Hunt for Joy & Thursday Doors: Colorful Doors

Cee’s Wednesday challenge, On the Hunt for Joy this week has the topic of “paint your front door.” Not literally, of course! She’s calling for photos of brightly colored doors or any interesting doors. And Thursday is Norm’s weekly door challenge. Here is a collage of colorful doors from my archives:

Taking a Load Off in Budapest

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

Lens-Artists #89: A River Runs Through It

Amy at Lens-Artists has as her theme for this week’s challenge: river. Starting out close to home, here is the Des Plaines River during a November walk on the Des Plaines River Trail. This is a very pretty stretch of the slow-moving river, but it is responsible for many floods in the cities along its […]

Friday Fun: In the Distance

Here are some 2019 travel photos for Aroused’s Friday Fun: Distance. Caesarea & Jerusalem, Israel: Rhine castles in Germany: I kept thinking of this song while doing this post. I think the lyrics are fitting for these days of fear and crisis.

CFFC: Upward

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is about pointing your camera upward!

CFFC: Still Life

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge has the topic glasses, cups and saucers this week. I created two “Still Lifes” at the restaurant Gianni in Chicago, on Halsted just north of North Ave. This is our favorite “go to” restaurant when we go to Steppenwolf Theatre, just down the block. In fact, the playbill for that night’s performance […]

KOC: The Bizarrely Ordinary

From Kammie’s page: Oddball: (noun) a person or thing that is atypical, bizarre, eccentric, or nonconforming; (adjective) whimsically free-spirited; eccentric; atypical Kammie’s Oddball Challenge is for those photos that are sort of strange, or don’t fit in with anything else. There is no specific topic, so … I have no idea what this is, but […]

CFFC: Roofs of Europe

The roofs in Europe are varied and interesting. So for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week with the topic of roofs, here are some European roofs. Mont St.-Michel, France Roofs with gulls Roof with window Amsterdam, Holland – These are my favorites due to their variety in architectural style. 2 views of the roofs of […]

CB&WPC: French Roads in Black & White

The theme of Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is roads. All these photos were taken on our trip to Normandy, France last June. Roll out the red carpet in Cabourg’s touristy center, lined with restaurants and shops. Entering Cabourg Village in Normandy between Arromanches & Caen Bayeux Mont St.-Michel Looking down on […]

Lens-Artists #84: Narrow Passageways

Amy at Lens-Artists this week invites us to explore the topic of narrow. In my travels to “old” places – places built when there were no cars or crowds of tourists -I explored (or declined to explore) many narrow streets and other passageways. Places like Old Town Tallinn, Estonia (where I got lost due to […]