[MC74 and Friends] Trees and MORE trees :-)

 

Dear MC, BT, Caro,  Tuan, Triet, Hien Lan, Sonny  & Romantic PNEH friends

Your Trees are so specials,  "Mỗi cây một vẻ, mười phân vẹn mười"

Nature is truly an infinite source of inspiration through your lenses!!!

Here is my small contribution for this week theme "Trees":

This is a beautiful  yellow tree located  at the same place as my previous

entry for the "Reflection theme" : Franklin Park in Beverly Hills  California...

 

http://www.lamountains.com/planning_franklin.html

 

Have a great Wednesday Dear Romantic Friends!!!

Cheerios

K- Liem

[MC74 and Friends] Trees and MORE trees :-)

This hundred year-old dragon tree is located at the Del (Hotel) in Coronado, one of the major tourist attractions in San Diego.

When home was still San Diego, it was one of my favorite places to spend an afternoon at the beach. The other place was La Jolla beach and its restaurant row. The Del and its white sandy beach always stirs indelible memories in me.

Did you know that this dragon tree was used as backdrop in the Marilyn Monroe movie, Some Like It Hot, which was filmed at the Del in 1958?

TNS
Tra`n Nhu*a. So^'ng

[MC74 and Friends] TREES

DEAR  MAI  CHAU , BAO  TRAM  AND  FRIENDS
I  LOVE   MC ' S  HANAUMA  BAY   TREE , BT' S    NAKED  OAKTREE ,  NHU HOA ' S  BAMBOOS  , TRIET ' S  FOGGY  TREE  .  HERE  ARE  MY  ENTRIES  FOR  TREES    BIZ   HL

 Dear twin BiTi, fellows PNEH, painters, poets, Mr. Kiu, and Forum friends
I like trees, therefore it goes without saying that I like this theme a lot. Mu*ng\ nhu* bat' du*o*c. vang\. nhie^u\ hinh\ qua' kho^ng bie^t' gu*i? cai' nao\...tru*o*c' da^y :-). Thanks Caro!BiTi, don't worry about me kicking you out of the blog, you may be kicking me out first after seeing the number of entries that I am submitting here.
You may need to make a collage just for my entries alone :-).
 
I love BiTi's trees
I also love Caro's palm, bamboo trees and bonzais.

Unlike BiTi and Caro, I am not good at botany, thus I don't know the names of the trees in my photos; all I can tell you is where I found them :-)

-My first photo was taken in Rive Sud.

-My second tree was found near the parking lot of Hanauma Bay, looking as if it had a part in the movie Lion King.

-My third tree was seen at Waimanalo Beach.

-My fourth one was taken in Manhattan. I was walking around with my camera today, with the intention to capture some street scenes for the future theme suggested by TNS, when I looked up and saw the two trees with all these pigeons resting on their branches.

-The picture of the trees in the collage was taken yesterday, in my neighbors' backyard. The whole day was quite cloudy, then suddenly there was some sunlight that came through the clouds at sunset, illuminating the sky with hues of pink and blue. I ran out to take pictures of the trees, and got attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes. One was so hungry, it tried to suck the blood out of my poor camera. (chac' con muo^i~ no' nghi~ bung. kho^ng bie^t' ai ma\ minh\ ddo^ng\ da sat' the^' nay\, hut' mai~ kho^ng du*o*c!). So I quickly retreated back to my house after only a few snapshots which I made into a collage.
-My last photo was from Montreal; the tree stood at the corner of Crescent and Sherbrooke. There were a few of them lining Crescent street.
Goodnight and have a nice Tuesday
from be^n Bo*\ So^ng
MC

[MC74 and Friends] My entries for the Tree theme

Dear Triplets & PNEH-ers,

Here are my entries for the Tree theme:

1. "Misty backyard": majestic oak trees on a foggy evening
2. 'Scary tree": A Halloween preview!
3. "XMas Tree": A rather obvious idea, but I wanted to grab it before someone else thinks of it. :-)

Cheers,

Triet

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Hi BT and friends

Les grands esprits se rencontrent... I have an almost identical photo of palm trees swaying against the blue sky!!! Then here are my other trees like towering bamboos, bonzai trees...
Caro

[MC74 and Friends] Trees and MORE Trees

Youpiiiiiii !! looks like I am going to open shop for this week's theme of ... TREES !

So let me start with some local celebrities:

1. the famous LONE CYPRESS (for non-locals, this cypress is very lonely and would love

for you to come and pay it a visit, it's sitting at the border of the Ocean Pacific off

of the 17-mile drive in Carmel Northern Cal )

2. the ancient and equally famous (for golfers :-)) 14th hole cypresses

at the Cypress Point Golf Course at Pebble Beach also off the 17-mile drive.

