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
Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC) # 15: Window Displays, London
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
Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC) # 12: Gardens & Art
November 13, 2021 at 2:17 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Flowers, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: art, California, Gardens, Golden Gate Park, museums, photo challenge, San Francisco, Stanford
Self is waaaaay behind but she’s still manfully posting. Someday she will catch up.
For this PPAC Challenge, self wanted to focus on outdoor art.
Stanford campus is full of outdoor art, but this one, in a grove of oak trees near the entrance to the Anderson Collection, really spoke to her.
Reaching Toward Warmer Suns by Kiyan Williams
This one’s just outside the de Young Museum café, in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. She doesn’t know who the artists are. An interview with the designer of the sculpture garden talks about the concept of the design, but not the individual artists whose works are pictured, which is a crying shame.
Finally, a little garden shed in a very wee garden store in Woodside. Self will just keep the name of the store to herself for now, but it’s been featured in Architectural Digest, and ever since then, it’s been impossible to find parking, unless you go right at store opening.
Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC) #11: Murals
November 6, 2021 at 6:10 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Flowers, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Places, plans, postaday)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, murals, photo challenge, Redwood City, restaurants, Saturdays
YAY! Self went out this morning with her camera, determined to find something for the Photographing Public Art Challenge. She had a particular destination in mind: a clump of murals facing a downtown parking lot which is usually crammed with cars and people, impeding her access to the art.
This morning, there were a few cars, but she was able to keep them to a small part of the photograph.
Each mural represents the business the building houses: Crouching Tiger is a Chinese restaurant; the black mural building houses City Pub; Pickled is a women’s clothing store, and so forth.
Past Squares 23: Liverpool, November 2019
October 30, 2021 at 12:47 pm (destinations, Explorers, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Surprises, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Chinese food, discoveries, England, life of B, Liverpool, memories, museums, photo challenge, restaurants
The Past Squares Challenge ends tomorrow. Becky, who hosts the challenge from Life of B, announced that the next Challenge will be in February.
The very best Chinese food in Liverpool is directly across from the Liverpool Cathedral. Self has a friend who moved to Manchester, and this friend knows all the BEST Chinese restaurants in Manchester and Liverpool.
The Museum of Liverpool, on Albert Dock, is one of those must-sees. And here is self! Who rarely appears in pictures! She’s wearing a hat given to her by a friend in Philadelphia, who told her this would be the only way to survive an English winter! Thanks much, Anne-Adele!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Next: England’s Magnificent Gardens, by Roderick Floud
October 19, 2021 at 1:04 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Food and Drink, Recommended, Surprises)
Tags: COVID Reading, England, Gardens, history, reading lists, Shakespeare
Shakespeare, writing between 1590 and 1612, does not mention “peach” except as a colour . . .
England’s Magnificent Gardens: How a Billion-Dollar Industry Transformed a Nation, from Charles II to Today, p. 7
Moon Palace Sentence of the Day (1st Wednesday in October 2021)
October 6, 2021 at 11:07 am (Books, Food and Drink, Recommended)
Tags: COVID Reading, novel, reading lists
I left an extravagant tip for the waiter, then walked back to my building.
The above is just an ordinary sentence. The reason it’s Sentence of the Day is: the narrator is flat broke. His eating out was a gesture of defiance. He had scrimped so long, but accidentally cracked two eggs which were supposed to be his meal for the day. They fell on the floor and he had a meltdown, went straight to the nearest restaurant and spent his precious remaining dollars.
Stay tuned.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC): Greatest Love of All
September 14, 2021 at 6:36 pm (Family, Food and Drink, Links, postaday)
Tags: birthdays, Cee Neuner, happiness, memories, music, photo challenge
The past couple of weeks, Cee has been posting different songs to inspire those joining the CFFC Challenge.
This week’s song is by Whitney: “Greatest Love of All”
The lines that inspired this post:
I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Life in Colour Challenge: August Red
August 25, 2021 at 7:56 pm (Artists and Writers, Flowers, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: art, exhibits, flower photography, Life in Colour, museums, Oakland, photo challenge, restaurants, San Francisco, summer
Oh, self had fun this morning, searching through her garden for any red blooms. There were a few choices, but the ones that photographed best were geraniums. In her archives, there was this sweet little mini-Cooper parked in front of Horn Barbecue in Oakland.
Self is throwing in a Calder from last spring’s Calder/Picasso at the de Young Museum.
Thanks so much to Life in Colour for hosting this challenge.
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC) # 7: Central Coast
August 24, 2021 at 2:56 pm (destinations, Explorers, Flowers, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: California, Cambria, Cee Neuner, Gardens, inspirations, photo challenge, restaurants, road trip, summer
Self still playing catch-up on the Photographing Public Art Challenge, co-hosted by Cee Neuner and Marsha Ingrao, which she adores.
She just completed a road trip to the Central Coast. She loves doing road trips because it’s a break from the unrelenting heat in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Robin’s, 4095 Burton Drive, Cambria: Each Table Top is a unique patchwork of tiles. Mine had a plane.
Cambria Nursery, 2801 Eaton Road, Cambria
Fence as Art: Cambria Nursery, 2801 Eaton Road, Cambria
Kanlaon 