Happily Ever After: 30 Days of Photographs

Today's theme is Happily Ever After. This one was difficult. I had all sorts of ideas, but no subjects. That is, until Saturday night on Prince Arthur Street in Montreal. We can think of fairy tales, or real tales. And this older couple, likely married for many years, walking down the street holding hands. In 80 years from now, I want to be walking down the street hand in hand with my wife.

I suppose they were looking around trying to decide what to do before entering into Cafe Campus for the nights rocking Pop Montreal show. Check out Ziva's Inferno to see who else contributed to today's photo challenge. The photo challenge is winding so don't forget to bookmark www.StubbornFool.com and come back here tomorrow.

Circle: 30 Days of Photographs

The circle of life. Routine and repetition. The clock goes round and round with no change. Time is what we want most. But time is fleeting. 

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” 

 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Time

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Lover: 30 Days of Photographs

Lovers meet. Lovers wed. Jamaica.

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NSEW: 30 Days of Photographs

But which way is the arrow going? NSEW?

One way? One Direction?

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Rising: 30 Days of Photographs

The twin pyramid towers of Montreal's Olympic Village were constructed for the 1976 Montreal Summer Games as a residence for the athletes. Rising up above the Olympic grounds the towers consist of 23 floors and stands at 70.0 metres tall (230 feet). Architect Roger Tallibert designed the buildings consisting of 980 residential suites.

Olympic Village

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Poison: 30 Days of Photographs

What's your poison?

And sometimes I just can't decide

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Carnival: 30 Days of Photographs

Today is day 354 of the 30 day photo challenge. MikeWJ and Ziva threw this challenge together to punish us. It's a little early for April Fool's Day don't you think?! Nonetheless, click on their names to see who else participated. And save the link www.StubbornFool.com and come back here same time tomorrow for another photo from this month's challenge. Today's theme is Carnival. Dig these carnival-like colours of the Chihuly display at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Tolstoy: 30 Days of Photographs

For some reason, today's theme in the 30 days of photographs challenge is Tolstoy. As I aim to read his works in the original published language of Russian, my intention is to study the Russian language. Learning Russian will also help my communication with the in-laws and extended family and friends. Not that they don't speak English, but at gatherings with that side of the family, conversations invariably turn to Russian with me sitting there staring at the wall until my wife starts translating for me.

But then I found this book. Learn Russian in four easy steps. Unfortunately each step takes three years.

Learn Russian

MikeWJ and Ziva threw together this month's photo challenge. Click on their names to see who else participated. And save the link www.StubbornFool.com and come back here same time tomorrow for another photo for this month's challenge.

Frustration: 30 Days of Photographs

Oh dang! I forgot my papers in the trunk of my car. Today's theme in the 30 Day Photo Challenge is frustration.

Downtown Montreal

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Anatomy: 30 Days of Photographs

Your sweet and smiling eyes

Take me to paradise 

It makes me want to cry tears of joy

Whenever I see your sweet and smiling eyes 

(Lyrics - Aaron Neville)

The eyes have it

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Never: 30 Days of Photographs

Today's theme in the 30 Day Photo Challenge is never.
You've been rickrolled.

You've been rickrolled

MikeWJ and Ziva threw together this photo challenge. Click the link to see the rest of the photos contributed to today's photo challenge. And save the link www.StubbornFool.com and come back here same time tomorrow for another photo from this month's challenge.

Always: 30 Days of Photographs

Welcome to Wednesday. Day 18 of the photo challenge. Today's theme is always. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a television show currently in its tenth season and final season. The hilariously quirky show revolves a group of ego-centric friends and business partners who run a pub in Philadelphia. The show was created by, and stars Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day. Rounding out the cast of regulars is Kaitlin Olson and Danny DeVito. The show covers the predicaments the friends get themselves into. Day to day problems are exaggerated by their awkward and warped solutions.

Why, you may ask, do I have a picture of a mustang for today's theme? Well the connection is as follows. Danny DeVito stars in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. He also starred in Taxi, which was about taxi drivers. Taxi drivers drive cars. The picture below is a car. Thanks, and see you tomorrow.

Mustang

MikeWJ and Ziva threw together this month's photo challenge. Click on their names to see who else participated. 

