January Square 25: More Christmas Lights
For today’s #JanuarySquare Day 25, here are more Christmas light squares, all taken in Arlington Heights in December.
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SYW: Animal Talk and Questions to End the Holiday Season
Share Your World is a weekly set of questions hosted by Melanie at Sparks From a Combustible Mind. QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 12-23-19: Do dogs ‘talk’ (communicate) with their own species? (credit to Marilyn of Serendipity) Not just dogs – I think the members of every species communicate with each other. It’s not necessarily with […]
Read More SYW: Animal Talk and Questions to End the Holiday SeasonA 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 […]
Read More A Photo a Week: BrownThursday Doors: New Neighborhood
For Norm’s Thursday Doors this week, I feature our new neighborhood. (See also my companion post about The Moorings.) Since we moved to The Moorings of Arlington Heights three months ago, I have not confined my walks to the campus – I’ve been exploring the surrounding neighborhood as well! Here are some doors and other […]
Read More Thursday Doors: New NeighborhoodThursday Doors: Belmont Ave. & More
I had Norm’s Thursday Doors in mind when, two weekends ago, we went into the city for Open House Chicago. I took some random pictures of doors as we drove down the street. Most of these were on Belmont Avenue. This is not a door, but a gate is a portal, an entryway, so I […]
Read More Thursday Doors: Belmont Ave. & MoreHalloween Eleven Day Challenge
Granny Shot It is running an 11 day photo challenge with the theme of Halloween. This is Day #1. I saw this house in Chicago yesterday which was way over the top in blow up Halloween decorations.
Read More Halloween Eleven Day ChallengeLens-Artists Challenge #36: Around the Neighborhood in Des Plaines, Illinois
Lens-Artists’ weekly photo challenge this week is Around the Neighborhood. I selected some photos from my photo archive of the last few years that are “typical” of Des Plaines, Illinois, the Chicago suburb where I live. More and more of these signs have popped up in people’s yards since the beginning of the Trump administration. […]
Read More Lens-Artists Challenge #36: Around the Neighborhood in Des Plaines, IllinoisCamouflage and Contrast
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge for this week is Standing Out or Blending In. Camouflage (blending in) is a common way in nature for animals to hide from predators or so they cannot be seen. It was hard to spot this eagle at first, because his brown feathers blend in so well with the tree branches. There’s […]
Read More Camouflage and ContrastThursday Halloween Doors
Halloween just passed, and I had fun walking around the neighborhood looking at and photographing people’s Halloween decorations. For this week’s Norm’s Thursday Doors, here are some Des Plaines doors decorated for Halloween. The door of this blue house doesn’t have much but I really like the spider web and the nasty-looking troll-angel on the […]
Read More Thursday Halloween DoorsOpen House Chicago 2018-Part 1
Open House Chicago is an annual event – on a weekend in mid-October, about 250 buildings in the Chicago area are open to visitors. Each has a few volunteers who can tell you about the building. It is sometimes called the “architecture tour” because many of these buildings were built 100+ years ago and some […]
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