Cee has a number of active photography challenges, as well as offering tips and keeping track of all the challenges around the web. One of her challenges, as hinted to in the title, is her Fun Foto Challenge. The topic this week is “Bare Feet and Boots” and I couldn’t resist.
In other news, I’ll spare you the technical details (actually, I’ll save them for another day), but I consider the exercise with the tags some of you added to your Thursday Doors post to be a success. Several people added tags. While I still have some work to do, gathering the tags and creating the table for display on Sunday is almost fully automated. In addition, I can report that the top-five posts in the recap – in terms of clicks received – were all posts to which tags were added. Hardly scientific, but not bad.
I hope you all have a great week.
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The shadows are wonderful, both the fences and the tree. What wonderful gifts of nature you see on your walks.
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Thanks Lauren.
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Great response!
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Thanks Sheree
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You’re very welcome
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Dan, always sunrises or sunsets, those shadows & through the trees photos are beautiful. Maddie looks cozy in her coat. Have a great start to the week. 📚🎶Christine
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Thanks Christine. I hope you have a nice week.
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Beautiful nature. Very nice all pictures.
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Thank you!
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Hahaha! Perfect photo for the prompt! What would you have done for bare feet without Maddie?🤗 Love the “can you spare a peanut?” shot. Too cute.
Great sunrise shots, but as usual, Old Glory tops them all!
You know your trapped leaf is going to be the star in a story from Pam. Lol!
Hope today is getting your week started just fine.
Ginger
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I wasn’t going to put my bare feet out there, Ginger. I was hoping for a ground-level shot, but little Miss Impatient wanted to start walking.
I love it when we get to the park and find a spot where the sun is behind that flag.
We try to feed everyone when it snows. The snow isn’t deep, but it’s frozen solid – even Maddie can walk on top of it. (I sink like a stone). There’s no foraging out there. And no escape for that poor leaf.
Stay warm while winter reminds us of what the groundhog predicted/
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Good one! I see bare sidewalks which is a good thing. :-)
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Mostly bare. Only one house ignored the rules, and we could walk around them. It make a huge difference.
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A rabbitless rabbit hole? Proof, but still disappointing.
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I know ::( Sorry.
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Well done. You nailed the essence of Cee’s challenge.
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And I did it without freezing my toes :)
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Thank you for the pictures, Dan. You know I miss a snowy winter!!
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You’re welcome to look at ours, GP. I like snow, but these teen temps and single-digit wind chills are free to step aside.
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There’s no denying the beauty of snow. Hard to look at it and think what a pain it can be. My favorite photo above is the one of the river’s edge; I love the movement of the water in it. The mere thought of bare feet with that snow is freezing me.
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I’m glad you like that one, Maureen. Seeing ducks and geese fighting the current in that stream made me shiver. This poor little trig was getting splashed, brrrr.
Thanking Maddie for providing the bare feet for this challenge.
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“There’s always one homeowner…” this made me laugh, Dan. Isn’t it the truth?! We’ve still snow on the ground as well. As much as I wish it would melt, I love seeing the distant mountains covered in white. Have a good one!
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I’m glad you got a chuckle, Gwen. Sometimes, you have to laugh a little. I grunbled when I saw that walk, then I thought, “it will make a fun picture.” I was kind of hoping they saw me snap a photo.
I hope you have a nice week.
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Snow has its beauty, but itsn’t it time for it do go away? Have a good week, Dan.
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You can’t rule out March, Frank. I don’t trust March. At least what falls going forward should melt pretty quickly.
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In like a lion, out like a lamb, and who knows what’s in between.
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The snow and shadows looks so pretty, but….no. Is the squirrel teaching the pigeon to beg peanuts from you? I think they’re gonna unionize next, Dan. Have a great week!
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They all know how to beg, Lois. Neither species shares well. I can imagine picket lines in the back yard – “Owner Unfair” “Don’t Make Us Forage!”
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haha! Picturing that picket line… 😆
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Boots or no boots, this has been a funny (or not so funny) winter. You have more snow than what’s on the ground here and I think states south of here have had more snow all winter. I don’t know about you and Maddie, but I’m ready for spring!
Nice photo for the challenge. You reminded me that I have beenbremuss in visiting Cee…need to rectify that.
