Weekly Photo Challenge: Green

WordPress’ weekly photo challenge this week is “Green.” Green happens to be my favorite color – because I am Irish? Perhaps!

When I think of green, I think of rainforests, springtime, nature and Latin America. These are a few photos from ziplining through a rainforest in Nicaragua that I think really highlight the color green.

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Coffee beans
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We were told these little guys were pretty poisionous, but I couldn’t help snapping a shot.
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What do you think? What are some of your favorite green things?

I would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you for reading!

Other Interpretations of the Theme

• Weekly Photo Challenge – Green | Tacts Blog
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green (No 2) « Cambodia and Vietnam Photography
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Geekin’ it Green | rarasaur
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Max510’s Blog
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Just a few photos
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | Angel Frouk
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | Here & Abroad
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Jinan Daily Photo
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | Aphro Junkee
• WordPress challenge: Green | Anotherdayinparadise2’s Blog
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | blueberriejournal
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « From My Horizon
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | The Good Villager
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Something Unspoken
• Greenish hues | Artifacts and fictions
• What Could Be Green In November… « Eclipse Of The Moon
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « My thought exactly…!
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | My Sardinian Life
• LJ [whatever] Photo Challenge: Green « LJ.returns
• A Vision of Paradise | The Wanderlust Gene
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Fitness, Food and Photography
• Weekly Photo Challenge: GREEN (Lasers) « A drifter off to see the world
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | Photography Journal Blog
• Greenhouse, Pinoy-style « Fly for Icarus
• Weekly Photo Challenge : Green | Berbagi Kisahku
• Green, Green & More Green! « Zeebra Designs & Destinations
• Four continents, One green « Purnimodo
• grove « yi-ching lin photography
• Literally Green. « Luddy’s Lens
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « warmhotchocolate
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Life&Ink
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | Milners Blog
• Weekly Photo Challenge : Green « Kisahku
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Beijing Daily Photo 2
• Seven Reasons to Love Green « Stray Thoughts
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Hurtled to 60 and Now Beyond…
• Industrial Zone: Green, Technically | Empire of Lights
• Illustrated ‘Bolivian-style’ adapted cooking: Green Bean Casserole! « 3rdculturechildren
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Sandra’s scribbles
• weekly photo challenge: green « a nomad in the land of nizwa
• Weekly Photo Challenge: GREEN | Serendipity 13
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green Gallery | Humbled Pie
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Grandmother Musings
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | belgradestreets
• WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: GREEN « MY WALL
• Weekly Photo Challenge:Green | perceptionsofareluctanthomemaker
• Determination « Broken Light: A Photography Collective

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Travel Photo of the Year Contest and Travel Theme: Sunset

Perito Moreno Glacier, Calafate, Argentina (Patagonia)

Travel Photo of the Year Contest:

Bucket List Publications has chosen this photo as a finalist for their Travel Photo of the Year Contest! There are 18 finalists and I have some stiff competition. I would love your help!

You can vote every day for the next week. All you do is go see all  the finalists and click on this picture and click “like” or share to mark it as your favorite! You can send it to friends and family to encourage them to vote though Facebook, Twitter, e-mail and lots of other ways. It would mean a lot to get your vote!

Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack has issued a fun travel theme this week. The theme is Sunset. Here are a few of my favorite sunset photos and my favorite sunset song from Fiddler on the Roof. I danced with my Dad at my wedding to this song, so it is very special to me.

Ocean City, Maryland
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Grenada, Nicaragua
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Aspen, Colorado
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Sunrise, Sunset
Fiddler on the Roof

Is this the little girl I carried,
Is this the little boy at play?
I don’t remember growing older,
When did they?

When did she get to be a beauty,
When did he grow to be so tall?
Wasn’t it yesterday when they were small?

Sunrise, sunset .
Swiftly flow the days.

Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers,
Blossoming even as we gaze.

Sunrise, sunset,
Swiftly fly the years,
One season following another,
Laiden with happiness and tears.

What words of wisdom can I give them,
How can I help to ease their way?
Now they must learn from one another,
Day by day.

