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Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Change of Seasons

Friday night in Laura and James’ living room, I was telling them what the weekly photo challenge was.

Laura said, “I have pumpkins on the front porch and Christmas decorations in a box.” So I went out onto the front porch but when I saw the neighbor’s Christmas lights and a mini-bus drove by, I knew I had the shot for the Change of Seasons challenge.

Change of Seasons. And the temperature is 50 degrees making it feel like a Spring evening.

Change of seasons


Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

This week’s challenge is reflections and to see more responses to the challenge, click here

mary and me - at the Cuban Restaurant

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful

Thankful for Family. There is much to be thankful for but I feel this sums it up for me.

If you are a follower of the blog you’ve seen this photograph from last August when Matthew was back from Croatia.

Just one photo in response to this challenge.

We aren’t in the same geographic location this Thanksgiving so I am reposting the summer family shot when could be together!


Weekly Photo Challenge: Green

Emeralds. Emerald City.  The color of money. And some mold.

Green as the grass. Green as ecologically sound.  Green seems the color of Spring.

I’ve already shown my Green eggs on a spork for Dr. Seuss day (the ham was regular pink!)

The weekly photo challenge often inspires me to shoot specifically for the challenge but today it was archives except for the dresses on display last night at the Fairfield Commons Mall out side Dayton, Ohio.


Weekly Photo Challenge: Renewal

The Weekly Photo Challenge: Renewal.

Autumn offers no crocuses or tiny redbud blooms on trees. I thought of library books and contracts, being signed up for a team.  Commitment.

Everything is preparing for dormancy, dropping beautiful  gold and orange leaves in gutters like crazy.  There is a sense of approaching winter, the urge to cocoon, make soup.  And then the temperature is in the 60s and predicted 70 for Sunday. One day you are making up your bed with flannel sheets, boiling water for tea, making chili or soup.  The next day you are ripping off your sweater and sporting a cotton T.  The fluctuations feel strange and off.

As I left school, this is what I saw…

The fresh pine cones dangling for the pine trees branches, bobbing in the wind and the late day sunlight shining right on them said renewal to me.

Everything has been focused on the vibrant palette of the deciduous trees but look at this magnificent coniferous tree!


Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry

for Mr. Swanger……

The weekly prompt  suggested a tight crop, an abstract, perhaps some architectural lines of buildings.  Hmmm.  Here is my series in response to geometry.

 

I’m thinking parallel lines never meet.  And then the intersecting lines, plotting points.

I loved geometry and the love of it came from the teacher whom I remember so well this evening as I write this post: Geometry.

I’m thinking of one of the best teachers I ever had- Mr. Swanger, in Morristown High School, New Jersey. I’m sure you have memorable teachers whom you remember, too.

Did a quick search and found this wonderful tribute in the Morris Educational Foundation publication.

Here is an excerpt and a link to the information about Saul Swanger Fellowship for New Teachers 

“its purpose is “to encourage effective, innovative new teachers to pursue a lifetime of excellence in public education through the award of professional development fellowships, which help them to explore a professional passion, to pursue a course of study and/or undertake activities which would not otherwise be possible.” 

The Legacy of Saul S. Swanger

Whether it was flipping the chalk over his shoulder onto the top rim of the blackboard, his tests with humorous problems about Stanislaus and his incorrigible younger brother Whatalouse, the sweet smell of his pipe smoke, or the warmth with which he embraced all of his students, Saul Swanger is remembered fondly by many generations of MHS alumni.

Mr. Swanger began his teaching career in 1938, teaching English, Ancient History, American History, Sociology, Latin, Spanish, Algebra, and Geometry in a schoolhouse in Claytonia, Nebraska, which was home to students in grades K-12. He came to MHS in 1944 and remained for forty years, thirty of them as Chairman of the Math Department. Immediately prior to his retirement in 1984, the MHS Honor Society changed its name to the Saul S. Swanger Chapter of the National Honor Society.

When asked about his proudest moments, Mr. Swanger said, “Because I continue to live in the same town where I taught, hardly a week goes by without my meeting a former student whom I taught (or whose children or grandchildren I taught), usually to exchange warm and often humorous memories. At times like these, I remember the words of Henry Adams:

‘A teacher affects infinity. He can never tell where his influence stops.’”

In a speech before the Middle States Evaluating Committee, which was reviewing the continued accreditation of MHS, Mr. Swanger spoke of young teachers as “noble and radiant with hope for the future.” He went on to speak of

“teachers who have been able to produce shafts of light,illuminating the darkness…to communicate their love of learning and enlist their students in what they consider the glorious lifelong adventure of learning.” 

 

 

 


Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign

The Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign  was enough to make me scramble-  find Croatian photos from my trip visiting Matthew about 4 years ago.


Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette

The wordpress weekly photo challenge is Silhouette.  When I hear that word I think of the little black paper cut- outs of children’s profiles mounted in a black oval frame.  They used to be popular and hanging in homes.  But yesterday I was photographing this display of bras created for October- Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The wind was brisk and it started to rain.  The bras hung on a metal tree sculpture at American Eagle campus on the South Side, Pittsburgh, were blowing like flags.  This photo is unretouched and is in color but looks black and white without any adjustments.

Last year there were thousands of bras strung across the adjacent Hot Metal Bridge which I posted.

A reminder to schedule a an overdue mammogram.

A time to think of all of those who battle this disease, family and friends we know and love.

And a snippet of video to show the wind and rain effect on the scene…

Bras in the Wind


Weekly Photo Challenge: Big

Weekly Photo Challenge: Big and the photo example was a ten foot long cheese.

A guest blogger today- my son Mark took this photo of Murphy by using forced perspective, making him appear BIG.  Mark had been reading about forced perspective in Imagineering Disney brochures describing  how this is done at the Disney Theme Parks.  I tried the technique today with Flat Ruthie 


Weekly Photo Challenge: What Makes Me Happy?

The weekly photo challenge this week is a multi-photo challenge using one of the new gallery formats that WordPress  created.  The suggestion was to include a gallery of nine photos.  I was talking on the phone with my friend V and she said Oh, that’s an easy one.   Your family!

I added fireworks and raspberries for celebration and summertime. Seeing Michael so happy receiving a medal at a dive meet this summer made my nine photos tally an even dozen.

 

The family numbers added up quickly.    I decided to  show what really makes me happiest!

