Just walking around, admiring other’s gardening efforts. Capturing the colorful blossoms on my phone. Thinking about tackling my unwanted thistle crop. Appreciating the summer flowers tended by neighbors.
Begonias on Bryant Street
My neighbor’s Clematis
Bleeding hearts.
Clematis from my car window at the Waterfront
Drive from the Austin airport to the hotel
Depended on the turn of the cab and the changing sunlight coming into the window.
Weekly photo challenge LandscapeSome from train, car or plane window
Amtrak view in Pennsylvania
Rest area in Ohio from a car window
State Capitol building from the train in Harrisburg
Allegheny River and bridges with PNC Park behind
Breakfast in the Strip –
From a plane window in January 
From my sister’s apartment window
Through windshield at a red light in the Strip District
Through a windshield
From Amtrak- Pennsylvania
Sunset from Amtrak window- Almost NYC
First time using the iPhone camera, too. I was driving but told him how to do it.
The center of our state. We were headed to Pittsburgh from Philadelphia, 380 miles.
Pennsylvania farmlands just before sunset.
From the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
A guest blog with Steve’s photographs. 
Heinz History Center- downtown Pittsburgh
A sampling of the exhibit. I went with the Retired Teachers after a luncheon at Lidia’s.
Memories of childhood in America.
Here are a few-Erector sets and Tinker Toys. Lincoln Logs. Slinky and Etch-a-Sketch, Pac Man and Star Wars. Barbie dolls and GI Joe. Mr. Potato Head and trolls. Spirograph and Cootie. Howdy Doody, Hopalong Cassidy and Roy Rogers.
Maybe you’ll recognize one of your toys from your childhood.
Allegheny Cemetery. Pittsburgh PA. Saturday afternoon.
I had to pull over and put my flashers on and try to catch a couple of shots.
They ran like lightning. From what or to where I don’t know.
The structure you see is the mausoleum.
I never saw anything like this herd running. I missed the first group.
I cropped to try to give you a better sense of my experience.
“Sometimes, we get caught up in nostalgia, future fantasy, or both, and we don’t embrace the “now.” For this week’s challenge, take a moment to notice your present, and share a photo of it.”
Embracing the “now” as I returned home this afternoon.
Took a moment. Noticed my present. Sharing a photo of it.
Dirty dishes in the sink and an empty eggnog container to rinse and recycle.
Spotted during Thanksgiving vacation as we were entering the Brooklyn Museum. There are similar cars in Berlin and Australia and the artist Ai Weiwei is tweeting when new locations for Lego donations are set up.
Only after I photographed it, read and researched the reason for the Lego donations for Ai Weiwei’s artworks did I realize there was a controversy.
The manufacturer of Lego in Denmark refused to supply a bulk order of lego bricks for his artwork due to the nature of his artworks’ political messages. Here is an article in The Atlantic and you can read about the controversy here
Sunday afternoon I was still thinking about how to best illustrate Transition in a single image. The “yarn to knitted hat” photo was well received. What else could I depict to show transition?
Talking about it with my sister, she suggested the ice cube.
I was hoping to get a lone droplet falling off but this one is about to drop. 
In my sisters kitchen, New York.
Photographing ice reminded me of trying to photograph glass so it doesn’t look blah.
I like responding to the challenges and seeing how others interpret the same theme.
A single image was my goal.
(The hat pattern is Sockhead Hat by Kelly McClure on Ravelry)