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.

The white in this crafted ice skating rink mostly comes from a well bleached bed sheet.  It is a part of one of the two toy train scenes crafted, assembled, and now being displayed in the foyer of our church.  

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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- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra-large.] 

 - 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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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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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.




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. 
[click on picture for larger view

  
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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