They look so natural together.
Just like two newlyweds should be.
Is there a canopy in store for me?

Sunrise, sunset,
Swiftly fly the years,
One season following another,
Laiden with happiness,
And tears

What do you think? Where was your favorite sunset? What does sunset mean to you?

I hope you will share your thoughts…and your VOTE! Thank you so much for reading!

Some of the other entries in the Sunset Travel Challenge:

Travel Theme: Sunset | a hectic life
Travel Theme: Sunset « Hunters Holidaying
SUNSET ANYONE? « Zeebra Designs & Destinations
Travel theme; Sunset « So where’s the snow?
Sunset | Canoe Communications
Travel theme: Sunset | One step at a time
Travel theme: Sunset | tahira’s
I can see Africa from my terrace! « East of Málaga
Travel Theme: Sunset « weird & cool stuff seen while out & about
travel theme: sunset | catbird in america
Travel Theme: Sunset | StandingStill
Travel theme: Sunset « Healthcare Updates
Travel theme: Sunset at Mopane | Have you ever…
Travel theme: SUNSET « scrapydo
Travel Theme: Sunset « A year in the Life
Travel Theme: Sunsets | rfljenksy – Practicing Simplicity
Travel theme: Sunset | Even A Girl Like Me
Travel Theme: Sunset | Eluding Ennui

 

 

 

 

Weekly Travel Photo Theme: Signs

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Remote border crossing between Argentina and Chile – Patagonia, Argentina

Signs, signs, everywhere a sign! I have to combine my weekly photo challenge with some Tunes Tuesday worthy lyrics this week. Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack has issued a weekly travel challenge about signs.

I love taking pictures of signs to capture where I have been, so it was hard to choose which photos to include, but here are some of my favorites, followed by the lyrics of a great oldie but goodie song.

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Chalten, Argentina – Trekking Capital of the World

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A famous road stop on the way to Chalten – Patagonia, Argentina

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Rockies Game – Denver, CO

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Pearl Street Mall – Boulder, CO

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Boulder, CO

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Small Village Outside Granada, Nicaragua

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Fells Point – Baltimore, MD

And now, for the Tunes Tuesday worthy lyrics:

Signs
Five Man Electical Band

And the sign said “Long-haired freaky people need not apply” So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why He said “You look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you’ll do” So I took off my hat, I said “Imagine that. Huh! Me workin’ for you!” Whoa-oh-oh

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?

And the sign said anybody caught trespassin’ would be shot on sight So I jumped on the fence and-a yelled at the house, “Hey! What gives you the right?” “To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in” “If God was here he’d tell you to your face, Man, you’re some kinda sinner”

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?

Now, hey you, mister, can’t you read? You’ve got to have a shirt and tie to get a seat You can’t even watch, no you can’t eat You ain’t supposed to be here The sign said you got to have a membership card to get inside Ugh!

And the sign said, “Everybody welcome. Come in, kneel down and pray” But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all, I didn’t have a penny to pay So I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign I said, “Thank you, Lord, for thinkin’ ’bout me. I’m alive and doin’ fine.” Wooo!

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Sign Sign, sign

What do you think? Do you have any funny travel stories about signs? Have you ever been grateful to see a sign?

I hope you will share your thoughts! Thank you for reading!

Travel Theme: Food

Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Theme this week is – one of my favorite things – food! So, without further delay, here are some of my favorite food photos:

 

Home, sweet home

With my Dad
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Patagonia, Argentina
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Handmade Pasta: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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An unbelievable, but typical dispay of meats in Buenos Aires
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El Cuartito Pizza, Buenos Aires aka the best pizza in the world!
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Remote Village in Nicaragua

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Local Bakers in remote Nicaraguan Village
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement and Travel Theme: Night

I thought I would use one post to respond to both the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement and the Where’s My Backpack Travel Theme: Night.

First, movement:

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
– Muhammad Ali

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Next, night:

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lucerne, Switzerland
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Patagonia, Argentina
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Granada, Nicaragua
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Venice, Italy
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