Witnessing my family love one another. Watching Erika enjoy her children ride the Merry-Go-Round at the zoo, James catching Laura in his arms, celebrating Anna’s First Holy Communion weekend with the family. And Steve playing with the grandkids.

All of these photos make a mom’s heart sing.


Weekly Photo Challenge: Mine

This week’s photo challenge is MINE. The first photo is someone else’s MINE.

 

The second part of the post are MINE- my feet in the hammock on the porch, my shadow, my view from the front porch, my coffee ice cream cone, my junk drawer contents, my fancy toaster I received on my 50th- a self-portrait of stuff.

 Nothing illustrates the Weekly Challenge of Mine better than the following phenomenon.  In Pittsburgh when it snows, everyone reserves the parking space they shoveled.  The most popular place holder?  A chair!  No one dare move it.  Fortunately I have a driveway.  Parking in the snow is serious business around the city and the chair screams MINE!!!

To see other entries for this week’s challenge you can click this link

And now for personal posts of mine.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life

Everyday life.

Selected a dozen shots for this Weekly Photo Challenge. The photographer who created this challenge,  Jon Sanwell, suggests walking around and shooting people in a variety of settings throughout the day. One of my decisions was to mix it up, peopled and unpeopled shots but the trace of humanity in the unpeopled shots.

What I documented-

Walk the dogs, cook breakfast, make coffee, catch the school bus, sit in traffic,  run out of milk and go to the market, home repairs (thanks to Andy’s father’s screws and nails collection in her basement ceiling)feed the dog, put out the trash, buy a lottery ticket, gather with the family,dine with friends.  Everyday life can be so fine.

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Fellow bloggers respond to the challenge here

Trackbacks & Pingbacks

  1. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « Express with Photos
  2. ¡A por un café matinal! « La Mandraka
  3. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « Flickr Comments
  4. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « e-Shibin
  5. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « MaanKind
  6. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « Ruined for Life: Phoenix Edition
  7. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life – Joy and Woe
  8. Weekly Photo Challenge – Everyday Life | Alastair’s Blog
  9. Trying to Keep Balanced « Broken Light: A Photography Collective
  10. Everyday life: Rainy day (weekly photo challenge) | Cardinal Guzman
  11. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « Jinan Daily Photo
  12. WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « A year in the Life
  13. weekly photo challenge : everyday life | bodhisattvaintraining
  14. The Weekly Challenge: Everyday Life – Elderly Advice « What’s (in) the picture?
  15. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life | A Little British Pea …
  16. weekly photo challenge: everyday life « Curls n Skirls
  17. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life | Humbled Pie
  18. Friendly faces in unknown places « Detours by Deepali
  19. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « Fenland Photos
  20. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « Beijing Daily Photo 2
  21. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « The Other Courtney
  22. Weekly Photo Challenge : Everyday Life « Les Petits Pas de Juls
  23. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life | Cee’s Life Photography
  24. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life | acieartikulasi
  25. Weekly Photo Challenge – Everyday Life « The Urge To Wander
  26. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life | Wind Against Current
  27. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « wingrish
  28. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life… a day in the life | A barbaric YAWP across the Web
  29. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: EVERYDAY LIFE « Francine In Retirement
  30. Next Stop … | Beyond the Brush
  31. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life On the job « patriciaddrury
  32. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « Jag gör världen vackrare
  33. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « The White Pumpkin Light
  34. Photo Challenge: Everyday Life (Loving Aachen XVI) « A Happy and Beautiful World
  35. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life | 50 Year Project
  36. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « AbstractUnknownBoy
  37. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « Rois
  38. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life II « A Happy and Beautiful World
  39. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life | Creativity Aroused
  40. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life | Lucid Gypsy
  41. Sports to Plants; My Weekly Photo Challenge Everyday Life « danajoward
  42. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life | Etol Thoughts
  43. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « North Highlands Art
  44. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life | Children’s Books & More
  45. Weekly Photo Challenge – Every Day Life Along the Mekong River, Vietnam | Ron Mayhew Photography
  46. Weekly Photo Challenge – Everyday Life | Just Snaps
  47. Weekly photo challenge: Everyday life « Connie’s World
  48. Oh my stew! (aka Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life) | One Not Alone.
  49. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life | a hectic life
  50. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « Jacob Marchio
  51. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life | Stephen Kelly Creative
  52. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « Faye Hicks’s Blog
  53. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « playground of marichu lambino
  54. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life | The Moon Head
  55. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life- Its a Dog’s life! | perceptionsofareluctanthomemaker
  56. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE : EVERYDAY LIFE « beyond toxicity
  57. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « DesignHouse9
  58. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « miljoanne
  59. Weekly Photo Challenge – Everyday Life « Tacts Blog
  60. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday life « Max510′s Blog
  61. Everyday Life « bukaningrat ™
  62. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life [and a Jackie update] | Chronicles of Illusions
  63. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life | Carra Design
  64. Poster, A Markdown And Dropbox-Friendly Blogging App For iPad | Open Knowledge
  65. Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Everyday Life « Heart’s Home
  66. Everyday….Life | Four Deer Oak
  67. Every day life in Minneapolis « the thirdeyeworld
  68. Everyday never the same « elspethc
  69. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « Efrata Denny Saputra Yunus
  70. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life « tacciblog
  71. Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life (Picture + Story) | Mezzaphonically Speaking

Weekly Photo Challenge: Near and Far

When I received an email with the challenge of the week, I read the suggestions about landscape and horizon and  went to find them.

I have a ton of landscape images but suddenly I saw all these photographs in my library with people in them.

Walking somewhere.  And me, following the walkers.  A city far in the distance.   Near and Far.  Here are my interpretations of Near and Far, starring my family, the cities, the Hot Metal Bridge decorated with colorful bras for Breast Cancer Awareness and an unknown marathoner with her pony tail flying.

Photographed in Columbus and Pittsburgh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are at least 100 other bloggers interpretations in the list of ping backs on the Daily Post

 


Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit

This week’s challenge of free spirit was exactly that-  a challenge!

Here’s a gallery of free spirit (to me) as I perused the archives, thinking about the definition.

