Continue reading “CFFC: Sticks and Stones” →
Happy Sunday! John from Journey with Johnbo is the host for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and the theme is Signs and Billboards.
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #272: Billboards and Signs” →
This week, in the spirit of October being the month of Halloween, Terri has chosen the monthly color and they are… black and/or metallic.
Continue reading “#SundayStills: Monthly Color Challenge: #Black and #Metallic” →
Cee’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC)
I love to look at any city from a high vantage point because it always amazes me to see how dense the city really. This is a look at Osaka, Japan from the Umeda Sky Building – a 140-m building in the heart of Osaka. Looking at the bridges, I was frankly surprised by how different they are.
Continue reading “#SundayStills: #Bridges” →
Nature Photo Challenge #28 – Wild Animals
Do you know what’s funny?
Continue reading “#SundayStills: Monthly Color Challenge – Orange and Gold” →
Happy Sunday! This week, on Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #266, Donna from Wind Kisses hosts with an interesting topic – time.
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #266: Time” →
Cee’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC)
Cee’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC)
Happy Sunday! This week, on Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #264, Sofia of the blog, Photographias, invites us to share pictures and stories about primary colors.
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #264: Primary Colors” →
Happy Sunday! This week, on Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #263, John from Journeys With Johnbo is challenging us with faces.
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #263: Faces in a Crowd” →
Happy Sunday! Amy from the blog – The World is a Book… – is the lovely hostess for this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge and this week’s theme is all about Framing.
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #262: Framing Your Photos” →
This week, on #SundayStills, Teri asks us to share something #historical.
Continue reading “#SundayStills: #Historical and Significant” →
Happy Sunday! Patti is the host for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and she is challenging us to tell a story using 1 to 5 photos.
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #255: Telling a Story” →
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge
Happy Sunday! Tina from Travels and Trifles is the lovely hostess for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and this week, we are talking about spiritual places.
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #254: Spiritual Places” →
Happy Sunday! Bushboy is the guest host for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and this week’s theme is Fragments.
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #253: Fragments” →
It’s easy to catch people unaware in a city of 9 million people (according to the internet), especially during rush hour.
Continue reading “CFFC: Catching People Unaware” →
This is Day 4 and our final day in London.
Of course, what’s a trip to the UK without seeing the famous Buckingham Palace and the Changing of the Guard. It was surprising underwhelming as it began and ended before I knew it. I couldn’t really see much of anything as there was a huge crowd. People was even sitting at the top of the fountain across from the palace.
As we were walking there, mom asked, “Do you think we’ll see King Charles?”
“I doubt it,” I told her. Buckingham Palace is currently being remodeled and not allow in. I doubt the King would work in an “under-construction” office.
After getting a glimpse of the Guard, we continued to St. James Park toward the underground station to Tower Hill for the Tower Bridge and Tower of London.
If there’s one thing I love, it’s listening to stories about imprisonment and beheading. Call me gruesome but these things fascinate me. Thankfully, there was a tour for that. We gathered at the moat where familiar herbs and wildflowers grew and someone called Yeoman Warder told stories about the place.
The tower had been so many things and it was absolutely fascinating to learn all those things.
As mom and I posted our trip on social media, mom’s friends thought we were weird that we went to the UK to go to museums unlike most people who travel to shop. Call us crazy but we hate shopping. It’s just one of those things I would rather do online on Amazon, not in person.
I am writing this on Day 5 – May 18 – on the train to Scotland, which I’m looking forward because we will be staying at a 4-Star hotel in Glasgow for the next 3 nights. After being in the smallest hotel room I’ve ever been in (beside Hong Kong), I’m looking forward to a room where I can turn without bumping elbows with Mom.
This is Another Story