By coincidence, I took this photo exactly one year ago. I’m not sure where it was, however! I guess you can call this a “seat” – combo potty chair and birdhouse? It’s definitely unique!
Posted for Xingu Mama’s Pull Up a Seat – 2021/week 21
Pull up a seat and play this snazzy jazzy piano!
Dusty but colorful…
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…if you can get the cats off first!
…but if someone’s sleeping on it, get another chair!
Posted for Xingfu Mama’s Weekly Pull Up a Chair challenge.
I spotted this bench on the street in the old Jewish Quarter of Budapest, maybe used for waiting for a bus? Or maybe just taking a load off…anyway, it’s definitely much used!
Xingfu Mama’s Pull Up a Seat Photo Challenge
I have not participated in XingfuMama’s Pull Up a Seat Photo Challenge in awhile. So here goes!
At holiday light show, Lightscape, Chicago Botanic Gardens
Glass sculptures made by schoolchildren, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
The following three are miniatures, from Whimsical Wonderland, an annual display/fair/competition of miniatures.
Choir seat, with unique carving (you’d pull the seat down to sit on it), Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
Balcony cafe, Melk, Austria
I took these photos in September, when the weather was still somewhat summerlike and conducive to sitting outside, while walking in my new neighborhood in Arlington Heights.
Pull Up a Seat challenge, Week 45
Attending our niece’s wedding recently, we stayed in the town of Poulsbo, WA, with a population over 11,000 and a Norwegian flavor (its heritage is Norwegian, so there are Norwegian flags everywhere). An early settler, an immigrant from Norway, actually had the surname “Paulsbo” but the pen he was writing with was kind of scratchy and so the “a” looked like an “o” – this is how the town got its name, according to the docent at the local history museum. Residents do pronounce the name as “Paulsbo.” The main street is touristy but quite pretty with interesting shops and great restaurants.
I photographed these for XingfuMama’s weekly Pull Up a Seat challenge.
Identical bright blue benches like this one were available for taking a load off all down the main drag.
We just moved and need patio furniture for our screened porch, so I briefly considered how these would look….but since we live in Illinois, I figured shipping them from Washington would be more expensive than the chairs themselves!
Lots of comfy places to sit and drink coffee or eat ice cream at a coffee shop in downtown Poulsbo.
Outside the same coffee shop, another of our nieces drinks coffee and checks social media while her sister hides herself from being photographed! (I got a good shot of her when she wasn’t paying attention!) The empty chair was soon occupied by the girls’ mom.
For XingfuMama’s weekly Pull Up a Seat challenge, here are some seats in Amsterdam and Kinderdijk, Holland.
AMSTERDAM: My husband checks his email on his phone on the balcony of “our” apartment in the dePijp neighborhood.
AMSTERDAM: Luza’s, where we had breakfast one day in the de Pijp neighborhood
KINDERDIJK: On the 2nd day of our river cruise, we visited this town in the Netherlands which has a lot of windmills. People live in many of the windmills, but the one we visited was more of a museum, with period furnishings.
Xingfumama has a weekly challenge called Pull Up a Seat. This is Week #33 of 2019.
These are some “seats” I photographed in Paris in June 2019.
Restaurant at the Musee d’Orsay
At our Airbnb apartment
On a street
Plush red décor at Hotel Sacha
Wanderlust & Wonderment 