Lemony Zest :: Kim Lewandowski

Archive for the ‘Photo Friday’ Category

The Photo Friday challenge topic this week is City Life. I took this photo when we were visiting my brother Brad and his wife and family in Oak Park, Il., near Chicago. This is the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park, which is on the water in downtown Chicago. Very cool place to wander.

Josi Schroder, the setter (on the right) for the Churchland High School volleyball team in 2006-07, was an exchange student from Germany living with us that year. She had a great time with the team, and they loved having her, with her years of experience. Cool

In 2005, Dan and Barbara and I took a long-weekend trip to the Grand Canyon. While we were there, we stayed in Sedona, Arizona, and went hiking on a trail to Cathedral Rock. We didn’t know this would be there, too, but we came upon Buddha Beach, a place where people pile up river rocks so they resemble a Buddhist temple. We sat on a large rock on the opposite side of the river, ate a snack and took pictures.

I took this photo in May at James River State Park at sunset. I love the way it came out.

I’ve lived in Virginia for years now, driven around the country roads here and in North Carolina, and I still can’t get over how many dead and dying buildings there are out there. Maybe I just didn’t notice them growing up in Michigan, or maybe Michiganders are more likely to tear them down, but it always amazes me to see these poor, collapsing buildings along the side of the road.

This one is near James River State Park in Nelson County, Va., where we have been a few times in the last couple of years, for kayaking/canoeing races and last year, Dan and I went for a long weekend of biking in September.

This photo is from when we were on a sailboat race on the Elizabeth River with Laura and Steve, and probably Dan B. and Paul. The clouds were so cool that night. This is for Photo Friday, the weekly photo challenge. The topic this week is Dusk.