5 Things: Summer Desserts

Dr. Tanya is back with her Five Things Tuesday. The topic this week is favorite summer desserts. That is one of my favorite summer topics!! 😀 ice cream, especially hot fudge sundaes! My favorite ice cream is peppermint but Hershey’s has a superb flavor called Roadrunner Raspberry! It’s vanilla with raspberry swirls and chunks of […]

SYW: Magic, Bad Smells, Bad Bosses, & Voting

A new week, a new set of questions in Melanie’s Share Your World! Questions: In your opinion, what’s the closest thing to real magic?When the first flowers of spring appear after a long winter. Where is the worst smelling place you’ve been?The basement of our former house. It was an old house and prone to […]

Perspectives Great & Small

Sometimes a photograph cannot convey the bigness or smallness of something unless it is given perspective by including another object whose dimensions we are familiar with. For example, I can post photos of the immense pillars of Karnak in Egypt, built 3,500 years ago, but you can really get an idea of how massive they […]

FPQ: Satisfaction

Fandango’s Provocative Question #76 is a very personal one, really. I always feel compelled to be as honest as possible. Here it is: Are you satisfied with your life at the moment. If so, what is it that brings you the greatest satisfaction? If not, what might you do to achieve satisfaction in your life? […]

July Square Perspective: A Swan Story

Becky is back with her July photo challenge! This month the theme is perspective. Becky reviews the definitions of perspective to help get started: Art – the method by which solid objects drawn or painted on a flat surface are given the appearance of depth and distance. Geometry – the way that objects appear smaller when they […]

The Changing Seasons: June 2020

The Changing Seasons, sponsored by Su Leslie, 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 month, post 5-20 photos in a gallery that you feel represent your monthDon’t use […]

SYW: ‘Crime’ Scenes

It’s Monday once again and time for Melanie’s Share Your World! Her questions this week are all about criminal behavior we may have engaged in. (No, not serious stuff – just petty crime!) Have you ever ‘dined and dashed” (i.e. eaten the meal and then run out the restaurant door without paying)? Yes, but only […]

2020 Sunday Stills Home Photo Challenge

After living in an increasingly crowded suburb for 30 years, last year Dale and I moved to Arlington Heights, where we live in a senior community with a large campus – lots of pretty flowers, landscaping, and a community garden area. We have two “lakes” (that’s what they’re called here but to me they are […]

FOTD: Tomato Flowers

These flowers on my tomato plants will soon develop into tomatoes. The second photo isn’t very good but you can see the first baby tomato on the branch under the flowers! These are in a small area next to our patio. Cee’s FOTD 6/9/20

FOTD: My First Iris!

I planted iris bulbs behind my house last fall. One was dug up by a squirrel. A few more just didn’t grow much. But last weekend, buds appeared on two of the plants. One of them got broken somehow. But then on the other one, two days ago, my very first iris bloomed! Cee’s FOTD […]