CFFC: White Is…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge continues with her color series and this week is WHITE. Snow white Flowery white Bridal white (two weddings) Swan white Architectural white (two styles in Amsterdam) Somber white (American Cemetery, Omaha Beach, Normandy, France) Leisure white Lawn ornament white Prickly white Styrofoam white

A Photo a Week: Brown

I once wrote an essay about brown (part of my series about colors). It maligns the color, however – actually things I personally associated with it – so I am not going to include it here. In fact, like in Nancy Merrill’s challenge A Photo a Week, I also associate brown with Thanksgiving. My first […]

CFFC: Red

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is the color RED. These red items are mostly from my travels. Excerpts from my color essay on red are included. Red says, “Look at me!” And we do because red stands out. Many flowers are red – tulips, roses, dahlias and many others can be red – maybe these […]

CFFC: Yellow

The topic of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is yellow. Yellow building – Regensburg, Germany Yellow rose – Chicago, IL 1st Presbyterian Church light fixture – Evanston, IL Sunset at an outdoor concert – Elk Grove Village, IL Brookfield Zoo entrance – Brookfield/Chicago, IL Fish – Brookfield Zoo Autumn color reflected in a pond […]

CFFC: Blue

The theme of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this month is colors; this week is Blue. Three fire hydrants painted blue, Arlington Heights, IL

CFFC: Greens

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is my favorite color: Green!! Here’s an essay I wrote years ago about green, in a series about colors. Yes, I know this is a PHOTO challenge but I am going to try to combine the photos and narrative. Green is the best color because it is the color […]

FOTD: Blue Netherlands: Cool Water in a Heat Wave

June 25, 2019 (Day 1 of Viking cruise) I’ve been busy the last few days and unable to participate in Becky’s Square July Blues. So to make up for it (just a little!) I’m posting three blue squares today -all taken in the Netherlands in late June of this year. Known for its Delft china […]

Blue and the Unexpected

This is my entry for Becky’s July Blue Squares and also for Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Day with the theme of Unexpected. It was not until I had my zoom lens focused on the top of the blue house in Cologne (Köln), Germany, that I saw what the guide had been telling us about […]

Square July: Flags Against a Blue Sky

My entry for Becky’s July Square Blues today was taken at Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. This is the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Normandy, which lasted 100 days. But it all started on D-Day, July 6, 1944, when the secret organized invasion of northern France via the beaches of Normandy took place, orchestrated […]

July Squares: The Blue Mediterranean Sea

Becky’s July Squares topic is Blue. My blue square for today is a photo of the Mediterranean Sea, as viewed from the ancient Roman city of Caesarea Maritima in Israel, taken during our trip there in January. In the distance you can see a building on a peninsula (top center of photo). This allegedly is […]