A Word a Week Challenge – Oh, the Places We See . . .

A Word a Week Photo Challenge: Fly

Probably any hot air balloonist asks the same question: Will my balloon fly today or not? Up ’til now, we’ve had little experience with hot air balloon launches, fiestas, flights, etc. But Balloon Fiesta 2014: Spirit of the Winds changed all that. In an enormous field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from October 4 to 12, balloonists […]

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A Word a Week Photo Challenge: Hole

During Knoxville’s Open Gardens day, a Dogwood Arts Festival event, local homeowners voluntarily push open their gates and let those of us in love with flora and fauna roam the grounds freely. One formal garden held something quite unique — seventeen antique millstones — integrated in various ways throughout the beautifully manicured grounds. According to […]

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A Word a Week Photograph Challenge: Happy

Sometimes it’s the simplest things that make us happy. Like humming on down I-20 from Jackson, Mississippi to Meridian. And following a yellow truck under blue skies with puffy clouds against dark green trees. Travelin’ happy! For more entries in the Word a Week Photograph Challenge: Happy from A Word in Your Ear, click here.

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A Word a Week Photo Challenge: Sign

This week’s A Word a Week Photo Challenge: Sign from the blog A Word in Your Ear reminded me of a trip through The Palouse in Washington state. I was driving alone — encountering almost no one on the roads running through vast wheat fields where only a few homes and barns dot the landscape. I […]

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A Word a Week Photo Challenge: Undulate

Make it to the top of Steptoe Butte in Whitman County, Washington, and you’ll be rewarded with fields of grains forming undulating patterns — waving and rippling and laying out curvy lines for miles into the distance. This week’s Word a Week Photo Challenge: Undulate reminded us of our trip through The Palouse in […]

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A Word a Week Photo Challenge: WAITING

If you have flown recently, you know that flights are scheduled for departure at ungodly early hours. (At least it’s ungodly to me to leave at 5:15 AM!!!) But what I’ve noticed is this: airports — and travelers — are adapting to the new times, but it’s still a hurry-up-and-wait proposition! For the Word a […]

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A Word a Week Challenge: Yellow

On her blog A Word in Your Ear, Sue Llewellyn has posted her word for this week’s A Word a Week Challenge: YELLOW. My photo for the challenge is one of those take-for-granted vehicles you see almost every day — a big yellow school bus. However, we’re not seeing ’em roll this week: School’s been […]

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Travel theme: Birds

When Ailsa of Where’s My Backpack? posted this week’s travel theme, I knew I was in trouble. The title of the challenge is Travel theme: Birds, and I rarely photograph our feathered friends. I guess I could point my camera outside the screened-in porch and capture a towhie or cardinal in the birdbath, but then […]

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A Word a Week Challenge: High

Sue Llewellyn who writes A Word in Your Ear posted the Word a Week Challenge for this week. The word is HIGH, and her pictures of Victoria Falls in Zambia inspired me to go back through my photos taken at Hoover Dam a couple of years ago. The Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, the first […]

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A Word a Week Challenge: Lines

Sue’s A Word a Week Challenge this week from her blog A Word in Your Ear is LINES. And since we’re big University of Tennessee Vols fans,we watch intently as the Pride of the Southland Band lines up, marches into the stadium, and performs the circle drills that bring down the house. Before the game, […]