PT CDXLIV ~ Spring

First of all - I sincerely apologise for my tardiness in posting the new theme. My mom isnt feeling very well and I had to go shopping for her. I fully intended to post my theme after I came back. I hope that Mitch do not feel that I'm untrustworthy and will not offer me a second chance at hosting. best Anders.

Grand banner by Barry and theme by you, Mitch.

PICTURE THIS #444 ~ SPRING

HI ALL AND TO ALL A HAPPY HOLIDAY 

THANKS FOR A NICE THEME MITCH 

BARRY A COOL BANNER.

SPRING ON MACHU PICCHU

LOOK CLOSE YOU WILL SEE MINI GREEN LEAVES SPRING IS COMING.

LITTLE FLOWERS BEFORE WE MOW THEM.  

SPRING OVER THE NEVADA DESERT.  

WISTERIA BLOOMS IN THE SPRING.

Picture This #444 ~ Spring

Here I am back in Michigan, where spring has not quite arrived. But I have pictures, and when I wake up, I shall pop around to visit yours.

Butterfly on blue flower.

Spring in Florida brings wonderful strawberries, grown locally, and every bit as luscious as they look.

Spring is the time for replenishing the hive.

Picture This #444 ~ Spring

Morning all, thanks to Mitch for the theme this week, I selected Images from my archive that had been taken in March over the years for this theme so not all "in the box" shots. Happy Easter have a great weekend.

Cold Spring.

Web Builder in Spring.

Family Spring.

Beautiful Spring.

Picture This #444 ~ Spring

Hi everyone, this is Mitch. I'll be hosting this week, standing in at the last moment. Apologies for the lateness of the post but this week's host hasn't posted and not replied to my msg.  Ok, well winter seems to have dragged on far too long, so it's about time for Spring!! Not seeing much sign of it here yet, so my photos are from previous Springs.

1) A newly opened Sycamore leaf.

2) Crocus. My fave Spring flower.

3) Varigated daffodils.

4) Spring lambs.

PICTURE THIS #443 ~ BOTTLES

Congratulations, Benni, for the beautiful and artistic banner image!

Good theme, Heidi! I don't remember to have ever had such theme for PT.

Portuguese and foreign liqueur bottles (1st half of XX century)

Azores Passion Fruit Liqueur is normally on sale in ceramic bottles representing a woman in a traditional garb of the islands in centuries past.

If you visit Madeira island you will often see Madeira wine  bottles on a  miniature of a wicker basket toboggan. This happens because going on a ride on a wicker toboggan  is a very popular tourist attraction.

Picture This #443 ~ Bottles

Busy busy getting ready to fly home to Michigan this Wednesday. But never too busy to put up pictures, especially for this great theme. Thank you for making my picture the banner shot; the vase shows up in one of my pictures this week. I'm going to put these up and then come back later and comment on your shots.

Blue bottle with a petunia.

Some bottles (well vases) on my window sill. On the left you can see part of the vase that is the banner shot.

For something different, this is a Blue Bottle Man O'War Jellyfish washed up on the shore yesterday. At first I thought it was a balloon, but looking closer I saw it was a sea creature. The blue thready thing trailing out is a tentacle; they can sting even if the animal is dead.

Picture This #443 ~ Bottles

Morning all, congrats to Benni on this weeks header very creative I love it ;) Bottle are not a subject I often shoot, so rather than hunt through the archives, I shot off a few images around the house this morning for the theme.

Picture This #443 ~ Bottles

Many thanks to Heidi for hosting this week, a very good theme that should produce some interesting photos!! Had to have a good look through my archive for my selection!!

1) Red, White...or Beer?

2) A small sample of my stone bottle collection.

3) You want beer? We got beer!!

4) Of course if you're driving, how about something without alcohol?

PT CDXLIII ~ Bottles

Beautiful banner by Benni and theme by Heidi

An arrangement I made for an Images & Words theme called

Drinks - Name Your Poison.

The spirits table.

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HI ALL FROM A SLOWLY WARMING EUROPE!! 

I LOVE SHAPES OF ALL KINDS SO I THOUGHT

'BOTTLES' WOULD BE OUR NEW THEME. 

ENJOY AND HAVE A NICE WEEKEND AND WEEK.

LOVE THIS WINDOW.

CHAMPAGNE ANYONE?

 

GOOD OLD TSINGTAO.

 

OLIVE OIL IN FLAVORS ALL MADE IN CALIFORNIA..

 

STARS IN A BOTTLE.

 

CHEERS TO ALL AND A HAPPY PRE-EASTER WEEK.

PICTURE THIS #442 ~ CIRCLES

Congratulations, Mitch, for the beautiful shot of the magnolia blooms. Excellent choice for the banner image at this time of the year...

Let me start with a pizza, an Italian speciality that I really love, though having it very seldom, because of the high contents of fat - Rome

From the pizza let me move to these seats, though they looked and really were not comfortable at all, but they show countless circles, don't they? - Prague

Who wouldn't like to stop by this stall? - Lisbon

Picture This #442 ~ Circles

Almost noon here and I am still in my nightgown, can you believe it? Drinking Hawaiian coffee and looking at your marvellous shots. The time here in Florida grows short but I am sure Michigan will be warm when we get there. My pictures include some experiments; it's good to stretch oneself.

Table setting for Thanksgiving dinner. Silverware from my side of the family, china from Tom's.

Wind chimes in the doorway.

Here is me playing around. In focus this is a antique glass pitcher. I'm glad Mitch said weird or unusual was ok, because this is both.

PT CDXLII ~ Circles

Great banner and theme by Mitch.

Thc city park fountain, the latest supermoon and the cross-section of the old elm.