May 22, 2022 at 6:45 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Explorers, Links, postaday, Recommended, Sundays, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: Cee Neuner, England, Flower of the Day, Oxford, photo challenge, weekends
While walking around Oxford yesterday evening — all the students are out with their families; restaurants and bars are sooooo crowded. Self is still wearing her mask but 90% of the people she sees aren’t — she saw this unusual iris! She’d never seen an iris this color before.
Posting for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
May 21, 2022 at 1:28 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Flowers, Links, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: Cee Neuner, discoveries, East London, fashion, favorites, Flower of the Day, photo challenge, Saturdays
Self had a fantastic time in East London, where she discovered her new favorite London store, Wall and Jones, on Hackney Road.
For today’s Flower of the Day (hosted by Cee Neuner), self is sharing a picture of one of her finds, a sleeveless shift dress with hoodie, by English designer Ali Wall. Hey, the print has white roses! Love it so much. When she wears it, she feels like she’s wearing an impressionist painting.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
May 20, 2022 at 4:45 pm (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, postaday, Recommended, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: blogs, England, Fridays, Oxford, photo challenge, restaurants
Posting for Mama Cormier’s Thursday Trios (even though it is Friday, ha!)
Self is in Oxford. It is raining today, here’s a picture of the cloudy skies and three antennas (?) on a long pole:
Her first meal in Oxford was this, at The Chester Arms on Chester Street. It was delicious!
There were three boats on the River Thames (almost the end-of-term, there are a lot of crew competitions going on):
May 19, 2022 at 12:13 pm (Conversations, destinations, Filipino Writers, Flowers, Links, Places, plans, postaday, Surprises, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: Cee Neuner, complaints, England, Flower of the Day, Oxford, photo challenge
Back in Oxford! What a feeling. She arrived from East London and realized she hadn’t bothered to make a note of Lucy’s house number (She did know the street) because she thought she’d recognize the house at first sight. She ended up walking back and forth, back and forth, for half an hour. Conveniently, her Android told her “There is no wi-fi connection.” This is why she pays Verizon $239/month for the International Plan. So she can be stuck with luggage on a street in Oxford, with no wi-fi connection. Her laptop was completely out of battery, so no help there.
Tugging her luggage behind her, she started asking the neighbors: “Do you know Lucy?” She figured, Oxford is a small town, this is a small street. Everyone must know Lucy. Guess what: NO ONE KNEW LUCY.
Finally, she heard her name being called, and there was Lucy! Lucy had seen self pass in front of her house, trundling luggage. Probably wondered why self didn’t stop, since the front door was wide open.
Anyhoo, she’s arrived! Same room and everything! There was even the sweetest little arrangement of wildflowers on her writing desk!
Posting a picture for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
May 18, 2022 at 9:27 pm (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Cee Neuner, CMMC, London, photo challenge, restaurants
Here’s the link to the photo in question.
The topics self chose from Cee’s photograph are: Sign + Black
May 18, 2022 at 11:18 am (Links, Places, Recommended, Traveling, postaday, destinations)
Tags: London, memories, monochrome, photo challenge, spring
Posting for Brashley Photography’s Mid-Week Monochrome Challenge # 88 : WALKWAYS.
May 17, 2022 at 11:27 pm (Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, photo challenge, East London, CFFC
Self decided to focus on triangles. Here’s a picture of a mural on the side of a building on Hackney Road, East London:
May 17, 2022 at 1:57 pm (Recommended, Surprises, Traveling, Books, Personal Bookshelf)
Tags: reading lists, humor, China, novel, satire, spring
Guess there isn’t much to do in Kun Chong Prison, which is why Professor K allows his mind to roam hither and thither.
For instance, he remembers the time a Chinese colleague asked him if he could offer up the names of exceptionally “angry” students. Actually, the colleague put it this way: “Do you have any students I can use?”
Then Professor K’s mind goes back through the mists of time. There was one student. Her name was Queena.
Self finds this very, very funny. Apologies.
May 17, 2022 at 8:26 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Explorers, Flowers, Links, Places, plans, postaday, Recommended, Sundays, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Cee Neuner, discoveries, East London, farmers markets, Flower of the Day, London, photo challenge
Self undertook this walk last Sunday. It was a gorgeous day, lots of people were out and about, maybe because of the Columbia St. Flower Market? She had every intention of scoping out this world-famous Flower Market in East London, but was distracted by all the wee little boutiques and alleys and coffee shops along the way. So dear blog readers will have to settle for these:
Posting for Cee Neuner’s Flower of the Day.
May 16, 2022 at 2:08 pm (Artists and Writers, Family, Links, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: art, California, California history, history, lens-artists photo challenge, memorial, memories, photo challenge, road trip, San Luis Obispo, summer
Railroads opened up the American west. They were built by cheap labor, imported from China.
For this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, hosted by Journeys with Johnbo, self is sharing photos of a memorial to these laborers, at the train station in San Luis Obispo, a small town on California’s central coast. The memorial is by artist Elizabeth MacQueen.
Self knows San Luis Obispo, as son attended Cal Poly there. Last summer, when California opened up again after over a year of lockdown, she drove there to see if it had changed. It hadn’t.
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