travel theme: art
Monday, July 2: Ailsa at Where’s my backpack? has created a new travel theme for this week: art. She writes: One of the things I love most about art is how it can restore the spirit. She goes on to...
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Friday, July 6: The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge for this week is movement. How do you show movement in your photos? This photo choice is a very deliberate show of movement through the camera lens...
View Articlesunday post: silence
Sunday, July 8: Jakesprinter’s Sunday Post challenge for this week is Silence, the relative or total lack of audible sound. By analogy, the word silence may also refer to any absence of communication,...
View Articlesunday post: solid
Sunday, July 15: Jakesprinter’s Sunday Post for this week is solid. He writes: SOLID means : Stable, sturdy, firm, established, durable, rigid, substantial, strong, powerful, loud, heavy, splitting,...
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Friday, July 20: Ailsa of Where’s my backpack? has challenged us with another travel theme for this week: food. I have to say that some of my favorite foods in all the places I’ve traveled were in...
View Articlesunday post: collectibles
Sunday, July 22: Jakesprinter’s Sunday Post this week is collectibles. He writes: Collectibles and collecting: groups of items of a similar type that are acquired and saved as a hobby. Millions of...
View Articlesunday post: road
Sunday, July 29: Jakesprinter’s Sunday Post for this week is road. For inspiration, he writes: A road is a route, or way on land between two places, which typically has been paved or otherwise improved...
View Articlesunday post: plains
Sunday, February 24: Jake’s Sunday Post challenge for this week is Plains. Here are some plains in Lalibela, Ethiopia. plains near Lalibela, Ethiopia Plains near Lalibela And some plains in Thessaly,...
View Articletravel theme: international women’s day
Friday, March 8: Ailsa of Where’s my backpack? challenged us this week to post something for International Women’s Day. Here are some women I’ve encountered in my travels. From Lalibela‘s Saturday...
View Articlesunday post: arrangement
Sunday, March 10: Jake’s Sunday Post for this week is ARRANGEMENT. I’ve been thinking about Asia lately, especially Korea and Japan, and how their cultures have the art of arrangement down to a tee....
View Articletravel theme: green
Saturday, March 16: Ailsa of Where’s my backpack? has challenged us this week to post pictures with the color green, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. at the Franciscan Monastery in Washington, D.C. A...
View Articleweekly photo challenge: future tense
Friday, March 22: In today’s Weekly Photo Challenge, we’re challenged to grab an image from our world that holds the promise or portent of the future. It could be: As everyday as the experience of...
View Articletravel theme: smoke & mirrors
Saturday, March 30: Ailsa of Where’s my backpack? asks: Did you know that March 29th is Smoke and Mirrors Day? The origin of this day, which celebrates all things magical and illusory, is suitably...
View Articletravel theme: benches
Saturday, April 13: Ailsa of Where’s my backpack? has challenged us this week to come up with some benches. She writes: Every park bench has a story to tell and when I see one, I can’t help dreaming...
View Articleweekly photo challenge: culture
Saturday, April 27: This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is Culture. Aaron Joel Santos, the host of this week’s challenge, writes: Culture is a bit of a loaded word. In a photograph, it can...
View Articletravel theme: dance
Saturday, May 4: Ailsa’s travel theme for this week (Where’s my backpack?) is Dance. She writes: Are you ready to dust off your dancing shoes and go for a twirl around the dance floor? It doesn’t have...
View Articletravel theme: through
Tuesday, September 24: Ailsa’s travel theme for this week is through. In her post on Where’s my backpack?, she quotes George Bernard Shaw: “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window...
View Articleweekly photo challenge: let there be light!
Saturday, November 30: The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is Let There be Light! Writes Ben Huberman of WordPress: We’re entering a truly light-filled season. Christmas trees, Hanukkah menorahs, and...
View Articletravel theme: sky
Sunday, December 1: Ailsa of Where’s my backpack? has challenged us to come up with some sky pictures. “This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First...
View Articleweekly photo challenge: community
Saturday, December 14: The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is community, and we’re encouraged to interpret this in any way that we want. Community usually refers to people, but there are many...
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