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The Saturday Self-Challenge: Shadows I took a photo of the shadow of a metal sculpture and then oversaturated the color. TSSC20190601 104718

Explored! Thank you very much :-) SATURDAY SELF-CHALLENGE 1 JUNE 2019 SHADOWS In recent times there has been lots of sunshine and when I have been out with my camera there have been lots of shadows to photograph. However, this week it has been very dull and overcast!! In desperation I tried to take some photos of a model of a bicycle using some desk lamps. This is the result :-))) And, for Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ Listen here ~ Shadows ~ Gordon Lightfoot

(+6 insets!) (view large for a more hypnotizing view!) :D This picture is also dedicated to our dear friend on ipernity, Marie-claire Gallet . She is ill with a recurrence of cancer and I am hoping for a fast and successful recovery! Today I looked outside and it was just SO BEAUTIFUL! The warm sun coming up over the hill made everything it touched erupt with light and I knew I just HAD to take my camera out with me on my morning walk. Also, I just couldn't take the PRESSURE ANYMORE! Pressure you ask? What pressure? Stepping outside, my eyes were immediately drawn to a glorious patch of poppies which were positively glowing in the early sunshine. It's almost as if every one of those blossoms was singing a siren's song out into the heavens and I could hear every note! It didn't matter that I have countless unprocessed poppy pictures in my archives. I simply could not resist another day of their overwhelming gorgeousness and beaconing calls. I was immediately swept away into a dream of photography, surrendering to the luscious beauties posing before me. Their flamenco-like petal-dresses swayed and danced in the breeze, offered in so many lovely colors and combinations. I was not the only one hypnotized by their grandeur. Bees of all kinds buzzed and crawled drunkenly over the flowers in droves, stumbling over one another, completely out of their minds with desire. How familiar this scene was to me, I thought with a big smile on my face, and I watched them joyfully while I took pictures. I learned how poppies affected bees back in 2014 when I planted a garden for my first time. I scattered countless poppy seeds in the beds to be sure that if nothing else sprouted, at least I'd have poppies. Sprout they did…hundreds of plants all over the beds with so many flowers that I simply couldn't believe my eyes! For months, every morning would be another show with new blooms. And, as I walked to the garden, the sound of bees preceded me, getting louder and louder as I finally entered the garden. The bees were EVERYWHERE! Even though I wasn't worried about them, I soon discovered that I might as well be invisible because they couldn't care less about me. And what a wonderful feeling, to know that the seeds I planted grew into flowers which were feeding all those bees. To this day, every time I see bees falling all over themselves at poppies that I had something to do with…it makes me feel overjoyed. :) Oh yeah…did you know it's Saturday? Specifically SATURDAY SELF-CHALLENGE! And today's challenge is "Shadows". Ok, so when I first saw the theme I immediately thought about the cool shadows I see on our window blinds and walls when the sun shines through the trees. I do love shadows. In fact, they stop me in my tracks so I can appreciate them! But today my initial idea got tossed out the moment I was bewitched this morning by the poppies. Even as I was being magnetically drawn to those glowing blossoms I could see the shadows through their translucent petals. Shadows? I'll give you shadows! My main picture is called "Angel with Wings," and when I saw this poppy I couldn't help but say out loud, "OOOOOH, LOOK AT THE ANGEL WINGS!! I got one picture that also showed the shadow of a bee crawling around between the "wings" but I thought this picture was better without the distraction. I have six insets to share as well, and you'll see a bee in flight in two of them! I really had to force myself to stop processing pictures…I got so many lovely images that I want to share but I think this is enough! :D Pam, remember when we went in on poppy seeds together?! That was such fun! I still have poppies reseeding themselves from 2014! What about you? Did yours reseed too I hope? What wonderful flowers they are. Sending my love and *HUGGGGZZZZZ!!!* Explored on 6/1/19; highest placement, #1.

Danke Tanja:)

Saturday Self-challenge: Geometric shapes. See PIP for a couple of other pictures of the car. We stayed at the Model A Inn on a recent trip to British Columbia. A Ford Model A car is in the parking lot in front of the main office. Sight and Sound: Model A Song, scroll down the link for the lyrics. www.fordgarage.com/pages/OscarFordModelA.htm

Under a major road, Barbur Blvd, leading out of downtown Portland, Oregon. for SSC

SSC = Thema: Geometric shapes in color or black and white ______ Museo Delta Antico Das neue Museum Delta Antico zeigt die Entwicklung des Gebiets und die menschlichen Siedlungen, die die Geschichte der antiken Po-Mündung gekennzeichnet haben. Das Museum ist in Abteilungen zu den verschiedenen historischen Zeiträumen aufgeteilt: von den ersten Spuren der Zivilisation bis zum Altertum. Von besonderer Bedeutung ist die der etruskischen Stadt Spina gewidmete Abteilung, mit Gegenständen aus der Ortschaft und den kostbaren Grabausstattungen. Außerdem wurde die kostbare Fracht des römischen Schiffes Comacchios in das Museum überführt. Ein authentisches Pompeji des Meeres, aus den ersten Jahren des römischen Reichs (Ende 1. Jh. v. Chr.), das 1981 entdeckt wurde. Vorher war das Museum das 'Ehemaliges Krankenhaus San Camillo', auf Wunsch des Legatenkardinals Francesco Carafa von den Architekten Antonio Foschini und Gaetano Gento im Renaissancestil entworfenes und zwischen 1778 und 1784 erbautes Krankenhaus, das bis 1970 in Betrieb war. _______ Storia The restoration, carried out between 1997 and 2013, brought the internal volumes of the building back to their original structure, eliminating the fragmentation of its large spaces that had been built over time to meet the needs of the hospital and the subsequent temporary ones. building functions. Today the original structure is again clearly legible, with its remarkable architectural values ​​and its clear and rational layout. On the ground floor there were the services: the woodshed (with masonry vaults to contain possible fires), the laundry room, the cistern for rainwater, the stores for food supplies, the kitchen, equipped with two large fireplaces that also served to warm the sick rooms on the first floor, thanks to the ducts in the walls. On the mezzanine floor were the apartments of the caretaker and the chaplain. On the first floor there were the rooms for the patients, divided into two separate wings, one for men and one for women. The areas for the sick were large, bright and well ventilated, according to an innovative and modern criterion. Then there were the rooms used as an infirmary, surgery, delivery room. From the women's wing you could watch mass in the oratory through two grated windows. The body at the back of the building was the doctor's home. In the courtyard there was the mortuary cell. www.museodeltaantico.com/storia-del-museo/il-settecentesco-ospedale-degli-infermi deutsch >> www.ferraraterraeacqua.it/de/comacchio/das-territorium-entdecken/kunst-und-kultur/museen-und-galerien/museum-des-roemischen-schiffs

Saturday Self-Challenge 25 May 2019 – "Geometric shapes in color or black and white" Hamburg – Elbpromenade (53.54389, 09.98045); [120°]

The Saturday Self-Challenge: "Geometric shapes in color or black and white" TSSC20190519 195209