“Raif Badawi was flogged in public 50 times in January. He has 950 lashes and nearly a decade in prison left to serve – simply for blogging about free speech. Raif is still due to be publicly flogged 50 times every week after Friday prayers until he has been lashed 1,000 times. Ask Saudi authorities to halt the barbaric punishment and to free this prisoner of … Continue reading In a Crisis: Raif Badawi needs all the help he can get!
Light Bowing in the Dark! Here’s my first contribution to this week’s challenge Other contributions to Contrasts ! ♦♦♦ If you love art of any kind, you might love the new monthly feature on Khana’s Web. Click HERE to read the first post. Click on the Logo below to find out more … … & click HERE to view my latest Works of Art! Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrasts – Archery
The Neon Family – Posing Contrasts! Other contributions to Contrasts ! ♦♦♦ If you love art of any kind, you might love the new monthly feature on Khana’s Web. Click HERE to read the first post. Click on the Logo below to find out more … … & click HERE to view my latest Works of Art! Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrasts – Neo
Solstice Greetings 2014! My First Contribution to this week’s challenge. My Second Contribution to this week’s challenge. Other contributions Between these words! Bloggers Set For Solstice ♦♦♦ If you love art of any kind, you might love the new monthly feature on Khana’s Web. Click HERE to read the first post. Click on the Logo below to find out more … … & click HERE to … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Between #3
Tristram’s Starling! My First Contribution to this week’s challenge Other contributions Between these words! ♦♦♦ If you love art of any kind, you might love the new monthly feature on Khana’s Web. Click HERE to read the first post. Click on the Logo below to find out more … … & click HERE to view my latest Works of Art! Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Between #2
Doormats! Between ♦♦♦ If you love art of any kind, you might love the new monthly feature on Khana’s Web. Click HERE to read the first post. Click on the Logo below to find out more … … & click HERE to view my latest Works of Art! Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Between
When we visited the Jezzar Pasha mosque, in Akko, recently we were surprised to find a little extra visitor there. This friendly little guy adopted us upon arrival & escorted us throughout our entire visit. He managed to get into just about every photo we took. Extra, Extra If you love art of any kind, you might love the new monthly feature on Khana’s Web. Click … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Extra, Extra
Here’s my second contribution for this week’s challenge … Split-Second Story ♦♦♦ ARTZINE – Launched Today!!! ♦♦♦ If you love art of any kind, you might love the new monthly feature on Khana’s Web. Click HERE to read the first post. Click on the Logo below to find out more … … & click HERE to view my latest Works of Art! Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Split-Second Story #2
If you could make a 15 second speech to the entire world, what would you say? Instead of Judging Others, Examine Yourselves. You are each a unique and beautiful element of life on this planet. Discover yourselves and become good at being who you are. The lives of other’s are not your concern, they must find their own way. Love, Trust and Respect Each Other, and Create a … Continue reading Share Your World – 2014 Week 21
For those of you who’ve seen this before I apologize, but it’s so perfect for this week’s challenge I just had to post it again … Split-Second Story ♦♦♦ ARTZINE – Launched Today!!! ♦♦♦ If you love art of any kind, you might love the new monthly feature on Khana’s Web. Click HERE to read the first post. Click on the Logo below to find … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Split-Second Story
Welcome To “ARTZINE” Today is launch day of my blog’s new feature “ARTZINE” “ARTZINE” is a monthly art feature, where I will be sharing my experiences, thoughts and feelings regarding art. I want to raise some age-old questions, that continue to be asked by each generation as the face of art changes, and look at the new ways in which art is manifesting today. To find … Continue reading ARTZINE: Launch Day – Haifa Museum & The Chicago Triangle
I thought I’d hand over to Mother Nature for this one ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ If you love art of any kind, you might love the new monthly feature on Khana’s Web. Click on the Logo below to find out more … … & click here to view my latest Works of Art! Work of Art Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Work of Art
Introducing “ARTZINE” I will soon be launching , my blog’s new feature “ARTZINE”. “ARTZINE” is a monthly art feature, where I will be sharing my experiences, thoughts and feelings regarding art. I want to raise some age-old questions, that continue to be asked by each generation as the face of art changes, and look at the new ways in which art is manifesting today. I hope to kick-off some vigorous … Continue reading No Apologies: ARTZINE – Coming To A Blog Near You – SOON!