My interpretations have a wide range of the meaning- including a feral cat, The Angel of the Waters Fountain in Central Park, Andy Warhol, a motorcycle guy choosing to go helmet less-  free spirit not limited to  flower children dancing at Woodstock or Haight Ashbury.   I should have gotten a few of my friends to pose and I don’t have consent to post some shots I already have but I when I think free spirit, they come to mind. Next week is the Art Fair in the Park in Mellon Park Pittsburgh so I’m thinking an opportunity for new images of free spirit.

I found this quote on another blog but when entered this text  it says author unknown-

 ”Free spirits are inclined to explore life and taste new experiences that hold true to the deepest parts of themselves vs. being influenced by what the masses around them are doing. They are often people who think freely and have the courage to hear their own voice and follow their own integrity.”

 

 

 

 

 

One of the feral cats we were able to capture, get fixed and inoculated.  There are two and we feed them on the back porch.  Our neighbor Ann had cats, cats, cats and then moved to a home and then passed away and we inherited the two that called this neighborhood, home.

 

 

Concert goers enter the Altar Bar, a repurposed church in the Strip District of Pittsburgh.

 

 

Italian Festival in Bloomfield.

 

 

Shohei Toyoda performing in Worthington OH

 

 

Angel of the Waters Fountain, Bethesda Terrace, Central Park New York City.  It was featured in the movie Angels in America.  In fact, it’s been featured in many movies.

 

 

 

 

 

You might remember this shot from the Andy Warhol Museum as I was leaving at night, the party was just starting.

Photographer friend Joycie in Grand Central Station. 

 

 

Trackbacks & Pingbacks

  1. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit(s) « « The Great Escape » Life from behind a lens
  2. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE : FREE SPIRIT « beyond toxicity
  3. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit – Joy and Woe
  4. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | Lonely Travelog
  5. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « Flickr Comments
  6. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « Express with Photos
  7. Weekly Photo Challenge – Free Spirit | Just Snaps
  8. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | My Sardinian Life | La Mia Vita Sarda
  9. Free Spirit « Broken Light: A Photography Collective
  10. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « miljoanne
  11. Travel Challenge; Free Spirit « So where’s the snow?
  12. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « Mondrak’s Blog
  13. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | Ohm Sweet Ohm
  14. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirits in Amsterdam « What’s (in) the picture?
  15. Free Spirit « the thirdeyeworld
  16. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « e-Shibin
  17. El espíritu libre de las mariposas « La Mandraka
  18. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | Wind Against Current
  19. Weekly Photo Challenge – Free Spirit | Chittle Chattle
  20. The free spirit of me | thirdeyemom
  21. Lazy waters « Detours by Deepali
  22. Weekly Photo Challenge – Free Spirit « My 2012 Photo Challenge
  23. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | acieartikulasi
  24. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « Efrata Denny Saputra Yunus
  25. Weekly Photo Challenge – Free Spirit « mtlawleyshire
  26. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « Cee’s Life Photography Blog
  27. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « Flying South for the Winter
  28. Weekly photo challenge free spirit « Skaperen
  29. Weekly Photo Challenge – Free Spirit | Just Sara
  30. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « Disorderly Chickadee
  31. Weekly Photo Challenge – Free Spirit | Min lite av varje
  32. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | Wanderings of an Elusive Mind
  33. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | Even A Girl Like Me
  34. Muffins and BBs | Lovin the Trip
  35. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « A Happy and Beautiful World
  36. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | Figments of a DuTchess
  37. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | Lola Jane’s World
  38. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | melvinfancypants
  39. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | Serendipity
  40. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « It’s Just Me
  41. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « The White Pumpkin Light
  42. WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « A year in the Life
  43. Weekly Photo Challenge : Free Spirit « Les Petits Pas de Juls
  44. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: FREE SPIRIT « mywordwall
  45. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | Chronicles of Illusions
  46. Struggling with Project 365 « Designs by Monzie
  47. WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | Local Nomad
  48. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | Piglet in Portugal
  49. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « Last Train to QVille
  50. Weekly photo challenge: Free Spirit « Connie’s World
  51. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | Nizy’s Life Compendium
  52. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | a hectic life
  53. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | Mike Hardisty Photography
  54. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « Healthcare Updates
  55. Weekly Photo Challenge: free spirit « Movin’ on
  56. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « Wilderness Escapades
  57. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « Sin Polaris
  58. Free Spirit: Weekly Photo Challenge | Four Deer Oak
  59. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | travels with toby
  60. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | Carra Design
  61. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « Gobetween Flames
  62. Dreaming (aka Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit) | One Not Alone.
  63. A Spirit Free to Soar | Beyond the Brush
  64. Weekly Photo Challenge – Free Spirit « Tacts Blog
  65. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « Pictures for Froghopper
  66. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « wingrish
  67. Spirit – free or not free? « elspethc
  68. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | perceptionsofareluctanthomemaker
  69. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « Grandmother Musings
  70. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit | Bams’ Blog
  71. Jinan Daily Photo
  72. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « Ruined for Life: Phoenix Edition
  73. Weekly Photo Challenge: FREE SPIRIT (The Smiles of Children) « A drifter off to see the world
  74. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: FREE SPIRIT | Project 365 Challenge in 2012
  75. Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit « A Little British Pea …
 Thanks for looking at the free spirit gallery today and check out fellow bloggers interpretations of the challenge listed above.

 


Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban

I could sift through thousands of urban photographs for this week’s challenge: urban.

There are the suburban shots of the family in my file folders, too.

Choosing a cohesive urban series was my personal challenge. The most searched term on my blog and a true urban image is NYC Rooftops at Night  which I posted in 2009.

I live and work in the city of Pittsburgh, driving across bridges and past demolitions, playgrounds and chain link fences. There are skyscrapers and empty lots. When I visit my sister in lower Manhattan there are  hundreds more images to shoot and file. And why not throw in a couple from Zagreb where Matthew lives?

