The host of this challenge, Travel with Intent, has a gallery of haunting photographs on this week’s theme. Check them out!
Morning Sky, 2 January 2023

Parking Garage, Berkeley

The host of this challenge, Travel with Intent, has a gallery of haunting photographs on this week’s theme. Check them out!
Morning Sky, 2 January 2023
Parking Garage, Berkeley
My first introduction to the work of the late Santi Bose was at a gallery in Manila called Sining Kamalig. That’s where I saw the Blue Room. I begged my parents to give me the painting for my seventeenth birthday.
A few years later — surprise, surprise! — they bought the companion painting, the White Room, for me. I brought both paintings to California with me. They are among my most treasured possessions.
mixed media, early Santi Bose. Posting for Travel with Intent’s Six Word Saturday
Don’t forget that my FOTD challenge accepts gardens, leaves and berries as well as flowers. To see entire list of accepted flowers, click here. Please do not submit photos of trees that don’t show colorful blooms or autumn colors. Leaf close ups are always welcome.
— Cee Neuner, Flower of the Day Challenge
The garden is pretty dead right now, the only bright spot are these holly berries!
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:
Posting for Travel with Intent’s Six Word Saturday.
Here’s how Cee Neuner introduces the challenge:
Last June, self saw a fabulous exhibit at the Legion of Honor: Guo Pei, Coutoure Fantasy.
Gold was everywhere! Even on legs and feet! For example:
Self is in love with the gold booties.
Stay tuned.
Self’s roses have a few scattered blooms, but none look good after weeks of rain and high wind.
Here are All Dressed up and Chrysler Imperial, from early this morning. Normally, Chrysler Imperial is a deep red, but the bud seems to have frosted over, wonder if it will open at all.
Posting for Cee Neuner’s Flower of the Day:
It’s been a while since self joined Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge. This week’s challenge is Pick a Topic from My Photo.
She thinks she may have found a picture. She took it when she overnighted in Cloverdale, at the Pinschower Inn (a lovely Bed & Breakfast, highly recommend!), just before Christmas. The grounds are lovely. There’s an arched trellis over the path to the main house. And these espaliered — self wants to say roses but she thinks they are — maples.
Anyhoo, the thin metal wires are barely visible, except on the posts.
Self is in a nostalgic mood this rainy, gloomy Sunday in northern California.
Posting for Travel with Intent’s One-Word Sunday. The theme is SKYLINE.
Here’s Southbank by the Thames. Took these pictures leaving Shakespeare’s Globe after a play. The bridge is the old Blackfriars.
One of self’s must-see stops whenever she is in Dublin is St. Stephen’s Green. She loves this park and its meandering paths, its leafy spaces.
She was in Dublin in late November, when the trees were turning. Here is Edward Delaney’s Famine Memorial. More information about the artist here.
Posting for Travel with Intent’s Six-Word Saturday.