What object do you always have with you when traveling and why? Long distance it would be my laptop. I would be lost without it. It’s my workplace & my window to the world. Short distance it would be a book. I love reading & pass my time on buses & trains stuck in a book. Of course my camera is like a body part so … Continue reading Share Your World – 2014 Week 18
My favourite daily ritual is firing up Photoshop & getting started on my latest creation. I take my camera wherever I go & shoot, mercilessly, in all directions. When I get home I upload my new treasures to my laptop & check for useful elements. I thought I’d share a few of those elements today & who knows, you may see them again sometime as part of … Continue reading Just Another Day: Shoot
Spring can have a strange effect on people & animals alike. I snapped these two having a brief encounter … Who’s this here then? Hmm! She looks interesting. Let’s just have a quick sniff. Ugh! There’s something not quite right about her. I’m just waiting for the right guy. Spring Continue reading Spring: Brief Encounter – The Bunny & The cat
Here are my somewhat late answers to this weeks questions … What are some words that just make you smile? Boobs, Buttocks, Cardinal Fang, Venezuelan Beaver’s Cheese, Babushka, Shindig. When you lose electricity in a storm, do you light the candles or turn on the flashlight? How many of each do you own? Generally I reach for the candles I can’t remember losing the electricity … Continue reading Share Your World – 2014 Week 17
The Golden Arches in Israel – McDonald’s reads left to right in English & right to left in Hebrew … I shot this on the entrance to the underground, funicular railway in Haifa … I shot this from the bus, on the way to work, near Kfar Yona one day … I shot this in the Masjid al-Jazzar in Akko … Letters Continue reading Letters
Give Peace a Chance! We’ll be there when it happens. Picture courtesy of Haaretz Arab and Jewish musicians planning concert for peace. Continue reading Arab and Jewish musicians planning concert for peace
Share Your World – 2014 Week 15 For your blog do you basically use Windows or Mac, laptop, desktop, pad, or phone? I use a laptop & I use it standing. I hijacked the ‘breakfast bar’, which is perfect both in position & height. It allows me more freedom of movement & encourages me to stretch & move while working. I am also free to … Continue reading Share Your World – 2014 Weeks 15
This monument marks The Acre Prison Break in, what was then, the British Mandate of Palestine On April 19, 1947, four members of a Jewish underground group called “Irgun”, who had been captured by the British, were hanged in Acre Prison. On May 4, 1947, the Irgun broke through the walls of Acre Prison & freed 28 members of their group & another group. 214 Arab prisoners … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Monument
To read more contributions or join the fun check out … Cee’s Photography If you had to describe your day as a traffic sign, what would it be? It’s got to be the exclamation mark ‘ ! ‘, because I’m constantly astounded by everything that happens. Not just in my life but all over the world. Is your hair short (total neck and ear showing), … Continue reading Share Your World – 2014 Week 14
Fifty A journey from A to Z , via E, I, O & U. A journey from 1 to 50, via 5, 10, 55 & 275. One Poem Five Vowels, Five Verses Ten Words per Verse, Ten Lengths per Verse, Fifty-Five Letters per Verse Two Hundred & Seventy-Five Letters Fifty Words Fifty Continue reading Fifty: AEIOU
My eldest grandson, about to cross the ultimate threshold … See my first contribution here … Threshold #1 See my second contribution here …Threshold #2 See everyone else’s contributions here …Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold #3
Three small thresholds in Jerusalem … See my first contribution here …Threshold #1 See my third contribution here … Threshold #3 See everyone else’s contributions here …Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold #2
See my second contribution here …Threshold #2 See my third contribution here … Threshold #3 See everyone else’s contributions here …Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold
Here are my Insides for this weeks challenge … …He’s still alive … honestly … … No I didn’t give him anything from this cabinet … … Still I might just make my getaway on this bus… … I wouldn’t want to end up … Inside 🙂 Other Blogger’s Insides here … Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London | Janaline’s world journey … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside
I saw this nice little shed … … in a very strange place … … I guess there’s not a lot of space for gardens in Jerusalem! 🙂 Perspective Other Bloggers Perspectives … Perspectives in Paradise | It’s Snow Fun Without You | SimplySage Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective | Purple Rosemary Perspective | Comments from Cathy Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective | Photoblog Not what it … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective
Civilization Moon-Gazing Cat by Khana Spector is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available upon request. We Built This City More contributions here … Alien on the fence | The Bliss of Reality Dubai World Trade Center Wedding: Amal & Mahmood | Rima Hassan Street lamp hiding in the trees | The Bliss … Continue reading We Built This City: Civilization – Cat City
Time After Time Continue reading Time After Time: Ritual
Cee’s Photography Would you prefer a reading nook or an art, craft, photography studio? Well, I already use the whole world as my reading nook, so I’d definitely go with the art, craft, photography studio. I always have several projects on the go at once, & a studio would give me so much freedom. I could make as much mess as I wanted, without having to … Continue reading Share Your World – 2014 Week 9
Abandoned More Abandoned Bloggers here … Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned | Journeyman Weekly. Photo Challenge: Abandoned | Journeyman Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned | Stephen Chapman Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned | Ese’ s Voice My.Vivid.Visions | Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned Photo Friday: Rhyolite Ghost Town (Nevada) | JGTravels My.Vivid.Visions | Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned Haveli Weekly Photo Challenge – Abondoned | Chittle Chattle New York Abandoned … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned
I went for the reversed story: Detail, Relationship, Establishing Shot. Three sheep … … grazing together … … on an island in the middle of a huge intercity interchange!!! 🙂 Unfortunately, shot through the window of a moving bus, the quality of these photos was compromised. Threes Some more Threes here … Weekly Photo Challenge: Threes | A mom’s blog Weekly Photo Challenge: Three -Mount Fuji | … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Threes
There has been a settlement of some kind at Farningham since at least the stone age. There is also a lot of evidence of settlements from the bronze & iron ages. The Romans liked it there so much they built villas all over the valley. The image in these signs is taken from the Bayeux Tapestry & is of Wadard. He was the commandeer of … Continue reading Cee’s Which Way Challenge #4
Find out more about ‘Share Your World’ here … Cee’s Photography What is your favorite couch potato activity: reading, watching movies, watching sports, napping, anything on TV, computer games, play cards, or other? At the end of a working day & after all our post-class chores are complete, we like to settle down on the sofa for a good movie or documentary, with some nibbles & maybe … Continue reading Share Your World – 2014 Week 7
I saw these guys just hanging around & couldn’t resist taking a few shots. I think they might be from different classes, or even different planets lol 🙂 West End Girls More Society Bloggers here … Well Said & Done! | Rima Hassan Recycle | Perspectives on life, universe and everything An ad campaign 🙂 | Perspectives on life, universe and everything Bogota Dame | Perspectives … Continue reading West End Girls: Middle East Boys?
