Let's start doing some photohunts in North America.
Here are the guidelines (thanks Amy) - You select one of your own photos to post that in some way utilizes the topic. Use the topic as a concrete prompt, or find a novel approach. Each person, please just one post/photo per thread topic, (or two if you really must) so there's room for all participants. IMPORTANT: Photos should be resized to be no wider than 400 pixels. Posting large photos slows down people's ability to view the thread, and increases work for your Mods. Read about how to post a photo in a thread, here.
This week's prompt is "Celebrations."
You're encouraged to describe your photo--where you shot it, details of what you were doing or what was going on, etc.
Friends and I rented a wonderful Victorian house in Cambria, CA for Memorial Day weekend (late May) this year. For three relaxing days, we celebrated time away from work, beautiful weather, fabulous ocean views, and friendship.
Here they are on Saturday at Moonstone Beach, watching the sun set. (I like how Sue's wineglass glows with light!)
Posts: 16049 | Location: The Beautiful San Francisco Bay Area | Registered: 06 August 2001
Ooohh. I know I'm going to get KILLED for this one, but... Fireman's Ball, Sutter Creek, CA.
Shannon and Darcy dancing. And I bet you can guess who that is in the background with the fingers up behind Shannon's head.
By the way, this was one of the more tame photos. I'm willing to entertain offers to keep the others from being posted.
Deborah Horn In a previous life I was an Umbrian sunflower farmer. I want to do a past life regression and stay there. ----------------------------------- www.petsburg.com My blog: Old Shoes - New Trip
Posts: 5590 | Location: St. Louis, MO | Registered: 04 September 2001
My son's wedding last year in Half Moon Bay, CA -- the happy couple with the 12 junior attendants (all nieces and nephews) -- 8 flower girls, two ring bearers, and two junior ushers. The only mishap in the celebration was when the rings went missing -- later to be discovered in one little flower girl's suitcase. (She thought they were so pretty ....)
A little drama at a family wedding: The wedding is beginning. The wind is picking up and the boat is starting to rock. Dark clouds hover over Seattle. Uh-oh, it looks threatening. The bridal veil whips around, standing on end. And it all blew over, and the ceremony was completed without incident - a lovely night. Linda
Posts: 934 | Location: Outlying area of Chicago | Registered: 15 September 2004
I'll add to the weatherbeaten bride theme. This young lady is being photographed for her wedding during gale-force winds and 30 degree temperatures in December 2007 in Destin, Florida. I'm not sure if her photographer fell over and froze there, but she did end up at the altar on the beach wearing her husband-to-be's tuxedo jacket!
(First time to post photo, forgive me if I err.)
Posts: 181 | Location: Arkansas | Registered: 06 August 2004
A year ago all the neighbors got together to work with the City of Winter Park to have our street changed from asphalt to brick. As construction started and our street was nothing but a dirt road, the neighbors known as the Hurricane Gang (we all bonded during the 3 storms that hit us in 2004), decided to have an impromptu party in the middle of our street. Judith and I are on the left in the front.
We had one neighbor who had to attend a black tie gathering that evening and hated to leave us as he was enjoying this much more that the stuffed shirt affair....
Doug
Posts: 2262 | Location: Winter Park, FL | Registered: 18 May 2005
My best friends from high school (class of 70) gathered for a mini-reunion at my cottage in Plymouth, MA. I think it had been about 10 years since we had all seen each other.
We had the good fortune of visiting the beautiful colonial town of Valladolid in time to watch the festivities for the city's 465th anniversary and a mass wedding with over 250 participants from all over the state of Yucatan What a joyous celebration! Here, waiters set up hundreds of glasses of champagne for the celebrants, likely the first and last they will ever have.
I took this photo of Bob Hope at the Bob Hope USO Christmas Show at Long Bien, Vietnam in 1968. It was quite a celebration for all of us in attendence.
