Friday, May 1, 2026

Alphabet Challenge

Over on Bluesky Sheena, a Glaswegian living in Northern Ireland, curates a weekly photographic challenge.

I have been participating in these challenges for a couple of months It gives me an opportunity to dig into my rather large snapshot archive and share a few images related to the weekly theme related to a letter of the alphabet.

This is the current theme announcement from Sheena.

‪"🆂🅷🅴🅴🅽🅰‬ ‪@sheena-mck.bsky.social‬· 4d
Attention Alphabetters!

This is your reminder that Mon 27 Apr is the start of Week Q and the theme for the #AlphabetChallenge is Queens. Pics of real queens, places named after queens, any kind of queens. Be creative and cut me some slack-it’s Q😂"

I just got to thinking that this blog would provide an extra outlet for the digging I do to find my images for the challenge. When I remember and if the theme resonates with me, I'll also add my weekly pics here. Some weeks there will be slim pickings when my creativity is similarly slim.

Here goes with a few #WeekQforQueens images from this week's challenge.

QEII in a souvenir shop in Berlin in 2012

Victoria loved Osborn House on The Isle of Wight

Exterior of Queen Victoria Building in Sydney

Interior of Queen Victoria Building, Sydney

Found in my handkerchief drawer

Queen Victoria gets around. Here she is sitting above
the door to the old GPO in Sydney

A Plate fit for a Queen - Osborn House

Queen Victoria in Belfast, Ireland

Queen Victoria in Liverpool, England

On my keyring - souvenir of QEII's Coronation Festival
 at 
Buckingham Palace in 2013

Entrance to Queen Street Mall - Brisbane, Australia


How about joining me on Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/geniaus.bsky.social

Blogging from A to Z 2026 - Island Hopping Posts

I am pleased to report that I completed the 2026 challenge on time. 

If you scroll down the page you will find a list of links to my 26 posts in the 2026 challenge. I enjoyed the opportunity the Challenge gave me to reminisce on our travels and relate some of the Happy, Hairy and Humorous moments we shared.

My challenge was Island Hopping


As I travel the world I take many photos that pique my interest. During the year April 2025 to March 2026 our travels included visits to many islands large and small. My theme for 2026 Island Hopping will give precedence to Islands visited in the past year but for those difficult letters like X and Z I will dig into my photo archives for content.

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