Category Archives: photos

Cosmic Self-Portrait

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What is it? What can you see in it?
Before I tell you, I’d like to hear your ideas about what it is.

(You should be able to click on the photo to enlarge it.)

 

Go HERE to see more clearly what it is I’ve photographed.

Nancy in Swing Time (Kammie’s Fun Foto Challenge, Jan 17, 2019)

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Nancy is the four-year-old daughter of Ellie, who cleans the house I rent in Jan and Feb once a week.  She’s gone from shy to playful and teasing. She didn’t know I was watching for most of this little sequence.  I was in the hammock on the other side of the porch:

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 For Kammie’s Oddball Challenge.

Tree Trimmings: Christmas Ornament of the Day, Dec 17, 2018

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Please join in and show me yours! Put a link in my comments.

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Tree Trimmings, Dec. 16, 2018

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I bought this little ornament in China in 1979. Its face is silk and the rest is hand knitted and assembled. Exquisite workmanship. I bought a box of 8 or 10 of these ornaments, each different. Many I’ve given away over the years, but I have at least three left. I had purchased other wonderful little silk beaded animals when I was in Hong Kong in 1968 and still have some of those as well. I’ll be showing an ornament a day until Christmas.

Family Night with Windup Toys, Dux and Cats

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Click on first photo to view all in larger sizes.

My niece Cintra and great niece Stephanie, forgottenman (Dux), assorted cats and a box of windup toys made for a relaxed and hilarious evening in Eagan, Minnesota.  Tomorrow, back to Missouri.

A Walk Around Town

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“I Spy with My Little Eye. . .”
(A Walk Around Town)

(Click on first photo to enlarge images and read their story.)

 

Setting out
Following the signs.
What can they mean?
Can this be one?
Snake or shard of old ripped canvas?
On the trail again.
More signs
and signs of destruction. Or construction.
a shopping cart and kin.
A greening tricycle,
a bicycle and an old chamber pot,
an almost red wagon,
New porch extension
with evidence of the old one.
and past wild games.
and a stone kid who will never swing in that swing. Unless, perhaps, on Halloween Eve, some trickster relocates him to his desired spot.
And finally, home again.

For Jo’s Monday Walk

Visited Places

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Lots of places here.  To see their story, click on first photo to enlarge all and read the captions, then follow the arrows!!!

We’re off!!!
To mountains
and markets
and meals.
Pyramids,
churches
(whatever appeals.)
Mexico,
plazas
and animal viewings.
Each place that we go
has plenty of viewings.
Film festivals,
of all shapes and sizes,
But wherever we travel to, stray to or roam. The best place we visit is always called home.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: https://ceenphotography.com/2018/10/16/cees-fun-foto-challenge-places-people-visit/

Minding the Mundane

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https://witsend-travel.com/2018/09/21/weekly-photo-challenge-mundane/

Means of Transportation

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From Giant Rubber Duckies and dolphins to drones. From big cars to toy trucks, boats to front-end loaders, horses to wings, everything in the world has a way to move itself around.

For the Wit’s End Challenge: Transportation.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/07/25/rdp-55-travel/

Unusual Shapes

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From the unusual shape of my friend Harriet’s lipstick to my false nail, here are some strange shapes I thought might work for this prompt of “Unusual Shapes.”

For the Photo Challenge: Unusual Shape.