Happy Monday, Dan!
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been remiss… ugh
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It’s ok. I speak fluent typo. b = space
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I don’t visit Cee nearly often enough. I’m trying to play once in a while, too.
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I’m sure you’re tired of the snow by now, Dan, but I love the contrast photo of your winter boots and Maddie’s paws.
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Thanks Jan. Maddie doesn’t seem to understand why I need boots. She paces while I’m lacing them. She does like her coat, though. It was 20 today when we left, with wind chill of 11. We did a short walk, but one of us wanted to keep going.
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The snow in the backlit image is lovely and so are the long shadows.
There’s a few here that don’t shovel their sidewalks as well. Sigh.
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Thanks Deborah. It makes it very hard when they don’t clear the walk, because you can’t walk over the bank left by the plows, well, Maddie can, but…That means we have to walk out in the street for a while. We have an elderly neighbor two doors up from us. The guy in between stops his snow blower at the property line. I go up and take care of her sidewalk. Her son comes later to plow her driveway. Lots of people around here like to walk.
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I walk in the street too when I come to those places. He-Man usually does our neighbors sidewalks and their driveways too. Sometimes like last week there were 3 of them out shoveling together and making it short work. They were smiling and talking so it must have fun too. 😀
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The sidewalk I take care of is for the widow of a man who used to help me if I was traveling. It seemed lore like a neighborhood then.
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That’s why we love it here so much, The neighbors are awesome and neighborly.
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I’m happy for you.
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Hi Dan – beautiful sunny snowy weather – excellent light, but cold. Wonderful first shot and very appropriate – all the best – Hilary
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Thanks Hilary.
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Hi Dan, I’m so glad you could play along this week. :D :D
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I’ve been meaning to join your challenge(s) for a while. This one got my attention enough for me to make a note.
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I don’t get why people don’t shovel their walk. Same folks that don’t pick up poop I suspect. Super photos and response to the prompt, Dan.
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There are a lot of selfish people in the world, John. That’s all I can figure.
I’m glad you liked this.
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I agree with that.
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Gorgeous scenic pics Dan, Maddie is adorable as always!
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Thanks!
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Love the pics!! The snow is so pretty and of course the winter boots and bare feet!!
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Thanks Kirt.
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Lovely snapshots, Dan. It seems surreal to see all that snow, sitting here in Singapore. Some day, I plan to live for a spell in a place where I can wear boots and walk in the snow.
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Thanks Damyanti. Right now, it’s hard to imagine anyone wanting to walk in boots, but I hope you get your wish.
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You’re such a mover and shaker Dan. We appreciate your efforts. While I’m not a fan of the cold, snow does make beautiful photos. These are lovely!
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Thanks Cheryl. This project was kind of fun.
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Perfect photo for the challenge! I wonder, though… do they make dog booties? Maybe a lovely red pair to go with her coat.
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We have tried that, but she’s not a fan of boots. It would be nice.
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Another trapped leaf! I love it. There is a poem there, I know there is, something about trapped by winter trying to escape… Just can’t quite get it. Love the picture of the squirrel and the pigeon… Oh another poem?
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You know you’re welcome to work with the pictures. 😊
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Certainly glad Maddie had the bare feet! And great for the challenge. As far as Thursday Doors, I have to try to figure out the hashtag thing. Sigh.
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Add it to your comment. Don’t try to add it to a pingback, that doesn’t work.
I’ll have an example comment near the top on Thursday.
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pretty snow pictures. We had some water on the back porch that iced up. It was pretty, but I didn’t go out until the sun warm it up.
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Good idea.
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Winter will never be my favorite season, but pics like this make me almost want to reconsider. ALMOST. Good work, Dan!
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Thanks Paul. There are so many things I only see in winter. Still, I won’t be sad when spring comes
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Winter sunsets, for example, are often a sight to see. Tonight’s was a case in point — streaks of color. I wanted to take a pic, but they never turn out quite right.
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If I want to get a picture of a sunset (or a sunrise for that matter) outside of winter, I have to drive somewhere that isn’t surrounded by trees. And you;re right, they usually aren’t as colorful
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These are great pictures, Dan. I’m glad the tags are working.
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Thanks Robbie. They are working technically and they seem to be doing the job I hoped they would.
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