Tag Archives: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Flowers

My 2020 blues…and purples

November 24, 2020 XingfuMama 13 Comments

Hardy cyclamen.
Hydrangea.
Borage.
Love-in-a-mist.
Canterbury bells.
Potato
Veronica
Johnson’s blue geranium, crane’s bill variety.
Lavendar
Marjoram
Clover
Lace cap hydrangea
Artichoke
Agapanthus, a.k.a., Lily of the Nile
Wild sweet pea
Giant thistle
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Rosemary
Hydrangea
Chickory

Clearly I have a fixation on blue and purple flowers…Maybe an intervention is warranted?

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Flowers-blue or purple.

Flowers

Lest we forget…

November 11, 2020 XingfuMama 7 Comments

In memorium of Armistice Day, and in appreciation for all veterans for their service.

When we were in England in 2018, the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, there was a very moving memorial installation based on poppies. It was an amazing work of art, both in the creation of every individual poppy and the very careful placement to get the overall effect.

Poppies Weeping Window at Carlisle Castle in northern England.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Dark Red.

Photos of red poppies in honor of Verteran's and Armistice Day.

Flowers

Fall purples

November 3, 2020 XingfuMama 22 Comments

While purple isn’t regularly considered a fall color I’ve been seeing it around the neighborhood.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Purples and Violets.

Picture Galleries, Snapshots from a Happy Life

Autumn color

October 25, 2020 XingfuMama 7 Comments

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Orange and Green. This color combination seems like it is everywhere right now. Just a few examples from walking the pups today:

Flowers

Pink and yellow flowers

October 14, 2020 XingfuMama 7 Comments

A yellow and pink heirloom rose in full bloom. — Love and Peace heirloom rose.

Bright pink wild sweet pea blooming beside yellow tansy. — Wild sweet peas and tansy.

A Japanese anemone blossom with pale pink petals and a bright yellow center. — Japanese Anemone

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pink and Yellow.

Flowers

June blooms

June 16, 2020 XingfuMama 18 Comments

The purple bloom with a yellow center of a potato plant.

A white morning glory blossom with a fw raindrops.

Passion flower with its dramatic purple, white and black markings and pop-out center.

A simple single Shasta daisy, with a few raindrops.

A red oriental poppy with a black fringe.

Morning sunlight lights an orange rose against a backdrop of green trees.

The Len’s Artist’s Challenge this week is also Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge One Single Flower.

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White on white

November 30, 2019 XingfuMama 9 Comments

Old lace and a Christmas ornament in a white-on-white still life.

A simple set of white on white still lifes for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: White.

I did these last year when I was working on a still life course by Julie Powell.

Snapshots from a Happy Life

Fall textures

October 26, 2019 XingfuMama 4 Comments

Sycamore seed pods. — Spiky sycamore seed pods.

A furry watcher, lichens, moss and bark.

These are from a walk with the dogs this past week. Cee’s challenge this week made me more aware of the textures as we wandered.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Textures

China, Shouguang

More Fishing lines…or is that lines fishing…or a line-up of folks fishing?

October 15, 2019 XingfuMama 7 Comments

Several people fishing under a weeping willow tree on the banks of the Mihe River in Shouguang, Shandong Province, China. — The straight rods of “fish people” on the Mihe River in Shouguang, Shandong Province, China.

Someone I met in Shouguang referred to his (many) fellow citizens who fished along the banks of the Mihe as “fish people”. One does not see a lot of catching so, perhaps, it is the act of fishing that is the goal.

For Becky of Winchester’s Lines & Squares: Day 15

…and Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lines seems appropriate also: since these folks are having fun with lines.