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:
- Unlike the painter who starts with a blank canvas and builds up his image by the addition of paint, as photographers we work in the other direction.
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.
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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
Prague, May 2019
Waiting for the Alice Oswald lecture to begin, 13 November 2019
Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Republic of Ireland, last week of October
Manggapuri Villas: September 2019
Daku Balay, 50 Burgos Street, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, The Philippines
Self’s headboard in Redwood City, CA: Made in the Philippines
Paradiso, Cork, May 2019: She bought the Converse sneakers in London a few weeks earlier. Now they are scuffed and smudged, everywhere.
Stay tuned.
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November 9, 2019 at 6:42 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Filipino Writers, Links, Places, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: California, memories, Menlo Park, Redwood City, Saturday, Stanford
Love this week’s Photo a Week Challenge.
Self is heading home soon. Here are three pictures she took just before she left on her latest trip:
Kepler’s Books and Magazines, Menlo Park, California: Self read here when her first book came out, ages and ages and ages ago.
Courthouse Square, Redwood City, California: This has been her home for almost as long as she’s lived in America. It’s one of the most vibrant, ethnically-mixed places on the Peninsula.
Stanford University, which made of self a writer.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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November 3, 2019 at 10:30 am (Fan Fiction, Filipino Writers, Food and Drink, Links, Places, Sundays, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: California, Everlark, Manila, Menlo Park, photography, restaurants, The Philippines
P. A. Moed quotes Kim Hunter:
. . . emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Color is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn’t necessarily reach the heart.
Domestic Terminal, Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Manila: September 2019
Sitting at an Outdoor Table, Café Borrone, Menlo Park, California: August 2019
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 21, 2019 at 5:36 am (Books, destinations, Filipino Writers, Food and Drink, Memoirs, Places, Recommended, Weather, Women Writers)
Tags: Asian American Writers, English writers, Kepler's, memoir, Menlo Park, novel, restaurants, Saturday, summer
Bookstores are fine places.
Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park: That woman is very wisely dressed.
Staff Picks, Kepler’s Books
More Staff Picks! Leanne Shapton’s mother is Pinay.
The order line at Café Borrone, around 10 a.m.
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September 5, 2018 at 4:26 pm (Food and Drink, Places)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Garden, Golden Gate Park, Menlo Park, San Francisco, summer
Self really loves the Cee Neuner Fun Foto Challenge this week:
LIME or LIGHT GREEN
So, she had another go at it.
At the Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, July 2018
Also from the Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, July 2018
Food Truck, Menlo Park Art & Wine Festival, July 2018
Summer 2018 was GREAT.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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December 24, 2017 at 8:58 am (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Holidays, Places, postaday, Sundays, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: Albion, California, Christmas, England, Kepler's, London, memories, Menlo Park, Paris, politics, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Evening, Trafalgar Square, First Sunday of March 2017
Steep Hillside, One Cow: Albion, California, New Year’s 2017
Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park, CA: January 2017
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August 30, 2017 at 4:57 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Bath, England, Gardens, Menlo Park, museums, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, summer, Wordpress
“This week, share with us the structure of something typically overlooked.”
— Jen H., The Daily Post
- Bench facing a Clyfford Still, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art:
Nice echoing of lines here.
- Nice Arches! The artists complex at Allied Arts Guild, Menlo Park:
- Finally, a garden in Bath, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Most of the residences are on a slope. To get to the city proper, you must descend.
Stepped Terraces in a Backyard in Bath
Stay tuned dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 10, 2016 at 11:14 pm (Flowers, postaday)
Tags: Gardens, Mendocino, Menlo Park, postaday, postaweek, seasons, Wordpress
Oh how beautiful is the season of spring!
These yellow daffodils are in the front garden of the MacCallum House in Mendocino Village.
Daffodils + Spring = Harmony!
More daffodils!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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January 19, 2016 at 3:01 am (Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: destinations, humor, London, memories, Menlo Park, New York, postaday, postaweek, travel, Wordpress
London is one of self’s faaaavorite cities in the entire world!
London cab: Summer 2015
And Kepler’s Books is one of her favorite bookstores in the entire world!
Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park: Still Around, After 30+ Years! Self has given a couple of readings in Kepler’s over the years.
And this man was very resourceful, she thinks dear blog readers will agree! She spotted him at the 53rd & Lexington Subway Station, New York City:
53rd & Lexington, Just outside the subway station, New York City, March 2015
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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