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Tree & Leaf Challenges

Puzzled?

This tree has unusual leathery, spiky leaves that are arranged in spirals around the branches and trunk. It is the Araucaria araucana, or Chile Pine, commonly known as the Monkey Puzzle – […]

-London

Myriad Windows

London has such a variety of architectural styles.  If you don’t keep looking up you miss so much, like these amazing windows. Linked to Lingering Look at Windows, Weekly Top Shot and […]
Myriad Windows

-London

Look Up, Look Up, Whatever You Do

-Look Up, Look Down Challenge, Week 13 Every Thursday, I publish a post containing photos taken from above or below, and invite you to join the challenge by posting your own photos with an up […]

-Canaries

Warm Tones in Tenerife

Wordless Wednesday – on Wednesdays  all over the internet bloggers  post a photo with no words to explain it. Linked to Whimsical Windows Delirious Doors.

-Paris

One Lonesome Door

Built between 1613 and 1632, the Hôtel de Retz first took this name in 1649, when Pierre de Retz and his wife acquired what had previously been known as the Hôtel d’Elbeuf. The niece […]

-London

S is for… Sugar

Selfridges are celebrating that British sugary delight, Golden Syrup, in one of their Christmas windows this year. Personally, I adore this gooey, golden treacle.  Drizzle copiously over porridge for heaven […]
S is for… Sugar

-Paris

An Eerie Muse

There’s a strange sculpture in  l’Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris: it is a featureless face hidden in part behind a veil that is held aloft by bodiless hands. This bronze sculpture […]