So much for a cohesive series.  Here are my urban selections for this week’s challenge. A couple will be familiar if you’ve followed me for more than a year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One hundred other bloggers interpretations of URBAN

Trackbacks & Pingbacks

  1. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « e-Shibin
  2. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Fenland Photos
  3. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Flickr Comments
  4. Weekly Photo Challenge – Urban | Chittle Chattle
  5. Weekly Photo Challenge – Urban | Chittle Chattle
  6. Le città e il gioco. 2. | Empire of Lights
  7. Photos by the Dog of a Depressed Woman « Broken Light: A Photography Collective
  8. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE : URBAN « beyond toxicity
  9. Weekly Photo Challenge – Urban | Just Snaps
  10. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban – Downtown Oak Hill, Alabama | Humbled Pie
  11. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban – Joy and Woe
  12. Urbanizando el tiempo « La Mandraka
  13. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Pictures for Froghopper
  14. Weekly Photo Challenge; Urban « So where’s the snow?
  15. Urban Energy « the thirdeyeworld
  16. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Wind Against Current
  17. Weekly Photo Challenge: My Urban Garden | Cardinal Guzman
  18. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « britten
  19. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Figments of a DuTchess
  20. Urbaunite « bukaningrat ™
  21. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « A year in the Life
  22. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « MaanKind
  23. Weekly Photo Challenge – Urbane | Canoe Communications
  24. weekly photo challenge: urban « A Meditative Journey with Saldage
  25. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Efrata Denny Saputra Yunus
  26. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Four Deer Oak
  27. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « matt_pic’s
  28. Weekly Photo Challenge: URBAN « iñigo boy
  29. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Lucid Gypsy
  30. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Lydia Street
  31. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | A barbaric YAWP across the Web
  32. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « picture-bandit
  33. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Disorderly Chickadee
  34. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « A Happy and Beautiful World
  35. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Picturing England
  36. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Children’s Books & More
  37. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | StandingStill
  38. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « danajoward
  39. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | efahmi.info
  40. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban «
  41. Weekly Photo Challenge – Urban « Tacts Blog
  42. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Capture the Moment
  43. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Healthcare Updates
  44. Weekly Photo Challenge: Merge | Thrifty Finn
  45. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Ohm Sweet Ohm
  46. faux statue « primo piano
  47. Urban Flowers (aka Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban) | One Not Alone.
  48. Weekly Photo Challenge: The Red Door « Shelf Life of a Bookseller
  49. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE : URBAN « 2012 – ON THE BENCH
  50. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE : URBAN « 2012 – ON THE BENCH
  51. Two Awesome WordPress Themes For $29 [Deals] | Open Knowledge
  52. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Carra Design
  53. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: URBAN – A slice of Metro Manila « mywordwall
  54. One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish « Detours by Deepali
  55. Weekly Photo Challenge – Urban « mtlawleyshire
  56. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | perceptionsofareluctanthomemaker
  57. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « DesignHouse9
  58. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Lonely Travelog
  59. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Bams’ Blog
  60. Weekly Photo Challenge theme ‘Urban’ | Campanulla Della Anna
  61. Dreaming under the trees « mein27 photoblog
  62. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « JahsWorld
  63. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | My Sardinian Life | La Mia Vita Sarda
  64. The bride in the city…City Explo[it/r]ation, a WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge |
  65. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Project 365 Challenge in 2012
  66. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | R Shad
  67. Challenge photo – Urbain – Paris-Plages « Paris en photographies
  68. urban human « i don’t understand the cattle
  69. Pont Neuf – urbain « Paris en photographies
  70. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Julie Dawn Fox in Portugal
  71. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Rois
  72. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « miljoanne
  73. Weekly Photo Challenge : Urban « Cheryl Andrews
  74. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Insanity at its best!
  75. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Emma’s life unravel
  76. weekly photo challenge: urban « monkeymuesli
  77. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Last Train to QVille
  78. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Monochrome
  79. Weekly photo challenge ~ Urban | holistic complications
  80. The Barrio Of Kitsch « The Urge To Wander
  81. weekly photo challenge : urban | bodhisattvaintraining
  82. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Mirth and Motivation
  83. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | The Blog Farm – A Growing Blog Community
  84. Urban Silhouettes « Ink.
  85. weekly photo challenge : urban (part 2) | bodhisattvaintraining
  86. Weekly Photo Challenge:http://humbledpie.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/this-mornings-commute-across-tampa-bay/ | Humbled Pie
  87. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Olivia May Photography
  88. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Becca’s Photo Blog
  89. Photos Galore! Travel Photo of the Year Contest, Travel Theme – Silhouette, Weekly Photo Challenge – Urban | newsofthetimes
  90. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban Leiden « What’s (in) the picture?
  91. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Wanderings of an Elusive Mind
  92. Urbanite | Beyond the Brush
  93. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Stephen Kelly Creative
  94. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | The Retiring Sort
  95. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Chronicles of Illusions
  96. Urban Rooftops « Broken Light: A Photography Collective
  97. ER, BAN REALLY AWFUL RHYMES? | Colonialist’s Blog
  98. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban « Zain’s Pix & Text
  99. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Photography Journal Blog
  100. Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban | Autumn in Bruge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Merge

This week’s challenge was something to think about on my trip from Pittsburgh to Columbus Friday afternoon.  Sorting through images I had in the archives. (in my mind, obviously)   Nothing jumped out.  And then-

an opportunity presented itself, right in front of me. Standstill traffic.  On Route 70 West, Friday afternoon.

A 3 1/2 hour trip took almost SIX hours to drive today due to congestion from road work and merging to a single lane and perhaps a bad accident that was cleaned up by the time I got to the site.

I saw police and emergency vehicles driving the other direction with lights and sirens.

A truck reflected the sky AND an old fashioned airplane is in the left door panel.  It looks like a bird. The sky seemed to merge with the reflection in the shiny truck.  Nature and machine-made merge.  I waited to merge to the left single lane. Other interpretations of merge are here


Weekly Photo Challenge: Wrong

A flag in tatters.   Montclair, New Jersey.  Corner of Claremont and Valley Road.  A revolutionary marker at the site commemorating George Washington’s Temporary Headquarters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parking on the wrong side of the street, going the opposite direction of traffic.  Some neighborhoods ticket for this offense.

No Cardboard (you may have seen this one before)

No Parking in New York City. Just over the line.

Looks like the light is red but perhaps it was flashing

 

 

 

 

Green Eggs.                                                                And other interpretations for this week’s photo challenge may be seen here

 

 

 

 

 


Weekly Photo Challenge: Purple

What I discovered is I shoot a lot of red.

I blurred my eyes to spot purple in the archives.

Yes, I  made the rainbow jello to photograph.  It took 5 hours. I got the recipe from my daughter Laura who found it on the web here 

The one pictured is not spiked and no one ate it either.  It is still in my freezer to slice and photograph with light coming through the jello like stained glass.

