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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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Thursday Doors: Holiday Cheer

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  Thursday Doors, a weekly feature allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos from around the world. Feel free to join in on the fun by creating your own Thursday Doors post each week and then sharing your link at No Facilities anytime between 12:01 am Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American eastern time). Next week there's an optional holiday door challenge. I couldn't resist starting early. To see more doors, click here . 

Sepia Saturday

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  Every week Sepia Saturday bloggers are challenged with a visual prompt like this week's which is above. Inspired by another Sepian inspired me with Thanksgiving Day photos. As this picture shows children react differently to being seated at the children's table away from the adults.  Delano, Jack, photographer.  The children's table at the Crouch family Thanksgiving Day dinner. Ledyard, Connecticut . United States Connecticut Ledyard New London County, 1940. Nov. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017793114/. Little context given for this picture, but I love the hats. It looks like a fun party. Harris & Ewing, photographer.   Children Wearing Costumes Seated at Table . United States, 1928. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016888749/. They're all smiles at this children's table. I'm not sure why they'd eat a bird with all it's feathers still on. Thanksgiving Picture. (n.d.) Loretta Brady's Pinterest.com Board How'd you like sitting a...

Weekend Coffee Share

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Weekend Coffee Share is a time for us to take a break out of our lives and enjoy some timely catching up with friends (old and new)! November 19 If we were having coffee, I hope we'd be beside a roaring fire. It's cold outside. Some days it's been below freezing and while it didn't stick we have had snow. I learned that one of my students from Afghanistan's siblings are out of Kabul and are now safe in Greece. She lives in Canada and hopes her family can be reunited there, but the main thing is that they're safe. As of Thursday we had no idea whether we'd be required to work on Thursday. Via our grapevine, I'd heard that we wouldn't have to, but according to my supervisor The Management hadn't made up their minds, they "like to keep us on the edge of our seat." That's very much a flat footed answer. Thanksgiving is just a week away. Those who submitted requests for leave are in the dark as to whether they'll get any. November 2...

Sculpture Saturday: Halloween Edition

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  Sculpture Saturday is an opportunity for photobraphers to share some carved, sculpted or other 3D art. To join, you need to: 1. Share a photo of a sculpture on your blog. 2. Link here to No Fixed Plans, the new hub for the challenge. Give it a try. It's fun. Chicago

Cee's Midweek Madness Challenge

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 July's Color: Brown Cee’s inspiring bloggers to post based on a prompt then share the post by linking to her blog or creating a pingback. This week she’s inspiring us to share photos featuring brown. To see more madness, click here .