My One Photo A Day Challenge Continues
I Double Dog Dare You to Take a Photo a Day and Observe the Things Around You That You See or Don’t See Every Day
You Will Be Surprised at What You Will Discover
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I encourage you to take up this challenge and begin to take a photo each day. Observe the sights around you and you will be surprised at what you will discover.
Since I can’t stop at just one photo a day, I have compiled a selection of the photos I have taken in the past few days. Most are taken from my neighborhood walks. Below is a photo showing a view of Park Street. It is quite a long street and good for a nice long walk.
When I take a photo of something I have observed, I feel like I have discovered something new. I enjoy seeing patterns in nature and discovering unexpected “found” items as I walk down the street. This photo is a view from the sidewalk from where I begin my walk.
I have walked past this example of humans making a permanent mark of their existence many times without ever paying attention to it until this week. Look closely and you will see handprints that must have been made by a child and possibly an adult when the concrete sidewalk was still wet.
Whose handprints are these and how long they have been there? My street is a historical street in Greenville, Texas and the houses on this street date were built from the early 1900s up to the 1960s. Some may be older than that. These handprints must have been created early in the history of this street. There must be a personal story here and I wonder what it is.
This house’s style appears to be from the 1920s to 1930s. It is pink stucco. The best feature of this photo is that one of the inhabitants is resting on the steps. Houses have stories, too. I can imagine parties held at this house in the 1920s with flappers doing the Charleston. I…
