— My Alphabe-Thursday (2nd), the letter "C" / Thursday Two Questions —

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Here we have nine pictures to honor Alphabe-Thursday letter "C"

 

"C" is for clouds.  These rainy looking clouds are the first of my "double C's" for today.

These are Croatia Clouds, double C's, sitting over the red-roofed old town of Dubrovnik.  We were on our way to the airport which is out of town proper to the south. 

The picture on the left is also a Croatia Cloud picture that we took on the way to the airport.  This one is looking south towards the airport. 

Please note the big sign right in the middle of a pretty setting.  I call these signs Sky Pollution.

Here is another double "C", a rack of Christmas Cards for sale in a London grocery store.

Below is a plate of fish and chips that I had on the last noon meal in a London restaurant before we left for home. 

The bowl of chips looks small.  I had eaten several after I gave Mrs. Jim almost half (chips are what Americans call French fries and the French call frites).

This TV display of the word "CHIPS" is a chance to show off my latest toy, new to me but about forty years old.  It is a John Deere wagon that I can pull with my Farmal MTA tractor. I bought it on eBay with money I received for my latest birthday. (The TV program was 'F a m i l y  F e u d'.)

Dad's last farm tractor was an MTA and he found this toy on sale after Christmas at the farm supply store in Tekamah, Nebraska, where he lived.  He also had a green wagon this size but it had a wooden cargo area.  This one is metal.  When Dad died I was elected to have the tractor and Lois (my sister) was given his wagon. (You can click on any picture for a larger size.)

 

This is another double C picture, a shot of our car's GPS showing the surrounding golf course by our house.  In the caption it shows the name of the Country Club. The club building is across the valley on the right from our home which is shown with the circle.

Below are two more double C's.  First is a shot I took of our Christmas Concert presented by the Conroe (Texas) Symphony orchestra.  It cam out fuzzy because I took it from the back row. 

On the right is a picture of the double C'd Coconut Creme pie that Luby's Cafeteria was trying to sell me before the concert. I had a salmon patty, cooked cabbage, and a large dinner salad with a piece of corn bread.  But no coconut creme pie.  Luby's does make my favorite coconut creme pie, here.

 

This last picture is a Cloud picture I took at dusk from our back porch.  The clouds reminded me of sail boats sailing up from Galveston to the south of us on the Gulf Coast. Remember that my little Sony pocket camera doesn't do sunsets very well.  Looks like neither does it do dusk. 

The Alphabe- Thursday portion of this post is for Head Mistress Jenny.

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Now for my Thursday Two Questions.

I really enjoyed your responses to my "B" Blues and the toy questions post of last week.  I did feel badly to hear that some of you did not have toys when you were growing up.  My sister and I didn't have many but we did have ones plenty good for us.

My Two Questions for this week (you can answer just one if you wish):

1. What if any pleasure to you enjoy when looking at clouds?
I remember laying on my back on warm summer days and looking up at the clouds.  I wasn't really enjoying the clouds but I was enjoying my dreams and thoughts that seeing the clouds triggered.

 

2.  Did you attend any Christmas music presentation this year?  If so we would like to hear a bit about it.  Thank you.

The Conroe Symphony Orchestra played about an equal number of Christian Christmas and secular Christmas carols, both classic and modern music.  I enjoyed every one.

Bonus Question: What is your favorite "C" word? .

—My Thursday Two Questions post is for Amanda.