Category: leisure

  • Travel Travails of Our Winter Road Trip: Part 1, Phoenix Fun

    Travel Travails of Our Winter Road Trip: Part 1, Phoenix Fun

    Join me on part one of my three-part Winter Road Trip and learn some dos and don’ts to traveling.

  • 2018 Christmas Charity Appeal – Help Me Raise £250 For The Dogs Trust By Leaving Me Links To Your Blogs And Books

    2018 Christmas Charity Appeal – Help Me Raise £250 For The Dogs Trust By Leaving Me Links To Your Blogs And Books

    Hugh Roberts, with the help of fellow bloggers, is raising $$ for the Dogs Trust.

  • Winter Macro in #DecemberSquares

    Winter Macro in #DecemberSquares

    I don’t always get to see snow, but when I do, I am so happy to capture an image that depicts a winter day. We still have some colorful autumn leaves hanging on for dear life, but wintertime is here! The pine stays green in winter, wisdom in hardship. – Norman Douglas Submitting for December…

  • Square in September: “Painnt”-ing with #Pink

    Square in September: “Painnt”-ing with #Pink

    On this last Friday of Pink Squares in September, I have some images to share. Not just my standard fare, but some used with a mobile app called Painnt (available for Android devices in Google Play Store). My pink hydrangea with an Autumn flair! Here are two Painnt images of the same hydrangea. I found…

  • Sunday Stills: Whistle While You #Work

    Sunday Stills: Whistle While You #Work

    This holiday weekend, Labor Day (in the U.S.), is the traditional end to the summer, as school begins, and vacations are all but over. According to the US Department of Labor, “Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of…

  • Sunday Stills: Water, #Water Everywhere, My #Paddleboard Can Shrink

    Sunday Stills: Water, #Water Everywhere, My #Paddleboard Can Shrink

    How do you typically spend your last Sunday in August? For lots of folks, August is still a hot month in the Northern hemisphere, so the beach fronts of rivers, lakes, and oceans see huge crowds spending their last summer weekend around the water. Water is our “over-arching” theme this week for Sunday Stills. Since…

  • Sunday Stills: Objects Over #100-Years-Old

    Sunday Stills: Objects Over #100-Years-Old

    Attention globetrotters! This photo challenge theme is for you! Well, it’s for anyone, of course, but since our Sunday Stills theme this week is “Objects Over 100 Years Old,” your photos from countries abroad will likely showcase places and spaces that have been around for over 100 years. Just be careful about publishing images of…

  • 49 Days In 1988: Week 31 – First Night – Hugh’s Views & News

    49 Days In 1988: Week 31 – First Night – Hugh’s Views & News

    Many thanks to Hugh for featuring me on his blog today! This weekly feature shares accounts from his journal written in the 1980s and introduces bloggers’ book project and favorite 80s songs! If you have not visited Hugh’s blog yet, please stop by! Photo by Emre Gencer on Unsplash via 49 Days In 1988: Week…

  • Sunday Stills: #Lazy Days of Summer

    Sunday Stills: #Lazy Days of Summer

    We are almost at the midpoint of August which means for many, summer is nearly over. Sure the weather will still be warm in the northern hemisphere, and maybe too hot on the West Coast (the wildfires aren’t helping matters), but school starts for many youth, teens and young adults in mid- and late-August! The…

  • Sunday Stills: #Drunk with…? or #Summer Drink

    Sunday Stills: #Drunk with…? or #Summer Drink

    The last Sunday in July challenges Sunday Stills participants to find an image depicting “Drunk with…?” Since this is indeed a challenging theme, I thought I would add an optional related theme “Summer Drink.” Your theme can be centered around alcohol but it doesn’t have to be. I’m not much of a drinker although a…

  • Sunday Stills: Can You Capture the #Wind?

    Sunday Stills: Can You Capture the #Wind?

    Today’s Sunday Stills theme challenges you to capture the wind! Wind is a very broad theme which is open to much interpretation. Like last week, I challenge you to get creative with your photography or other projects! Perhaps you captured the wind in a poem, a song, a quote. I’m sure there are hundreds of…

  • Sunday Stills: What Does #Summer Mean to You?

    Sunday Stills: What Does #Summer Mean to You?

    For the Sunday Stills challenge to celebrate the first week in July, share your favorite thing about summer. You can simply share one photo of your favorite summer experience or wow us with a gallery of what summer means to you. And it’s not just about photos…perhaps you are inspired by a song, poem, artwork,…

  • Horses in Black and White

    Horses in Black and White

    If you’ve followed my blog for any length of time, you know I share a LOT of photos, mostly in technicolor! I am happy to write that I am back to stretching my camera lenses with Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenges. This week’s theme is “animals,” and my entry is this happy, cream-colored horse…

  • Sunday Stills: #Aroma

    Sunday Stills: #Aroma

    While the U.S. celebrates Memorial Day this weekend (holiday observed Monday), my co-host Aixa at Mucho Spanish chose the theme “aroma” for the Sunday Stills photo challenge. Memorial Day weekend is the traditional “unofficial” kick-off to the summer season here in the Northern Hemisphere. I, myself, am at the Sacramento Delta for a long weekend…

  • Twisted Twitter

    Twisted Twitter

    Curved and straight lines appear in nature and in items made by humans. In the WordPress weekly photo challenge, those curved or Twisted lines are the theme for this week. In Hawaii last January, we encountered so many colorful birds! These two Saffron Finches were happily enjoying the sunshine. The one on the right really contorted…