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 28, 2021 at 5:05 pm (Family, Links, postaday, Relatives, Sundays)
Tags: Carmel, memories, photo challenge, road trip
The color for 28 November is ORCHID.
Self does not have an orchid (or anything blooming that’s close to the color that’s on citysonnet’s November Challenge page.
Nevertheless, she does have a cousin who wore an orchid-colored top on a drive to Big Sur two weeks ago! Her shades even match her top!
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November 27, 2021 at 4:21 am (Flowers, Links, postaday)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Fridays, Garden, photo challenge
The euryops is starting its crazy season of bloom again. Isn’t it a tad early? Nevertheless.
She’s posting this for Cee Neuner’s Flower of the Day (FOTD) Challenge.
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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 19, 2021 at 3:54 pm (Links, postaday, Weather)
Tags: backyard, Fridays, Garden, Home, photo challenge
The rules are simple: Every Friday, post a picture of SKY.
Here’s mine:
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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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