Cee is doing a color series for her CFFC and this week’s color is white.
CFFC: White
chairs
Pull Up a Seat? – One Year Ago
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
CFFC: Painting of Many Kinds, Times & Places
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is anything painted.
Pull Up A Chair
…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.
Pull Up a Seat: The Bygone End of Summer
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
Pull Up a Seat in Poulsbo, Washington
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.
Pull Up a Seat in Holland
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.
Pull Up a Seat in Paris
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
FOTD: Autumnal Scene
For Cee’s Flower of the Day, here is a place to sit among ‘mums and pumpkins.
Open House Chicago 2018-Part 2
This post continues our brief tour of Open House Chicago 2018. The second building we toured was right across the street from the Gunder House.
It is the Conway House, now the property of Sacred Heart Schools as the Driehaus Center. 
The home was designed by the architect William Carbys Zimmerman in the Tudor-Revival style, and built by Richard Francis Conway for $40,000. Conway’s paving company also built Lake Shore Drive. The architect also designed several of the Chicago Park District’s field houses.
Richard Conway, the house’s owner, was a widower with 11 children (good Catholics!). He also had a houseman and two servants. In early 1922, the house was sold by the Conway estate for $78,500, a considerable sum in those days.
The restored building is a survivor from the days when Sheridan Road was a millionaire’s row. This is the front entrance of this building which is rarely open to the public.
In the 1950s it became the North End Women’s Club. In 1959, Sacred Heart Schools purchased the house and Hardey Preparatory classes were held there until 1972.
This landmark home now hosts events on the main floor and has offices for Admissions, Communications and Development on the second and third floors. It has a third-floor ballroom, Ionic columns, mahogany woodwork and even lion gargoyles guarding the drainage outlets on the porch.
The first floor is lavishly decorated with period furniture.
The staircase was carpeted with floral patterns.
Interior paneling
The interior design, windows and fixtures in this curved room were beautiful.
An alcove with beautiful stained glass windows
Miniature chairs – there were two of these. I took a photo of my husband standing next to one of them to get perspective on their size.
Embossed wallpaper detail
Upper floor window seen from the outside of the building
Since 1972, the house has been home to the Religious of the Sacred Heart, Parents of the Heart activities and an early childhood intervention program for families in the neighborhood.
Wanderlust & Wonderment 