One Word Sunday: Wheels

Took this picture on Christmas Day 2022. Self had driven to Mendocino to de-stress. Mostly, she just walks around the Village, gets take-out from Patterson’s, and browses in Gallery Bookshop. The Corner Bakery makes the best tamales! You have to get there early: they might sell out.

Posting for Travel with Intent’s One Word Sunday.

The sign said “Open” but the bakery was closed in honor of Christmas. Whose bikes were those, then?

Wordless Wednesday, 8 March 2023

Main Street, Mendocino, the day after Christmas 2022 (Posted for Wordless Wednesday)

Doors, Doors, Doors

Posting for Thursday Doors, hosted by No Facilities.

Welcome to Thursday Doors! This is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join us, simply create your own Thursday Doors post each (or any) week and then share a link to your post in the comments below, anytime between 12:01 am Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American eastern time). If you like, you can add our badge to your post.

Doors to The Penn Club, on London’s Bedford Place, which sadly closed its doors forever in 2021. It was self’s little nest, only a stone’s throw from the British Museum.

Doors to the Corners of the Mouth, organic grocery in Mendocino Village. They sell all sorts of goodies from Boont Berry Farm: cheese, salads, carrot cake.

Last: HOME SWEET HOME! Picture of self’s front door.

Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Arches, Domes, Half-Circles

From Ceehttps://ceenphotography.com/2023/02/16/cbwc-arches-domes-half-circles-creative-cropping/:

• This week my black and white challenge topic is Arches, Domes, Half Circles don’t forget that that a circle cropped in half is an arch or dome. I hope you have FUN with this challenge.

Guest Room, Mendocino Hotel

Festival of Lights, Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden

Which Way Photo Challenge: STAIRS

Thanks much to Alive and Trekking for hosting the Which Way Photo Challenge!

Here’s a description of the Challenge:

• The Which Way photo challenge is all about capturing the roads, walks, trails, rails, steps, signs, etc. we move from one place to another on. You can walk on them, climb them, drive them, ride on them, as long as the specific way is visible.

Self decided to comb through her archives for stairs or steps. Here’s what she found:

• Cal Shakes stage, Orinda
• Main Entrance, Mendocino Hotel
• Entrance to Blenheim Palace, England
• Wider view of the entrance to Blenheim Palace
• Entrance to Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park
• San Jose Convention Center during last summer’s SilCon

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #234: MESSAGES

Thanks to Wind Kisses for hosting this week and for coming up with the awesome prompt, MESSAGES!

Here are a few “message” pictures from self’s archives, all places in California:

• sign inside a restaurant in Mission San Miguel Arcangel, California Central Coast
• sign in the lobby of the San Jose Convention Center during Adam Savage’s SilCon 2022
• Fro-yo cup, downtown San Luis Obispo
• Sign commemorating the original Facebook Headquarters, Emerson Street, downtown Palo Alto
• Traffic sign, Kasten corner of Main Street, Mendocino Village

Thursday Doors: Mendocino

For the second year in a row, self spent Christmas in Mendocino. She loves being in the tiny, picturesque village clinging to the headlands off US-1. Her favorite doors/haunts (L to R): Mendocino Chocolate Company on Main (the main store is in Fort Bragg); Corners of the Mouth organic grocery (in a re-purposed church, on Ukiah); a vintage store in downtown Fort Bragg; and the Garden Bakery, in an alley next to the Great Put-On clothing boutique on Albion.

Posting for No Facilities’ Thursday Doors.

Ragtag Daily Prompt: PATH

To the Mendocino Headlands, Day After Christmas 2022, 9:30 a.m.

Posting for Ragtag Daily

Fan of . . . # 188: Christmas Cards!

Thanks to Jez Braithwaite for hosting the Fan of . . . challenge.

Self loves sending out Christmas cards. This holiday season was a little hectic. Alas, she didn’t send out as many as she normally does. But she still loves getting them in the mail. She pastes them on a wall in her living room. Sometimes she even keeps them up all year.

Today the boxed sets of Christmas cards were 50% off at Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino. This beautiful set (Art by Trevor Waugh) is printed in England and says, “Wishing you all the joys of the season.” She can’t wait to send them out next Christmas!

Cee’s Flower of the Day: Around Mendocino

Today, everything is closed (except for Patterson’s, the bar on Lansing, which is pretty lively!). Self took a walk around the village. In front of the McCallum house, there were these pretty flowers. Perfect for Cee’s Flower of the Day!