A Word A Week: Round
This week’s Word a Week photo challenge is round.
Arches National Park in Utah is known for preserving natural sandstone arches in 76,679 acres. According to Wikipedia, forty-three arches have collapsed due to erosion since 1970. Above is one of the amazing 2,000 sandstone arches.
Below is the famous Vatican stairs spiral. It was wide enough to allow horse riding. In the old-time, Popes used this stairs to escape:
During the summer, there is a series of opera performances in this Roman Arena in Verona. It was the third largest Arena in the Roman world and dated the first century:
Marqueyssac garden, located in Vézac, France, is edged with 150,000 hand-pruned hundreds year old boxwoods, many are in perfect round shapes:
Click here to see Sue’ amazing photos and many beautiful entries for the round theme.
Wonderful photos, and I LOVE the fun facts!
January 13, 2013 at 1:15 pm
Thank you for reading and liking these facts! Hope you have had a great week.
January 13, 2013 at 7:51 pm
You too, Amy!
January 13, 2013 at 9:42 pm
Great entries for the challenge, Amy. I’ve been up and down those Vatican stairs, but didn’t know about the horses.
January 13, 2013 at 1:19 pm
Thank you, AD!
January 13, 2013 at 7:52 pm
love your photos … we were at marqueyssac gardens in september, and i was in Arches NP in 1968, so you have taken me on quite a trip this morning!
January 13, 2013 at 1:57 pm
Were you there in September?! I visited the garden a year or so ago. Thank you for taking a virtual tour with me!
January 13, 2013 at 7:59 pm
great photos – I really like spiralling staircase
January 13, 2013 at 2:22 pm
Thank you so much for the fun theme, Sue. Love what you did.
January 13, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Fantastic photos Amy which fit the theme wonderfully!
January 13, 2013 at 3:01 pm
Thank you for your encouraging comment, Phil!
January 13, 2013 at 8:01 pm
Love the shots, the Vatican one reminded me of a nautilus cut in half!
January 13, 2013 at 3:03 pm
You’re right, it does look like a nautilus cut in half! Thank you for stopping by, Joe!
January 13, 2013 at 8:03 pm
Wonderful pics – especially loved the amazing topiary… and your stories with each pic – lovely post…
January 13, 2013 at 5:25 pm
I appreciate your comment, Valerie! So wonderful to hear from you.
January 13, 2013 at 8:08 pm
Great choices!
January 13, 2013 at 5:55 pm
Thank you for stopping by, Jone! Hope you had a nice weekend.
January 13, 2013 at 8:09 pm
wonderful representations of round^^
January 13, 2013 at 6:10 pm
Thank you, kz!
January 13, 2013 at 8:09 pm
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January 13, 2013 at 7:35 pm
This is way too cool, Frizz! So funny!
January 13, 2013 at 8:17 pm
Great challenge photos Amy!
January 14, 2013 at 10:00 am
Thank you, LuAnn! Digging out a lot of photos from my file…
January 14, 2013 at 6:49 pm
Happy 2013.. Love the photos..
January 14, 2013 at 3:01 pm
Reblogged this on Simon Sundaraj-Keun.
January 14, 2013 at 10:33 pm
You have really captured the challenge with these photos, Amy. Marsha
January 16, 2013 at 4:18 am
So wonderful to hear from you, Marsha!
January 16, 2013 at 7:26 am
I had fun last night!
January 16, 2013 at 11:43 am
Fabulous entries Amy. Haven’t been to any except the Vatican stairs!
January 22, 2013 at 12:44 pm
Great examples for the theme.
February 1, 2013 at 1:20 pm