Monthly Archives: October 2014

The number three and Distance from Seoul

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Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

Shakuntala Devi
As terrible as I am with numbers.. I love them.  I grew up on statistical commercials such as “Three out of four …”

Or, even the commercials that don’t specifically state numbers but use words like more than or less than.

Really powerful, RIGHT?!?

We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It’s the day I was born. My mother’s birthday, and a lot of my friends’ birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.

Beyonce Knowles

My special number is three.  I have two sisters, two daughters, and two grandkids.  My birthday is the 3rd month on the 30th day.  Like a book, I have a beginning, a middle and eventually I will have an end.  I’ve only found three leaf clovers.  “I AM SAM” is sort of my favorite thing to say.  Weird right?!?
Haute Pink Photography in Seattle with daughter and grandson
Haute Pink Photography in Seattle.. favorite smiles
1972 or 1973 Family foto
Spokane- Daughter and granddaughter – always makes me smile
Seattle, WA… my favorite smilers … my daughters
Haute Pink Photography always caught the best smiles – Spokane, WA
Haute Pink Photography in Spokane with daughter and grandson
Volleyball game in Korea with daughters
Success in the Kitchen in Spokane, WA
Posers – Korea
Haute Pink Photography in Spokane, WA and one of my favorite littlest smiler.
Seattle WA and my daughters – haute pink photography
Rafting the end – Barinas
Haute Pink Photography in Seattle with granddaughter
Yeah.. I’m smiling but what are you doing in Korea.
Time with the girls – Korea
Camping in Montana.. with my daughter.
Hiking – Venezuela
Camping in Montana with my sisters- great smilers
Memories from childhood, wish I could find this same foto when my sisters and i were kids in Hungry Horse Montana
Dodgeball fundraiser – Korea
Spokane WA with daughters – Haute Pink Photography
Montana camping with my favorite little smiler.. my grandson
Cooking in Thailand building memories and smiles
Haute Pink Photography and my favorite smilers
Beautiful scenery in Montana with family
Time with dad – Spokane
Camp trip in Montana. Sis and dad
Road trips.. terror and smiles

But enough of that.  Ailsa’s theme this week was photo’s with numerals.  I also do not take that many photos with numbers in them. However, I actually did on my trip to Seoul.  I hope you enjoy.

Counting …

Other posts I enjoyed.

Masking the obvious

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Of course it’s close to halloween and of course we are doing a blog on masks.. makes perfect sense.  Last year I took the post into the realm of masks we hide behind as people (31 Days of Randomness, Masks and Faces) this year.. well.. I took it literally.

Let me start by saying that some things just do NOT need masks or any special coverage for halloween!!! They are cute and surprising and funny with or without.  that would be my own kids, my grandkids, my neighbor’s kids, my sister’s neighbor’s kids, etc.

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Other people, usually adults, actually probably do better with a mask.. for sure. Or at least feel that a mask makes them more clever or interesting. In fact, it usually does. Whether it be for halloween or just to make a statement.

Bottom line, masks are fun.  Hope you enjoy.

“Don’t you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?”
― Søren Kierkegaard

 

Masked posts:

Colors in Countries

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Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

Robert Frank

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But add color.. how does this change the picture?

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Other colors I really liked from Turkey, Korea, and Nepal. I hope you enjoy.

Lighted hallways in Mosques, Istanbul Turkey
Sunset in KOrea
Baklava, Istanbul Turkey
Tikka in Nepal
Fall colors in Korea
Dongdemun market kOrea
Colorful lights in Istanbul, Turkey
Colorful Cat, Seoul Korea
Rasberry Icecream with night lights in Istanbul Turkey
Spice Market, Istanbul Turkey
Dongdemun market kOrea
Blue waters in Istanbul Turkey
Dongdemun market kOrea
White nosed Elephant in CHitwan Nepal
Mosque stairwell in Istanbul Turkey
Blue Skies Istanbul Turkey
Festival Seoul Korea
Festival Seoul Korea
Tika Colors in Nepal
Fire Dancing in Chitwan, Nepal
Colorful lights at night in Istanbul, Turkey
Colored pillows, rugs and blankets in Istanbul, Turkey
Seoul Tower show
Child in Pink, Nepal
Yellow background, Korea

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray,

and your picture will always be bleak.

Try adding some bright colors to the picture

by including humor,

and your picture begins to lighten up.

Allen Klein

Daily Prompt: Local Color

Other Posts I liked

Dreamy – Istanbul

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Still in Istanbul Turkey.  Actually I’m back in Nepal but dreaming of being back in Istanbul.  Great food. Kind people and some of the most dreamy sites you can imagine.  I hope you enjoy.

Other Dreamy Posts:

Inside

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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung

The interior of the Basilica Cistern is nothing like what it appears from the outside.  Day two of our tour of Istanbul brought us to one of the most beautiful tourist attractions that I have had the fortune of passing through.

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Aside from the Medusa’s Heads.. the entire place was amazing.  You could even dress up in traditional cultural garb and walk away with a photo of yourself.  So lovely and peaceful.  I hope you enjoy.

Other awesome interiors