Purple views, white balance setting askew but it works for the challenge.

A compendium of purple.

Fellow bloggers links are at the Daily Post at WordPress. (Thanks to Jo I know how to get on the list now.)

and the cake is by Aubrey’s Bakery in Steubenville Ohio for Justin and Vicky’s wedding


Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

Inside seems simple enough. Until you start to read all the definitions and think about the multi-meanings

Cut and pasted from Your Dictionary - the dictionary you can understand

noun

  1. the part lying within; inner side, surface, or part; interior
  2. the part closest to something specified or implied, as the part of a sidewalk closest to the buildings
  3. INFORMAL the internal organs of the body, as the stomach and intestines

adjective

  1. on or in the inside; internal
  2. of or suited for the inside
  3. working or used indoors; indoor
  4. ☆ known only to insiders; secret or private: the inside story
  5. BASEBALL passing between home plate and the batter

adverb

  1. on or to the inside; within
  2. indoors

 in or to the inside or inner part of

within the limits of: inside an hour

Murphy inside the van looking outside.

Cool enough on Friday to take Murphy to the Post Office so I could mail something.  He WAS in the back seat.  Moved himself up to the passenger seat  while Maura and I were inside and wouldn’t budge for the short trip home.  Yes, I worried about air bag deployment and the seat belt dinging alarm sound the whole way.  We made it. He does have a harness that attaches to a seat belt for car trips.

We were safe inside the house as Mark held the iPad showing the violent storm while I shot the rain and blowing trees outside. This is the storm where Laura and James lost power for 5 days and Marlene and Donald( Roanoke VA) lost it for 8.

Maura waits inside looking outside for the guests.

Here is the inside of the ceramic fruit bowl Mary gave me when I visited her at Easter time.

The Jesus statue contained inside the clear box was photographed on this trip.

Old fashioned hats in Bedford Springs Resort display with the stairway banisters reflected

Challenge- How to show what one is feeling inside?

Check out fellow bloggers posts.  Get the inside scoop.

Trackbacks & Pingbacks

  1. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Lucid Gypsy
  2. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Wind Against Current
  3. Inside aka What’s for Dinner? « Broken Light: A Photography Collective
  4. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « MaanKind
  5. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « My Life In Focus
  6. Delicious Inside « the thirdeyeworld
  7. La máquina del tiempo dentro del pozo | La Mandraka
  8. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « Much Ado About Nothing
  9. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « e-Shibin
  10. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « britten
  11. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « wingrish
  12. WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « A year in the Life
  13. Exploring the inside through the eyes of a child | thirdeyemom
  14. Weekly photo challenge: Inside: BEE AND FLOWER « Pictures in living color
  15. Ruined for Life: Phoenix Edition
  16. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « Fenland Photos
  17. weekly photo challenge: inside « A Meditative Journey with Saldage
  18. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Autumn in Bruges
  19. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « beyondpaisley
  20. Inside: a photographic journey through India & Nepal | Cardinal Guzman
  21. 25th Anniversary Gallery Night and Day | artistisk
  22. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside (out or outside in) « What’s (in) the picture?
  23. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « Jinan Daily Photo
  24. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « Beijing City Photo 2
  25. Weekly Photo Challenge – Inside « The Urge To Wander
  26. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Even A Girl Like Me
  27. Weekly photo challenge: Inside « Alice through the Macro Lens
  28. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « Disorderly Chickadee
  29. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside (Pacific – King Salmon) | Lola Jane’s World
  30. Inside 2 aka Before She was She « Broken Light: A Photography Collective
  31. WPC: Inside | Regina Savy
  32. Weekly Photo Challenge (inside) | robertdickinsonphotography
  33. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Beyond the Brush
  34. Weekly Photo Challenge – Inside | Chittle Chattle
  35. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « Rois
  36. Inside a shop window « Detours by Deepali
  37. Weekly Photo Challenge – Inside | Just Snaps
  38. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « Words And Peace
  39. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: Inside (Churches) « mywordwall
  40. life in a brick « primo piano
  41. Last Thoughts: Inside (the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge) « The Positive Page
  42. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: INSIDE « Francine In Retirement
  43. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Life of Colors
  44. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « Healthcare Updates
  45. Weekly Photo Challenge – Inside « Think Big Much
  46. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Wanderings of an Elusive Mind
  47. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: INSIDE « 2012 – ON THE BENCH
  48. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Four Deer Oak
  49. Photo Journal/ Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside «
  50. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Nature in the Burbs
  51. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « warmhotchocolate
  52. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « The World According to Me…
  53. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside, Take Two | Wind Against Current
  54. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « The Sacred Cave
  55. Weekly Photo Challenge – Inside the Mangosteen « The Wanderlust Gene
  56. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Jaajaabor
  57. Weekly Photo Challenge : Inside | Greg Mulvaney
  58. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Creativity Aroused
    1. Summer Spring Birthday Cake « The Era I lived in
    2. Weekly WordPress Photo Challenge: Inside #2 – Window to SF, Art Deco Treasure Island Building | Lola Jane’s World
    3. Inside « bukaningrat ™
    4. [1: 691 of 10,000] Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « It Takes 10K
    5. Weekly photo challenge: Inside « Connie’s World
    6. Weekly Photo Challenge: INSIDE « digital catharsis
    7. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « YSalma
    8. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Bams’ Blog
    9. Weekly Photo Challenge “Inside” | Campanulla Della Anna
    10. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Lonely Travelog
    11. Weekly Photo Challenge; Inside « So where’s the snow?
    12. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside (Take 2) « Fenland Photos
    13. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | acieartikulasi
    14. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « Do You See What I See??
    15. A variation: Two…er…challenges with one shot. Don’t say it! |
    16. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « heartfelt images
    17. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « rondomtaliedraai
    18. weekly photo challenge: inside « a nomad in the land of nizwa
    19. Weekly Photo Challenge INSIDE | Project 365 Challenge in 2012
    20. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « Efrata Denny Saputra Yunus
    21. Weekly Photo Challenge – Inside 2 | Just Snaps
    22. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside (II) « Healthcare Updates
    23. Inside (Lucca) – Weekly photo challenge | Adventures of a Carry-on
    24. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: Inside – woven decor
    25. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Jumbled Contents Of My Head
    26. Inside: El Drugstore (Weekly Photo Challenge) « aparnanairphotography
    27. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « A Happy and Beautiful World
    28. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | perceptionsofareluctanthomemaker
    29. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « thepurpledogpaintingblog
    30. Weekly Photo Challenge (Inside) « janna hill
    31. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Anotherdayinparadise2′s Blog
    32. WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Local Nomad
    33. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside (22.07.2012) « 365+
    34. The Inside Workings « theREmissionary
    35. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « Cee’s Life Photography Blog
    36. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « Last Train to QVille
    37. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Chronicles of Illusions
    38. lemon lavender « yi-ching lin photography
    39. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | that cynking feeling
    40. Inside The Unbearable Existence of a Key – Paris Noir « Ink.
    41. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside « The Quotidian Hudson
    42. Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | Here & Abroad

Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming

Dreaming-

definitions 3 and 4

a wild fancy or hope

a condition or achievement that is longed for; an aspiration

 

 

Not a long exposure photo as suggested by the challenge originator, but I took this picture Saturday morning at the T-Ball game and saw that line of little legs and shoes dangling, not long enough to reach the dirt.

Field of Dreams.  Dreaming of the big leagues, the hits, the runs. A double play.  A perfect pitch. Bases loaded. A championship, a home run, safe.

Fellow Bloggers interpretations of the weekly photo challenge are so different.

Trackbacks & Pingbacks

  1. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « wingrish
  2. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « e-Shibin
  3. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | Wind Against Current
  4. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dream « Much Ado About Nothing
  5. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | Lonely Travelog
  6. Weekly Photo Challenge – Dreaming (and a bit of flash fiction) | Four Deer Oak
  7. Photo Challenge: Dreaming « Detours by Deepali
  8. Dreaming « bukaningrat ™
  9. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | Andy in Oman
  10. ¿Soñando de nuevo? | La Mandraka
  11. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « Fenland Photos
  12. Dreaming « Broken Light: A Photography Collective
  13. Weekly Photo Challenge – Dreaming
  14. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « beyondpaisley
  15. Weekly Photo Challenge – Dreaming « The Urge To Wander
  16. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | Chronic Illness Champions
  17. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming… | Figments of a Dutchess
  18. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « Words And Peace
  19. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | Lucid Gypsy
  20. Weekly Photo Challenge – Dreaming | Just Snaps
  21. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming – USA « Wanderlustress
  22. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « Cee’s Life Photography Blog
  23. Weekly Photo Challenge – Dreaming | Chittle Chattle
  24. Weekly Photo Challenge: DREAMING « iñigo boy
  25. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | Stories of My Wandering Feet (& Mind)
  26. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « Incidentally
  27. Photography as political medium / political commentary… | Cardinal Guzman
  28. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | Manic Monday
  29. Dream: Once Upon a Japanese Wedding (Weekly Photo Challenge) « aparnanairphotography
  30. Lennox | The Eco and the Id
  31. The Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreams | thirdeyemom
  32. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « the thirdeyeworld
  33. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | a hectic life
  34. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | Creativity Aroused
  35. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | colderweather
  36. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « Disorderly Chickadee
  37. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « Healthcare Updates
  38. Weekly Photo Challenge – Dreaming | Shambolic Living
  39. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | Jaajaabor
  40. Last thoughts: Dreaming (the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge) « The Positive Page
  41. A Dreamy Effect « JF Records
  42. Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Dreaming « Heart’s Home
  43. Weekly Challenge: Dreaming | The Sasu Post
  44. Weekly Photo Challenge: DREAMING « digital catharsis
  45. Dreaming of a Grand Entrance « Just Fletcher
  46. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming (Mysterious Dreams) « Fenland Photos
  47. In the Grass | Empire of Lights
  48. Weekly photo challenge: Dreaming | murphy se wet
  49. weekly photo challenge : dreaming | bodhisattvaintraining
  50. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « Ben Williams’ World
  51. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | blueberriejournal
  52. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming… | Mirth and Motivation
  53. Weekly Photo Challenge : Dreaming « a weirder fetish
  54. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | Bams’ Blog
  55. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « Gobetween Flames
  56. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | Even A Girl Like Me
  57. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « maldita matilda
  58. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « MaanKind
  59. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « Dd16591569′s Blog
  60. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming… | The Blog Farm – A Growing Blog Community
  61. Photo Journal/ Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming «
  62. Dreaming with eyes wide open « MindBlur
  63. Weekly Photo Challenge x3: Food, Adventure & Dreaming « Canadiantravelbugs’s Blog
  64. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « Shutter bug
  65. Weekly Photo Challenge; Dreaming « So where’s the snow?
  66. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | Autumn in Bruges
  67. Weekly Photo Challenge:Dreaming | andTisfor Travel, Tomorrow, Tony & Tara
  68. lit « yi-ching lin photography
  69. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « mtlawleyshire
  70. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | Children’s Books & More
  71. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « Capture the Moment
  72. weekly photo challenge: dreaming « a nomad in the land of nizwa
  73. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: DREAMING « Francine In Retirement
  74. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « danikurniawan
  75. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming (Day Dreams) « Fenland Photos
  76. Weekly photo challenge: DREAMING « Pictures in living color
  77. Weekly Photo Challenge ‘Dreaming’ « Gerry’s Space.
  78. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | IsobelandCat’s Blog
  79. Dreaming « Life in the Bogs
  80. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « Rois
  81. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | The Retiring Sort
  82. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « Rhianna’s Guide to Ethical Eating
  83. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | One step at a time
  84. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming | The Way I Live Naturally
  85. sleeping on a dream « primo piano
  86. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « Jinan Daily Photo
  87. Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming « Form Your Troika
  88. weekly photo challenge: dreaming « A Meditative Journey with Saldage

Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement

Four images.  Fourth of July.  Starting with………….

Fourth of July Parade with Ballerinas just before noon in a sweltering heat, a blazing sun, scorching pavement…..okay, enough descriptors.It was hot hot hot. Or should I say HOT HOT HOT. (sorry, Arrow) Today we were all practically listless.  Laura and James power is back on after five days but Marlene and Donald have been without power for a whole week and hope tomorrow is the day.  So the holiday took a different turn than planned as I wrote before.  The evening was a challenge as I tried to shoot the sparklers with a slow shutter speed.-

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and for the sparkler portion of the evening.   I sure wish I realized I had brought my tripod in the back of the car.

