Thursday Doors With Flowers

Since I haven’t gone anywhere lately where I could photograph doors, I’m recycling some previous ones I’ve posted, thematically. This week for Norm’s Thursday Doors, I present doors with flowers.

RDP: Thingamajig or Whatchamacallit

Ragtag’s Daily Prompt word today is thingamajig. It is a word we’ve always used (or one like it) when we don’t know or remember the name of something. I looked up the word to see how it would be defined: Merriam-Webster has a good, concise definition: something that is hard to classify or whose name […]

April Squares 25: Top of a Building

Becky’s April Squares is now on Day 25 and the theme is top. I took this shot of Chicago – skyline can be seen in the distance – from the balcony on the top floor of Dank Haus, a German Cultural Center, during Open House Chicago last October.

Sculpture Saturday: Field Museum

Mind Over Memory has a weekly invitation for sculpture photos. Last year, when we got home from our trip to the Middle East, we visited the Egyptian exhibit at The Field Museum in Chicago. These are sculptures – or sculpted wooden mummy cases. Royalty in ancient Egypt would encase their mummified loved ones in several […]

CFFC: Choose Your Own Topic

This is the fifth week of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge’s Choose Your Own Topic from this photo. And this week the photo is: Cee’s suggestions: chicken, coffee, cup, black and white, ferris wheel, fake flowers, topiary, round, triangle, treats, red, green, ball, store logos, or come up with […]

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 […]

CFFC: Upward

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

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 […]

Sculpture Saturday: Open House Chicago 2019

For Mind Over Memory’s Sculpture Saturday, here are some sculptures I captured during Open House Chicago last October. Street art At Zen Buddhist Temple Sculpted steins at Dank Haus At Elks War Memorial At Wintrust Bank, Old Town

January Square 27: Neon Lights

I took this photo at O’Hare Airport a few years ago on my way somewhere. These neon lights stretched overhead above the moving sidewalks. Neon lights in Cairo at night Day 27 of Becky’s January Month of Squares with the theme _____light.