I am heading to China and may not have continuous internet access, so may be a little slow to approve ping-backs. I’ll get to them as soon as I can. I will continue with the challenge while I’m traveling. Hopefully I’ll find some fun seats to share.
Looking Up at Chicago
Interesting and dramatic, Chicago is a modern city with modern architecture, where you get a crick in your neck looking up at all the really tall buildings. I spent about twenty three hours there last summer on a train trip (our train arrived one hour after the connecting train left). I doubt we’ll ever go back.
My favorite “looking up picture is one I posted before:
This is York Minster, a photo taken in June of this year.
Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge-Week 4
PHOTO CHALLENGE OF PLACES WE SIT…OR MIGHT SIT…OR ART ABOUT SITTING
Welcome to week 2 of Pull up a Seat. Take a load off and share a favorite perch by linking your post to this one, either with a comment or pingback. For more detailed directions go to Pull Up a Seat page.
Thank you to everyone who is participating. It is really fun to see all the different ideas conjured up by the theme.
- Morpeth Road
- Proscenium
- Middleton Road
- That Little Voice
- Cee’s Photography
- Nut House Central
- Don’t Hold Your Breath
- Chronicles of an Anglo-Swiss
- Teleporting Weena
- What if we all cared?
- The 59 Club
- Heart to Heart
Follow up: the seat I showed in last week’s post was for jockey training.
Here are my photos for this week. They take a sober turn. I almost cried when I saw this and realized that someone had built a makeshift shelter from two dumped sofas and some other desert trash.
I took these photos in late August, in the desert, in an area where people, especially contractors, dump many things in order to avoid paying the fees at the local landfill. It appeared unoccupied, so hopefully its builder found a safer refuge from the elements.
Over to you (hopefully on a happier note).
Which Way in Qufu
Qufu, Confucious home town in Shandong Province, is a city of passages, paths and city gates.
Faster than a speeding bullet
It’s been a long time since we had a puppy in the family. Boy is she fast!…and fearless.
I wish I had that much energy.
Posted for Nancy Merrill’s Photo a Week Challenge: Movement.
Keep Remembering the kids
I finally found a news report with an update about the children.
PBS Newshour: Fewer than 200 migrant children remain separated from their parents
I feel like the headline is misleading. What they actually mean is that fewer than 200 are eligible to be helped by the class action lawsuit.
There are an additional 220 children who are deemed no longer a part of the class-action lawsuit. If you add that to the 182 who are deemed part of the class action that is a total of 402 still in government custody. to my mind that isn’t brilliant progress, the article on September 4 said that 416 remained in custody. Although it feels like they are not necessarily comparing apples to apples from week to week.
I have not been able to find out what happens to those 220 kids.
The Sycamore of Sycamore Gap
The sycamore of sycamore Gap along Hadrian’s Wall in Northumbria is the most photographed tree in all of England. No surprise since it is perfectly framed by the dip in the terrain, which allowed it to grow by protecting it from the sometimes brutal winds of the area. The day we were there was a little blustery, giving us just a little taste of reality.
Here are my takes on this famous tree.
Rules to live by
In the header is a book about photography.
More rules:
Rules at a steep rock with a broken ladder to the top. No one was there to take money or enforce rules.
Warthogs are not law abiding citizens.
Rule to live by…except I think this sign really meant “keep off the grass”.
The real rule to live by.
Pull up a Seat-Week 3
PHOTO CHALLENGE OF PLACES WE SIT…OR MIGHT SIT…OR ART ABOUT SITTING
Welcome to week 2 of Pull up a Seat. Take a load off and share a favorite perch by linking your post to this one, either with a comment or pingback. For more detailed directions go to Pull Up a Seat page.
Thank you to everyone who is participating. It is really fun to see all the different ideas conjured up by the theme.
- The 59 Club
- Chronicles of an Anglo-Swiss
- Teleporting Weena
- Proscenium
- Morpeth Road
- Poetry for Healing
We came across this seat at the Cashel Palace Hotel. Can you tell me what this seat is for?
Over to you. Add a link to your post in the comment section.
Cascades of the Cascades
A series of low falls on the Paradise River at Mount Rainier.
Narada Falls at Mount Rainier.
Small waterfall from snowmelt.
Seasonal creek.
The cascade mountains are well named. Most of these photos were taken in Mount Rainier National Park.
