“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
Christopher Reeve
LAST WEEK’S FABULOUS BLOGGERS
Last week for PPAC #63 “A Day of Mourning,” I had fun responses from all of you. With all the other challenges, even public and street art, I thank all the bloggers who participate in the Photographing Public Art Challenge. Please honor these bloggers with your visits this week.
- EAT, PLAY, LIVE – UTILITY BOX ART
- EAT, PLAY, LIVE – UTILITY BOX #2
- EKLASTIC – SPRINGFIELD MUSICAL MURALS
- GERIATRI’X’ FOTOGALLERY – CANAL OF SNEEK AMAZING FOUNTAIN
- MY CAMERA & I (2) GROUP EFFORT TOTEMS AND A DANDY MURAL
- NATALIE THE EXPLORER BEAUTIFUL SIGHTS OF TRINITY, NEWFOUNDLAND
- ONE MILLION PHOTOGRAPHS – RESTING TOTEMS
- PHILOSOPHY THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY MURAL PAINTS THE STORY OF KRISHNA CRUSHING SNAKES
- PHOTOGRAPHIAS – PANDA MURAL WITH GRAFFITI
- PLAN M – KILKENNY CASTLE STATUES
- SPACE STORIES BY GIFT – DELIGHTFUL TOUR OF MINO, JAPAN
- TRAVELS WITH ALI – ART ALL OVER CLAREMONT, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
- TRAVEL WITH ME – TO PARIS
- WIDE EYED WONDERINGS – AN APRICOT-COLORED LIMB HOLDER TOTEM
- WOOLLY MUSES – MODERN-STYLE FOUNTAIN
IT’S EASY TO PLAY ALONG WITH #PPAC
- There is no weekly theme even though my post has a theme with murals, statues, fountains, scrap art, graffiti, store windows, seasonal displays, car or art shows, artistic construction, or even artistic neighborhood decor. Photograph the public art that is available to you.
- Art should be freely visible from a public street, freeway, or walkway or inside a publicly accessed building like a library. If you pay, it’s not public.
- Photographers should have free access of use for their photos – no copyrights by the artists.
- The challenge starts every Friday at 9:00 a.m. Phoenix Time and it ends on Thursday at noon.
- Write a post on your blog, publish it, and include a link back to my weekly post not my page preferably in a comment. Sometimes pingbacks are missed. See how to create pingbacks here.
- Take time to visit other PPAC participants throughout the week. I recommend visiting at least two or three other participants in the community and leaving them a comment.
- Have fun! Art is to be enjoyed!
For More Ideas about PPAC…
These early-bird participants (posted by Wednesday at noon) might give you some great ideas about something you’ve never thought about as public art or how to photograph it.
YOUR BLOG POST GOES HERE
- EKLASTIC – MEET SOME NON-EGYPTIAN SPHINXES
- GERIATRI’X’ FOTOGALLERY – A WET BULL STANDING STILL GETTING HIS PICTURE TAKEN
- MIDDLETON ROAD – CLEAN TRANSPORTATION MURAL
- MY CAMERA & I (2) – COLORFUL MURALS ALL OVER BALACLAVA, VICTORIA, AU
- NATALIE THE EXPLORER – A TOUR OF HAWTHORNE COTTAGE AND THE TOWN OF BRIGUS
- ONE MILLION PHOTOGRAPHS – BEAUTIFUL TOTEMS WEARING LIPSTICK
- PHILOSOPHY THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY – HOW MUCH CAN YOU UNDERSTAND ABOUT A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE OF SEMI-NUDE WOMEN IN FLOWERS?
- PHOTOGRAPHIAS – FOUNTAIN IN THE CITY OF ÉVORA, PORTUGAL
- PLAN M – CLEERE’S BAR DOOR ART AND A LOVELY CONCERT TO GO WITH IT.
- SPACE STORIES BY GIFT – AN AMAZING PHOTOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO NAGOYA, JAPAN
- STILL RESTLESS JO – DOESN’T LIKE RECOGNITION BUT YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS HER HODGE-PODGE OF BEAUTIFUL MURALS
- WOOLLY MUSES – A BEAUTIFUL TREBLE CLEF
My Choices for PPAC #64 A Day to Celebrate Heroes
Last week the United States honored the fallen heroes and those who lost loved ones on 9-11-2001. Prescott, AZ honors its own heroes, 19 firefighters killed in the Yarnell Fire on 6-30-2013. Vince, Cindy, and I were having a sandwich across the street. In the two years, we lived here, we had never seen this mural before. So Vince and I returned yesterday after my wonderful blogger meetup and I took pictures while he had the car washed. Win-Win!
We were so impressed by the realism in this mural. It looked like part of the surrounding area from a distance especially.
Hero in Meyer, AZ
The Cellar Creekside, where we had our blogger meetup, had these mourning black and blue striped American flags made to honor the fallen hero in the small town of Meyer, AZ. They raised over $3,000 to help out the family as well.
Blogger Meetup
Our AZ Blogger Meetup in Meyer, AZ was the first in the Prescott area, about halfway between Phoenix and Flagstaff. The perfect weather allowed for a tour of the entire Creekside Resort campus. I’ll share more in a later blog post.
Ongoing on Always Write
- On September 6th Story Chat introduced Gary Wilson’s story, “A Daily Regret” Read his great interview-style fiction to find out what could have been so bad as to cause someone to regret it daily.
