Lingering look at Windows
Today, for the Lingering Look at Windows challenge set by Dawn at her blog The Day After, I have decided to post some bright, cheerful ones seen during my travels in Italy. Most are from Lucca, and...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: In the Background
Well, what luck, I had an image in the archive! This week, over at WordPress the Weekly Photo Challenge is ‘In the Background’(check out this site to see more images)…Here I am, leaning forward to...
View ArticleItaly Less Trodden….Part 2
For this post, I am putting up some images of one of my favourite places..the medieval hamlet of Bagno Vignoni, in Tuscany, Italy. It used to be well off the beaten track, but I think it is becoming...
View ArticleWeekly Travel Theme: Flowing
Ailsa at Where’s my Backpack? has us finding images that say Flowing for this week’s Travel Challenge. I’m off to Italy, more precisely Tuscany, for an image from the area south of Siena known as the...
View ArticleWeekly Travel Theme: Through
This week, Ailsa has us posting images that say ‘through’ for her Weekly Travel Theme over at Where’s my Backpack.I know some of my fellow bloggers have considered this carefully, but I want to...
View ArticleLingering Look at Windows
Well, two posts today! I wanted to post some more images of windows from the derelict, abandoned village of Craco Vecchio, and have been playing about with Snapseed this morning (instead of doing more...
View ArticleLingering Look at Windows: Spot the window
Well, it’s Thursday, and time for another Lingering Look at Windows, as set by Dawn over at The Day After. For this week, I thought I would get away from my usual theme of decay, and post some windows...
View ArticleWeekly Travel Theme: Height
This week, over at her blog ‘Where’s my Backpack?’, Ailsa is challenging us to find photos on the theme of ‘height’. Well, I don’t do height…not really. I have absolutely no head for heights. Many...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Good Morning
For this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge, ‘Good Morning’ my initial thought was “I haven’t got anything to post”…. then I had a bit more of a think. What makes a good morning? These days, my mornings are...
View ArticleEse’s Weekly Shoot and Quote Challenge: Ugly
This week, Ese has us finding quotes, and images to fit the quote, around ‘Ugly’. Now I’m not sure whether I have succeeded here (and I took a bit of time trying to decide what to post), but at least...
View ArticleWeekly Travel Theme: Brown
I’ve been away for a few days, so no blog posts. When I saw Ailsa’s Travel Theme for this week was ‘Brown’, I thought to myself “great, nice easy one”…. Lucania, visited on my Italy trip this year, was...
View ArticleLingering look at Windows: Interestingly Seedy
Well, for this week’s Lingering Look at Windows, I thought I would post just a couple of rather seedy looking windows from southern Italy, almost continuing the ‘Brown’ theme of my last post! And yes,...
View ArticleLingering Look at Windows: Colourful
For Dawn’s Windows challenge this week, I’m following her lead and posting some bright windows this week. I’m managing to get away from the brown this week! These are windows from the Puglian towns of...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Layers
For this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge, Sarah Rosso at WordPress has tasked us to come up with images to do with ‘layers’. I thought for all of one minute… I am posting an image from recen travels of...
View ArticleItaly Less Trodden… part 3: Casteluccio
For part 3 of my Italy Less Trodden occasional series, we’re off to Umbria. More precisely, to Casteluccio in the Valnerina. When I said I wanted to be based in the area known as the Valnerina, the...
View ArticleEse’s Weekly Shoot and Quote challenge: Music (alluded to…)
This week, Ese has challenged us to find quotes and images around Music….I actually have very few images of musicians or musical instruments, so I went on a hunt for quotes that I could put images to....
View ArticleOne/1
I have decided it is time for something new….a belated New Year decision! A series entitled ‘One’. Each week I shall post an image containing just one individual in shot (this may morph as time goes...
View ArticleFrizztext’s A to Z challenge: G is for Gubbio
Time for Frizzz’s Challenge again, and more images from my travels. This time, G could have been for Graz, Grindelwald, Grottaferrata, Goslar, Görlitz, Gordes, Grimaud… But I am choosing Gubbio for...
View ArticleWeekly Shoot and Quote Challenge: Alive
Ese has chosen ‘Alive’ as our prompt this week… I couldn’t find a quote that I could put an image to until I found this one, and an image from my travels in Tuscany, Italy fit nicely: “If the sight
View ArticleWeekly Travel Theme: Statues
Today, Ailsa has chosen Statues for her Weekly Travel Theme. I thought I would post some statuary from gardens in Lazio, Italy. First up, Roman statues from the Villa Adriana (Hadrian’s Villa) – nice,...
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