This post was created for Cee’s Fun Fotot Challenge: LEAVES &TREES
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/05/06/cees-fun-foto-challenge-leaves-and-trees/
I found this tree in the Koog ZanDyke neighborhood just outside of Zandaam the Netherlands
I suppose it’s more of a giant pine cone than a leaf but I thought it was kind of cool.
OK so maybe nobody who missed the seventies sci-fi scene (that’s how it was spelled then) will get this reference unless of course you happened to see the equally arcane scyfy movie from 2012 (that’s how they spell it now) Cloud Atlas; But the line kept coming to mind as I walked through Keukenhof Gardens last year.
It was forty-five degrees and raining. Still people chose to show up with no coats. So Keukenhof staff were handing out these green rain ponchos. The hood of this very economical rain gear came down just below the eye line; So people were walking around half blind trying to look at flowers ,cutting each other off at every turn.
After three hours of nearly being trampled upon by the men and women in green, my sister and I began warning each other of oncoming danger with the buzz words “Soylent green is people!” We’d laugh hysterically and that made getting stepped on almost all right.
When I came back to the states and downloaded my pictures I thought maybe I should just delete these but they make me laugh every time I see them. I haven’t the heart to let the joke go.
To see other odd ball photos go to:
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/04/13/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-week-7/
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge is all about international cuisine.
As soon as I saw the theme I knew the picture I was going to post.
This is witloaf (pronounced Vit-loaf). It’s chicken wrapped in bacon on a bed of endive and baked in a cheese crust smothered with a special red sauce. YUMMMMY! But what I remember about the meal beyond the great taste was the wonderful company. Thanks to Willem and Mirjam Jackson for the memories!
To discover other international dishes go to:
http://sundaystills.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/sunday-stills-the-next-challenge-international-food/
This post was created for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: STREET LIFE found at
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/street-life/
Go on over and take a gander at some cool streets and the lives they touch; But first here are my streets.
Dam Square, Amsterdam
Feed the birds in Dam Square
My sister and I thought they might be giant replicas of Christmas bulbs but we thought we’d sound really stupid asking.
Created for Cee’s Oddball post.
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/03/13/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-week-3/
Ailsa has given us a great challenge this week. We are to bring out our SILVER travel photos for you!
OOO SHINY SHINY!
My silver objects are below but you can find out what Ailsa’s other contributors came up with by going to
Fruitlands, Ayer MA
Amsterdam
Lisse, The Netherlands
This week’s photo challenge from the Daily Post is WINDOWS you can catch lots of other windows by going here http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/photo-challenge-window/
Here is my window
Kokenheuf Gardens, Holland
I am glad to have some time to work on a photographic post this week, FINALLY!
The travel theme we have been asked to photograph is: Symbol.
When you are done with my symbols go on over to Ailsa’s place and find out what her other subscribers are putting forth.
http://wheresmybackpack.com/2013/12/06/travel-theme-symbol/
Here are some symbols I found:
Peacock Design at Delft Factory
The peacock is a symbol of immortality because the ancients believed that the peacock had flesh that did not decay after death. As such, early Christian paintings and mosaics use peacock imagery, and peacock feathers can be used during the Easter season as church decorations. This symbol of immortality is also directly linked to Christ.-The meaningsof symbols.blogspot.com
Windmills at Zaanseschans
When I think windmills I think Holland (or Don Quixote but let’s stay away from the crazy shall we). Windmills are a symbol of industry and ingenuity overcoming obstacles. A truly worthy symbol if ever there was one!
The Cross Cut Out at St. Bavo’s
No post on symbols by me would be complete without the symbol of the cross. Immortality is awesome! Ingenuity and Industry are great! But none of these are truly possible without the cross! Paul said… “When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.” Col. 2:13-15
Without the cross immortality is impossible. Without the cross ingenuity falls short of eternal accomplishment. And without the cross industry is just so much wasted energy. For the cross is what reconciles us to God and fills the need of true purpose that dwells within the heart of every man.
This week’s travel theme given to us by Ailsa at “Where’s My Backpack” is the word THROUGH. She has put together a really creative montage of photographs for us this week. Pop over and view her work as well as the work of her contributors at http://wheresmybackpack.com/2013/09/20/travel-theme-through/
I gathered these thoughts and photos on the word “Through” during my travels this summer to the transcendentalist commune at Fruitlands and also during my time leading worship In Connecticut at the New England Special Touch getaway.
Through
by JE Lillie
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers
We glimpse our best selves through the eyes of others.
Our vision seeming masks
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
Elvis Presley
Soul light asking purchase through the shade as
Sun in the deeping wood.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
We blinded stood through shadows. Friends enemies
All grasp our Ever task.
This week’s word from http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/ is ARCH! Take a moment and pop on over to see her other contributors.
Here are some awesome arches from my archive!
This is the Oude Kerk in Delft, The Netherlands. My sister and I made a trip to this city of the Royal House of Orange in April of 2013.
This is the entrance to Old Murdock High School in Winchendon MA. My father and mother matriculated her.
The arch of the Christmas chapel in St. Bavo’s in Haarlem, The Netherlands.
Lillie-Put 