Marvin Theobald

Reminder: Max requested MORE FLOWERS for Monday's theme.

Sandra Jeakins (Singletary Sizemore)

Posted for Liz Alex    Her favorite flower

Sandra Jeakins (Singletary Sizemore)

 Maggie walking beside some of my flowers in my yard Taken at Ethel M Chocolate factory outside Las Vegas

Terry (Max) Maxwell

These are flowers in the gardens at Biltmore Mansion in TN.

David Long

This is yesterday's post.  It will be 2 pictures w/o comment because this is the third time I've tried to post and each time it has gone into the ether, never to be seen again.  Either an evil spirit has taken over my MAC and doesn't want these pictures online or I'm doing something incorrectly (doubtful).  Once the pictures are posted I will attempt to fill in the narrative.

Here goes:

1912

This is a picture of my Grandmother and Grandfather taken in 1912.  My Father is in the bottom row, second from right.  The reason I'm going back to this is because of the terrible disease, CANCER, my Mother was taken from us at age 6 for me and age 49 for my Dad.  In 1952 there weren't the resources we have today for single parents, so my aunts and uncle stepped up and helped raise me, along with their own families.  The issue with that is I was very young and their kids were already in 9th grade or more.  This is definitely NOT a complaint or a pity me.  I had a blast being an only child.  I got to live on a farm and milk cows by hand, collect eggs from hens that didn't really want my hand anywhere near them, help dam up a stream to build a farm pond (had some great bluegills in there). had my own .22 to go squirrel and rabbit hunting (still have it - it's a 1898 Winchester), learned to live alone except for my pal Blackie that went everywhere I went - he was a huge farm dog and my constant companion.  So anyway, we go from this to......

2017

........this.  This is my family now, except we're missing 5 more babies...Accepted by everyone of this group!  Amazing!

David Long

Today's Theme.

Amazing what you can find when looking for a errent golf ball....

Another trip into the brush looking for a small white sphere

OK, this isn't really a flower but is still beautiful - an Orchid Mantis in Hawaii

Melvin (Mel) Theobald

Without objection, I'd like to propose BRIDGES for Tuesday. (No dental photos please.) Guess that means Wendy will reclaim Wednesday.

And now for MORE FLOWERS.

Inspired by Dave's awesome orchid mantis, I thought a couple of bees mixed with flowers would be fitting.

Thistle bush in southern Illinois with a surprise.

Detail of its flower with a visitor on board.

Speaking of visitors, this is a friend from Pittsburgh. I was photographing her at the Art Institute garden when at just the right moment, we were photo-bombed by a bee. Follow her eyes.

Marvin Theobald

"More flowers" may be the most difficult for decision making for me since flowers have been one of my favorite subjects for capturing color over the years. I got my first digital camera in 2004 and went out of control not having the limitations of shooting with film. It was like entering a magic new word of freedom.

Petunia's (in English and in Russian as Mel learned in a funny way)

Peony detail at Heritage Lake near Mackinaw IL

Unknown at Dallas Arboretum

Unknow in Thailand

Iris at Heritage Lake near Mackinaw IL

Sunflower in Manchester NH

Unknown in Alken Germany

Hyacinths at Dallas Arboretum

Wendy Stephens (Cullen)

This is an assortment.  The first take at at market in Leiden, the Netherlands, and the rest around my neighborhood in Seattle

Wendy Stephens (Cullen)

Well, another try at the market in Leiden

Wendy Stephens (Cullen)

Mel suggested bridges for tomorrow.

How about statues for Wednesday.

Jack Keefe

Upper Arlington, Ohio - 1974.  For years we used this photo from my neighbor's yard as one of the  background images for weather readings on the six and eleven o'clock newscasts. 

Jack Keefe

Bloomington, 2000: At the End of the Day (Lilly): Captured in a client's back yard. A day later and it wouldn't have been a picture at all. 

Wendy Stephens (Cullen)

Marv, I think your unknown flower in Thailand is a ginger of some sort.

Marvin Theobald

Terri "Boo" More Flowers submission assistance for today.

In my garden today.

Karen Sue (Suzi) Denton (Merritt)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE C.

HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!!

🎁🎁🍮🎉🍰🎊🎈🍮🍺

Sandra Jeakins (Singletary Sizemore)

Brooklyn Bridge  New York CityGeorge Washington Bridge  New York City

Wendy Stephens (Cullen)

Golden Gate Bridge

Montlake Drawbridge, Seattle.  Open for crew races

Marvin Theobald

This is two railroad draw bridges side by side over the Chicago River.

This is a detail of the same brides that shows the incredible amount of complexity in its construction.

Tower Bridge in London - a lot of people think this is the famous London Bridge which is far less grand.

This bridge was in my back yard in the first house I had at Heritage Lake near Mackinaw IL.

Primitively built bridges in a very remote Karen Tribal village in northern Thailand.

Bridge across a river in Saigon Vietnam in 1967

Bridge of Sighs in Venice, Italy. Called this because it joins the court with the prison an once someone is convicted they cross this bridge on their way to prison letting out cries or sighs as they cross.

Terry (Max) Maxwell

I don't have much in the bridge department.  Most are far in the background.  This is just a foot bridge.

Regina (Sue) Petersen (Koppenhoefer)

A day late...Bluebonnets in Texas with 2 of our grand puppies.

Regina (Sue) Petersen (Koppenhoefer)

Grandsons crossing the "bridge" over the I&M Canal near our home

(Sue I took the liberty of rotating your photo upright - Marvin)

Melvin (Mel) Theobald

Anyone who has been to Chicago has probably crossed many of its 180 bridges to get from one part of the city to another. But what you may not know is that Chicago has 43 movable bridges, more than any city in the world, including Amsterdam. That is due, in part, to sail boats whose tall masts require the raising of bridges to access Lake Michigan. A friend of mine used to invite me to fend off drunken boaters when moving his 32 foot Erickson from its winter storage on the South Branch of the Chicago River to Belmont Harbor. Those trips took us under 29 bridges and offered views that were unlike anything else the city had to offer. From my condo, I can see a few of them from the window. So, here are my BRIDGES. Hope you enjoy them.

This one is a double counterweighted railroad bridge at 16th Street. Because I can see it from my window, I photograph it often in various weather conditions, but this shot was taken from a sail boat.

Only two blocks further south at 18th Street and Halsted, this vertical lift railroad bridge is operated ftrom the control house that sits atop its trestle construction.

A combination of several bridges that cross the Cal-Sag River as viewed from the Sky Bridge just before entering Indiana from Chicago.

A more common draw bridge at Michigan Avenue on the Chicago River.

This has to end somewhere, so why not the last bridge at Lake Shore Drive before entering Lake Michigan?

David Long

This is a bridge on the way from Sedona to Flagstaff, AZ.  Great scenery, unless you're the one driving.

Yet another picture of the Golden Gate.  This was taken from the top of the Coit Tower.

A different type of bridge.  This is our friend from London gingerly walking on this "bridge" in Muir Woods.

One of the best things about Venice  is wandering and getting lost by crossing the little bridges.  If you can see St. Marks, you can find your way back to the Grand Canal.

Jack Keefe

For just a minute, let's go another way with this: Covered bridges. They once dotted the landscape in a few eastern and midwestern states, and were picturesque. These are from Fairfield County, Ohio, except for the last one.. 

And finally.. 

this last entry is on Axe Handle Road in Union County, Ohio. As of last year, it was still there.