FotD: Columbine
Posted for Cee’s Flower of the Day 1/19/21.
Read More FotD: ColumbinePosted for Cee’s Flower of the Day 1/19/21.
Read More FotD: ColumbineThe Tuesday Photo Challenge is hosted by Dutch Goes the Photo, and this week the topic is TWIST. And now a related musical golden oldie – enjoy!
Read More Tuesday Photo Challenge: Twist(ed)Patterns are everywhere in nature. Indeed, humans have imitated nature in creating patterns. Patterns in Nature is the wonderful topic for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week. Flowers make many patterns. I love photographing mushrooms, which appear in many shapes and sizes. Tree branches, leaves and trunks make their own complex patterns. It is always […]
Read More CFFC: Nature’s PatternsIn downstate* Illinois, along Route 66, is the little town of Funks Grove, known primarily for its maple syrup (sorry – it’s sirup!). This small place near the beginning (or end, depending on where you start) of Route 66 is a little over two hours’ drive southwest from Chicago, about 146 miles. Since we started […]
Read More Syrup or Sirup?There were some buildings in downtown Des Plaines that were going to be demolished in order to build a new mixed-use complex. I snapped a few photos of these boarded up and locked up buildings. Vacant buildings, once someone’s home or workplace… …now abandoned. Once a thriving community of monks and pilgrims in Egypt, now […]
Read More Square Up: AbandonedNancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week challenge this week is “something pretty.”
Read More Pretty Is a PictureMore views looking up at what is above us for Becky’s January Square Up Challenge! Sometimes we see trees against a brilliant blue sky in spring: Perhaps there’s a birdhouse – or two – in the tree: Looking up at towering monuments against the blue sky: Looking up at animals who live above us:
Read More Looking Up! Part 2For Debbie’s One Word Sunday with the topic roll.
Read More One Word Sunday: RollDale and I are getting ready to sell our house. We moved to a retirement community in August of 2019, and shortly afterward our daughter and son-in-law moved into our house. They have been renting, but are now ready to buy it. They have done a lot to fix the house UP. Part of this […]
Read More Square Up: Old HousesBecky’s photo January Square challenge is all about UP. Here are some cups.
Read More Square Up with a CuppaLife in progress
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