Caturday on Sunday! Joia (1976-1992)

I did not have a chance to post my Saturday cat photo yesterday. Then today I was looking through a box of very old photos – from the early 1980s! I found several of my (half) Manx cat named Jóia, who died in 1992. Here she is in 1984. This must have been in the […]

Cee’s B&WPC: Gates and Fences

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is gates and fences. Nature Gate: Crazy Horse National Monument, South Dakota (filter used: Denim). Neighborhood fence, Des Plaines, Illinois (filter used: Slate) Neighborhood fence with flowers, Des Plaines, Illinois (filter used: Mercury) Cairo Marriott Hotel gate, Cairo, Egypt (filter used: Vanilla) Gate for a house in […]

Spiky Squares: Cat Brush

My cat loves it when I brush her with this brush. For her, it’s like a massage. Afterward, I pull the fluffy fur out of the brush, but often I get pricked with this spiky brush! Ouch! As you can see from this photo, I often don’t get ALL the fur out! The brush doesn’t […]

Lens-Artists Challenge #36: Around the Neighborhood in Des Plaines, Illinois

Lens-Artists’ weekly photo challenge this week is Around the Neighborhood. I selected some photos from my photo archive of the last few years that are “typical” of Des Plaines, Illinois, the Chicago suburb where I live. More and more of these signs have popped up in people’s yards since the beginning of the Trump administration. […]

CFFC: Shiny: Photographic Effects and Mistakes

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme this week is shiny. Using photographic manipulation and mistakes added to the shiny-ness of some of these photos! Icicles – I got the effect I was looking for in this shot, with the late afternoon sun shining behind the icicles to create a golden glow. (Taken from my living room […]

FOTD: Orchids

Orchids at Chicago Botanic Gardens Orchid Show. See more lovely flowers at Cee’s FOTD, 3/11/19.

CB&WPC: Murals

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is Murals. The word mural comes from the Latin word for wall. It is defined by Bing as: a painting or other work of art executed directly on a wall. Wikipedia goes into further detail: A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on […]

SYW: On Bad Habits, Improving One’s Life, and Anything Chocolate

Here are the questions for Share Your World this week and my answers: What’s the first thing you notice about a person? What they are wearing, especially the color, if it’s someone I know – this is subconscious but if I see that color later, I will think it’s that same person. On the conscious […]

FOTD: Pink Orchid

Photograph taken at Chicago Botanic Gardens’ annual orchid show. For more flowers to brighten your day, go to Cee’s FOTD, 3/5/19.

CFFC: Smooth

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is smooth textures. Here’s my take on it: Fresh fallen blanket of snow My cat Hazel’s fur Soda bottles on a shelf