Share Your World – 2014 Week 6 Find out more & read other contributions here … Cee’s Photography Have you watched or plan to watch any of the 2014 Winter Olympics? I don’t have a TV, so no. What is your favorite winter Olympic event? Would you ever want to be an expert in that sport? My favourite event in the overall Olympics is the … Continue reading Share Your World – 2014 Week 6
I found a new ladies today & just couldn’t resist another contribution … Taken in the ladies loo Mercaz HaCarmel, Haifa Selfie See more Selfies here … Daily Prompt: Selfie with Mr. Ataturk | Advocacine’s Blog Weekly Photo Challenge; Selfie | Nurul NOE The Good, The Bad and The Selfie | Overcoming Bloglessness Weekly Photo Challenge: Selfie | Social Williams Weekly Photo Challenge – “Selfies” … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Selfie 2
These have all been posted before in one form or another, but for anyone who hasn’t seen them here they are again … Taken in the ladies loo at Hof HaCarmel (Carmel Beach) bus station. Taken in the ladies loo in an Irish pub in Haifa called HaOgen (The Anchor). Taken in MadaTech, Haifa.. Taken in MadaTech , Haifa. Taken one sunny afternoon in Kfar … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Selfie
Better Late Than Never, here’s my first 3 Which Way contributions … To join in pop over to … Cee’s Photography Continue reading Cee’s Which Way Challenge: 2014 #1, #2 & #3
Isn’t Your Face Red More Red Faces here … The Cell Phone at Crystal Lake (short fiction) | The Jittery Goat Red Christmas | muffinscout Ignored | Perspectives on life, universe and everything Song of the fallen | Perspectives on life, universe and everything An Angel’s envy | Perspectives on life, universe and everything DP Daily Prompt: Isn’t Your Face Red | Sabethville Daily Prompt: … Continue reading Isn’t Your Face Red: Red Cow Ruin
My second contribution to this weeks challenge … … a different take on the word “object” … Some people object because they weren’t ready! Some people just object to having their photo taken! Some people object even when they aren’t the subject! Object See more objects here … WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: OBJECT | Words We Women Write White Bird | Leona J. Atkinson-Inspirational Writer My.Vivid.Visions … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Object 2
Object More objects here … A view with a flower.. | A Journey Called Life … Weekly Photo Challenge: Object | PonderTheIrrelevant WordPress challenge – Object | Tvor Travels Weekly Photo Challenge: Object, Or: Anchors Aweigh | Polymathically Weekly Photo Challenge: Object | Diary of Dennis :: WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Object | Belo Horizonte daily photo Weekly Photo Challenge: Object, Or: The Midnight Reverie … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Object
I was at the beach, lounging on my towel, when a glistening object at the water’s edge caught my eye. It was a bottle — and yes, it contained a message in a bright red envelope … What did it say? Kung Hei Fat Choi! of course & with it was a pic that had got a bit watery … Happy New Year to anyone that hasn’t … Continue reading SOS: A Watery Pic
My second contribution to this weeks challenge … Juxtaposition More Juxtaposition here … Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition | Taking a Deep Breath Juxtaposition | Life in the Foothills Juxtaposition | @vannilla Weekly Photo Challenge : juxtaposition | Mon beau manoir Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition & Lingering Look at Windows | wordsvisual Photo Challenge: Juxtaposed Bus Lines and Bustlines | DCMontreal: Blowing the Whistle on Society … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition 2
It’s January 26. Write a post in which the number 26 plays a role. In most of the ancient Semitic languages each letter also has a numerical value. This means that each word has it’s own numerical value formed by adding together the values of it’s letters. The study of the meanings of words as defined by their values is known as Gematria. The sacred … Continue reading Your Days are Numbered: The sacred & unutterable name of God
Juxtaposition See more Juxtapositions here … Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition | Taking a Deep Breath Juxtaposition | Life in the Foothills Juxtaposition | @vannilla Weekly Photo Challenge : juxtaposition | Mon beau manoir Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition & Lingering Look at Windows | wordsvisual Photo Challenge: Juxtaposed Bus Lines and Bustlines | DCMontreal: Blowing the Whistle on Society Weekly Photo Challenge 2014: JUXTAPOSITION | girltuesday … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition
Okay, this picture is hilarious for many reasons but it really does reflect the real me! Of course with that little pink wristband you could be forgiven for thinking I’d just escaped from the local sanitarium. 🙂 Now this one totally sums up my relationship with my husband … … I’m always obsessing about some new project or other & he’s always being patient & … Continue reading Mirror, Mirror:rorriM ,rorriM
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