Travel Theme: Multiples

I loved the whirlwind of color, movement, and imagination stirred up by this week’s travel theme challenge from Ailsa’s Where’s My Backpack: Multiples. There are so many great responses. I’d like to add mine to the chorus. My swarms, rows, and badelynges of multiples are grouped by season and month when I encountered them.

1. Winter 

December: Upside-down jellyfish at the National Aquarium, Baltimore, MD

January: A haze of snow egret feathers at Gatorland, FL

February: Dragons, awaiting their moment in the spotlight at the Lunar New Year Parade, Chinatown, Washington DC

2. Spring: 

March: Early tulips at the Sunday flower market in Groningen, Netherlands

April: Cherry Blossoms over the Frankling Delano Roosevelt memorial in Washington DC

The corridors of El Morro, San Juan, Puerto Rico

3. Summer: 

June: Early lotus blooms at the Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens, Washington DC

July: Work by Peruvian artists at Kaypi Peru 2012, National Museum of the American Indian

August: Dragon’s Blood and its friends at the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum, Old Town Alexandria, VA

4. Fall: 

September: Soon-to-be performers at the Washington DC Turkish Festival 

October: Red Army by Ray Smith at Sculpture Meadow by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kentuck Knob

Rows of tuna, being inspected, at the famous tuna auction, the Tsukiji Market, Tokyo

Thank you, Ailsa, for the chance to relive these good memories. From Ailsa:

“If you would like to join in this week’s travel theme (everyone’s welcome!) here’s what to do:

• Create your own post and title it Travel theme: Multiples
• Include a link to this page in your post so others can find it too
• Get your post in by next Thursday, as the new travel theme comes out on Friday
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