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Get up close and personal with the entries in
A Word in your Ear’s Word A Week Photo Challenge - Face.
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Get up close and personal with the entries in
A Word in your Ear’s Word A Week Photo Challenge - Face.
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Climb to the top with the entries in
A Word in your Ear’s Word A Week Photo Challenge - Mountain.
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Celebrate the new equinox in the entries of
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Season of Spring.
Talk not to me of Tipsy Cake
Tantric Tiramisu on a Table
Tart Twisted Tagliatelle
Tasty Toddies when you’re able
Taunt me not with Tacky Tapas
Tough guy Tamales by the score
Tawdry Teas Temerity
Tired Toast is such a bore
Tempt me not with Torte or Trifle
Tinned Tamarinds no Treat
My True Love is a Truffle
Tender Tiny sweet
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Treat yourself to the entries in Frizztext’s Story Challenge: Letter “T”.

There are two silver bowls that sit on our desk: one that holds that day’s rings and earrings so we won’t be searching like a wild woman for them in the morning and another that holds various small bits in need of repair, buttons waiting to be sewn back on and unthrowawayables on their way to a project. Ioanna at life portOfolio wrote unabashedly about her box filled with “unnecessary things”, our neighbour has a garage filled with questionable objects unceremoniously dumped on her by down-sizing relatives, some of us even have warehouse space filled with the flotsam and jetsam of good intentions and plans yet come to fruition.
Everyone has an equivalent, whether it is that odd wedding gift stuffed in the back of a cupboard, the weird plant thriving in the midst of a carefully tended garden or the out-of-place addition on the renovator’s house down the street, we all own, know of or have at least seen in passing things that are right at home in this fortnight’s Two Cents Tuesday Challenge theme, stuff that is – Random.
Last week, Across the Bored inquired “How does random look to you?” – A mess on the floor, wildly painted door, clouds in the sky or the reflection in her eyes, an arrangement of fruit or toe of a boot… We would love to see your vision.
For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, some great entries and the guidelines for this fortnight’s challenge can be found here. Need more info or want to browse past themes? Have a look at HOW DOES THIS WORK.

Shot with the iPhone 5 native camera, no edits
for iPhoneography Monday: Macro.
Have a look at Frames & Focus, Lens and Pens by Sally and Watching the Photo Reels to see the originators of this challenge and their interpretation of the theme. You may also join the challenge by clicking here.

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Park yourself on the sand in the entries at Where’s my backpack?’s
Travel Theme: Beaches.
Sammy was a Sneak thief
Sailed Seven Seas all blue
Sought Sanctuary in the arms
of Stellar Sanguine Sue
This Svelte and Spartan Sceptic
held Swords and Snickersnees
for Safety midst the Snowdrifts Soft
a Sometimes Socrates
So they Sipped Sarsparilla
Savoured love Songs Soulful Spent
Two Spellbound Star-crossed Sweethearts
on a Sunday boat for rent
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Regale in the entries at Frizztext’s Story Challenge: Letter “S”.
Scrapydo and her adorable dog Trompie sent us a lovely bouquet of 3 Awards! What a lovely Spring surprise to brighten our day and remind us how thankful (and honoured) we should be that yes, we have made a connection with other bloggers who read, benefit in some small way, hopefully laugh and even shake their heads in disbelief at our posts, pictures and postulations! So here they are, in no particular order….
The Versatile Blogger Award Rules:
Next up, one we are unfamiliar with:
Awarding the people who live in the moment
The noble who write and capture the best in life
The bold who reminded us what really mattered
Savoring the experience of quality time
A lovely thought to carry forward and The Best Moment Award Rules are quite simple:
And last but not least:
The Sunshine Award Rules:
As these awards were received as a bouquet it seems appropriate that the rules get bundled into a neat little package as well. Below are 7 fun facts about us, 12 questions answered and 15 blogs Across the Bored is nominating for this wonderful trio:
7 things very few people know about Across the Bored:
A mix of 12 questions culled from different Sunshine Award sources:
The bouquet of Awards goes out to:
this man’s journey
Aperture 64
under the skies of arkansas
FrontRangeScribbles
My SweetPaintedDreams
Le Superkikke
mamacormier
the bookshelf gargoyle
West Seventh Freelance
The Day After
MOTION Photography
Richard Sugden Photography
matteringsofmind
Animalcouriers
Vastly Curious
For the many blogs who (understandably) don’t accept accolades although they certainly deserve them, follow, read our posts and leave great comments, we send out an Across the Bored Virtual Award – Thank you everyone!