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

My Junk: 30 Days of Photographs

Check out Ziva's Inferno to see who else contributed to today's photo challenge. Today's theme is My Junk. Once a week for the last several weeks I have been cleaning up and putting my junk outside by the curb. And every week I come back and my junk is gone. Someone took my junk. I have filed several police reports but so far no luck finding the culprit. My neighbours have told me that they have seen a truck drive by but they never took down the licence plate number. Save www.StubbornFool.com to your Favourites and come back here tomorrow for the next theme in the Photo Challenge.

My Junk

Biblical: 30 Days of Photographs

We were in Ottawa a few weeks back and went into a store in the ByWard Market. On the display rack was the following doll. A poseable, bendable, Jesus of Nazareth. But what got my attention was the writing in the bottom left hand corner. A warning! A Choking hazard. Not recommend for children under three! Really? Jesus? A choking hazard? I may not be a believer but, come on! I don't think Jesus poses a risk to children. Anyway, today's theme in the photo challenge is biblical. And I may have made a biblical mistake, I hope offending people was not one of them. Check out Ziva's Inferno to see who else contributed to today's photo challenge. And unlike Jesus, I just want you to follow me on Twitter, Google+, or Blogger or Facebook.

Jesus of Nazareth

China: 30 Days of Photographs

Truth or fiction, the story goes that in efforts to reach Asia, European explorers travelled east and sailed across the Atlantic and up the St. Laurence river. Landing on a south eastern section of the island, explorers called the area Lachine (la Chine), French for China, mistakenly thinking they arrived in the far east.

Lachine is a borough within the city of Montreal and on the Island of Montreal.

Check out Ziva's Inferno to see who else contributed to today's photo challenge. Today's theme is China.

Where the Lachine Canal and St Lawrence divide

The Lachine Canal was built so that ships would be able to bypass the rapids on the St. Lawrence without having to trek over land. The canal was the port of entry that linked the Atlantic to the heart of the continent. It was one of the factors that made Montreal the centre of the Canadian manufacturing industry.

NSFW: 30 Days of Photographs

That cat ain't wearing any pants! Today's theme is NSFW.

That cat is nakeds

MikeWJ and Ziva threw together a NSFW party and I was one of the unlucky invitees. Click the link to see the rest of the party-goers and see who else contributed to today's photo challenge. And save the link www.StubbornFool.com and come back here same time tomorrow for another photo from this month's challenge.

Wrong? 30 Days of Photographs

I did not buy this shirt when I was on Nantucket last year. Was I wrong?

There once was a man from Nantucket...

MikeWJ and Ziva threw together this month's photo challenge. Click on their names to see who else participated. And save the link www.StubbornFool.com and come back here same time tomorrow for another photo for this month's challenge.

Tremor? 30 Days of Photographs

A tremor is an earthquake. When there are earthquakes things shake. Shakes are sometimes dangerous but sometimes shakes are made with ice cream. Ice cream is made out of milk. So while today's theme is tremor, I took a picture of milk.

I like chocolate milk tremors, I mean milkshakes. But I will settle for vanilla.

Milk

MikeWJ and Ziva threw together this month's photo challenge. Click on their names to see who else participated. And save the link www.StubbornFool.com and come back here same time tomorrow for another photo for this month's challenge.

Girly: 30 Days of Photographs

Today is day eleven of our 30 Day Photo Challenge and today is seven months after the wedding. There is nothing more girly than the bride's bouquet. And girly is the theme today. 

MikeWJ and Ziva threw together this month's photo challenge. Click on their names to see who else participated. And save the link www.StubbornFool.com and come back here same time tomorrow for another photo for this month's challenge.

Wedding Bouquet

Close Up: 30 Days of Photographs

Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Today is day 10 of the 30 day photo challenge. I am looking forward to day 30 where we can live happily ever after. In the mean time, today's theme is close up. I found this piece in my wife's office. I had to put it back because it wouldn't fit into my trunk.

Close Up

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Disguise: 30 Days of Photographs

Thinking I knew Ziva and MikeWJ, or assuming too much, I misread today's prompt. So, disgusted I was. And you should have seen all the disgusting pictures I took. Or, just go back the previous eight days and you may think it was a month long theme.

