October Square: Lines and Squares

Today’s selection of photos feature both lines AND squares, for Becky’s October Square challenge.

CB&WPC: Wheels for Work & Play

Things with one, two or three wheels is the theme of Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week. Wheelbarrows, Poulsbo, Washington Wire bicycle & scooter, Miltenberg, Germany Bikes, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Ferris wheel, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois

FOWC: Gregarious Birds Hanging Out

Some birds mate for life – like swans, who tend to hang out alone or with their mate and cygnets. Ducks and geese do not mate for life, but they are more gregarious birds. Many types of birds are gregarious – that’s possibly why we call them flocks! So for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge, here are […]

CFFC: Fashion Near and Far

Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge this week is about fashion. In The Bistro Restaurant at Lyric Opera of Chicago, there is always one of the beautiful dresses worn by the lead female character on display in a case with a mirror behind it so you can see both front and back. This was the dress on […]

CB&WPC: Wooden

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is Things Made of Wood. Window frame – Mont-St.-Michel, France Polynesian carvings – Field Museum, Chicago, IL Play Furniture – Second Time Around Sale 2019, Des Plaines, IL Bird House – Des Plaines, IL Wooden cross in shrine – Winslow, AZ

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Street Art

I love taking photos of street art, and I have often posted my photos. This is a selection of street art that I photographed but never have had occasion to post before, submitted for Lens-Artists’ weekly challenge: Street Art. Great topic!! Turtle made of tire rims, Dunseith, North Dakota Murals, Dubuque, Iowa Sculptures, Chicago, Illinois […]

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Round

Frank at Dutch Goes the Photo’s Tuesday photo challenge this week is round. circles of ice that formed inside the holes of the mat outside our back door Sculpture at Dr. Evermore’s Forevertron (near Madison, WI) Macy’s Christmas balls Ferris Wheel at Navy Pier in Chicago

CFFC: Patterns Around the World

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Patterns, I am going multicultural! November 2018: At a Chicago Sinfonietta concert celebrating the Indian festival of Diwali, during the intermission, audience members (especially children) made their own Diwali patterns using glue and glitter on preprinted patterns. Here are two of my favorites. December 2018: In Egypt, we visited Al-Azhar […]

FOTD: Orchids

For Cee’s FOTD today, I continue with the orchid show at Chicago Botanic Gardens.

Friday Follies: Signs

I am joining Friday Follies this week (S2 Ep6) to post a couple of memorable signs. I love taking photos of unique signs! I’ve posted this one before but this is perhaps a different audience! Sign at a Weight Watchers meeting a couple of years ago: Here’s one I took in Anchorage, Alaska: This one […]