Circle grid view from a bus on the Pont de l’Île,
crossing the Rhône river on a rainy morning in Geneva, Switzerland.
(Photo taken March 2015)
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Grid.”
"There is some good in this world…and it's worth fighting for." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Circle grid view from a bus on the Pont de l’Île,
crossing the Rhône river on a rainy morning in Geneva, Switzerland.
(Photo taken March 2015)
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Grid.”
One piece of history that I learned recently: for decades, thousands of people gathered on the hillside adjacent to where the turtle fountain is now to watch a popular annual children’s pageant. According to the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board, “The public visibility of the gardens got a boost beginning in 1917 when the first playground pageant was performed on the hill above the rose garden overlooking the lake. The playground pageants included performances written specifically for the occasion and featured children in costumes from every park in the city. The first year the pageant drew a crowd of 15,000 and in later years the performance was extended to two evenings and played to crowds of 40,000. The pageant remained a popular annual event, with a hiatus during the Depression, until 1941. The pageants drew such large crowds that in 1930 the park board considered building an 18,000-seat amphitheater on the hillside at Lyndale Park to accommodate pageant crowds and host other outdoor concerts. With the onset of the Great Depression, however, funds for such a project never materialized.”
Meanwhile, in downtown Minneapolis, the 1915 Edmund J. Phelps Fountain, with its bronze turtles, sat at the center of the Gateway Park’s Beaux Arts Pavilion. During the Great Depression, the park became a gathering place for the unemployed, homeless and transients moving through the area looking for work. Eventually, the city drained the water from the basin of the turtle fountain to keep men from bathing in and drinking from it. Turns out that the turtles in my neighborhood park’s fountain were mute witnesses to dire poverty and suffering.
The turtle fountain was spared when Gateway Park was demolished. In the early 1960s, a Perennial Garden was added just east of the rose garden. The fountain was relocated in 1963 from downtown Minneapolis to the east end of this garden.
The turtle fountain, a familiar neighborhood icon, is different when seen from every (historic) angle.
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This photo, which I accidentally took while working in my hotel room in Geneva last month, fits perfectly with the theme of this week’s Photo Challenge. See more responses here Weekly Photo Challenge: Beneath Your Feet.
I was in Oxford, England for a conference last June. My visit just happened to coincide with the summer College Balls. I took this photo of students ready for the ball on my way to a meeting.
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “On the Way.”
Trees in winter, enveloped in Spanish moss.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
This post was inspired by the Weekly Photo Challenge: Enveloped. See more responses here.
Early morning view from my window at the Kathmandu Guest House in Nepal.(March 2015)
This post is a response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Early Bird. See more photos here.
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Afloat.”
My boys, who seem to have spent much of their young lives squabbling, somehow found detente
while staying at my great-grandparents’ farm near the town of Gvarv in Telemark, Norway.
Perhaps it was being out of their normal routine? Or perhaps it was the serenity of their surroundings?
This post is a response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
This post is a response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy.
Just getting around can be an adventure in and of itself in many parts of the world. In Cameroon, the motorcycle taxis are used by many people to get around the city of Douala. Most motorcycle taxis carry two passengers, but a few times I saw three passengers. I took this photo from the back of a taxi speeding in the opposite direction. There were hundreds of motorcycle taxis heading into the city, so I just snapped a couple photos at random. I was shocked that this photo captured the scene as well as it did!
This post is a response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Adventure. Follow the link to see more entries!
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