Colourful
Posted on August 25, 2018
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #8: COLORFUL
First things first. Apologies to Tina and all Lens Artists fellow-bloggers for MB’s correct spelling of the word ‘colour’ in his post title. Seems that ever since you guys threw all that tea into Boston harbour (not ‘harbor’) (& the cost of which you still owe to the Brits), the spelling zone of your brains has been fried, for want of a decent cup of tea perhaps?! And MB doesn’t give a fig for the Webster’s English Dictionary. The WED is a Yankee creation, is it not? And in the opinion of MB, a mere smokescreen for the Yankee misuse of ‘or/our’ and ‘s/z’.
But enough correction of your Yankee friends MB. Get on with the Challenge….
OK, ok, guys.
MB and daughter MB2 were in Bucharest for 5 days this past week and did much exploring and unearthing and checking out ‘Dracula’ stuff and such like, of which more in the future. For the moment, MB will just give y’all a colourful shot he took in one of the nicest bookshops he ever visited – called ‘Carturesti’ in the centre of Bucharest. This bookshop sells, in addition to books, vinyl records, tea sets, wine (yes, wine!), backpacks, tea shirts, and much much more.
But for Tina’s challenge, MB has selected a shot of a table selling tea sets.
Voila:

It’s the weekend
Posted on August 24, 2018
Carturesti Carusel bookshop, Bucharest, Romania, where MB & daughter MB2 were hanging out this week.


Everyday Moments
Posted on August 18, 2018
Everyday Moments
(Photo challenge from blogger Debbie at The World is a Book blog site)
The Islamic feast of Eid al Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) takes place next week. In the week leading up, Muslim families will travel to the animal markets to select their particular sheep or goat (normally). So maybe not an ‘everyday moment’ throughout the entire year, but the buying and selling of animals is an everyday moment for that particular week in the Middle East and throughout the Islamic world, for many hundreds of years past.

One Word Sunday – Selfie
Posted on August 12, 2018
Action
Posted on July 22, 2018
MBs submission for Debbies One Word Sunday challenge – Action
From MBs recent trip to Canakkale, Turkey:

It’s the weekend
Posted on July 20, 2018
A street performer plays on a street in Nyon, a small town just outside Geneva, Switzerland. July 2017.
And if you want to hear a short clip of what she was playing………..
It’s the weekend
Posted on July 13, 2018
Another shot from MBs recent trip to Canakkale on the Dardanelles Straits in western Turkey.

One Word Sunday – Stark
Posted on June 24, 2018
MB’s response to this weeks challenge – a shot from mid-December 2017 from Lough Gur lake back home.

Troy
Posted on June 22, 2018
For most of history, the city of Troy was considered a mythical place of ancient Greek legend. It’s existence, mythical or not, was founded on its mention a number of times in the poem ‘The Illiad’ by Homer (ancient Greece, not modern Springfield!). It was referred to by different names in the poem, Troia being one of them, after King Tros. Read More






