APAWC – Under Glass

Nancy Merrill has us looking under glass for her Photo A Week Challenge this week.  I’ve got plenty of pictures of things that I’ve photographed through glass but, if I’m going to take the subject literally there aren’t too many pictures in the old photo files that show something is actually under glass. These are the only images that I could come up with.  The first two were taken at the Flower & Garden Show in Rosemont.  The third is a clock that belonged to my Mum & Dad, given to them by their workmates when they retired and came to live in the USA.  It doesn’t work and probably never will, but I can’t bring myself to throw it out.

 

For more on Nancy’s Photo A Week Challenge go to A Photo a Week: Under Glass

 

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A Photo A Week Challenge – Threes

This week, Nancy Merrill is asking us to look for groups of three for her Photo A Week Challenge.  Having found plenty of twos for Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge, I realized that coming up with threes was not going to be quite so easy.

Three sea lions at the zoo.  This picture was taken some years ago and I’m having a hard time remembering where but I think it may have been at the zoo in Indianapolis.

Three beautiful blooms at the Orchid Festival in the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Three naked ladies, part of a fantastic music machine at The House on the Rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

Three pelicans preening on the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa.

 

Three jockeys entering the enclosure before a big race at Arlington Park, Illinois.

Three koi swimming in a pool at Anderson Japanese Gardens in Rockford, Illinois.

For more on Nancy’s A Photo A Week Challenge go to A Photo a Week Challenge: Threes

A Photo A Week Challenge – Boats & Ships

The current subject for Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge is Boats and Ships.  My earliest recollection of boats comes from when I was a small child and we went on a sightseeing trip down the river Thames in London.  Since then my water-going experiences have been limited to a ferry-crossing to Mackinac Island, the occasional trip down the Chicago river, a couple of outings with the Des Plaines Yacht Club on Lake Opeka, and one or two other sightseeing excursions on rivers and lakes.  I’ve never been on an ocean liner or cruise ship so I don’t know whether sea sickness would be a problem and since I’m never likely to find out, it will forever remain a question unanswered.

A ship and a boat at The Tall Ships Festival at Navy Pier in Chicago.

A boat docked in Sturgeon Bay, Door County in Wisconsin.

A sightseeing boat passing through the lock at Sault Ste Marie, Michigan.

A ferry boat crossing over to Mackinac Island.

Competitors with the Des Plaines Yacht Club in a race on Lake Opeka.

Sightseeing boats making their way up the Chicago River.

For more on Nancy’s A Photo A Week Challenge go to A Photo a Week Challenge: Boats and Ships