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The prompt for Week 21: My wish that came true

This was a very recent wish: to make it from
Paris to Budapest (where friends were
waiting with tickets to the opera) despite
the Air France pilots' strike.  We had to jump
through a few bureaucratic hoops, but we got there
—and it was spectacular!

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The prompt for Week 19: "Capture a photo of a dog walker"

I encountered this guy walking his dogs in 
Brooklyn's Prospect Park, and my first thought 
was "the Hound of the Baskervilles times 5"!

But then the kids (and my daughter Katie)
came to pet them, and I saw just how sweet
and well-behaved these big pups actually are.

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The prompt for Week 18: "the sign says"

It's pretty clear what this sign says, but
I have to wonder why it doesn't say "OUI"
instead—because this sign is in Paris ...

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The prompt for Week 17: recycled/repurposed

Part of a big El Anatsui exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
last year, this is called "Drainpipe" and was specifically
tailored to the space it occupied (as it is wherever
it's installed).  These are tin-can lids strung
together with copper wire. (There was another huge
work there that Anatsui made using bottle caps.)
Beats adding at all to the landfill, doesn't it?

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The prompt for Week 16: somewhere you visited

This is Quito, Ecuador—my daughter Katie
and I overnighted here on our way
to and from the Galapagos.
Lovely city, great food, but the altitude
takes its toll: At 9,350 feet, you get
only 60% of the oxygen you'd breathe in
at sea level (where I live).  My legs felt like
they each weighed about 50 pounds!

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The prompt for Week 15: street corner

Well, this is the Venice version.
There are no traffic lights, of course—so where
there's a blind corner, they mount a mirror.
(I'm sure it happens sometimes,
but I've never seen a boat accident here.)

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The prompt for Week 14: "stairs"

My favorite time of year in my Brooklyn brownstone
neighborhood is probably spring—specifically, those few
weeks when the flowering trees burst into bloom—
then leave their blossoms absolutely everywhere.

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