Every Day is a Gift!
Let’s have some fun with Terri’s Floral ABC’s theme of flowers featuring STUV. I don’t have a flower that begins with U but here are some flowers that start with S, T, and V. Can you identify any of these flowers? You can check your answers at the end of this post.
Sharing with Terri’s Flower Hour #48
S: Purple Salvia with bee, T: Tithonia (more commonly known as Mexican sunflower), V: Vinca (also known as Periwinkle)
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I am excited to be your host this week. The challenge is for you to show us your favorite bridge images. You can feature any kind of bridge: natural bridges, foot bridges, swinging bridges, highway bridges, stone bridges, railroad bridges, or any other kind of bridge you can think of.
I live in an area where there are many bridges. I have to cross a bridge over a creek just to leave my neighborhood. I have seen many kinds of bridges during my travels and enjoy photographing them. I hope the following bridges from our travels will give you a few ideas. I can’t wait to see your responses.
Left to Right: Ha’Penny Bridge foot bridge across the River Liffey, Dublin, Ireland, Stone Bridge, Winterset, Iowa.
Left to Right: Bridge over River Laude at Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland; Bridge on Otter Crest Drive, Oregon.
Last week John challenged us to show Places Shaped by Water. Your responses were amazing. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge.
I’m looking forward to seeing your bridges. Please limit your responses to no more than 10 images and be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to this post.
Be sure to check back on Saturday, September 19 at noon eastern time when Ann-Christine will be our host.
You can keep up with all of our challenges by subscribing to the Lens-Artists team members websites: Tina, Patti, Ann-Christine, John, Sofia, Anne, Egidio, Ritva, Beth.
For information on how to join the Lens-Artists challenge please click here.
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John is our host this week. His challenge: “Share up to six waterscapes—images where water shapes the scene. Choose your favorite places, your favorite photos, or a single location that inspires you. Natural or man‑made, peaceful or wild—if water helps tell the story, it’s fair game”
When I first read John’s challenge I thought it would easy. Oceans, rivers, creeks, lakes, swamps, bayous, and salt marshes are a few of my favorite places shaped by water. However, for this challenge I decided to focus on a place near and dear to my heart, the Okefenokee Swamp in my home state of Georgia. The Okefenokee Swamp is first site in the United States to be added as a World Heritage Site in over 30 years and is the only site in Georgia to receive the designation.
The Okefenokee Swamp is North America’s largest blackwater wetland and one of Georgia’s Seven Natural Wonders. It was designated as a National Wildlife Refuge in 1937 and on July 25, 2026, the Okefenokee Swamp was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. You can read more about the Okefenokee at Okefenokee World Heritage Site.
One of our favorite state park campgrounds was once named Stephen C. Foster State Park located in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Fargo, Georgia. The state of Georgia renamed the park Okefenokee State Park on September 1, 2026. We camped there many times during the years. Our favorite thing to do was to take a boat ride into the swamp. Sometimes we went on a Ranger led boat tour, sometimes we rented a canoe to paddle through the swamp, and sometimes we rented a small motor boat. As we rode through the swamp through Spanish Moss Covered Cypress trees we always saw plenty of wildlife including alligators and birds.
Here are a few of my favorite images of the Okefenokee.
Last week Sofia’s fun challenge of What is it? had us guessing what was depicted in a photo. You had some really great photos that made me think “I have no idea”. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge.
Many thanks to our host John for this week’s fun challenge. If you would like to join the challenge please be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to his post Lens-Artists #412: Places shaped by water.
Be sure to check back on Saturday, September 12 at noon eastern time when I will be your host for the challenge.
You can keep up with all of our challenges by subscribing to the Lens-Artists team members websites: Tina, Patti, Ann-Christine, John, Sofia, Anne, Egidio, Ritva, Beth.
For information on how to join the Lens-Artists challenge please click here.
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Are you ready for another photo quiz today? Let’s have some fun with Terri’s Floral ABC’s theme of flowers featuring PQR. I don’t have a Q flower for you so I have included two that start with P and one that starts with R. Can you identify them? You can check your answers at the end of this post.
Sharing with Terri’s Flower Hour #46
P1: Phlox, P2: Sweet Pea, R: Rhododendron
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Sofia introduces her challenge like this: “Imagine this week’s challenge is a quiz. You’ll all be the quiz master setting the images and we’ll have to guess what is depicted.”
I hope you have some fun trying to guess what is depicted in these images. The answers are at the end of the post.
And the answers are:
Many thanks to Ritva for hosting last week’s challenge One Photo Edited. I enjoyed seeing all of your creative edits. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge.
Many thanks to our host Sofia for this week’s fun challenge. If you would like to join the challenge please be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to her post Lens-Artists #411: What is it?.
Be sure to check back on Saturday, September 5 at noon eastern time when John will be hosting the challenge.
You can keep up with all of our challenges by subscribing to the Lens-Artists team members websites: Tina, Patti, Ann-Christine, John, Sofia, Anne, Egidio, Ritva, Beth.
For information on how to join the Lens-Artists challenge please click here.
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Wandering Dawgs 