Today’s Photo Friday is entitled: Reflections – chosen by  Author

(in lakes, rivers, puddles, ponds or even windows etc.)

Follow the links below for other entries (I will add the links as the entries come in!):

Melanie’s entry

Iveys’s Weblog

Lou’s (very scary!!!)

Tall Chick’s

CuriousC’s

Julie’s

This week’s choice is really self indulgent for me because I just LOVE taking photos of reflections. I’m not sure why, but they just look so aesthetic to me. Today I am submitting a number of pics I took in New York of the city scape reflected in buildings – and also an adorable pic of my beautiful much loved grandson reflected in a rather unusual sculpture.

Isn't he just the cutest little boy?

 Written on the sculpture is a riddle translated from Anglo Saxon, Circa 975. If you are interested  you can read more about it here.

“I saw a creature: his stomach stuck out behind him,
enormously swollen. A strong servant
waited upon him. What filled up his stomach
had traveled from far, and flew through his eye.
He does not always die in giving life
to others, but new strength revives
in the pit of his stomach; he breathes again.
He fathers a son; he’s his own father”

~

Scroll to the bottom of this post for the answer to the riddle!

Photo Friday: Reflections - NYC

I love this pic - I tried to complete the building in the reflection!

NYC

 The photo below is very special to me. It is the photo I took to put on our wedding invitations and notifications (I made them myself) since our wedding celebration meal was held at The Russian Tea Rooms, NYC. I took the photo way back in 1994 and had to scan it into the computer as it is non digital – so it has lost clarity and colour. It’s still special to me though – even if poorly represented her. I have a large framed blow up of this pic – and you’ll have to take my word for the fact that the original version looks stunning!

The Russian Tea Rooms - no longer there! P and I held our wedding celebration meal here after marrying at the church on 5th Avenue.

 The last photo was taken by P – I’m in the centre, with two dear friends. N is a pilot and we were all flying to visit some interesting caves in Virginia, USA. There was a terrible thumderstorm and we were grounded for a while at the smallest tin shack of an airport you can imagine!!! I love the reflection of the plane in the rain soaked tarmac.

(Left to right) J, Me and N - taken by P

Photo Friday Advance Diary:

15th August: Tina’s choice – Wildlife

22nd August: Julie’s choice - “Hat Day” (a picture of someone’s hat, that’s funny, pretty, or a self-portrait of us wearing our favorite or funny hat)

29th August: Mrs Nascar’s choice – Old cars (any interesting old cars from rusty scrapheap cars with a bird’s nest under the bonnet, to fabulous vintage or racing cars)

5th September: Author’s choice – Stained Glass Windows (or doors or panels – from cathedrals, churches or any other type of building)

Answer to the riddle: A Bellows