Capitola-by-the-Sea is your quintessential beach town, not as glitzy as Carmel and Monterey, and the pastel-colored cottages are so pretty! Who wouldn’t want to live in a pink cottage by a beach, even if just for the summer, come on!
Another REALLY interesting Foto Challenge. Self has tons of pictures of old buildings in her archives. But, looking over the pictures in Cee’s prompt, it is not enough that the structures be old, they have to be old in a certain way, a weathered kind of way.
This Foto Challenge was hard. Nevertheless, self persisted, going over every inch of her front and backyard. Check out the other pictures on Cee Neuner’s blog, starting with hers. Amazing creativity this week!
This was a picture self took this morning: she’d been cutting dead twigs off her trees.
Backyard This Morning
Self took this picture a few weeks ago:
Hosta sprang up from a pile of dead holly leaves!
Finally: here’s a picture from December 2019, when she spent the holidays in New Mexico. She was on Santa Fe’s Museum Hill, and was fascinated by the deep snow:
Bless Cee Neuner for keeping Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge so FUN!
For this week’s Fun Foto Challenge, HATS, self found a couple of pictures from her archives.
Self’s baseball-cap wearing niece, Angela, an undergrad at the University of Michigan, spent a summer as an intern at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park. Self had a lot of fun hanging with her:
The Martian is son’s favorite novel (after the Dune novels; son is an avid science fiction reader). He met the cap-wearing author at SDCC 2018:
Finally, one of Magritte’s most iconic images, the man in the bowler hat, at an exhibit in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2018:
Self found this Foto Challenge more than usually, er, challenging. She’s trying to keep her mind off food — for the first six weeks of the shelter-in-place, that was all she thought about, with disastrous consequences. And her roses don’t give off scent — mebbe it’s the type of soil? Even her Sheila’s Perfume rose has no perfume!
Anyhoo, after some determined hunting, she managed to come up with three photos:
Fried chorizo for breakfast in the island of Negros, central Philippines:
A fresh-cut Christmas tree makes all the difference. Self got hers from Wegman’s, a local nursery:
Just before shelter-in-place, self had her front door and front porch painted. The smell of fresh paint is the memory of singular happiness:
The topic for this week’s CFFC is Sense of Tasting. This is all about things you can taste, be it sweet, sour, bitter, comforting, fulfilling, addictions, etc. If you can drink or eat it, you can usually taste it. — Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenge
These days, self has been searching for comfort food. But, first: NOSTALGIC MEMORIES of her last picnic at Cal Shakes, Orinda:
Picnic Before Macbeth, Cal Shakes, Orinda, October 2019
Second, comfort food during a pandemic: Maggi on Roasted Chicken is the best! And her favorite cookies from childhood, available at Pacific Market in South San Francisco:
Son and his cousin celebrating New Year in the Long Ago
Dearest Mum and the Widow of Dear Departed Dad’s Best Friend, Having a Good Time in Café Romulo, Manila
Michelle Ruiz Keil, reading from her YA, All of Us With Wings, in the Mission, San Francisco
Looking over these pictures, self is overcome with nostalgia. Fun times, there used to be. Thank you, Cee Neuner, for giving self an excuse to reminisce.
This week you can post anything that stimulates or delights your sense of touch. It can be thorns on a rose, a soft baby’s face or tree bark. — Cee Neuner
Self decided to take pictures for this post:
Her neighbor Claudio collects old pieces of wood and turns them into bird feeders. This is all about texture:
These furry slippers were a gift from Dearest Mum. Even though it’s not cold in self’s house, she wears these slippers every day:
