Blog Post #7420: Smile in Monochrome.

Good, Random, Fun.

Smile is today's theme on City Daily Photo. Since almost every person I see these days is wearing a face mask, I had to go back in my archives to find a good smile. I opened a really old photo album and found one of my favorite smiles, that of my mother. 

When I took this photo, I was a teenager. My dad didn't even look up from his reading. He wasn't always this serious, but he was a studious type. He had been an accountant, served in the Navy in logistics / supplies, worked for Veteran's Affairs and then as a statistician for the Census Bureau. I remember as a young child being amazed that he worked with room-size counting machines called computers. My older sister had seen them and was a bit scared of them.

 

Back to the present: We got more snow this morning, turning our yard into a winter wonderland.  I took pictures from various window. These were color shots but snow falling turns things monochromatic.

A few days ago, I photographed one of Front Royal's newest murals. It faces an alley so I took a panoramic shot plus individual shots of sections which I put into a collage below. The panorama may look distorted into a curve, depending on how the browser decides to display it. 

Monday Murals / Mosaic Monday.

The artist decided to paint the long mural as a series of black and white panels, even though the subjects are outdoors in nature. I think he did a wonderful job. The scenes could very well be in the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains. 

Rabbit, Rabbit.  Saying that on the first of the month is said to bring you luck, or as I learned when young, it lets you take someone else's good luck!

I saw this smiling toy rabbit in a shop.