Happy Sunday! Anne of Slow Shutter Speed is this week’s host for Lens-Artists Challenge and it appears we are doing a scavenger hunt into the depth of the photo archive to find pictures of some of things listed on Anne’s post.

My first search word was “Wheel”. There were quite a few Ferris Wheels but it wasn’t the type of wheels I was looking for. This is the wheel of an old steam engine train that was on display at the union station in Ogden, Utah a few years back. I say few but looking at the photo, it’s almost been 10 years since I’ve seen that engine. Check out the size of those wheels!

Talk about zigging and zagging! It took my mom and I just about an eternity to arrange those patio stones when we were at the old house. My mom often talks about (still) the time when all of her siblings came in 2012 and helped unload almost 1,000 bricks that were delivered by the pallet. We moved out of that house into the house next door in 2017 and my uncle and aunt (mom’s brother and sister-in-law) moved in in 2019. I do not know whether my uncle has fixed the zig-zag pattern yet.

This picture was taken when I was in my crazy macro phase. Everything must be taken close-up. I’m pretty sure this picture was on this blog once upon a post but hey, it’s a pretty cool close-up of a paintbrush, don’t you think?

Does this count as “cool jewelry”? It’s a necklace my grandma gave me during my first trip to China in 2017. She said I was meant to have it when I was a teen but I was in the US by then. She also said she’s reserved more jade for when I get married. Of course, that’s something she’ll never see since she passed away in 2021. I asked my mom if she thinks that whatever my grandma had left me would still be in China, my mom speculated that if whatever it is worth any money, it’ll most likely be pawned or sold. So, this necklace is the last treasure I have from my grandmother.

Finally, Shoelaces!

I don’t know why I take pictures of my feet standing on something. I think it’s the same reason people take pictures of the things they’re holding like an ice cream cone or a leaf. We do anything to keep contents flowing into our social media platforms, right?

Anyway, I think I was standing in morning glory AKA bindweed AKA Devil’s spawn as this is known around here, at least, I’ve seen it referred to this way in my gardening Facebook group. This picture was taken way before I became a gardener, before I discovered this weed is truly evil and that it will literally choke out surrounding plants with its vines, but at the time of this photo, I guess I was thinking it looked pretty. That’s all it matters sometimes, right?

What’s that phrase? Ignorance is bliss?