Today's theme - as I found out - is disguise. As Alexander Pope said, "Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise." Look below this guise, for a link to see who else posted on today's theme. Am I the only one who thinks there are too many guise around? 

"Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you." -Doug Coupland

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Texture: 30 Days of Photographs

Strange thing happened yesterday. My computer stopped working. No access to internet. But since I auto-published my seventh day theme still went to air. But why, I must ask, if my computer wasn't working, did I have less visitors? Strange coincidence I guess.

Sort of rubs me the wrong way, like a bad texture. (Good segue?) Today, day eight of the ridiculous Photo Challenge and today's theme is texture. Taking a walk yesterday down the mean city streets, I came across some of the textures that make up the city. Here in one place, the gravel, the rocks, the leaves and the shadows.

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Seven: 30 Days of Photographs

I took this picture in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec two weeks ago. Sainte-Anne is an independent city that sits on the western tip of the Island of Montreal, and is considered a suburb of the City of Montreal. 55% of the approximate 5000 residents use English as their first language making it one of the ten or so English speaking communities in the area.

The number of ducks in the photo was a lucky coincidence for today's theme, which is seven. Now that I have all my ducks in a row, on to tomorrow's theme. 

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Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Qc

Two Birds, One Stone: 30 Days of Photographs

We were out of our heads. Six days into the photo challenge and who knows what the aftermath will be. Some girls would not put up with the dirty work. After preparing the food we all had sticky fingers. It was a beggars banquet, not even any goat's head soup. Now on to the photo, I am ready for your comments and live licks. I think this challenge is putting us all through a metamorphosis. Hurry up now, time waits for no one.

Oh ya, today's theme in the Ziva and MikeWJ's 30 Days of Photographs challenge is two birds, one stone.

Bonus to anyone who knows how many of The Rolling Stones album titles I mentioned.

Two birds, one Stone

Mushroom: 30 Days of Photographs

Is it day five of Ziva and MikeWJ's photo challenge, 30 Days of Photographs already? So much concentration on the crazy themes that I forgot to buy groceries. Today's theme is mushroom,and the Ohara household is all out of mushrooms.
Here is the closest thing I could find to mushroom that wouldn't fall under day 14's theme.

I think the mushrooms are behind the Jolly Green Giant. Ho ho ho.

Which reminds me. What did the baby corn say to the mama corn?
Where's popcorn?

Backwards: 30 Days of Photographs

Day Four of Ziva and MikeWJ's photo challenge, 30 Days of Photographs. Today's theme is backwards. No, I mean it is backwards. And with this theme, a picture of me. I almost didn't post it. After all, I couldn't find my hair. Something about me, I used to have hair down to my shoulders. Now I have hair on my shoulders.

Soft: 30 Days of Photographs

A friend of mine once said, we men know very little about women. In fact we know only two things

1. Smell good
2. Soft

Day three of Ziva and MikeWJ's photo challenge, 30 Days of Photographs, I may be soft in the head but I already ran out of steam. And today's theme is soft. As I sat here pondering how to translate soft, from word to photo, I glanced up and spotted the softest thing within my reach.

Soft TP

Illuminate: 30 Days of Photographs

Day two of Ziva and MikeWJ's photo challenge, 30 Days of Photographs. I did not have any ideas for day two's subject. And then a light bulb above my head illuminated. Our main source of illumination would be a  perfect photographic target. Sunset from my balcony set to sepia tones and voila, day two of the challenge is complete.

Sunset

Ice Cream: 30 Days of Photographs

Well, Ziva and MikeWJ are hosting a 30 Days of Photographs challenge. And I decided to participate. Today. This may be the only photograph I post all month. As I previously stated somewhere, I at first misunderstood and thought the 30 item list was for a scavenger hunt. I collected 22 items.

Once I read the fine print, I said I would participate. On some of the days. Or at the very least I will read the list, look at it, ponder. And then go watch television.

Today's theme is ice cream. And anything that starts with ice cream can't be all that bad.

It was a hot day so I combined two of my favourite things ice cream and espresso. Clouds in my coffee, Clouds in my coffee...

Ice cream in my coffee