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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming
The Daily Post at WordPress.com has posted its new weekly photo challenge: Dreaming. What carries us into dreams? What prompted an inventor, poet, or artist to visualize a now realized dream? What inspires your dreams and daydreams? When you see a … Continue reading
Posted in Photo Challenges, Recreation, Ruminations
Tagged Daydreams, Dreaming, Dreams, Frank Sinatra, Imagination, lifestyle, Memories, music, Photo Challenges, photography, photos, postaday, postaweek, Roy Orbison
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Travel Theme: Food
Ailsa at wheresmyback posted her Travel theme for this week: Food. This one makes me wish I were at home where I have some other great photos – but since I’m not, I will make do with files I have with me! … Continue reading
Posted in Photo Challenges, Travelogues
Tagged Beijing, China, Fisherman's Wharf San Francisco, food, lifestyle, Peking Duck, Photo Challenges, photography, photos, postaday, postaweek, recreation, San Francisco, Travel
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Travel Theme: Night
Ailsa at wheresmyback posted her Travel theme for this week: Night. I love night shots – and I’m not sure why I don’t take more of them. This photo was taken from one of the piers west of Fisherman’s Wharf in … Continue reading
Posted in Photo Challenges, Travelogues
Tagged lifestyle, moon, nature, Photo Challenges, photography, photos, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Travel
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement
The WordPress Photo Challenge for the week is Movement We’re asked to show a photo or photos that exhibit or convey motion. For me, the most illustrative image of motion is the sea. The constant ebb and flow of the tides, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Photo Challenges
Tagged lifestyle, Motion, Movement, Oceans, Olympics, Photo Challenges, photography, photos, postaday, postaweek, recreation, Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement
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Travel Theme: Art
Ailsa at wheresmyback posted her Travel theme this week: Art. Since I’ve just returned from vacation, and before that been at my mom’s for a few weeks, I am just buried with things to do. So, I will take the … Continue reading
Posted in Photo Challenges, Travelogues
Tagged Art, EiffelTower, France, lifestyle, Louvre, Mona Lisa, Musée du Louvre, Notre Dame, Paris, Photo Challenges, photography, photos, postaday, postaweek, Seine, Travelogues, Venus de Milo, Winged Victory
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Travelogue – Jolly Old London Town
It’s time for my mid-month travelogue post! I thought it would be fun, in honor of Queen Elizabeth’s 60th Jublilee celebration earlier this month (and the upcoming Olympics), to make this one about London. I had all four A.A. Milne children’s … Continue reading
Posted in Recreation, Travelogues
Tagged A A Milne, Buckingham Palace, England, family, Jubilee, lifestyle, London, London Eye, Memories, Olympics, photography, photos, St. Paul's Cathedral, Tower of London, Trafalgar Square, Travel, Westminster Abbey
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