History
-Look Up, Look Down Challenge, Week 25 Every Thursday, I publish a post containing photo(s) taken from above or below, and invite you to join in the challenge by posting your own photos with […]
Signs
Linked to Which Way? and Signs, Signs.
-Japan
I am always amazed at the incredibly complex shapes and objects a skilled origamist can achieve. Packs of beautifully patterned, coloured papers abound in shops in Japan, and I succumbed […]
-East Midlands
Wordless Wednesday – on Wednesdays all over the internet bloggers post a photo with no words to explain it.
Alphabet Challenges
Linked to Frizztext’s Tagged E Challenge, ABC Wednesday and Alphabe Thursday.
-London
Linked to Ruby Tuesday, Daily Prompt: Red, Outdoor Wednesday, Tourist in Your Own Town and Sundays in my City.
-Naples and area
This week, Sonel asked us to take something old and give it a vintage feel. Above you’ll see some Pompeiian columns in sepia, and below in their original technicolour. Linked […]
-London
Today’s post is a bit of a teaser for a longer post, which will follow in the next week or two, reporting on a great street art walking tour I […]
-London
Linked to Monday Mellow Yellow.
-Day Trips from Madrid
These trinkets, in a shop window in Toledo, are examples of the art of damascening. This involves inlaying different metals into one another—typically, gold or silver into a darkly oxidized steel background—to produce intricate patterns. This is still practiced in […]
-Paris
One photo, no words for Silent Sunday. . .