CFFC: Two Colors

August 25, 2022 / amoralegria / 1 Comment

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is photos that have basically two colors.

Yellow lantana at Chicago Botanic Gardens – yellow and green

WWII hand grenade case – brown and white

FOTD: Bleeding Hearts

June 5, 2022 / amoralegria / 1 Comment

These used to be in my garden. Now the garden belongs to our daughter. She says she wants to plant black bleeding hearts!

Cee’s FOTD 6/6/22

CB&WPC: The One and Only

March 3, 2022 / amoralegria / 1 Comment

Cee’s Black & White challenge this week has the topic “just one of anything.”

CFFC: Which Way Thru the Seasons

January 20, 2022January 20, 2022 / amoralegria / 13 Comments

Cee’s series featuring other challenges this week has the theme Which Way. This challenge includes streets, walkways, waterways – any “way” on which people travel.

Winter, spring, summer or fall – there’s always something interesting to experience on roads and sidewalks in every season.

Downtown Mt. Prospect after dark in February

What would spring be without those dotted masses of dandelions?!

Street musicians hope for tips from passersby in downtown Nuremberg

November on Clearwater Park walking/biking path (Mt. Prospect)

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

CFFC: Shadows & Reflections

November 25, 2021 / amoralegria / 2 Comments

The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is shadows and reflections.

The Past, Squared: Oct. 20, 2016

October 20, 2021 / amoralegria / 5 Comments

I picked an October 20 from my blog archives. I am featuring them here for Becky’s Past Squares (or SquarePast?) today. The photos below are from two posts on Oct. 20, 2016.

For Thursday Doors that week, I posted doors of houses in Des Plaines. I have selected the ones that are most seasonal.

I like the contrasting blue & orange in this photo.

The other post I did that day was for Cee’s weekly Fun Foto Challenge. Her topic was vibrant colors. This is, coincidentally, the topic of Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week. These photos were taken on a trip to Texas, where we visited the San Antonio Museum of Art.

Dale’s silhouette in front of a neon Texas flag!

CFFC: Circles, Wheels, & Spheres

October 2, 2021 / amoralegria / 1 Comment

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this past week has been about circles and wheels. Here is my contribution.

Pumpkins are not necessarily round, but their shape is generally thought of as spherical – some are and some aren’t! I just liked this display of pumpkins outside a Mariano’s supermarket.

Wheels:

And a pinwheel!

Circular centers of flowers

Ice on a circular pot…

…and decorative bowls.

PPAC #10: 3-D at the Library

August 20, 2021 / amoralegria / 7 Comments

I’m always amazed by the artists who can draw on sidewalks in such a way to create an optical illusion of a 3-D image. These drawings are usually made with chalk so they don’t last long! I photographed this one a couple of days ago in front of the Des Plaines Public Library.

This post is my contribution to Cee & Marsha’s Photographing Public Art #10 challenge. Marsha Ingrao is hosting this challenge for the next few weeks.