SquareOdds: Odd Cars (and Other Vehicles)

February 25, 2022February 25, 2022 / amoralegria / 1 Comment

I haven’t had the time to use my computer much less blog! I’m involved in so many things, I guess. That is why I am grouping my “odds” in subjects so I can post several at once, for Becky’s February Squares: SquareOdds.

Unfortunately, I can’t find my photo of a car with eyelashes, or it would be in here! But have you ever seen a VW in a tree? Maybe someone in Bethlehem (Israel) put it there to be considered “art”!

Baby car hitches a ride on mama car in some small Iowa town – they’re ready to go! Pretty spiffy, though!

An abandoned van in the desert along Route 66 between San Bernardino and Kingman.

I just had to take a photo of this ironic bumper sticker. It’s one of the best I’ve seen! Also this car has an odd number of bumper stick-ons! I don’t know who this car belonged to, but it was parked in the parking lot behind a high school in Sedona, Arizona.

Now here are some real oddities: outer space cars?? You will find them in Baker, California!

Here’s a side view of the above, although I could not make it square. Galaxy Peace Patrol? Sort of ironic that it is “armed” with missiles!

This is a picture of my absent car – it left a snowy outline of its space, because the driveway was shoveled around it. It’s an odd picture – I don’t know why I took it!

CFFC: Twists in Nature and Man-made Swirls

October 20, 2021 / amoralegria / 1 Comment

The topic for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is twisted & squiggly shapes. Many are found in nature, such as twisted trees…

…and saguaro cacti, which can be quite humorous to look at!

Artists have used the patterns and fractals found in nature since ancient times, such as

petroglyphs

and modern sculptures,

and a swirled “mane” on a Chinese lion statue.

And here’s one more…try to guess what it is!

CFFC: Rusty or Decayed

April 1, 2021 / amoralegria / 1 Comment

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week has the theme rusty or decayed.

Bottle Tree Ranch, near Victorville, California

Overlord Museum, Omaha Beach, Normandy, France

CFFC: Nature’s Patterns

January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 / amoralegria / 2 Comments

Patterns are everywhere in nature. Indeed, humans have imitated nature in creating patterns. Patterns in Nature is the wonderful topic for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week.

Flowers make many patterns.

I love photographing mushrooms, which appear in many shapes and sizes.

Tree branches, leaves and trunks make their own complex patterns.

It is always worthwhile to stop and admire small leaves and plants – often they surprise you!

Some animals have patterns on their skin, tail, or feathers.

Layers painted rock formations over millions of years. In Arizona, there are many examples of this, at the Grand Canyon, the Painted Desert and in Oak Creek Canyon in Sedona.

CFFC: Bridges

January 6, 2021 / amoralegria / 2 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week has the topic of Bridges.

One of my early photos in high school, when I was learning how to take and develop photos. This is a bridge on my high school campus.

This bridge in Cologne, Germany had a fence covered with padlocks, which represent love relationships.

That same bridge in Cologne, Germany, at sunset

On the Chicago river, this low red bridge is in the district of Chinatown.

CFFC: Cars & Trucks

July 7, 2020 / amoralegria / 4 Comments

Cee’s topic for her Fun Foto Challenge this week is anything to do with cars and trucks.

CFFC: Painting of Many Kinds, Times & Places

July 4, 2020July 4, 2020 / amoralegria / 1 Comment

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is anything painted.

Roof decoration on Hualapai Center, Peach Springs, Arizona

Appropriate for the 4th of July! Patriotic painted car, Seligman, Arizona

Painted figures on a maypole next to a painted church, Wurzburg, Germany

Frescoes on the ceiling of a cathedral in Passau, Germany – I took this one year ago today!

Pharaoh offers food to the god Amun. Although in poor condition, the paint on this mural has lasted 3,500 years! Hatshepsut’s Temple, Egypt

Hanging on a wall in a hallway at the Moorings of Arlington Heights, Illinois. Depicted are the parts of a cashew tree.

VW in line for 4th of July parade, Arlington Heights, Illinois – I took this photo 3 years ago today!

*Gospel Singers*, by American artist Charles White, exhibit at Art Institute of Chicago, August 2017

Realistic looking mural covering an entire wall in Quebec City, Canada

LCPP: Without Power

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 / amoralegria / 3 Comments

Basil René’s Life Captured Photo Prompt (LCPP) this week has the topic without power.

I started thinking about things that don’t have power and first thought of living beings without power – children, defenseless animals kept in cages, black men in a police chokehold or being unable to breathe when pinned to the ground. However, among my own photos, I have only some some small, powerless animals:

ducklings!

Machines without motors (without power of their own) include:

wheelbarrows,

a rusted old broken down truck (in which a cactus is blooming!),

…and motorless boats, such as the Egyptian dahabeya:
Aida is a private cruise boat owned by the tour company Overseas Adventure Travel, modeled on the traditional dahabeya – a boat whose power depends on sails, or a tugboat to pull it.

Unlike motorized cruise ships on the Nile, boats without motors are not allowed to travel at night – so *Aida* must dock every evening before sunset.

Being a Nile River cruise boat, Aida was more efficient being pulled by a tugboat in order to reliably follow a set itinerary. Sails would mean depending on the speed and direction of the wind. The above photo was taken from another boat so we could see what it looked like with its sails unfurled. It was the only time on the cruise that the sails were used.

This is another, smaller dahabeya.