Happy ~~ Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge


Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Happy

CEE’S FUN FOTO CHALLENGE: HAPPY

We are now on to a new series which topics.  I like to think it will be fun series.  It consists of combinations of colors and happy and pets.  It is time to just have some fun.

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This week’s topic is Happy.  Anything in this world that makes you feel happy or smile is allowed in this series.   It could be a beautiful land or seascape to a close up of a flower.  Your significant other, family, kids or even pets.  It could be a delicious plate of food or ice cream.  Show off your photos of things that make you happy. The thing is to have a lot of fun with this challenge.  Feel free to dig around in your archives for photos if you don’t have anything new you can photograph.

HAPPINESS FOR ME IS MY BROTHER STEPHEN AND MY CAT SYLVESTER!!!

 

MUNDANE MONDAY CHALLENGE #55


 

Mundane Monday Challenge #55

MUNDANE MONDAY CHALLENGE #55

Welcome to Mundane Monday Challenge.

This is a challenge created to find beauty in almost everything. The challenge is simple : find beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs. And give me a pingback.

 

 

Carnival Cruise 2004

SHARE YOUR WORLD – 2016 WEEK 16


Carnival Cruise 2004
2004 Carnival Cruise

https://ceenphotography.com/2016/04/18/share-your-world-2016-week-16/

With your answers, please remember we are in the SYW world and which may not always match our reality.

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If you had to have your vision corrected would you rather: glasses or contacts?  Or what do you use if you need to have your vision corrected?

I currently wear glasses. I had retina surgery on my Left eye in Jan. 2018. Prior to that due to a minor stroke caused by extreme high blood pressure I could only see gray, light and dark. After the operation I was able to see some details. Now the sight is once again worsening in that eye but I have neither the time nor the money to return to the eye doctor. Fortunately the brain has a mental map of everything we have seen from birth so it fills it what should be there. I just rely on my right eye. No glasses or contacts could really help me. I need a miracle from God.

If you had to describe your day as a traffic sign, what would it be?

Detour

Was school easy or difficult for you? How so?

K-12 was not exactly easy. I excelled in English and History.  It would have been better if all math courses could have been avoided. I hate math. Always have. Always will. I suck at math. Red marks and F’s in every math course. If not for the New York State Regents exam I would have never graduated from High School. I have a math block.

College was great. Hooray and Cheers for Marymount Manhattan College!!  Lots of work and challenges but I Loved every minute of it except those stupid dreaded math courses. My Chinese friends at my previous workplace helped me. Those Ladies were brilliant at math and they also had plenty of patience because when it comes to numbers I’m stupid and thick as a brick.  Thank goodness in the over 40 years I’ve been in the work force I’ve never used algebra or geometry.  Both were a total waste of time.

Would you rather take a 1 or 2 week vacation with an organized tour or take a cruise of your choice?

Both!  Two weeks. One devoted to an organized tour the other on a cruise. Took a cruise back in 2004 and Loved it!  Had a Wonderful time!

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up? 

Grateful that my African co-worker had a healthy baby girl. Her name is Laura Destiny! Looking forward to next weekend, good warm weather and more photography opportunities!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Little Train Music


A Photo a Week Challenge: Mass Transit

This is my first time actually uploading my videos from my Smartphone to Google then over to YouTube. Please bear with me while I perfect my photography/video craft. In the meantime please enjoy the videos of riding the J Subway Train from Broadway Junction in Brooklyn, the overhead views and across the Williamsburg Bridge.

Thank you!

 

 

 

 

And Now for the Musical Interlude

HERE COMES THE EXPRESS (1975)- BT EXPRESS

https://youtu.be/H2It6_FGJXw

 

 

 

The Gap Band – Party Train

 

Soul Train Theme Song ~~ TSOP | Gamble & Huff

Every Baby Boomer should know what the initials TSOP stand for!!

Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions – People Get Ready (1965)

And Now Something from my parents generation!!  Sir Duke!!

Duke Ellington, “Take the A Train”

SHARE YOUR WORLD – 2016 WEEK 15


 

https://ceenphotography.com/2016/04/11/share-your-world-2016-week-15/#like-16583

SHARE YOUR WORLD – 2016 WEEK 15

cartoon-lady-closetWith your answers, please remember we are in the SYW world and which may not always match our reality.

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Name one thing not many people know about you.

I was a Telex Operator at the Reader’s Digest Advertising offices in Manhattan during the mid-1980s.  At the time Ms. Wallace was still living though she stayed in the Pleasantville, NY location. It was a wonderful place to work. For my fellow Baby Boomers you know what a Telex Machine was. As for you young folks ~~ Google it!! LOL!!

If a distant uncle dies and you were always his favorite and leaves you $50,000 (any currency) in his will, what would you do?

Pay off as many bills as possible and take a vacation somewhere in the Caribbean with my brother Stephen.

Where do you hide junk when people come over?

I don’t get many visitors but when I do they all stay downstairs in the Living Room which is much neater than my bedroom as you can see!! LOL!!  🙂   😀

Complete this sentence:  I want to learn more about …

Photography and learn to speak better Spanish.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up? 

Grateful that I got to say Farewell to my co-worker from the Cameroon who went on Maternity Leave. Her baby girl Destiny is due at the end of this month. We have become very close over the last few months as she has no family in America. All her relatives are either in the Cameroon or France. Her Mom will be arriving soon.

I was never able to have children and this young woman is like my daughter. Her baby girl Destiny will be my granddaughter of sorts.  I’m grateful and thankful for her.  A connection to the Motherland. Africa. I’m Thankful to and for many of my African co-workers as I’ve learned so much about the continent of our ancestors over the last eight years.  One day I will make my pilgrimage to the soil from whence my fore-bearers sprang.

 

Looking forward to next weekend for rest and relaxation.

The above picture was borrowed from Cee’s web blog page.