CFFC: Kaleidoscope

December 30, 2021 / amoralegria / 2 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is ending its series exploring color this week, with the theme 4 or more colors in one photo!
Holiday lights

Farmers’ Market

At the library

Gardens

At the zoo

Immersive Van Gogh

Two Colors

December 11, 2021 / amoralegria / Leave a comment

Cee’s fun Foto Challenge this week is Basically Two Colors.

CFFC: Monochrome

November 30, 2021 / amoralegria / 5 Comments

Cee is starting a new series on color in her weekly challenge, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge.
This week is all (or mostly) one color.

SYW: Colors, Back to the Future, Holiday Parties

November 30, 2021November 30, 2021 / amoralegria / 2 Comments

UNVARNISHED QUESTIONS from Melanie’s weekly Share Your World!

If you had the power to strike one person in your life permanently speechless, who would it be? (Real names aren’t necessary, vague descriptions are fine… and yes, this is being asked in fun and not to be mean). Donald Trump

If you could relive your childhood over again, what’s one thing from this modern world world today you’d want to take back with you? My computer/word processor. Writing would have been so much easier!

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple are the standard colors of the rainbow.
Name something you love (or greatly admire/appreciate) for all six major colors of the rainbow! (Sorry indigo, you’re just blue-purple. Hot pink? You’re too flashy!)
Red: apples and tomatoes – because they are delicious to eat!
Orange: Zinnias and Dahlias – they are pretty and bright!
Yellow: bananas – I eat one every morning! Also daffodils – because they are the harbingers of spring.
Green: trees & grass – the primary color of nature
Blue: sky – because it means the sun is shining!
Purple: my parka which used to be my sister’s but she passed away and I got many of her clothes – it still reminds me of her!
All 6: M&Ms (except purple, which is brown instead). I love to sort them by color and eat them one by one.

If you were to open the world’s most accurate fortune cookie, what would your fortune inside it read? You will lead a good life and travel a lot, but also bear the consequences of many of your decisions.

Santa’s tired of people leaving him out cookies and milk on Christmas Eve night! If you really wanted to get on Santa’s good side, what would you leave out for him to eat/drink instead? (This question applies whether you celebrate Christmas or not. It’s just for fun, so imagination? Welcome! )
A good, cold glass of beer (Santa seems to be more of a beer person than a wine person), hot tomato vegetable soup, steak dinner, and a cup of hot chocolate!

GRATITUDE SECTION (Still optional)

What plans do you have for the upcoming holiday/celebration/festival season?
Socializing in a party atmosphere with co-residents, even if we still need to wear masks! Also, going to plays and concerts again!

CMMC: Pick a Topic from a Photo

October 20, 2021October 20, 2021 / amoralegria / 2 Comments

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge this week is to find a subject in a photo she posted. Here it is:

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What follows are photos from my archives that fit the topic.

Boots

Fall foliage

This is the only tree on campus that has fully changed color in mid-October!

Purple

Mother/Mom (who is wearing purple!)

My mother (age 93) with her son-in-law Jim in his prairie garden

Bicycle

Mother and son enjoying a beautiful afternoon bike ride (Regensburg, Germany)

Friendly Friday: Purple Haze

July 30, 2021 / amoralegria / 2 Comments

The Friendly Friday challenge is a bi-weekly all-inclusive challenge, meaning it includes photos, prose, poetry, or anything else related to the theme, which currently is PURPLE. My first entry is purple in music videos. Mostly in the genre of rock or pop, I have also included a children’s song and a video by Asian band (?) Ponzona called Purple Kiss. My favorite is Purple Haze, but that’s because it brings back memories of youth! It’s a rather eclectic selection, so I hope you enjoy it!

For more information about the Friendly Friday challenge, click here. The great thing about Friendly Friday is you can participate in each topic as many times as you feel inspired to!

CFFC/FOTD: Brighten Your Day With Yellow!

July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 / amoralegria / 3 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week has the topic yellow. This is also my contribution to Cee’s Flower of the Day 7/30/21.

A gallery of sunflowers from the Moorings community gardens!

There are also lovely patches of black eyed susans around campus that brighten my day during my walks.

Another community garden flower: a bright yellow zinnia.

Blue Among Trees

July 4, 2021 / amoralegria / 2 Comments

This photo was taken several years ago in northern Wisconsin. It is for Becky’s July Squares: Trees and Jude’s Travel Words Life in Colour: Blue.

Late afternoon sunlight shimmers on South Blue Lake-Bearskin Trail

Life in Colour: More White & Silver

June 21, 2021 / amoralegria / 2 Comments

I’m joining in this challenge again, to contribute white buildings, and more, in Chicago!

View of white skyscrapers from Millennium Park:

And silver in Millennium Park – “Cloud Gate” sculpture (known by locals as “the Bean”)

This silver structure in Millennium Park…

…projects faces. There are actually two of these, with a shallow wading area in between them (the wading pool is only filled in warm weather – these photos were taken in October.).