CB&WPC: Two By Two
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is Two of Anything.
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Monday Window: St. Sebald Church
This week for Ludwig’s Monday Window, I feature the windows of St. Sebald’s Church in Nuremburg, Germany.
Read More Monday Window: St. Sebald ChurchWeekly Prompt: Clock the Time
The Weekly Prompts from GC and Me theme is Clock the Time. These photos of clocks are all from our 2019 summer trip to Europe. Most of these clocks are on tall towers. Interestingly, they all use Roman numerals (except the one on a sign), which until recent times was actually quite common. On the […]
Read More Weekly Prompt: Clock the TimeThursday Doors: Two Chicago Churches
I am entering this post into Norm’s Thursday Doors, as part of my tour of Chicago’s places of worship. Today I feature two Roman Catholic churches, St. Edward Church and St. Gregory the Great Church, both on the north side. We visited St. Edward Roman Catholic Church during Open House Chicago, having put it on […]
Read More Thursday Doors: Two Chicago ChurchesLens-Artists #72 – Waiting
People wait. Transportation vehicles wait. Animals and plants wait. Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #72, 11/16/19: Waiting
Read More Lens-Artists #72 – WaitingFriday Fun: Center of the Dead
The Friday Fun challenge has the prompt “dead centre.” I am interpreting this as a “center for the dead.” Where do the dead hang out? In the cemetery (or graveyard), of course! This is a good theme for the recent “All Souls Day” and “Day of the Dead.” While in France last June, I visited […]
Read More Friday Fun: Center of the DeadThursday Doors: Open House Chicago
Last Saturday, we participated in the annual Open House Chicago event, in which over 300 buildings are open to the public. People can tour these buildings and most have volunteers that can answer questions about the building or organization housed there. For Norm’s Thursday Doors this week, I feature some of the doors we saw […]
Read More Thursday Doors: Open House ChicagoNuremberg’s St. Sebaldus Church
Nuremberg’s St. Sebaldus is a medieval church, built 1225-1273, and Lutheran since the Reformation. It takes its name from Sebaldus, an 8th century hermit and missionary who is the patron saint of Nuremberg. We visited this magnificent church during our tour of Nuremberg on July 2, 2019 as a stop on our Viking river cruise. […]
Read More Nuremberg’s St. Sebaldus ChurchThursday Doors: Walking Tour of Bamberg, Germany
Day 7 (July 1, 2019) of our Viking Grand European Tour river cruise was spent in the beautiful city of Bamberg, Germany. We arrived at the picturesque harbor in the early afternoon. Bamberg was founded in 902 and is famous for its symphony orchestra and rauchbier, smoked beer. The city marks the northern end of […]
Read More Thursday Doors: Walking Tour of Bamberg, GermanyCFFC: Circles Everywhere
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Circles, Curves and Arches, and for this post I am focusing only on circles, which are abundant! Circles are everywhere – in nature, in art, in architecture, in daily life. I find circles in modern sculpture, art museums, light fixtures, in decorative displays, floor patterns, and buildings. Circles are […]
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