Self loves this challenge. Thank you, Nancy Merrill, for hosting A Photo a Week!
An Airbnb in Carmel
July Birthday Party
Sandy’s Garden
A Photo a Week Challenge: Multiple Shapes
September 11, 2021 at 11:28 pm (Links, Lists, postaday)
Tags: California, Carmel, Gardens, Home, Nancy Merrill, photo challenge, Saturdays
Thursday Trios Challenge: 19 August 2021
August 19, 2021 at 7:47 pm (destinations, Explorers, Family, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: California, Carmel, humor, memories, photo challenge, road trip, summer
Self loves this challenge. It is so much fun to look through her archives for trios.
Thank you to the host, Mama Cormier!
In July, self decided to Airbnb in Carmel for a few days. On all her drives around California, she somehow failed to hit up this place, which was one of the first places her Dear Departed Dad took her to when she was a wee little girl. We were on our first family vacation from the Philippines, and Dad decided to make of it a road trip. Somehow, he had always harbored a secret fantasy of having his entire family engage in that quintessential American family activity: the road trip. So he bundled all five of us kids and Dearest Mum on a plane, and rented a car after we landed in San Francisco, and took us on a road trip that included: Carmel, Las Vegas, and La Jolla. Oh, and Highway 1, which we drove all the way from San Francisco to La Jolla.
Anyhoo, last month, self decided to Airbnb in Carmel, and her host had a most interesting apartment, filled with original artwork, weights, records and turntables, hefty art books, and guitars (in case any of the guests wished to break out in song?). Here’s his guitar collection:
Self’s host was extremely cryptic. She notified him that she was vacating, and leaving the key in the apartment per his instructions, and got this response:
- I am just down the coast a little, enjoying the vanlife.
She thought and thought about an appropriate response, and finally came up with: Have an excellent vanlife!
Stay cool, dear blog readers. Stay cool.
A Photo a Week Challenge: Natural Lighting
August 13, 2021 at 5:07 pm (Flowers, Food and Drink, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Lists, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: California, Carmel, Fridays, Nancy Merrill, photo challenge, road trip, summer
What a fun theme! Self looooves Natural Lighting.
Thank you to the host of the Photo a Week Challenge, Nancy Merrill!
Picnic in the Park
Kitchen Window
Carmel Mission
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 160: Your Inspiration
August 11, 2021 at 10:47 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Flowers, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Lists, Personal Bookshelf, Philippine History, Places, Publishers, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: Carmel, Filipino writers, Gardens, inspirations, patti moed, Philippine History, photo challenge, road trip, seasons, spring, summer
Wow! Self LOVES the quote from Agnes Martin that inspired this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge!
She had a lot of fun going through her archives to identify her sources of inspiration.
Which are MANY. Here are a few:
- Gardens
Front Yard, May
- Beaches
Ocean Beach, Carmel
- History
The Jesuits in the Philippines, by Horacio de la Costa, S. J. (Harvard University Press)
Self is so glad she can share her inspirations with dear blog readers.
One-Word Sunday Challenge: Reflections
August 8, 2021 at 10:47 pm (Links, Lists, postaday, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: California, Carmel, London, memories, road trip, summer
This challenge comes via Travel with Intent. Fun!
Carmel Airbnb, July 2021
Redwood City Public Library Seed Giveaway, April 2021
London Eye, November 2019
Pull Up a Seat Photo Challenge 2021, Week # 32
August 6, 2021 at 9:02 pm (destinations, Eavesdropping, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: blogs, Carmel, Fridays, Gardens, photo challenge, road trip, summer
Here is another fun challenge, Xingfu Mama’s Pull Up a Seat.
Self was just in Carmel, so she will share a picture she took of a secluded backyard. They have amazing gardens there: tiny, most of them, but full of quirky, unexpected touches:
Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC) # 4
July 29, 2021 at 10:29 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: art, California, Carmel, Cee Neuner, Dublin, Ireland, photo challenge
Self hasn’t been consistent in posting to this challenge, as she’s been on a road trip. She’s so glad she had time today. It really is one of her favorite Photo Challenges. Thanks so much to Cee Neuner and Marsha Ingrao for co-hosting this challenge.
For this post, she decided to focus on store window displays.
Store Window # 1: Carmel-by-the-Sea
Store Window # 2: Dublin Ink, Temple Bar, Dublin
Store Window # 3: Claire Garvey Design Studio, Cows Lane, Dublin
July #TreeSquare Challenge # 17: Ocean Beach Again
July 29, 2021 at 5:07 am (Links, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Carmel, environment, life of B, nature, photo challenge, summer
Self will never tire of looking at these pines overlooking Ocean Beach. You can see the direction of the wind in their branches, even on a perfectly still day.
The #TreeSquare Challenge is the brainchild of Becky at The Life of B. Ever so grateful to her for hosting.
July #TreeSquare Challenge # 16: Ocean Beach, Carmel
July 28, 2021 at 6:22 pm (Links, postaday, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: California, Carmel, life of B, nature, photo challenge, road trip, summer
Self will try to post every day during the final days of the #TreeSquare Challenge for July: TREES.
Thank you so much, becky, for another fantastic Squares Challenge!
Currently on Road Trip # 3: CARMEL.
Took these shots of Monterey pines yesterday at Ocean Beach. It was a very cold day, but there were people in the water, and families on the beach, all looking like they were having a GREAT time! Kudos to the brave souls swimming without wetsuits! Water must have been freezing.
July #TreeSquare Challenge # 15: Misty Morning
July 28, 2021 at 12:16 am (destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Carmel, Gardens, life of B, photo challenge, summer
We are in the final days of The life of B’s fabulous #TreeSquare challenge (The next Squares Challenge is in October) Her post today shows EMBROIDERY. Love it!
Since self is currently in the middle of Road Trip # 3 (Carmel and Monterey), her posts are all coastal trees and coastal gardens. It is cool here (refreshing change from the relentless heat of the South Bay) and there is thick morning mist.
She framed her shots this way because of course, she was thinking of the #TreeSquare challenge. She would never have used these angles otherwise. Thank you, Becky, for hosting!
