Oddity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. What one person rejects as lunacy, another reveres as truth.

Philip gulley
Sunrise over Lake Tahoe

I had to start with a sunrise to celebrate the start of a brand new squares, but I can hear many of you cry ‘what is odd about this?’!

Well, this wasn’t a normal sunrise, just look at the colours given height of the sun. Usually by this time after dawn the colours are fading, but not on this day. This was a sunrise affected by the smoke from the enormous Rim Fire 180 miles away in Yosemite. At times during our visit in 2013 the smoke was swirling around us at Tahoe, affecting the views and creating breathing difficulties for some of my family. Lake Tahoe felt very odd and eerie at times that autumn. This though was one of the beautiful moments in the smoke.

I am hoping February is going to be a beautiful month too as not only is it a month full of visitors here in Portugal, there are also trips back to England planned plus I am really looking forward to your 28 days of Squares and our theme of ‘odd. What a month it is going to be as we all create square photographs whose subject matter is;

  • Differing from the usual or not happening often (ie oddballs, the exceptions and follies)
  • Separated from its set or mate (eg odds and ends or maybe odd socks or shoes)
  • Not divisible exactly by two (ie odd numbers) or the number is unknown (ie 300 odd birds)

And remember oddness like beauty is in the eye of the beholder! So have fun exploring oddness and discovering oddities and why not invite some of your blogging friends to join us. The tag is SquareOdds and here’s the challenge image to share.

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  1. Okay, I’m posted. WordPress has done some weird things with graphics and they don’t always show up the right size. They crop them and there’s no way to un-crop them. I just went in and had to re-save the post because the pictures weren’t square. Except they really ARE square. I really hate getting cropped by software! anyway, I think they look squire now.

    FEBRURARY SQUARES – ODD BIRDS

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  4. Other than the general weirdness of everything, we have not had fires or mudslides or other calamities. We are having just regular, standard, poor, old calamities. Which are calamitous enough!

    A couple of friends in fire-ridden states have sent me pictures that are really strange and look like they were taken from another planet. The fortitude of people living out west is prodigious — but what happens if there’s no rain?

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  5. Well, I’ve got lots of traditionally odd photos but also lots that fit according to what you shared here. Lovely shot, btw. I’m heading out to California on Thursday for a baby shower for our pregnant older daughter (first grandchild) and really, really need the break. Then I’ll be back with odd.

    janet

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    1. oh how exciting. Enjoy your lovely lovely trip – we have our first grandchild here, she is 18months and has just come on her first trip abroad. So wonderful as I am sure your break will be xx

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      1. Thanks, Becky! I love odd photos so this will be a fun month. However, I’m not adding songs this time as I’m doing another challenge that is every day a song. I’ll leave the music to Brian this time. 🙂

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        2. and such a lovely thing to do to share them with someone else. You started such a great thing. Off now to listen to Brian’s from yesterday as I didn’t have a chance to play it then!

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    1. hee hee, yes I thought February the perfect month for the odd theme for exactly that reason 😀 not many have spotted it though!

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    1. This was the only upside I could see of the smoke, and I found it very strange. Worrying the increase in fires – already had the first ones in Portugal and it is only January 😦

      Yay though about your favourite oddities

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