Doors/Portals – Page 3

R for Rossio Railway Station

frizztext hosts a weekly A – Z Challenge

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Tuesdays, recurring weekly

Description: Every Tuesday I offer the “A to Z challenge”, walking step by step through the alphabet.

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Estação de Caminhos de Ferro do Rossio – located in Rossio Square, Lisbon, Portugal

This unusual building will attract your attention – it is built in the neo-manueline style and quite beautiful. The intertwined horseshoe portals at the front of the building are probably the most impressive features.

But just admire the detail around those doors and windows.

And as I often say, don’t forget to look up!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold

In a post created specifically for this challenge, share a photo that captures the threshold.

threshold (n) an entrance or doorway

Ludlow has a fine collection of Georgian doorways of many different and unusual styles from simply elegant neo-classical to ornate porches and fancy fanlights. (click image to enlarge)

Which one is your favourite?

If you would like to see what others have come up with for this challenge then go to the Daily Post @ WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge

A Word a Week Challenge: Undulate

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every week Sue from ‘A Word in Your Ear’ dips into her English Oxford dictionary and picks a word on the page that it falls open at. The challenge is to post a photograph, poem, story – whatever the genre you like best to describe what that word means to you.

This week’s challenge is Undulate (click to join in with the challenge)

un·du·late v. un·du·lat·ed, un·du·lat·ing, un·du·lates
v.tr.

1. To cause to move in a smooth wavelike motion.
2. To give a wavelike appearance or form to.

The wavy line on these doors at Mission San Juan Bautista (St John the Baptist) signifies the River of Life.