Weekly Header Challenge -- Where Am I?

It's time for the Weekly Header Challenge!

"Headbanger" Participants

Fishing Guy 

Kathy 

Imac 

Lew

I'm joining the group above for this weekly challenge.

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Theme ~ Where Am I?

Chosen by Tom.

This week's theme will yield a pretty easy answer, so I'll just let my photos do the talking.  Here's the image I used for my header.  I shot it with my macro lens looking through the "forest" at ground level.

Take a tour of where I am...

You (hopefully) obviously guessed that I'm in my garden.  Here's an overhead view from the deck of our pool, which I've used for years to take overview photos of my garden.  This photo, though, is the last of its kind--our pool is finally in the process of being taken down (a couple of brutal winters + no money to repair the damage = no more pool), and the deck is coming down today.

 
Hope you enjoyed the tour!


Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

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Weekly Header Challenge -- Signs

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"Headbanger" Participants

Fishing Guy 

Kathy 

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Lew

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Theme ~ Signs

Chosen by Kathy.

Here's the image I used for my header.  It's a sign at the Louvre.  I love the English translation!

More fun signs.

At the Eiffel Tower.

Funny road signs...

And a misspelled sign (two m's in accommodation), at our local community college, no less...

Thanks for visiting today!


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Christine

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Weekly Header Challenge -- Curves

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"Headbanger" Participants

Fishing Guy 

Kathy 

Imac 

Lew

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Theme ~ Curves

Chosen by Lew.

I have time for a quick post for this week's Header Challenge...

To show off the most curves, here's the (slightly weird and unusual) image I chose for my header:

Making enchiladas in bulk.

Here are more curves, hopefully all easily spotted in each image.  :)

That's all I have time for this week.  The hearts of my fellow Headbangers and me go out to our dear Kathy this week, and we pray she feels our hugs and comfort from across the sea to across the country.

Treasuring life's moments,

Christine

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Weekly Header Challenge -- Gardens

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"Headbanger" Participants

Fishing Guy 

Kathy 

Imac 

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Theme ~ Gardens

Chosen by me.

When I chose the theme for this particular week of June, I thought for sure I'd have beautiful images of my flower gardens to share with you.  Then I got a job.

So, here I am this week, sharing images from gardens--whatever ones I've taken pictures of.  Oh, and with a few thrown in from previous years, so I can show off my flowers.  :)

Here is the image I'm using for my header.  I wandered through my raised bed gardens the morning after a nice long rain, and I caught the raindrops in the rays of the morning sun.

Here's another leaf, backlit by the sun.

Where there are spring strawberry leaves, there are bound to be strawberry blossoms!

Those blossoms turn into baby strawberries...

...which turn into red, juicy strawberries!

The sage in my garden bloomed before I could harvest anything, so I took some pictures, then eventually pruned it back.

Below, this Greek columnar basil is a new variety for my garden this year.  It's supposed to be similar to the standard basil we all love turning into pesto!

Earlier this spring, the daffodils bloomed in my front yard flower gardens.

Here's a somewhat embarrassing photo of one of my front yard flower gardens the guys help me build.  It's overgrown with oregano and daisies.

Part-way through Danny and I working on cutting things back, weeding, and generally cleaning up, I snapped a photo of this variegated beard tongue.  It usually proliferates in my garden, but it has died off and only three or four plants remain.

In my front porch garden, Siberian bugloss (brunnera) blooms with tiny bright blue/periwinkle flowers.  I love their color!

In what I term a major accomplishment, two of my gardens are blooming.  This is a June photo from last year, since the yellow flowers (threadleaf coreopsis) aren't in bloom yet.

There you have it--my gardens, such as they are, this week!


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Christine

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Weekly Header Challenge -- Small Critters

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Theme ~ Small Critters

Chosen by All of Us.

I hope these critters are small enough to be classified as small critters!  Here is the image I used for my header.

And, here are the rest of the small critters I found in my image libraries this morning!

Birds on the walking path at The Arboretum.

Woodpecker on a tree.

The rear-end of a tobacco hornworm on my tomato plant.

Spider in its web.

Happy squirrel--from a past Headbanger post!

Mud-covered turtle sunning itself on a log.

Praying mantis on the brick of our house.

Cicada waving hello!

Unknown caterpillar crawling across the boat dock at the lake.

Common green bottle fly on a strawberry blossom.

Butterfly in the dirt of my veggie garden.

Hope you enjoyed the world of small critters!


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Christine

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Weekly Header Challenge -- Water

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"Headbanger" Participants

Fishing Guy 

Kathy 

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Theme ~ Water

Chosen by Tom.

I used this image below to create my header.  I took it at The Morton Arboretum, and it's the drain area of Lake Marmo.  I liked the curve of the drain contrasted with the straight logs resting on the edge, plus the reflections of the clouds and trees in the water.  There's lots to explore in this photo!

Here are my most recent photos of water.

Lake Marmo, The Morton Arboretum.

Fox River at Hudson Crossing Park, Oswego, Illinois.

Waterway at Waubonsie Lake Park, Aurora, Illinois.

Standing upon the waterway at Waubonsie Lake Park.

Life, naturally,

Christine

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