Weekly Photo Challenge: Alphabet

This photo is, to my mind, absolutely priceless.  Signboard in front of the elementary school a block from where I work.  I did a double-take while driving by, and just had to stop and take a picture.  Do they not teach their employees to spell any more?  If the staff can't spell, are any of …

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Gathering

This gathering happens six times every year, the first three weekends in December, in the town of Leavenworth, Washington.  Leavenworth is "Washington's Bavarian Village", and right at dusk on Friday and Saturday nights, the Tree Lighting happens.  Hundreds of visitors literally hold their breath, waiting for the switch that turns the town into a winter …

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Weekly Photo Challenge : Transition..Building..to Ruin..to Building

In the town of Bury St. Edmunds in England, the Abbey buildings have been crumbling for centuries.  From the original stone buildings, ruins.  Local residents pulled stones from the monastery ruins.  To build new dwellings.  Modern residence, built right into the ruins of the 11th Century Abbey.  How did the monastery become a ruin?  From …

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Ornate

This is the sanctuary at St. Joseph's Polish Catholic Church in Camden, New Jersey, during their 120th Anniversary celebration in 2012.  The priest is Polish, and there is a Polish-language Mass daily.  My husband grew up not far from here, and went to this church, and graduated from the parochial high school here (now defunct). …

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