January Square: Rummaging Through a Drawer

This is Dale using his flashlight to rummage in his tool & miscellaneous drawer to find…I’m not sure what! I was mostly interested in taking this photo of him using a flashlight! Flashlight (or for you Brits, torchlight) is for Becky’s January Squares with the topic of _____light.

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

Lens-Artists #79: Window With a View

The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge this week is window with a view. I have often taken photos from the inside of buses while on a tour someplace. I also have taken photos from every window of my (previous) house. I wrote haikus to go with each one. Here are two of them. Bedroom window The storm […]

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 […]

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 […]

Thursday Doors: Leftover Holidays

Norm is back with a new Thursday doors post! He posted about a repurposed church in French Canada – check it out! My contribution this week is photos of doors taken while walking the halls of The Moorings’* main building on a cold day. All the apartments have identical doors, but what is interesting is […]

SYW: Adjusting, Resolving, and Following My Passions

NEW YEAR’S THEMED QUESTIONS: What was the single best thing that happened in your life this past year? Moving to a senior community – I have been participating in many new enjoyable activities and making new friends! Everyone here is very friendly. I love our little house – two bedrooms, no stairs, everything easy to […]

CB&WPC: Cold Days and Hot Days

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge has the topic hot or cold things. On a cold day in December in Arlington Heights, IL, a flock of Canada geese walked on frozen pond… There was no sitting on a bench on a snowy day at the end of October (and on that day it was warmer […]

SYW: Animal Talk and Questions to End the Holiday Season

Share Your World is a weekly set of questions hosted by Melanie at Sparks From a Combustible Mind. QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 12-23-19: Do dogs ‘talk’ (communicate) with their own species? (credit to Marilyn of Serendipity) Not just dogs – I think the members of every species communicate with each other. It’s not necessarily with […]

Sculpture Saturday

Mind Over Memory has a photo challenge called Sculpture Saturday. Here a few photos of sculptures I’ve taken over the last few months.