Weekly Header Challenge - Silver and Gold

It's time for the Weekly Header Challenge!

"Headbanger" Participants

Craver VII 

Fishing Guy 

Katney 

Imac 

Lew

I'm joining in the group above for this weekly challenge.

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what they've come up with!

Theme ~ Silver and Gold

Chosen by me.

I'll admit I was thinking ahead to Christmas when I thought up this theme.  And boy, if I look outside right now, it sure looks like Christmas--we got about two inches of snow yesterday!!  Either way, most of the images I've chosen today are also sparkly (I think that was a weekly theme last year).  Here is my header, full image:

Treats at a 50th wedding anniversary.

Two metals--silver and gold--and lots of medals!

Lots of silver and gold in this pool at Boldt Castle, Thousand Islands, New York.

Table silver at Boldt Castle.

My mom's silver servingware at Thanksgiving.

I collect snowflake ornaments for my Christmas tree each year, so here are some glittery silver and gold samples.

And one gold-topped Christmas gift.

Now I'm getting excited about Christmas--not just from sharing these images, but this year we're going to have a Christmas tree!  Yes, it's a little thing, really, but it's rather big with me after the last year we've endured.

Although I'd love to sign off with a Merry Christmas, I really need to say

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

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Place de la Concorde | Paris Travel

Shot with camera lens motion blur; in le Jardin des Tuileries, looking toward place de la Concorde and the Obelisk.

Our Silver Paris

Welcome to my Paris travel journal,

where I share our experiences of our special journey to Paris.

Please use these posts as a guide for your own travels

to this amazing and wonderful city!

Or simply read, and dream...

Yes, it's still the day of our silver anniversary!  We still had many places to visit, and you'll get to read about them all.  After visiting the exterior of le Louvre, we walked through le jardin des Tuileries.  As we walked along the main pathway in le jardin, we spotted the Obelisk in the distance.

Once we got close enough, I zoomed in for a shot of the Obelisk in place de la Concorde.

See those ornate gilded gates?  Those gates are the exit (or entrance!) to le jardin des Tuileries, and we were headed through them and into place de la Concorde.

Here is the Obelisk in the place.

The lamp posts at the exit to le jardin des Tuileries were ornate, to say the least.

The clouds broke, just a bit, and I captured some sunlit shots of the Obelisk.

The place, looking south toward the Seine River.

The Obelisk, which is 3,300 years old, arrived in the 19th century, along with the fountains and statues in the place.

Here's a better view of one of the lamp posts.

Fountain in place de la Concorde.

It's always amazing to stand among so much rich history!  But it was time to move on, across the place and onward toward the final destination of our day.

Looking west down avenue Champs-Élysées.

Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

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