In this part of the world, the seasons dictate just how far Across the Bored strays from the comforts of home. In winter, when everything is literally snowed in, we have every excuse to hibernate and apply ourselves to tasks close at hand (or keyboard) but once the sun exposes dusty corners and dog nose prints on windows those indoor pursuits are quickly abandoned. A northern climate can be intense in its fluctuations – one week we are parking-wearing warriors the next everyone has stripped down. In this city the joke runs that as soon as the temperature hits 50F (10C) everyone takes their clothes off and the first thing they do is get out and about to see what has changed since last summer.
That’s exactly what we did: one day not to any place in particular and the next to a destination decidedly more tourist-oriented but on both occasions good weather made us like a kid in a candy shop – armed with nothing more cumbersome than a phone camera and a few bucks for a gelato and a cold drink, everything looked vividly different. Excursions should be veritable voyages of discovery, no matter how dull the reason for going out in the first place, no matter how pedestrian, no matter how routine. We just have to open our eyes to opportunity and see things in a different light. The Two Cents Tuesday Challenge throws down the gauntlet to look at your world and find things that are odd, out of context - Random.
“How does random look to you?” – A mess on the floor, wildly painted door, clouds in the sky or the reflection in her eyes, an arrangement of fruit or toe of a boot…
We would love to see your vision.
For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, here are some guidelines for the challenge: HOW DOES THIS WORK?

Shot with the iPhone 5 native camera, edited in Luminar
for iPhoneography Monday: Nature.
Have a look at Frames & Focus, Lens and Pens by Sally and Watching the Photo Reels to see the originators of this challenge and their interpretation of the theme. You may also join the challenge by clicking here.

Let the bright entries catch your eye at
A Word in your Ear’s Word A Week Photo Challenge - Orange.
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Look down into the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above.
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Rico was a Radical
Ran Rules beyond Reproach
Rode Rickshaws in the evening
Roasted Rabbits he would poach
A Rabble-Rouser Rugged
Reptilian in Repose
threw Relentless and Romantic
Ruminations into prose
Like a Rusty Rollercoaster
Rough and Ready from the start
this Reggae Rocking Raconteur
played Russian Roulette with her heart
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Regale in the entries at Frizztext’s Story Challenge: Letter “R”.
Some days we feel three hundred years old but despite that the blog calls out to be nourished, cleaned and maintained, streamlined and downsized when necessary just like so many other things in life. Like us, it has its own peculiar morphing character, one that sometimes pushes the limits and calls into question what it would say but in the end it has the reader, its followers and casual passers-by to thank for sustaining it to this point and beyond. Stay tuned…

Those of us with a penchant for garage, boot and estate sales are more than well aware that the bits and pieces once held dear collected over a lifetime often wind up in the hands of strangers. It is always odd to see things coldly lined up on display, away from the groups of objects they were once a part of and, in a sense, out of context. What kind of voyage have these pieces had over the course of the years and what tales of love and strife, harmony and discord, laughter and tears would they tell us if they could?
These collectables have a monetary value based on age, rarity, curiosity, desirability and provenance but rarely is the sentimental worth taken into account. There can be no price attached to memory. It is only when we ascribe a history to those things that have made up the backgrounds of our lives, why they were important, how they came to us, were created, found, bartered or haggled for, that they become truly interesting to those we would pass them down to, and like this fortnight’s Two Cents Tuesday Challenge theme, a part of our – Heritage.
Last week, Across the Bored asked “How does heritage look to you?” – A stately building on the street, long-lost cousins that you meet, a silver tea pot or favourite recipe, a packet of heirloom seeds or string of coloured beads… We would love to see your vision.
For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, some great entries and the guidelines for this fortnight’s challenge can be found here. Need more info or want to browse past themes? Have a look at HOW DOES THIS WORK.

Shot with the iPhone 5 native camera, edited in WoodCamera, framed in PhotoToaster
for iPhoneography Monday: Nature.
Have a look at Frames & Focus, Lens and Pens by Sally and Watching the Photo Reels to see the originators of this challenge and their interpretation of the theme. You may also join the challenge by clicking here.

Immerse yourself in the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture.
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See what the Sandman has wrought in the entries at
A Word in your Ear’s Word A Week Photo Challenge - Sleep.
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Wondering how God could have got all this into such a short Tale
Davide Capponi - iPhoneography
Everything crafty
A FIELD GUIDE TO GUILT-FREE SHOPPING IN PARIS
Capturing the world one pixel at a time
All abandoned: Chernobyl / Pripyat, Nara Dreamland, Anti-Zombie Fortress, Japanese Sex Museum - and many, many more! Plus: 8 days / 7 nights in North Korea!
a place to play and display my mind, eyes and hands
mostly about Bucharest. about yesterday's traces and today's world * surtout sur bucarest. sur les traces d'hier et le monde d'aujourd'hui
Musings on books from a stony-faced reviewer
a celebration of life
"Great art is horseshit - buy tacos" Charles Bukowski
A blog/webzine about Art, Music and Places based in Sheffield, UK
Inspiration is the key!
Do or do not, There is no try.
My life in photographs.
Fiction and Photographs
Live ... From San Francisco, CA!
devoted to images in nature, both organic and man made
Photo Challenge Blog - Photographs of Portugal taken by my fair hands.
De La Luz Caballero
Stories and Photographs of my travels, Tales of friends, family, animals and my life
Enjoy the good things in life ~ you can always clean tomorrow!
It's easier to let go if you're not holding on.
A career in the Electrical Industry from the Sunshine State to the Golden Gate
Texas A&M University
Because sometimes you just have to let go.
My life in photographs.
Romancing the planet; a love affair with travel.