July 25, 2021 at 1:58 pm (Links, Places, Surprises, Sundays, postaday, destinations)
Tags: Menlo Park, summer, art, California, Gardens, photo challenge, life of B, Filoli
I adore life of B’s Squares Photo Challenge for July: TREES.
The tree behind the metal dancing figures is in Filoli, in Woodside.
The tree with the dangling glass icicles is in East Menlo Park (between El Camino Real and the 101). A homeowner just decided to festoon a front yard tree with glass ornaments and name it The Tree of Hope.
July 19, 2021 at 5:32 pm (Flowers, Links, postaday)
Tags: blogs, Cee Neuner, farmers markets, Menlo Park, Mondays, photo challenge
Self thinks these are dahlias. She’s never had any luck growing them in her yard. She bought them yesterday from the Menlo Park Farmers Market.
Thank you to host of the Flower of the Day (FOTD) Challenge Cee Neuner!
Stay cool, dear blog readers. Stay cool.
April 6, 2021 at 5:23 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Conversations, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Surprises, Women Writers)
Tags: art, discoveries, Menlo Park, mysteries, Stanford
Every day this April, a BRIGHT SQUARE.
Learn more about the challenge here.
Self took the pictures below in Afterwards, a vintage clothing and furniture store in Menlo Park. She was on her way to the Rodin Sculpture Garden at Stanford, but her attention was caught by the big globe hanging in the window. So she decided to investigate.
The store is huge! And full of one-of-a-kind pieces. So much more fun than shopping in a department store.
Self and the woman there had a nice conversation about Louise Penny.
Squares in Picture # 1: the McDonald’s awning? The shape of the building?
Squares in Picture # 2: The chair back is sort of — squar-ish?
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
March 29, 2021 at 11:53 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Filipino Writers, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Ginseng and Other Tales From Manila, Kepler's, Marianne Villanueva, memories, Menlo Park
Photo challenges are life!
Nancy Merrill hosts A Photo a Week Challenge. This week’s theme is:
This picture is of the nearest independent bookstore to self’s house: Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park. Still going strong. Self gave her first local reading here:
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
March 26, 2021 at 1:49 am (destinations, Family, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Albuquerque, Cee Neuner, Cork, Ireland, Kepler's, memories, Menlo Park, New Mexico, photography
Thanks again to Cee Neuner for the always-interesting photo challenges.
Self went through her archives. These are pictures that weren’t intentionally black and white, they just became that way because of the conditions of the light. They all date from 2019, the last year that self was traveling.
Top:
Cork, Ireland: hallway to apartment above Café Paradiso
Bottom Row, L to R:
Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park, California; driving from Santa Fe to Albuquerque, New Mexico, three days after Christmas 2019, with son and his in-laws
The squares in the New Mexico pictures are at the very bottom: the road signs. Or the highway leading to a vanishing point: a triangle?
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
March 20, 2021 at 11:52 pm (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended, Salon.com, Traveling)
Tags: Bacolod, California, COVID Dining, farmers markets, Filipino food, London, Menlo Park, Saturdays, The Philippines
Discovered another Photo Challenge! This one’s from Buddha Walks Into a Wine Bar, and it’s called Challenge Your Camera.
This week’s Challenge Your Camera (# 11) is STILL LIFE.
Here are a few pointers for the Challenge:
So, here are self’s still lifes, all of which she pulled from her archives. They’re mostly food-related.
Still Life # 1: Self loves farmers markets. The ones in her area are held on Sundays. She bought these mushrooms at the Menlo Park Farmers Market. This picture’s from a few weeks ago. The farmers markets stayed open throughout the pandemic, and self went regularly (of course masked). Her last COVID test was ten days ago, and that was negative.
Still Life # 2: Shoreditch, East London, November 2019. She doesn’t think she’ll be able to get back to London until late 2022, at the very soonest. In the meantime, she has a huge trove of photographs from her last visit. Someone with a sense of humor left this on a window ledge.
Still Life # 3: Her last visit home was September 2019. She spent her time in Dear Departed Dad’s hometown of Bacolod, and spent a few nights in a city close by: Silay. And ate herself into a food coma. All the variety of food made from rice! These are just two examples, and they’re from the public market.
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
March 14, 2021 at 6:45 pm (Links, postaday, Sundays)
Tags: inspiration, Menlo Park, shopping
Discovered a new Photo Challenge today, hosted by Travel with Intent.
Today’s One Word Sunday Challenge is LIGHT. Which is one of self’s favorite topics.
Self loves light stores. Here’s one near her home: Light Point in Menlo Park. She entered it for the first time a few months ago, looking for a porch light (See next picture)
And here’s her front porch. Her lights are solar and made in America. They cost a little more than lights made in China. Nevertheless. Must help American business!
Hope everyone’s having a nice weekend!
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
March 9, 2021 at 7:56 pm (Food and Drink, Links, Lists, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: Cee Neuner, farmers markets, indulgences, Menlo Park, restaurants
Cee Neuner thinks of the most inventive prompts.
This week’s Fun Foto Challenge asks us to photograph something we ATE or something with the number EIGHT.
Since food is constantly on self’s mind, she decided to do a gallery of recent fare. Clockwise:
NOTE: Self is always masked, always. And whenever she returns from “outside,” she spends a good long time washing her hands.
Thanks ever so much for doing such a Fun Foto Challenge, Cee!
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
January 20, 2020 at 8:10 pm (Books, destinations, fpj-photo-challenge, Holidays, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Albuquerque, California, memories, Menlo Park, Mondays, New Mexico, photography, websites
Leading lines carry our eyes through a photograph. They help to tell a story, to place emphasis, and to draw a connection between objects. — Tina R. Schell on the blog Travels and Trifles: Expressing Thought Through Photography
Self loved the quote from Pete Bridgewood:
The photos below are from December 2019, during which, as usual, self did a lot of traveling.
Old Albuquerque, December 2019
On the I-25 from Santa Fe to Albuquerque, 27 December 2019
Kepler’s Books, Downtown Menlo Park, December 2019
Thanks for the interesting prompt, Lens-Artists!
Stay tuned.
January 2, 2020 at 5:58 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, fpj-photo-challenge, Holidays, Links, Lists, Niece, Places, postaday, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: art, Bacolod, Christmas, Cork, Cornwall, Events, Filipino food, Fowey, Ireland, London, memories, Menlo Park, Oxford, Prague, Redwood City, restaurants, The Philippines, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Great theme!
In 2019, self traveled the world. Her life triangulated between home in Redwood City, California, to England and Ireland, to the Philippines. Side trip to Prague with her niece, Irene!
Here goes, all the images that mattered most to self in 2019, arranged from most recent — December 2019 — to the earliest, January 2019: Starting with her home in Redwood City in early December; to London’s Blackfriar station; to Manggapuri Villa in Don Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental, Philippines; to Prague; to Oxford University’s Exam School for Alice Oswald’s first reading as Oxford’s first woman Poet in Residence; to Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park; to the Main House of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig; to the fire pit in Manggapuri Villas; to the Daku Balay in Bacolod City, the Philippines; to self’s bedroom; to the Blue Room in Café Paradiso in Cork, Ireland; to Fowey in Cornwall; to Courthouse Square, Redwood City; to the cover of last winter’s issue of Prairie Schooner, which included her story Things She Can Take
Stay tuned.
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