday challenge and the topic is trees.

January Square 22: Light in Flight

Becky’s January Square has the topic _____light. A Canadian Coast Guard rescue helicopter in flight during daylight approached our Alaska Cruise ship, where a man had to be airlifted after a heart attack on board. Over the ocean on our way home from Israel: looking out from the plane in flight at the sunlight on […]

January Square: Vancouver Twilight

I captured these awesome colors of Vancouver at twilight in late August 2016 before our cruise to Alaska. Here’s the square: These are rectangular so they show a bit more of the sky and dark landscape. These colors remind me of a painting, using a palette of several blended hues. But much as I love […]

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

On the Hunt for Joy: Getting Outside

Cee has a new challenge, which she will post every Wednesday! It is called On the Hunt For Joy. The first topic is Get Outside. And in fact, this is exactly what I did today, on my way home from a lecture. It was very cold today (colder than it has been this month but […]

January Square: Sunlight on the Dead Sea

Becky’s January Square Photo Challenge is _____light (words ending in light). Here is Sunlight Over the Dead Sea in Israel. (Taken Jan. 12, 2019 at 8:15 am with Samsung S7 from motorcoach.) Did you know? The Dead Sea is actually not a sea – it is a lake, but has been called a “sea” since […]