Taking Life Around Me: #CFFC and #lens-artist Challenges

I'm double dipping today with a few challenges that I think can work well together. 

Dan over at No Facilities Challenge for #CFFC is street views; narrow streets, alleys, laneways. Patti at Pilot Fish Blog is asking us to look for Geometry in photo opportunities. 

I'm not sure our weather here in the PNW is going to cooperate so I'm probably going to hit my archives. Plus, my daughter has been high jacking my camera to take photos of the HS sports games Now, as I was putting my images up for Dans prompts, while they did have "geometric aspects" to them, I wanted to go for something else, so I put those at the end of the post. 

This little alleyway in Canada (I can't remember the town) opened to shops, wine tasting rooms and maybe a restaurant or two. It is also filled with some fun geometric shapes, from the umbrellas, windows, brick and the cylindrical plants. There's a little bit of everything. I just loved this spot. 

A very narrow alley in Bar Harbor, Maine that the shop owners used to their advantage.

Many of the Italian villages/towns we visited had narrow walkways, roads and alleys. I wish I had taken some pictures as we drove but I feel like I was white knuckling it. 

There were many of these little side streets for walking only in Como. We enjoyed just meandering through the area.

I loved these areas in Venice...homes on either side...I would've LOVED to have gotten a peek in one. Such a pretty area. 

The shops in Bellagio had us walking up hillsides but it was just so pretty. 

A narrow street in Bern, Switzerland.

This side road in Montpelier also had some fun shapes painted on it. 

Above and below, geometry in Bridgework over the Colorado River in Marble Canyon, Arizona. 

While in Arizona, we visited the Desert View Watchtower. Unfortunately it was a rainy, overly foggy morning and there was no view to be had. There was also thunder and lightning. However, we did go inside and walk around. we got lucky because after we had gone up to the top, they had to close it for awhile due to water on the floor and they didn't want people to slip. 

The newly remodeled Portland, Oregon airport has no lack of shapes. I think I could spend hours just walking around observing everything. I probably would if I didn't have to go through TSA to get to different areas. 

I never find whole sand dollars, but on this particular trip to the beach (Seaside, Oregon), I found 5. I was so excited. 

Finally, looking out the duck blind at the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge.

Okay, I'm adding one more. Dan shared a photo of Seattles Gum wall, and it reminded me I had one as well. We were in the area for a soccer tournament (and I grew up about 40ish minutes east of Seattle) and had stopped there. I'm thinking this was 2014.

With Joy Unquenchable,

Kirstin