Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge : Blue or purple flowers

This week’s topic is Blue or Purple Flowers.  Any blue, or purple tones are allowed and that includes lavender, violet. We call these flowers Nitya Pushpa or Sada Pushpa . It literally means flowers which are always there:) Some wild flowers which bloom when the rains start.

Blogging 101: The Commons

Day Eleven: Make a Prompt Personal Today’s assignment: publish a post based on your own, personalized take on a blogging prompt.To find our Daily Prompt, head to the The Daily Post — you’ll see the prompt in an orange box on the middle-right side of the screen. Learning Style What’s your learning style? Do you prefer learning…

The Daily Post Photo Challenge : Alphabet

This week, let the alphabet be your inspiration: find a string of letters. Try a multi-photo gallery to collect images of single characters. Find some beautiful typography, or look for letters hidden in natural forms. I’m excited to see your ABCs! We had been to London last year in June. It had been a wonderful…

A Photo a week challenge : Looking down

IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A PHOTO OR TWO (OR THREE…) WHERE YOU POINT YOUR CAMERA DOWN OR GRAB A SHOT FROM A MUCH LOWER VIEW THAN YOU USUALLY SEE. Last year when our grandson was with us was keeping a board on my husband’s legs and letting his cars roll…

Blogging 101: The Commons

Day Nine: Get Inspired By the Neighbors Yesterday, you left comments. Remember how we asked you to remember where you left ‘em? We hope you did, because you’ll need one of them today. Today’s assignment: write a post that builds on one of the comments you left yesterday. Don’t forget to link to the other…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Yellow or Orange Flowers

This week’s topic is Yellow or Orange Flowers.  Your photos can either be yellow or orange flowers or the combination of yellow and orange in a single flower.  You can take photos of flowers, artificial flowers, painted flowers.  The thing is to have a lot of fun. Five times a week I go to a Home for…

Blogging 101: The Commons

Day Eight: Be a Good Neighbor Publishing posts is just one part of blogging; interacting with the community is the other. You’ve already been following topics and blogs, so let’s take that up a notch with some comments. Today’s assignment: leave comments on at least four blogs that you’ve never commented on before. Hi 🙂…

CEE’S COMPOSE YOURSELF PHOTO CHALLENGE: WEEK #13 Perspective

This week’s CCY Theme is Perspective.  For your weekly assignment I would like to see at least 4-6 photos of photos taken with perspective in mind.  You can either show original photos with a quick description of where the perspective is do a photo shoot like I did (see my essay below) showing perspective of two…

Fading Away

The words ‘fading away’ always leave behind a sad feeling. Whenever I come across them I am reminded of Gollum in Lord of the Rings. The Ring made Gollum fade away, physically and mentally. The effects of something evil. Such a terrible situation when we have no control whatsoever over ourselves. That must be the…

The Daily Post Photo Challenge : Weight(less)

This week, share a photo of something marked by its weight — or its air of weightlessness. Show us gravity at its most unforgiving, or most generous. Bricks or feathers. A collapsed ruin or a plane taking off. A heavy piece of old furniture or the flying buttresses of a cathedral. Keep in mind that…