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Friday, November 24, 2023
Letter "U" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 11 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts: Starts with "U." A Favorite. "U"tility. Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
And Reflections and a Street/Candid Capture: Also note from the picture above the Reflections from the hood. And then the Capture of the fellow and lady making a transaction. Are they checking to make sure nobody got gipped in the coffee and refreshment deal.
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[photo courtesy of jel of "My Place", click here]
Starts with "U": Up starts with "U". Guys, never, never, leave the seat Up. (Some like the top lid up, bottom down. Makes for a rush relief faster.)
Tom's choice, "Utility": Pickup trucks are Utility vehicles. When they appear with a car front and a hauling bed behind, example, the Ford Ranchero, the Australians and New Zealanders call them Utes.
The one above is a VW Ute we found while walking in New Zealand. We arrived very early in the morning for our cruise, Aukland, New Zealand to the bottom of NZ, then over to Tasmania, Australia, and up to Sydney. So we spent the morning examining the central NZ opposite of Aukland.
Read of that here,
Read NZ Auz bit posts here.
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A Favorite: Another Utility Vehicle that we found in Lisbon, Portugal. This is a Citroen 2CV Food Truck find in Lisbon, Portugal while we were visiting there in November. I bought an Ice Cream Bar from the owner. I couldn't find this easily, but I think there may be another letter behind the "2CV" for trucks. The Citroen 2CV models were made from 1948 to 1990. A Collector Car now they are priced in the mid $25K's and up.
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The fine print:
- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra large]
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link here to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linked this week with James of "Weekend Reflections" (click here for his Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
- I am also linked this week with James of "Weekend Reflections" (click here for his Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
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Labels: 2022 U.K. to Ft Lauderdale, Aus-NZ, Cars, Cartoons, Friday's Weekend Roundup 11, Reflections
Friday, December 09, 2022
Letter "W" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's Requests: Starts with "W"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "White".
- James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures.
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| 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Nomad Wagon (googled) |
[from a TV ad that I've forgotten its product]
Starts with "W": Wagons, from horse and human drawn to station wagon automobiles have been a part of humans' culture and convenience. Did you ever wonder about the now forgotten inventor of the wheel?
A Favorite: This year's NYC annual Rockefeller Plaza Christmas Tree is a favorite mine and many others. An average of 800 thousand persons will be viewing it each day until after Christmas. You've just now virtually joined the crowd.
Tom's suggestion, "White": Pure Snow is White. It lays on the ground and other flat surfaces. Humans and animal are the worst offenders to change its pearly color, generally to shares of yellow and gray.
Both children and adults stop for their imaginations' workouts.
I will be posting more of it again on my annually updated Christmas tree farm blog, (https://jimmiehov7.blogspot.com/ ).
James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures: Sightseers on a Lisbon, Portugal Tram, a.k.a. Street Car. Like the one we rode for over an hour, all over town, up and down its steep hills.
A Lagniappe: Watching the World Cup playoffs on TV
A Notice: Now that Thanksgiving has past, I am posting my first Christmas Tree on my Christmas Tree Farm blog. See it at
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- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (click here, Link, for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
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Labels: 2022 U.K. to Ft Lauderdale, Cars, Christmas, Church, England to Miami cruise, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, Reflections, Travel22, TV
Friday, November 25, 2022
Letter "U" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's Requests: Starts with "U"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "Up".
- James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures.
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Photo and Poem Copyright, 2018, jimmiehov6.blogspot.com, All Rights Reserved
It's linked with Kerry O'Connor at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/06/camera-flash.html?m=1
I hope I'm not too risqué, keep in mind the nursery rhyme,
Tom's suggestion, "Up": A cross, "Christ, the Redeemer", Up on a hill seen while we were cruising out from Lisbon, Portugal. Huge reflection though it was getting dark that evening.
James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures: Our Alligator photo hunting yesterday in the Florida Everglades with an "Alligator catch" in the foreground, vegetation with Reflections in the background.
Look under the bridge
Can see Sydney's underpants
Not unlike Paris France
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Photo and Poem Copyright, 2018, jimmiehov6.blogspot.com, All Rights Reserved
It's linked with Kerry O'Connor at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/06/camera-flash.html?m=1
I hope I'm not too risqué, keep in mind the nursery rhyme,
"I see London,
I see France,
I see xxxx's underpants."
(Or has that one been barred now?)Starts with "U": Under starts with "U". Under the Bridge at Sydney, Australia. We were on a Ferry that day in January 2013. I've aged a lot since that.
A Favorite: Us at Formal Night on the Emerald Princess.
Mrs. Jim and I've been away, to London, to see the King. I missed him, but we had a wonderful four days in London. Also, we had a train trip to Milton Keynes and saw some friends who took us to a Pub for lunch. And one evening in London we had my birthday dinner with our daughter who was working there for about three weeks.
Then we bussed to Northampton to catch a 16-day Princess Transatlantic cruise back to Ft. Lauderdale. Afterwards we honored an air boating in the Everglades excursion to see some more alligators before we flew home to Houston (Texas). We've done alligator photo hunting before in Louisiana also.
Note: I only took my Galaxy S8 smart phone and google does not like it. Consequently, I have been unable to return some of your comments when "Anonymous" is not allowed. I am sorry but google can be naughty and it affects not just me and the others unliked, but also a lot of others like me who were minding their own business.
James' request, Reflections[click on picture for larger view]
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| Vasco de Gama Bridge in Lisbon, Portugal |
A Lagniappe: We had to sail our ship Under this bridge Up above Us, again, coming out from Lisbon.
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A Notice: Now that Thanksgiving has past, I am posting my first Christmas Tree on my Christmas Tree Farm blog. See it at
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The Fine print stuff:
- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra-large.]
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link is here to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
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Labels: 2022 U.K. to Ft Lauderdale, Animals, Aus-NZ, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, London, Reflections, Travel 8, Travel22
