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Amaryllis Redux

By Vladimir Brezina

A month ago, our Amaryllis stirred to life. Day by day, it extended further a slender green flower stalk and eventually unfolded at the end of it three huge red flowers. But their time of glory was brief. When they had shriveled, we cut off the stalk and thought that the show was over for this year.

So we were amazed to find, growing out of the bulb some days later, not just a couple of green leaves but another flower stalk, which has now brought forth another two beautiful flowers—

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… just in time for a second response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Color! (The first response was here.)

Travel Theme: Pale

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Pale. Once again, her chosen theme is somehow strangely linked to The Daily Post’s photo challenge this week, Color—although for a change it’s the polar opposite.

In response to The Daily Post’s challenge, I’ve posted some highly colored kayaking photos. But of course I have some pale ones as well…

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Color

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Color.

Kayaking can be a very colorful sport!

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Weekly Photo Challenge: A Day in My Life

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is A Day in My Life.

Last Saturday, toward evening, I took a walk through NYC’s Central Park.

First I visited our patch of ground. And on that patch, which we had picked for being so unremarkable, a crop of colorful crocuses had sprung up…

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A few more photos are here.

Travel Theme: Smoke and Mirrors

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Smoke and Mirrors, in honor of Smoke and Mirrors Day (where do these designations come from?), “which celebrates all things magical and illusory”.

The magical smoke and mirrors of a calm dawn on the river…

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Weekly Photo Challenge & Travel Theme: Time—Future Tense

By Vladimir Brezina

Once again, the Weekly Photo Challenge and Ailsa’s Travel Theme are in uncanny synergy—this week, the two themes are Future Tense and Time.

And here’s a photo that seems to me to symbolize these two themes. I know many of you have seen it before. But that was back in November. Time has passed, and what was then the Future has now most likely become the Present…

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lunchtime, Take Two

By Vladimir Brezina

IMGP1118 cropped smallThis week’s Photo Challenge is Lunchtime. I’ve already shown what our lunchtime very often looks like. And continuing the same theme, here is today’s lunch!

It was snowing.

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But lunch was just one of the many high points of this trip, which Johna is writing up. Watch this space!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Lunchtime!

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Lunchtime.

When lunchtime rolls around, we’ve already been paddling for hours—and we are starving!

Sometimes we land. Over the years, we’ve had lunch in many memorable, picturesque spots—

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But often it’s just not convenient to land. We have our lunch on the water—

Off the Rockaways, New York City

And in winter we really don’t want to get out of our boats at all. We raft up for a few minutes in the lee of a convenient windbreak—on a Manhattan circumnavigation, we head for our favorite barge off Randall’s Island—for some hot tea and salami and cheese—

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And let me tell you, it tastes damn good under the circumstances!

(And a second post on the Lunchtime theme, showing our most recent lunch at the barge, is here.)

Weekly Photo Challenge: Our Neighborhood

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Our Neighborhood.

Last week’s snowstorm was surely the last gasp of winter. On Saturday, the remnants of the snow were vanishing in the warm sunshine, the first flowers were peeping out from under last year’s dead leaves, and everyone was out in Central Park. I was there too with my camera (not my cell phone)…

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Tendrils

By Vladimir Brezina

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On a Florida beach recently, lost in the details

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