The Retiring Sort
-
Join 1,160 other subscribers
-
Recent Posts
- Reflections on When the World Turned Upside Down
- DNA Ethnicity Test Result Reliability – It’s All About Expectations
- Chasing Family – Online Family Trees: To Post or Not to Post?
- Chasing Family… Down a Rabbit Hole and Up a Tree
- The Pros and Cons of Fear and Anger
- Starting a New Holiday Tradition
- The Giving Season and the Thoughtful Giver
- Do I Really Have My Father’s Eyes?
- Symbols of Cities and Lands
- Land Meets Water


December 2025 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 

Categories
Tag Archives: postaday
Weekly Photo Challenge: Today
The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge for this week is Today, meaning that the photos couldn’t be from an archive – they actually had to be taken on the day of the post. So… today was the last sunny day in … Continue reading
Posted in Photo Challenges
Tagged Carnival, lifestyle, Photo Challenges, photography, photos, postaday, postaweek, recreation, today, Town Green, Weekly Photo Challenge: Today
49 Comments
Travel Theme: Street Markets
Ailsa at Wheresmybackpack presented another photo challenge this week – street markets. I couldn’t think of anywhere I’d photographed one, and then I remembered our trip to Beijing. We started out shopping for souvenirs and gifts down the main shopping street, … Continue reading
Posted in Photo Challenges, Retirement itself, Travelogues
Tagged Beijing, China, Photo Challenges, photography, photos, postaday, postaweek, Street market
44 Comments
Travel Theme: Summer
Summer oficially starts in a month, and most people are looking forward to their vacations. Ailsa at wheresmybackpack suggested a Summer travel photo challenge on May 18th, and I responded with this post. Now the May 25th WordPress weekly photo challenge has … Continue reading
Posted in Photo Challenges, Recreation
Tagged canoe, kayak, lifestyle, outdoors, Photo Challenges, photography, photos, postaday, postaweek, recreation, Summer, Water Sports, Weekly Photo Challenge - Summer
63 Comments
Weekly Photo Challenge: Hands
This week’s Photo Challenge from WordPress is hands – a photo where hands are part of the composition or theme of the picture. So… I got thinking a little about what hands signify, and how we use them. Folded hands … Continue reading
Posted in Photo Challenges
Tagged Photo Challenges, photography, photos, postaday, postaweek, Weekly Photo Challenge: Hands
82 Comments
Weekly Photo Challenge: Blue
This week’s official WordPress photo challenge is “blue” – images cast somehow in the color blue. This challenge comes late – on a Monday. Usually we get them Friday and have the weekend to dig through our archives. (Not that a silly … Continue reading
Posted in Photo Challenges
Tagged Blue, Hawaii, Kualoa Ranch, London, Louvre, North Shore of Oahu, Olympics, Photo Challenges, photography, photos, postaday, postaweek, Weekly Photo Challenge: Blue
105 Comments
Reflections – An Alternate Photo Challenge
WordPress didn’t publish a Weekly Photo Challenge this Friday, but several other options cropped up in comments on their Daily Post page, and this one I got by invitation! So here are a couple of takes on the alternate theme … Continue reading
Posted in Photo Challenges
Tagged Dartmouth Outing Club, Delaware River, Forbidden City, Loch Ness, Photo Challenges, photography, photos, postaday, postaweek, Scotland, Travel, Trossachs
31 Comments


















You must be logged in to post a comment.