Found it there today when loading up some groceries.

Laura was on the move with her sparkler

Erika gets her sparkler moving too.

Daddy Mark puts on a sparkler show for the kids as they watch the fireworks over the pine trees.  It was a fun time and a great birthday party.

The Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement as interpreted by fellow bloggers

Trackbacks & Pingbacks

  1. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « e-Shibin
  2. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « Photo By Holly
  3. En Movimiento noche y día | La Mandraka
  4. Movement « Broken Light: A Photography Collective
  5. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « wingrish
  6. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « Disorderly Chickadee
  7. Weekly Photo Challenge – Movement…kind of! « Dave Farmer
  8. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement | Four Deer Oak
  9. WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « A year in the Life
  10. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « The Neophyte Photographer
  11. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement | Lonely Travelog
  12. Weekly Photo Challenge – Movement « The Urge To Wander
  13. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement | acieartikulasi
  14. The Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « the thirdeyeworld
  15. weekly photo challenge: movement « A Meditative Journey with Saldage
  16. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « Fenland Photos
  17. The Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement | thirdeyemom
  18. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « maldita matilda
  19. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « artistisk
  20. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « beyondpaisley
  21. Calico Diary
  22. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « MaanKind
  23. Weekly Photo Challenge: MOVEMENT « digital catharsis
  24. Movements to a folksy beat « Detours by Deepali
  25. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « Mike Hardisty Photography
  26. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement | Even A Girl Like Me
  27. Weekly Photo Challenge – Movement « My 2012 Photo Challenge
  28. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement | A Little British Pea …
  29. Movement…in anticipation. Weekly photo challenge from WordPress |
  30. Weekly photo challenge: movement « Today’s post by Eleanor Marriott
  31. Weekly Photo Challenge – Movement | Just Snaps
  32. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « Cee’s Life Photography Blog
  33. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement | The Sasu Post
  34. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement | mothergrogan
  35. WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Movement in Tae Kwon Do class | Lola Jane’s World
  36. Weekly Photo Challenge – Movement | Chittle Chattle
  37. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « Picturing England
  38. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement | Creativity Aroused
  39. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « Do You See What I See??
  40. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement | Lucid Gypsy
  41. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement | Beyond the Brush
  42. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « Traveler’s Lounge
  43. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « Rois
  44. Weekly Photo Challenge “Movement” | Campanulla Della Anna
  45. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement | Figments of a Dutchess
  46. Weekly Photo Challenge (Movement) « A Happy and Beautiful World
  47. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: MOVEMENT « Francine In Retirement
  48. Last Thoughts: Movement (The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge) « The Positive Page
  49. weekly photo challenge : movement | bodhisattvaintraining
  50. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: MOVEMENT « 2012 – ON THE BENCH
  51. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement | a hectic life
  52. Weekly Photo Challenge ‘Movement’ « Gerry’s Space.
  53. Photo Journal/ Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement – The 3 Doors Down Concert in Vegas «
  54. Weekly Photo Challenge – Movement
  55. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « Healthcare Updates
  56. Weekly Photo Challenge (Movement) « ayooutloud
  57. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement | Jaajaabor
  58. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement | Children’s Books & More
  59. Doodlekit Or WordPress? For novices Choose Tumblr | Open Knowledge
  60. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « Simple Photos of Everyday Life
  61. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement « The World According to Me…
  62. Weekly Photo Challenge : Movement ~ Train from Solo | Blog Kemaren Siang
  63. Weekly photo challenge: Movement « Pictures in living color
  64. Weekly photo challenge: Movement « allaboutwordswa
  65. Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement… | Mirth and Motivation

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Create

Limiting myself to a single image, shot on my iPhone at school.  I like to document their artwork.

Teaching art to K-8 students, I had many choices.

I am posting this first grader’s response to the question What is Your Favorite Thing About School? 

Here are some fellow bloggers responses to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Create

Trackbacks & Pingbacks

  1. WordPress Photo Challenge: Create « A year in the Life
  2. Weekly Photo Challenge – Create | Chittle Chattle
  3. Weekly Photo Challenge – Create | Just Snaps
  4. Not Average Enough
  5. Photo Challenge: Create your own aquarium | La Mandraka
  6. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create – Mexico « Wanderlustress
  7. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « Ruined for Life: Phoenix Edition
  8. Create: Urban Decay (Weekly Photo Challenge) « aparnanairphotography
  9. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create | Four Deer Oak
  10. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create | Figments of a Dutchess
  11. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create | Wind Against Current
  12. Weekly Photo Challenge – Create | Creative Hotch Potch
  13. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « Healthcare Updates
  14. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « Last Train to QVille
  15. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « The Urge To Wander
  16. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create | Creativity Aroused
  17. Create « Broken Light: A Photography Collective
  18. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « Words And Peace
  19. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « Cee’s Life Photography Blog
  20. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « Beijing City Photo 2
  21. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create | Andy in Oman
  22. Weekly Photo Challenge – Create – Just a lil’ lost…
  23. weekly photo challenge: create « The potato blog
  24. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « mariesophoto
  25. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « weird & cool stuff seen while out & about
  26. Weekly Photo Challenge – Create II « The Urge To Wander
  27. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « artistisk
  28. Last Thoughts: Create (the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge) « The Positive Page
  29. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « Portugal in Pictures
  30. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create | a hectic life
  31. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « The World According to Me…
  32. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: CREATE « Francine In Retirement
  33. Wilderness Escapades « Escapade – an adventure that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct
  34. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create | bekahdu handmade
  35. graffiti « primo piano
  36. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « Tacts Blog
  37. The Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « the thirdeyeworld
  38. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « colderweather
  39. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create | Mae East
  40. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create | thirdeyemom
  41. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « e-Shibin
  42. Weekly Photo Challenge: Create « FLYNN’s Posts
  43. weekly photo challenge: create « a nomad in the land of nizwa
  44. weekly photo challenge: create « whatever a moon has always meant
  45. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: Create – Rosettes « mywordwall

 

 

 

 


Weekly Photo Challenge: Close

Godmother and Goddaughter- (Lala in her Cheesecake Factory days with the tie)

More than close being “near- meaning very little space between”  I was choosing based on close “as in relationship and feeling.”

