OCTOBER THEME DAY- SHELTER

SEEKING SHELTER

According to myth and animal symbolism, the praying mantis is a sign of good fortune. I found this one climbing around the front door of my house. *

*For more interesting facts about Mantids, click here.

For more "Shelter" photos from other CDP bloggers, click here.

SEPTEMBER CDP THEME/CHALLENGE--CURIOUS; CURIOSITIES

 A Curiosity from the Last Century

Most CDP bloggers probably remember using a stand-alone payphone like this sometime  in the last century. But here in Walla Walla, the United States Post Office building still has an operating payphone in the lobby. And when you close the bi-fold door, the light and fan turn on so you can sit on the wooden seat and make your phone call in complete privacy. 
(I find it curious why anyone would want to make a phone call in privacy?!?)

I would venture to say that most of those of the Greatest Generation (up to 1946) along with Baby Boomers (1946-1964) and Gen X-ers (1965-1984) remember using such a phone, but for most Millennials (1982-2004) and certainly the current Generation Y (with an official name yet to be determined), this may indeed be a curious sight as they may have only seen pay phones in old movies or TV re-runs. 

More's the pity.

To see more 'curious' photos by other CDP bloggers, follow this link.

SDRAWKCAB

I know this is a few days late for the July CDP Challenge, but it sure fits the theme of BACKWARDS. Better late than never, I say!

CDP JULY CHALLENGE/Upside Down

Let There Be Light

Upside down lighting as seen by Susan this weekend while visiting Seattle's Pike Place Market.

REVOLUTION MULTIPLIED

This was to be my theme day photo, until I had another "happy accident" leaving Walla Walla on Monday, April 27. So I'm posting it on my blog because why waste two perfectly good photos?

The . . .wheels, gears, pedals, chains, legs . . . go round and round, round and round . . .*

  The racers in a criterium go round and round, round and round . . .*

*Sung to the tune of the classic children's song "The Wheels on the Bus."