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Category Archives: Weekly Photo Challenge
WPC: Inside My Hope-Filled English Garden
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge theme is ‘Inside’. This is my interpretation. Here’s hoping. Walking around my garden today, I can’t help thinking how different things are compared to last year when we were in the grip of a long, … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective of a Little Girl’s Joy
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge over at the Daily Prompt is ‘Perspective’. Interesting. From my perspective, I’m determined to get a couple of posts out this week even if it has been like walking through mud. This is because, blogging … Continue reading
WPC: Abandoned Minoan Ruins of Crete
The Weekly Photo Challenge theme this week is ‘Abandoned’. The scope here is endless, open as always to individual interpretation. It could be about buildings, ruins, wastelands, or things that are overlooked. It could also be about people. I knew … Continue reading
WPC: Threes – A Story of the Sea
With the merry sound of Friday’s catchy little number no doubt still ringing in your ears (*grins mischievously*) and hoping that the weekend was good to you, I thought that my take on this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge would follow on … Continue reading
WPC: Selfie
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge has had me on the run. This is what Cherie over at the WordPress Daily Post says: ‘…whether you love it or hate it, selfie-portraiture is indeed a thing, and an expression of our ever-evolving culture … Continue reading
Posted in Photos, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged photograph of self, postaday, selfie, Weekly Photo Challenge
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WPC: Object – Broken Tree
A day late and a dollar short, ha! Story of my life. Well, better to show up than not at all and here it is Tuesday but as promised, with my take on this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge theme which … Continue reading
Posted in Photos, The Black Dog, Weekly Photo Challenge, Writing
Tagged Handwriting, Photo of Tree, Poem, Poetry, postaday, Storms, The Black Dog, Weekly Photo Challenge, Writers, writing, Writing Fiction
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition is British High Tea in California
This week’s theme for the Weekly Photo Challenge is Juxtaposition. Juxtaposition is defined in the Collins English Dictionary in this way: ‘The juxtaposition of two contrasting objects, images, or ideas is the fact that they are placed together or described … Continue reading
Posted in My California, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged America, California, England, Friendship, Juxtaposition, Pacific Coast Highway, postaday, Tea, Weekly Photo Challenge
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WPC: Family
A little late in the day (at least for my fellow same-time-zone bloggers) to start my new regime but here I begin with this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge theme which is ‘Family’. This gives a very broad scope for interpretation … Continue reading
WPC: Windows of Pefki, Crete
What better way to start a new blogging year than with a few challenges to add to the mix? For a little while now I’ve been thinking about taking up the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge for the simple reason … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged Crete, Foreign travel, Pefki Village, Photographs of windows, Poem, Poetry, postaday, Weekly Photo Challenge, Windows
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