Brothers toasting before a wedding.

And 100 fellow bloggers define close in photography in a variety of ways.  Check some out!

Trackbacks & Pingbacks

  1. Close: A French Couple (Weekly Photo Challenge) « aparnanairphotography
  2. WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « A year in the Life
  3. Weekly Photo Challenge – Close | Chittle Chattle
  4. Weekly Phot Challenge – Close « Teepe’s weblog
  5. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Fenland Photos
  6. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | Tay in Europe
  7. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « FLYNN’s Posts
  8. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « rg riles writes rigorously
  9. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | Wind Against Current
  10. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | Creativity Aroused
  11. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « The Urge To Wander
  12. Weekly Photo Challenge – Close | Just Snaps
  13. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close – Mexico « Wanderlustress
  14. Close « bukaningrat ™
  15. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « mariesophoto
  16. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Words And Peace
  17. Weekly Photo Challenge: A moment to be close | La Mandraka
  18. Weekly photo challenge, my first time… | Not Average Enough
  19. Not Average Enough
  20. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close, Take Two | Wind Against Current
  21. Close | Figments of a Dutchess
  22. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | Bebe’s Kitchen
  23. Close « Broken Light: A Photography Collective
  24. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « artistisk
  25. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | colderweather
  26. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Rois
  27. The Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | thirdeyemom
  28. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Transplantednorth’s Blog
  29. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « weird & cool stuff seen while out & about
  30. בוקר טוב – Good morning! « Cardinal Guzman
  31. The Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « the thirdeyeworld
  32. Weekly Photo Challenge: CLOSE « Ink.
  33. The Weekly Photo Challenge: Close (take 2) | thirdeyemom
  34. Last thoughts: Close (the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge) « The Positive Page
  35. Too Close | Figments of a Dutchess
  36. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « acieartikulasi
  37. Weekly Photo Challenge – Close – Just a lil’ lost…
  38. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | The Way I Live Naturally
  39. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Healthcare Updates
  40. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | a hectic life
  41. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « The World According to Me…
  42. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Disorderly Chickadee
  43. Close.. « piran café
  44. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Tacts Blog
  45. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | StandingStill
  46. “Weekly Photo Challenge: Close” « Zeebra Designs & Destinations
  47. Four Deer Oak
  48. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | Lonely Travelog
  49. Just for Shits & Giggles: WordPress Photo Challenge: Close | Divine Lunacy
  50. Just for Shits & Giggles: WordPress Photo Challenge: Close | Divine Lunacy
  51. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Knitting, reading, photography, and maybe more
  52. Just a Simple Warning: Don’t Get Close to this Bored Cockatoo Bird! « Simply Charming
  53. Weekly Photo Challenge CLOSE | Project 365 Challenge in 2012
  54. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Colour Me Happy
  55. Weekly photo challenge ~ Close | holistic complications
  56. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | My Sardinian Life | La Mia Vita Sarda
  57. Weekly Photo Challenge – Close « Just Fletcher
  58. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « mudpieville
  59. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « The Sacred Cave
  60. Weekly Photo Challenge:Close « So where’s the snow?
  61. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Monochrome
  62. Weekly photo challenge: Close « Alice through the Macro Lens
  63. Weekly Photo Challenge “Close” | Campanulla Della Anna
  64. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « MaanKind
  65. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « The Incredible Lightness of Seeing
  66. Weekly Photo Challenge: CLOSE… | Mirth and Motivation
  67. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Mike Hardisty Photography
  68. Weekly Photo Challenge – Close « This…That…. and whatever else I can think of…
  69. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Inside Out Cafe
  70. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Misk Cooks
  71. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Beijing City Photo 2
  72. Weekly Photo Challenge : Close | Selaksa Kata
  73. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « sianakdesa
  74. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | Nature in the Burbs
  75. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « jeff sinon photography
  76. Laid back cat | Pseu’s Blog
  77. Photo Challenge : Close « a weirder fetish
  78. Weekly Photo Challenge: CLOSE (Ground&Sky) « A drifter off to see the world
  79. Weekly photo challenge: CLOSE (Brother and Sister) « Pictures in living color
  80. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | Mae East
  81. Weekly challenge: Close | Anotherdayinparadise2′s Blog
  82. Weekly Photo Challenge : Close « Mystiic
  83. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Cee’s Life Photography Blog
  84. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | A Number of Things
  85. Vacation Bits 15: Jed’s Island Resort (part 4) Weekly Photo Challenge: CLOSE « iñigo boy
  86. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE : CLOSE « 2012 – ON THE BENCH
  87. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | Chronicles of Illusions
  88. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « scrapydo
  89. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | Ingset’s Blog
  90. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | Heart Renovation
  91. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « blastedgoat
  92. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Canadiantravelbugs’s Blog
  93. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « heartfelt images
  94. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close | One step at a time
  95. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Hurtled to 60 and Now Beyond…
  96. Weekly Photo Challenge – Close « The Wanderlust Gene
  97. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Observations
  98. Flaming June | Pseu’s Blog
  99. Weekly Photo Challenge: Close « Last Train to QVille
  100. close-up « yi-ching lin photography


Weekly Photo Challenge: Friendship

The sunflowers are a gift from a friend.

This photograph was taken in the art room today on my iPhone.  Most of the middle schoolers were on a trip. After lunch I had a few who didn’t get to attend.  This wonderful painting was created by a young man named Scott.  He painted the sunflowers a friend had brought me.

I didn’t want to leave the flowers at home alone so took them with me to school. They were so vibrant and summery.

Oh, the unexpected surprise of the gift of flowers from a good friend.

Friday after school,  I put the bouquet on the front seatand when I arrived at my son and DIL’s home  and took them out of the car, my granddaughter ran down the hill of the front yard to greet me and said excitedly when she saw them, “Oh we studied that artist! ”  Later in the craft store she picked up a Starry Night Umbrella and told me it was the same artist as the Sunflowers. She’s 8 1/2 and just completed second grade Tuesday.

Thanks for the flowers, friend.  I thought it would cheer you to see them in Scott’s painting.

(And that eyeball glaring from the chair is from the cover of a book that belongs to Scott’s classmate and friend, J, who told me he has checked out the photos on this blog!  Cool. )

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