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WPC – Martial Arts Black Belt Reward
The theme for this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge from Krista is Reward.… Reward is filthy with possibility: it could be your third grader’s beaming smile after reading her first chapter book, a...
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WPC Reward: The longevity of author John Steinbeck – photos from his hometown
Yesterday. February 27, was the author John Steinbeck’s birthday (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) — a good occasion to post my Oldtown Salinas photos and submit my 2nd WordPress Photo Challenge...
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WPC Orange 2: California’s First Brick House
California’s first “fired brick” house — part of the Monterey State Historic Park’s buildings in downtown old Monterey — also fits right in the WordPress Photo Challenge theme of orange. The house was...
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WPC: Early Bird – Sunrise and Philippine pandan leaf sellers
My favorite time of the day is right after sunset — the twilight (“takip-silim” in the Philippine Tagalog language, takip meaning to cover, and silim means dusk). I am definitely not a morning person....
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The Los Angeles Spread
Whenever I had to do work in Los Angeles in my prior job, I often elected to drive (from Northern California) instead of booking a flight and flying into LAX. My rationale was by the time I drove to...
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Door photographs for the Weekly WordPress Photo Challenge
While not particularly pretty, I like this door to California’s first brick house because the structure still exist — still standing, and I like the contrast of the fading white paint and the...
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From natural fiber old fishing nets to the sunset for the Half and Half photo...
I’ve learned a lot more about photography since joining the WordPress Photo Challenges. I’m starting to take more detailed photos, which is interesting and a lot of fun. This week’s challenge theme...
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WordPress Photo Challenge – Change
The theme for this week’s photo challenge — which I have not participated in since my last post of the summer — is change. I love the quote that host Kristin Snow of SnowMads.com included for the post:...
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An (Extra)ordinary dog and ordinary objects for the (Extra)ordinary Photo...
For this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge, host Cheri Lucas asks us to keep our eyes open and to look for beauty or interestingness where we least expect it. I’ve taken more close-up photos recently,...
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St. John the Baptist Statue at Mission San Juan Bautista, California
If you visit the Spanish mission in the town of San Juan Bautista (San Benito County in Central California), you will see this statue on the church grounds. Because most statues of saints are depicted...
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