- Next week will be my last PPAC post for the month of September. PPAC and I will be back in the computer chair on October 14th. I will be traveling to Portland to meet several blogging friends as well as to spend time with my family and some other friends who live there. PPAC will return on October 14th
- Sarah Wilkie of Travel with Me will host PPAC next Friday. Please post on her site instead of mine. I will try to visit as many of your posts as I can. She will be traveling soon after that, too, so may not get to visit you.
- If anyone wants to host PPAC on September 30, please let me know.
- WQW #35: “Seeing Apricot and Other Strange Sightings”
- Upcoming topics for WQW
- September 21: Autumn or Fall – Yvette Prior of Priorhouse Blog will be hosting the week of September 21st.
- September 28: Fire, Writer’s Choice or WOTY – I will be traveling if someone would like to host this week.
- October 5: Fitness Follow-up #3 Make Your Efforts Do Double Duty/ or favorite indoor sports or exercises – I will be hosting a garage sale and combining two households into one this week if someone would like to host WQW.
Now it’s your turn.
I hope you are inspired to find your own unique art as you travel around with your camera this week, or rummage through your archives. Feel free to double dip and support your own favorite challenges along with PPAC.
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
55 responses to “PPAC #64: A Day Celebrating Heroes”
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The first mural fooled me! I thought “what a cute bus! Where could I find some mint buses.” Was the Yarnell fire the largest in Arizona?
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I’m not sure, if Yarnell was the largest fire, but 19 firefighters died fighting it, so it was the largest loss of life. I didn’t live here then, but we still commemorate the 19 every year on the anniversary of the fire by adding 19 next to the P on the hill for Prescott.
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Love you guys.
Love Prescot Hotshots.
Thank you for these lovely clicks.
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I wish I could tell them your greeting. Thank you for sharing your love. 🙂
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Welcome Marsha.
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The murals really are beautiful and look realistic. I love that they even included a reflection on the hood as you pointed out. Always appreciate how public art often honors local history that shouldn’t be forgotten like this.
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Thank you, Gift. Prescott takes a lot of pride in their local history and expresses it in a lot of public art pieces.
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Beautiful murals, Marsha. But I don’t have an entry for the theme.
Here are my public art: https://mywanderings.travel.blog/2022/09/19/balaclava/
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There’s no theme, Teresa. So you’re good yours are always fun.
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Thanks.
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I left you a comment but I couldn’t log in from my phone. I’ll be back. 😍
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A wonderful mural for some very sad history. I am glad you all enjoyed the meetup. Have fun on your trip! 🌞
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Thank you Lisa. We missed you. Hope you can make the next one. They want to come back and see a few museums in Prescott. Do you enjoy museums?
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I do! Sounds like fun! 🌞
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I’ll post more about it when I get time. I take off Wed. for Portland. Terri Webster Schrandt and I are meeting there and meeting up with several bloggers there.
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Great! Have so much fun!! 🌞
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Another fun catch up for you! These murals are gorgeous.
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Thanks, Carol. Yes, this is blogger heaven here in AZ. Wish you were here. You would love it. 🙂
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Totally non-hero related: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2022/09/18/think-sphinx-think-egypt-not/
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Wonderful art you have there. I’m also very impressed with how real they look.
Here is mine:
https://photographias.wordpress.com/2022/09/18/ppac-evora/
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Nice theme this week Marsha
I have a few like this but have posted already!
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You can link up an old post if it fits, and it certainly does. 🙂
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Will have a look!
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https://geriatrixfotogallerie.wordpress.com/2022/09/17/europa-and-the-bull-2/
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That mural is so well done – the vehicles almost seem to be driving out of it! No public art from me this week as I’m catching up on other posts but I’ll have the rest of my Paris finds for you next week 🙂
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Sounds good. I will be traveling next week, though. Do you want to host PPAC? I’ll answer all the comments like I always do, but no time to post.
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I’ll be going away myself immediately after so the timing wouldn’t be great for me to respond to comments and other people’s posts. But if you’re OK to do most of the leg-work on that, especially comments that come in after the weekend (we go away on the Monday) then yes, I could probably act as host 🙂 Do you want to send me an email to discuss??
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Sure.
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Sooner or later it had to happen! A round up of public art when you’re away and probably won’t see it? What the heck! Have a good trip.
https://stillrestlessjo.com/2022/09/17/a-hodge-podge-of-public-art/
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Great post for Public Art! or public transportation as well! 🙂
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The heroes theme was nice today / well done and cheers to memorials like these
Also – love the smiles in the photo of the bloggers from the meetup
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It was a fun time. We had a few cancelations, but life happens. It was still a fabulous time. Great food, a great tour and best of all getting to know each other better.
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🙏☀️
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We are still talking about what a gem Creekside was. Thank you for setting up time and I can’t wait to do it again. We definitely have those museums we want to check out in Prescott, so it will be a great field trip!!
XOOX
Jodie
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I was just telling Yvette what a great time we had. It was so fun getting to know you all better. The last time I got to know Rob but you were a little farther away to chat. Even though the seating wasn’t super close at Creekside, it was so quiet and we had more of a closed conversation without everyone talking at the same time. Different dynamics. All great, but different. Each time we meet it will be a new opportunity. I hope we have many more wonderful times together. Your friend and mother are lovely. Just so much fun! I’m looking forward to the next field trip.
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Great to find a mural commemorating that event, Marsha. Take care, hon!
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You take care, too. Jo. Loved your post. 🙂
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Hi Marsha, Your mural choices for PPAC#64 are beautiful. I look forward to hearing more about your AZ blogger meet-up. Have a great week!
I have a heroic Arctic explorer story to share. Here’s my contribution:
https://natalietheexplorer.home.blog/2022/09/16/hawthorne-cottage-and-brigus/
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Love this.
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