Weekly Header Challenge -- Signs

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.

Visit the other participants' blogs to see their entries!

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!


Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

Visit my website
Stop by my family blog
Follow me on Facebook

Weekly Header Challenge -- Looking Up

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.

Visit the other participants' blogs to see their entries!

Theme ~ Looking Up

Chosen by Tom.

For this week's theme, I traveled back in time to our silver anniversary trip to Paris.  Although pictures don't do justice to the view, it's pretty amazing standing at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower and looking up.  Here is the uncropped image I used for this week's header:

Closer to home is another tower--the Moser Tower which houses the Millenium Carillon in Naperville.  At the bottom, looking up, you can see a series of bells, from the largest bell, "Big Joe," to the smaller and smaller ones, until you have to climb the stairs to see the smallest bells of the carillon.

At the very top of the Moser Tower, you can look up and see the sky.  I took a picture, then turned 90 degrees and took a second picture for a different look.  I do like the second one better, though both are visually interesting.

In Chicago, you can find many old churches, one of which is Notre Dame de Chicago, which boasts this beautiful dome in its sanctuary.

Lots of signs can be seen if you look up; here is one of my favorite ice cream shops, in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.

Finally, here's one old image I took at a springtime church picnic.  Daddy sure had to look up so he could catch his little son!

Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

Visit my website
Stop by my family blog
Follow me on Facebook

Weekly Header Challenge -- Odd Shots

It's time for the Weekly Header Challenge!

"Headbanger" Participants

Fishing Guy 

Kathy 

Imac 

Lew

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

Click on the other participants' blogs to see

what they've come up with!

Theme ~ Odd Shots

Chosen by Kathy.

This week was another tough week for me in choosing images to feature.  I'm not sure I did such a great job picking out shots I thought were odd; however, I tried to pick ones that others might think are odd.  So here they are!

My header image, featuring my sweet husband, uncropped:

 This is what happens when you fall asleep at a family gathering.

This next one is odd because of the framing.  It would have been an amazing shot of the sunset with the silhouette of the tree, but I was shooting from the passenger side of our moving vehicle, and caught the window frame on the right, the rear view mirror below the sun, and Fernando's face on the left!  (Mac, I would've had a great view if the steering wheel had been in the British style!)

Yeah, this next one...  Not sure what it was about...  Again, shot out of the passenger window while we were at a red light waiting to turn right.  I hope he found his hamster-loving wife...

Yes, I took a picture of legs.  These two shapely-limbed ladies walked the parade in those shoes.  Which makes it an odd shot.

After said parade, I caught this shot at our friends' post-parade barbecue.  Not sure what they were doing with a door...

I think this was Danny, below, who wanted a little ice cream under his whipped topping!

Hope these brought a smile to your face--or at least made you ponder, huh??  See y'all next week!


Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

Visit my website
Stop by my family blog
Follow me on Facebook

Weekly Header Challenge -- Something Red

It's time for the Weekly Header Challenge!

"Headbanger" Participants

Craver VII 

Fishing Guy 

Katney 

Imac 

Lew

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

Click on the other participants' blogs to see

what they've come up with!

Theme ~ Something Red

Chosen by Mac.

Thank you, Mac, for choosing a bright theme in the middle of our dreary winter!  Here is my header, which I originally cropped this way (in the header, it's cropped a bit more):

 Trio of red spring flowers.

Here are the rest of my red images to brighten your day!

Street sign at my alma mater.

Punch at a barn wedding.

Baby rhubarb in early spring.

More spring flowers.

 
Now, on to summer...

Dessert at Treats 'n 'Tiques -- the cherry on the top of summer!

Fireworks on the lake.

Tomatoes, peppers, and basil.

Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

Visit my website
Stop by my family blog
Like me on Facebook

Weekly Header Challenge - Curves

It's time for the Weekly Header Challenge!

"Headbanger" Participants

Craver VII 

Fishing Guy 

Katney 

Imac 

Lew
Tom W 

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

Click on the other participants' blogs to see

what they've come up with!

Theme ~ Name Here

Chosen by yours truly.  :)

I actually forgot that I chose this week's theme.  And then I panicked.  *chuckle*

I stayed current with my images, using only those from this year's adventures.  For the images I wanted to share, I tried to stay away from circles.  They are curvy, of course, but I wanted curves without the completion--does that make sense?  I guess that's opposed to having straight lines in the images.  That was the direction my brain was headed, anyway.

For my header, I chose a full completed curve (an oval) filled with curves.  Here is the full image:

Okay, I'm open for business now, so I'll show you the rest of my curves.  ;)

The day after the Texas wedding I attended, we visited a mostly dry lake bed and I made some interesting captures.  One was this image of really curvy trees.

On the subject of plants, here are the gentle curves of my scilla just before blooming.

And here are the curves of the fully blooming scilla flowers.

Back inside, I have some curves in my kitchen:

Funky curves of freshly baked bread.

Curved edges of tortilla chips accent my bowl of pineapple salsa.

A curved twig with balls of ice attached.

Curved chair handles with lots of straight lines, too.

A few more images from my Texas wedding, showing off those curves!

The wedding cake.

Old plow.

Clothesline of well-wishes.

Going back home again, I found this image of half-rolled-up cinnamon rolls.  Curvy and yummy all at the same time!

Finally, here is one of the latest images I took, just a few days ago, while sitting on the bench in my special place.  That's what I call it--this back corner of back yard, with a half-finished garden and view of the pool (not that great, but the garden flowers will fill in over the summer), the house, and my vegetable garden (not seen on the left).

Some day I'll be able to enjoy the finished product here in my special place--the curves of the garden and of my bench, and of my legs crossed lazily, and of my fingers around my glass of iced tea.  Aaahh!


Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

Visit my website
Stop by my family blog
Like me on Facebook

The Road Home

On our drive home from Georgia...

 Through the Windshield

Southern billboard

Birds on a lake in Tennessee

Lake and train bridge, Tennessee

Steep grade

Famous local restaurant

Louisville, Kentucky

Downtown Louisville, Kentucky

Chick-Fil-A sign (boy, their classic misspelling burns me...)

Vehicle bridge

We had an uneventful ride home, except for a huge accident on I-65 near Indy.  Praise the Lord for road signs indicating the accident, and my new smart phone's navigation that helped us get around it.  :)

Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

Visit my website
Stop by my family blog
Like me on Facebook

Down a Golf Cart Path -- Part II

Part One ended with me getting lost.  I didn't get lost.  I just ended up that way.   Then I realized--I had a smart phone!  With maps and navigation!  I pulled up Google Maps and that pretty blue arrow glowed my exact location.  The best part--all the golf cart paths were on the map!  Good thing I love to read maps.  I soon found the next path to take.

I came across a crepe myrtle with its orange-red limbs.  So pretty in winter!

One quick trip through another subdivision--is this burning bush?

Then it was back on the cart path.  The below is something I don't see in Chicagoland--trees covered in vines.  I took pictures both vertically and horizontally, since I'm limited with my 50mm lens.

Twiny vines.

As I emerged from yet another cart path, I got "chased" by the Boston below.  I decided to take its picture with the sign.  I like it!

Another crepe myrtle--closer up.

I stopped along this path to capture the orange of the pine needles.

Now on the familiar path back to Dee's home, I spotted this flag, which I hadn't seen when I first passed by.  Someone had stuck it in this cut-off tree trunk.

I had a nice hour-plus walk, and with temps in the 60s it was positively spring-like!  Once Dee and her parents came home, we ate dinner and commenced another word game--a more familiar one this time.  :)

Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

Visit my website
Stop by my family blog
Like me on Facebook