3. believe it or not it's a MAGNOLIA TREE that some dude decided to shave into in 

giant blunt pointy thing :-) and it's almost as famous  :-) because it's growing 

at the front of the Filoli mansion whose exterior is used for the setting for the

Carrington Mansion on the TV series Dynasty. ( So folks if you think it's in Colorado,

you've been fooled, it's right here in Woodside, Northern Cal._ :-))

OK enough of celebrities, now to trees that I like :-)

4. the oak tree that I walk by every other day and didn't notice until I brought

the camera with me one day in the winter time, when it's naked :-)

5.  Palm trees (I love palm trees especially when they are conversing with clouds hi hi)

6.  and last but not least, this tree or more like SPOOKY tree trunk at a friend's house in 

Mendocino that looks like it's carved ... and the carving looks to me like a guy with his

head bent to the left ... I was really spooked and wouldn't stay in the house by myself ...

(Em Ci babi, that's the only time I was afraid of being home alone :o)) 

Let me know if you want more trees ... I better stop or my Twin will kick me out

of the blog :-)

Cheers,

BT

[MC74 and Friends] ANACHRONISM

Dear Em Ci my Twin, Mr Kiu, fellow PNEH and friends,

Here are my anachronic photos. The first two are taken earlier this week in Santa

Cruz and Capitola and the last two at the Concours D'elegance (classic car show) 

a few years ago. 

1.The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk's Looff Carousel is a National Historic Landmark,

 still turning merrily even though it just turned 100 year old this year, a local treasure for children old and young :-)

2.The 'masochistic' hopefully anachronic :-) flip flops

3 and 4. Two beauties from the Concours D'elegance

Cheers,

BT

[MC74 and Friends] ANACHRONISM

DEAR    MAI  CHAU  ,   BAO  TRAM  ,  TRANG   AND  FRIENDS,
I  WAS  AT  A  PARTY  WITH  THE  THEME :  LES  ANNEES  FOLLES  .  HOPEFULLY  THAT  I  AM  NOT   HORS  SUJET     BIZ     HL

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Dear friends and 2 ba` chu?

 

I have 2 other photos for this theme

the 1st one is the girl in the streets of San Francisco

the 2nd is a group of Mongolian musicians in front of the centre Pompidou

 

Tuan

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 Dear twin BiTi, fellows PNEH, painters, poets, and art critic Mr. Kiu ,

I must admit that the whole week, after announcing the theme and seeing Tua^n', TNS, Khanh' Lie^m. Caro, Ktc 's great entries, I was under a lot of pressure to come up with pictures for the theme. I kept walking around many blocks at lunch time, looking up, down, left and right, and saw a lot of reflections and clouds (as you know by now :-)), but nothing for Anachronism.
Finally, I noticed this old wine press displayed in the window of this fancy liquor store on my way to work. So I went back at lunch time and kept trying to take a clear snapshot of it. I must have spent half an hour "loay hoay mai~ kho^ng xong". There was a lot of police keeping security in the area due to the visits of president Obama and other big shots for the opening of the UN General Assembly this week, so this policewoman standing in front of the store could not help but noticing me, and my strange behavior.
Finally, she said to me, "if I were you, I would go in and ask the store owner to let me take a picture of the thing from inside the store. He does not have a lot of business today so he may not mind. There is a lot of glares and you won't be able to avoid them. Don't be shy! you will be standing a long time here, trying to take a good picture of it..."
Well I did not follow her advice, because I did not dare to go in and ask the owner (so*. bi. mang' la\ "vo^ dzuye^n, ngu*o*i\ ta ddang e^' hang\ ma\ con\ hoi? chuye^n. vo*' va^n?")  but I did take my last picture and left quickly, before she had the chance to tell me to get moving.  
So here it is, my first entry for Anachronism

And finally I found some photos from my files for my second entry and my third one, which I hope fit into the theme:
-ads for an exhibition of the Chinese terra cotta soldiers in Montreal which I made into a collage.-an old building from Brussels with a Coca Cola ad.

have a wonderful weekend
from Be^n Bo*\ So^ng
MC

[MC74 and Friends] My last entry for reflections

Dear PNEH friends,

  As we had a heat wave in the bay area at the beginning of this week, I 

headed for the beach and while at the Santa Cruz boardwalk looking for

anachronical characters :-) I caught this reflection in the window of 

some of my favorite summer things ... the beach and the ocean, palm trees,

against some blue/white stripes, skate boards, a Panama hat :-)  Summer

is officially over or is it?  

