January 4, 2022 at 2:59 am (Books, destinations, Flowers, Holidays, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: California, Cambria, Ethel Rosenberg, Fort Bragg, Garden, Golden Gate Park, lens-artists photo challenge, memories, Philo, photo challenge, Pismo Beach, porch, road trip, San Francisco, summer
Thank you to Tina Schell of Travels and Trifles, host of this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge, Favorite Images of 2021.
- First and foremost, let me begin by wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year. As always, the turn of the calendar page to January 1st brings with it an opportunity to begin anew – having learned lessons, accomplished some of our goals, or perhaps having simply survived to start a new day. Whatever our thoughts about the year just passed, we once again have a chance to make the new one even better. — Tina Schell
Without further ado, here are self’s favorite images of 2021:
Despite the pandemic, self managed to do quite a lot of things in 2021.
HUH. Who would have thought?
Seems the vaccines do work!
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January 3, 2022 at 12:51 am (destinations, Holidays, Sundays, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: bloganuary, Christmas, memories, Mendocino, road trip, Wordpress
Ha! Self found where the prompts were going. She has now rescued her #bloganuary (She missed yesterday; wonder where THAT prompt went)
She will henceforth make a sincere attempt to post daily through January.
Self spent Christmas in Mendocino. This is actually not that much of a stretch (though driving around up there, during a storm, is a flat-out EXPERIENCE). She turned down invitations to be with people, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (scared of omicron), then the day after Christmas, drove back to the Bay Area, found a walk-up testing site close to her, and the very next day lined up, in bitter cold, for three hours. Now, THAT WAS A STRETCH. She can’t remember ever lining up for that long a time, in winter cold (not even for TKTS, that year she lived in New York.)
The tests ran out, but not until mid-afternoon. By then, there were only about five people ahead of her in line. Then she had two days of anxiety, waiting for the test results. And they came back NEGATIVE.
Hooray!
So, the storm, the lining up for three hours in the cold for the test, all took her out of her comfort zone. But she was happy with the results.
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December 25, 2021 at 2:22 pm (Books, Conversations, Holidays, Lists, Memoirs, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: Antony Beevor, Berlin, Christmas, COVID Reading, diary, history, Mendocino, reading lists, Saturdays, war literature, World War II
The lack of electricity and gas has reduced modern conveniences like lights and stores and hot water boilers to useless objects. “We’re marching backwards in time,” she writes, “cave dwellers.”
Introduction by Antony Beevor to A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City
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December 18, 2021 at 1:40 pm (destinations, Holidays, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Christmas, Dublin, Ireland, memories, photo challenge, Saturdays
Still playing catch-up with this wonderful challenge, co-hosted by Cee Neuner and Marsha Ingrao!
One December, Dublin:
Oh, it was cold.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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December 14, 2021 at 11:27 pm (destinations, Holidays, Links, postaday, Recommended, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Christmas, Events, festivals, Fort Bragg, Life in Colour, Mendocino, photo challenge
Self is REALLY feeling the season. Christmas is lovely. Halloween used to be her favorite holiday, but ever since the kids dwindled in her neighborhood, it is no longer fun.
Christmas is still fun, though.
Last Sunday, she bought a ticket to see the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden’s annual Festival of Lights. And there were so many things to see! Like this gorgeous snake/dragon/whatever. She went on Sunday, which was just before a massive storm arrived. Great timing, what?
She’s posting this for Travel Words’ Life in Colour Challenge:
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December 13, 2021 at 3:30 am (destinations, Flowers, Holidays, Links, postaday, Recommended, Sundays, Surprises)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Christmas, Fort Bragg, photo challenge
Self went to the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens for the annual Festival of Lights show, where she stumbled across this wonderful tableaux. And thought it would be perfect for Cee Neuner’s Flower of the Day Challenge.
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November 29, 2021 at 10:33 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Holidays, Links, Lists, postaday, Surprises)
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 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 13, 2021 at 4:03 pm (destinations, Holidays, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: California, Christmas, Cornwall, discoveries, England, favorites, Fowey, Gardens, Palo Alto, photo challenge, Saturday
Self is new to this Photo Challenge.
She thinks her post has to do three things:
(1) Show something starting with a “T.” See below: Trellis
(2) Show a favorite that starts with a “T”: Christmas TREE.
(3) Show a Top of a Tree: Monterey Pines grow in Fowey, Cornwall, who would have thought??? The story goes that Fowey Hall used to belong to an old sea captain who traveled to California and brought Monterey pine seeds back with him.
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