November 29, 2021 at 10:33 pm (Links, Artists and Writers, Surprises, Holidays, Lists, postaday, destinations)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, Christmas, Frida Kahlo, fun, humor, inspiration, Mondays, museums, photo challenge, shopping
Still playing catch-up with the Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC) co-hosted by Cee Neuner and Marsha Ingrao.
Such a fun challenge, self is so happy whenever she gets to post.
Happened to be at the local car-wash, and was amused by some Frida Kahlo items:
These Diego and Frida Christmas ornaments were in the SFMOMA Store:
And finally, further proof (if proof were needed) that Frida Kahlo’s influence is worldwide, these socks were on sale at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK:
Self’s personal favorite is the Frida Kahlo pillow.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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November 29, 2021 at 1:43 pm (destinations, Family, Filipino Writers, Links, Places, postaday)
Tags: Carlos Bulosan, memories, Mondays, nostalgia, photo challenge, Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo
The host of the Water, Water Everywhere Challenge is Jez.
Pismo Beach was the emptiest she’d ever seen it, one day in mid-August.
Pismo Beach is important to self’s emotional life, not just because son attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and was here a lot: because Carlos Bulosan wrote a harrowing story about being a migrant worker here (in the 1940s) and feeling cold and isolated and weary.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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November 24, 2021 at 2:01 am (destinations, Flowers, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, Cee Neuner, France, Garden, Ireland, photo challenge
Self is always glad when she can join one of Cee’s Foto Challenges. The theme for this week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC) is reflections or shadows.
She has never seen reflections as sharp as those in Annaghmakerrig Lake, in Ireland. She took these pictures one cold March day.
The final picture is from Monet’s garden at Giverny, which self visited in 2017.
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November 23, 2021 at 5:43 am (destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, favorites, Ireland, memories, Mondays, photo challenge, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, windows
There is a photo challenge to match every mood. And today, Monday, self is in the mood for WINDOWS!
The front doors of the cottages in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig have this half-moon window. Fascinating.
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November 22, 2021 at 5:05 pm (destinations, Flowers, Food and Drink, Holidays, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Christmas, London, memories, Mondays, photo challenge, restaurants, shopping
Catching up, slowly but surely, in the Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC) co-hosted by Cee Neuner and Marsha Ingrao!
Display Windows: Harrod’s, Teatulia, Jenny Kate
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November 19, 2021 at 10:50 pm (destinations, Holidays, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Christmas, Fridays, London, nostalgia, photo challenge
Still playing catch-up with the Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC) co-hosted by Cee Neuner and Marsha Ingrao. From Marsha’s blog, Always Writes:
- Public art encompasses any form of art you see in a public place, large or small, statues, murals, graffiti, gardens, parks, etc. The art should be visible from streets, sidewalks, or outdoor public places. Let your imagination and photographic eye show us diverse samples all over the world.
Self has been feeling quite nostalgic about London. She took these pictures December, 2018. Christmas decorations are public art, right?
She took the picture of gold paper chains through the front window of the London Review Bookshop, one of her favorite hangouts: It’s on Bury Place, off Great Russell Street in Bloomsbury.
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November 18, 2021 at 12:45 am (destinations, Links, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: architecture, England, lens-artists photo challenge, Liverpool, London, memories, museums, photo challenge
This is self’s second post on the same Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Shapes and Designs. Today, she is focusing on architecture.
The London skyline is endlessly fascinating. She took these pictures the last time she was in London, November 2019:
Self has a friend who lives in Manchester. In November 2019, self went to see her, and her friend drove to nearby Liverpool. What fun to walk along the docks! The Museum of Liverpool had a very unusual design.
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November 16, 2021 at 1:06 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: California, Carmel, exhibits, museum, photo challenge, road trip, Sacramento
This challenge brought to you by Photos by Jez.
2021 was the year for road trips. So much to see, oh my bacon!
Self restricted herself to California, but she did see a lot of the Pacific Ocean. And a lot of museums. From two recent trips:
- Ocean Beach, Carmel-by-the-Sea
- Pacific Ocean, by Jennifer Bartlett (American, b. 1941) — permanent collection, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
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November 15, 2021 at 7:16 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: architecture, art, bargains, blogs, California, California history, Carmel, inspiration, Marsha Ingrao, Mondays, photo challenge, pilgrimage, poetry, road trip
Still playing catch-up with the PPAC Challenge! Self spent last weekend in Carmel. One of the main purposes for the visit — aside from meeting an aunt she hadn’t seen in 20 years! — was seeing Robinson Jeffers’ Tor House, which had just re-opened for tours. Self is a lover of gardens, and the garden of the Tor House has been featured in several gardening books she owns.
To get to it from the north (the San Francisco Bay Area), you take 101 south, then 85, then 17 north, and finally pass through Salinas. Driving the 25 miles through Salinas to the Carmel turn-off will take almost an hour, because this area has perennial stop-and-go traffic. You will see fields, many fields! All in all, the drive took self almost 3 hours. She arrived about 15 minutes before the 1 p.m. tour she’d signed up for.
The tour of house and tower takes about an hour. Our guide was David, and he was really good. It will make you weep when you learn that Jeffers bought his lot for something like $200.
The views from Hawk Tower, right next to the house, are spectacular. Watch your step, the stairs are very narrow.
To think Robinson Jeffers built the house and tower all by himself! Tours cost $12.
The house is truly unique. Don’t miss, if you’re in the area.
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November 14, 2021 at 2:47 pm (destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Sundays, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Carmel, Life in Colour, photo challenge, road trip, weekends
Jude from Travel World hosts Life in Colour and this month the colour is Black or Grey.
Self drove south to Carmel yesterday. She was on the 17-Mile Drive in Pebble Beach, the sun was shining, and the ocean views were spectacular. Below, some silhouette shots of Monterey pines and a few weathered, grey rocks.
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