Cheers,

BT

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Dear 2 ba chu blog, fellow PNEH, painters, poets, Mr. Kiu, and Forum Friends,

TGIF !  And thank God for the first day of fall in the northern hemisphere.  The hottest recorded summer in Texas (and for a large part of the US) has finally come to an end, although the drought still persists wreaking havoc and long term damages to our land, people, flora and fauna. 

I did find a very dusty and old camera in my son’s closet and thought of the current PNEH theme.  I can’t imagine taking pictures nowadays with this old camera with a roll of film of only 24 exposures, wait a day for the development to discover that possibly none of the pictures are any good, and then how to post the pictures on the blog? Picasa? Make a diaporama? Or even email them? And God forbid, photoshop them… J

Such anachronism and contrast with today’s instant gratification needs !

Enjoy your weekend !

Ktc

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Hello MC, Tuan, TNS, KL, TH and friends

I have enjoyed viewing your different interpretations of the Anachronism theme, well done!

Have been traveling in Europe and in meetings all day, so I did not have the chance to walk around to scout for anachronism subjects, but I hope that these photos taken the last couple of days, walking to dinner in Cannes would blend in the theme!!!

The first picture is of this season show window of Louis Vuitton on La Croisette featuring a vintage style dress against a background of little retro chambermaids...

The 2nd picture is oil portraits of Brigitte Bardot and Mick Jagger in their heyday by a street artist

The third taken last night is of a facade with a quaint trompe l'oeil painting of an old building with its inhabitants...

Cheers
Caro

[MC74 and Friends] my third entry for REFLECTIONS -Ma^y lang thang

My dear twin BiTi, fellows PNEH, painters, poets, Mr. Kiu, and Forum friends,
My third contribution to the theme, also for cloud lovers, with the title borrowed from Quang's comment on my first photo for REFLECTIONS:-)

Hinh\ chup ma^y bay tre^n Đu*o*ng\ so^' Mo^t., 19 thang' 9 - 2011
Ma^y lang thang
Đe^m ta mo* tha^y' mi\nh la` ma^y trắng
Đua` vo*i' nắng va\ng, anh' trang xanh.
Ngắm nhu*~ng ru*ng\ sa^u va\ con suo^i',
Ro^i\ lang thang bay khắp nhu*~ng đinh? đo^i\.
Ta  theo gio' rong ruo^i? khoang? tro*i\ cao,
Va\ soi bong' tre^n nhu*~ng la^u\ hu* ao?.Cho*t. tinh? mo^.ng, ngo* ngac' đa^u cha^n tu*o*ng' ?
Ta hay ma^y, cu~ng chi? la\ vo^ thu*o*ng\.

MC


 
   

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Dear Tuan & TNS,  your Anachronism theme photo entries are very interesting !!!!

 

Dear MC, BT, BL, Mr Kiu, Hien Lan, B Diep  & all Romantic PNEH friends:

Here are my photos entries for this week theme "Anachronism"....

 

the fist photo was taken @ the old mission of Alhambra in East Los Angeles area

Walking arount this mission, I had the feeling that this mission was inhabited by so many layers, so many ghosts

from many eras combined with the present surrounding areas,

@ the back door laid  the old graveyard decorated with "cold & scary" ancient curving iron forms...

  ( I always get the feel for the different kinds of architecture and the different eras while visiting old, ancient or

historical cities... Don't you? ) 

 

the second photo was @ the renaissance fair in Los Angeles area where I took my kids to sample the foods,

watching old Shakespeare plays & having fun,

it's pretty interesting to listen to people talking with the old English accent all around us...

you could click here to find out about the fair:

http://www.renfair.com/socal/photosvideos/slideshows.asp

 

Enjoy the rest of the week,

Cheers from Liem

 

"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories"

Andy Goldsworthy"

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Cher(e)s  2 ba`chu ?  blog et ami(e)s PNEH ,

Ma petite contribution au theme  ANACHRONISM :

En premier , des lampes à petrole qui existent encore dans les campagnes

En deuxieme , ma toute premiere machine à coudre , bien plus efficace que les machines electroniques de nos jours J . De temps en temps il suffit de la huiler un peu à l’aide du petit entonnoir et elle cha.y phon phon .

Amities,

THg

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Are they from Mars or was that day Valentine's Day?

Illusive anachronism.

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Dear friends and PNEH

Some pictures of an earlier innocent time

Tuan