For the month of December you can choose any bench you like

A special seat for a special place. My
finalpenultimate bench of the year is an interesting interconnecting set of seats that lock together like a jig-saw puzzle based on a love-seat. The edges of the arms are hand-carved to commemorate the donors and their loved ones.The seats were donated by the Friends of Wisley, and have been placed in the Loggia, directly opposite the main house.
If you would like to join in with the Bench photo challenge then please take a look at my Bench Series page. No complicated rules, just a bench and a camera required 🙂
- Create your own post and title it Bench Series: December
- Include a link to this page in your post so others can find it too
- Add the tag ‘bench series’ so everyone can find the benches easily in the WP Reader
Happy New Year! Let’s all hope it is a happier, more peaceful and more tolerant one than the one we have just had: for everyone.
My Picks of the Week:
A last look at benches from around the world: Ruth has some fab modern ones in Tasmania; Majka is in Slovakia with, well, I’ll let you decide; Pauline was wandering around a Thai Buddhist temple – in Oz; Dawn was lingering in D.C. and mixing benches with her windows, well why not? And from New Amsterdam a fabulous snowy scene to end the year with! A few people have cobbled together the last of their benches: Kaz has some rather lovely shots, Elaine has a Christmas Edition and Traudel found some built in stone (not the most comfortable ones), but Carol (ET) excels herself by posting a bench for every month from her exciting road-trip around Australia, and the prize for the oddest bench of the week has to go to Eklastic for this extraordinary cow bench! I mean how long do your legs have to be to be able to sit on this?
This was going to be the last of the Bench Challenge, but as I still have a few lurking in the digital shoe-box there will be one more post from me. I hope you have all enjoyed it, both participants and visitors. I have certainly had huge fun seeing what benches other bloggers are drawn to since photographing benches is as much an addiction with others as it is with me! Now it is time to turn my eye in a different direction for you over on my flower blog. If you are interested then pop over and have a look. I hope many of you will join me there next year. It’s not all about flowers, I have a few ideas with which to challenge you 😉
It was so much fun to gather my collection of benches just in time, Jude. And I’ve enjoyed seeing everyone else’s choices too.
I loved your road trip benches, what a great idea!!
In our garden we have great seats but my favourite is the fold-up canvas chair with wooden frame. It has arm rests and soft canvas seating and back support. What more could one possibly wish for?
Not so sure I’d trust a canvas chair nowadays Gerard, I like something a bit more solid beneath me!
Lovely! What a great idea, and what unusual benches. They remind me of a style of chair in Mexico known as “confidenciales” because the people, although sitting beside each other, face in opposite directions: they are sitting close and can have a “confidential” chat. 😉
Yes, exactly. How lovely to be face-to-face with the person you are talking to. I want the seat overlooking the canal though 🙂
I like that jig saw – provided the people next to you are people you like! You had your winter benches last week, I put them here this week – here’s to hoping for a few days of winter still to come.
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Love your snowy benches – I guess you are also having unseasonable weather too then. I was walking back to the hotel late last night in a short-sleeved top, it was too warm for my jacket!
Such fun thank you- will head over to see the flowers. https://dailymusing57.wordpress.com/2015/12/27/bench-series-26/
I like the atmosphere in your last bench photo. Nicely composed too. Thank you for all your benches, Lisa, I have enjoyed them 🙂
The cow bench is really quirky, but my vote goes to the comfy-looking bench at Lamy station. My kind of resting spot.
Regards as always, Pete. x
Those benches are a wonderful idea. They look vet smart and provide great service to the visitors.
I’m also searching my year’s photos to make sure I haven’t forgotten to share anything good
Here is a bench I found in spring: http://travelwithintent.com/2015/12/27/bench-key-copenhagen/
Love the title of your bench! Excellent Debbie 🙂