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Weekly Photo Challenge – From Lines to Patterns

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Everyday objects around me reveal lines vs patterns: floors/doors/boards/tile; zinnia petals/stems; bottles/shells; cookie jar/diamond shapes; cookie jar/shell jar/little jar; soybean field with the soft texture of leaves/horizon/trees/fences; corn field/sky; tree stump/wood shavings/bug and worm traces/age lines; winter forest/fence/bare trees/coyote; watergarden plant/soft pattern/spiny leaves. http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/lines-patterns/

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Panera Bread CEO Living Off $4.50 a Day for Hunger Awareness

Food for thought ….

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Art on the Wabash Fair

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The Art on the Wabash Fair was today and so I headed out first for a breakfast of crepes and hot tea at the Greyhouse Cafe and then to the art fair in Tapawingo Park, next to the levee. I … Continue reading

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Inside – Canning Jar

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I looked around my home to see what I could photograph that would fit in with this challenge.  I decided to take a canning jar (really a commercial tomato sauce glass jar) and photograph flowers or plants from my garden … Continue reading

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Vezelay, a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site, and famous for it’s Chardonnay and Pinot Noir…oh, and our next stop…

Just discovered this wonderful photography blog. What a talented photographer! michaelevansphotographerblog This delightful hilltop town was originally established in approximately the 9th century, the location being naturally very defensible. The Basilica of St Magdelene is also a designated World Heritage … Continue reading

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A Chicago for the Future

Originally posted on Cities for People:
(Photo: Kasey Klimes) “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will not themselves be realized.” – Daniel Burnham, Author of “The Plan for Chicago”, 1909 For over…

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Unusual POV Via My Cat Blue

This is my cat’s favorite spot, under this tree and through the summer, the wild lilies almost hide him completely.  Now it’s drier and the lilies have mostly died down for the season.  But, he still sits in the midst … Continue reading

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Travel Theme – Hidden – Hidden Driveway

I constantly see these signs when I drive through the countryside here. What does that mean, ‘Hidden Driveway’? Is it playing hide and seek and it’s going to jump out and say “Here I am!”? Or is it going to … Continue reading

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What Will People Wear 70 Years From Now…

What do you think you would wear 70 years from now? I recently came across this Youtube video –  a film made in the 1930’s which tries to predict what people will be wearing in the year 2000.  The film … Continue reading

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Sea

My first trip to the sea?  ~ It was in 1970, where I accompanied an Uncle & Aunt as they drove my sister to Florida for her first semester of college.  I, having bronchitis, was hacking all the way as … Continue reading

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