Textures is the prompt for today’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge and my picture is one I took at this year’s Day of the Dead celebration in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. This is a picture of an altar that has all kinds of textures: wood, metal, glass, food, bones, rocks, fruit, flowers, wire, straw, water,… Continue reading Textures for Lens Artists Photo Challenge
Today’s contribution to Cee’s Flower of the Day Photo Challenge https://ceenphotography.com/2022/11/25/fotd-november-26-oregon-grape-blossoms/ is a shot at a new rose in my garden.
The day after Thanksgiving. Two birds saved from roasting in a hot oven. Sales flooding the Internet ethers. Leftovers fill refrigerators. Empty beer bottles overflow the trashcan. Laughter and shouting heard from the den. Dishwasher on its fifth load since noon yesterday. Yes, it is Black Friday in all its glory. Hopefully all your family… Continue reading Thanksgiving Day
See more faces at https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2022/11/12/rdp-saturday-face/
My Grandmother Williams lived for 103 hard years. “Hard” because of where she lived, when she lived, and how she lived. She was an old woman when I was born, and she may have been living her best years at that time. In the early 1940’s her children were grown, her arthritis wasn’t full blown,… Continue reading A Hug
Some leaf pictures taken a few years ago while visiting Oklahoma in the fall. See more at https://lingeringvisions.wordpress.com/2022/11/10/festival-of-leaves-2022-week-8-swirling-leaves/
Bright orange marigolds are ablaze each November 1 and 2 in Mexico as the Day of the Dead is celebrated and the lives of our loved ones are remembered, called back, and honored. The color challenge for November is Citrus Sinensis and marigolds certainly fit that challenge. Alters are set up in cemeteries, on city… Continue reading Citrus Sinensis–Marigolds
that little voice 