my journey to the Alphabet Land (day J)
My next post for the Alphabet Hunt challenge by @barbara-orenya. This time we had to find words starting with letter "J". And I found it pretty easy task, theres a lot of J-words out there to choose from: joy, jump, juice, jeans, jetpack, jerrymandering... hundreds of good words! I decided to go with these six.
J — Juniper
This was my 1st word to pick up -- cause I remembered well I have a suitable photo of it! And even the story behind it to tell...
This shot is nor great, neither artsy -- but quite personal and memorable to me: it is one of my very first test macro shots, after I obtained dedicated Tamron 60mm macro lens. This little baby tree was sitting on my window seal in a coffee cup, and was 1st thing I saw when I looked around for a test object. This is the middle of the story. And here is the beginning: we dug out this little baby-juniper at the Ladoga skerries at the top of a little rocky island; 99% it would not survive one of the windy days or one of the snowy winters... we were very hopeful it will agree to live with us at our country place. 2 years ago we planted it... and last summer -- could not find it, so, we decided the venture wasnt successful and the juniper did not survive the winter. To my greatest surprise, I found it this summer!
And this is how it looks like now; a bit taller, and seems its doing fine...
And I hope this is not a happy ending of the story (yet).
J — Jack
And now have a look at the Jack... at two four of his faces.
'Jack' is a fantastic word, it has so many meanings! you will be surprised to discover some of them... the Junior Officer in playing cards set, and headset audio connector in your not-up-to-dated iphone -- both are 'jacks'. And much more to it.
This is another set of cards from my collection -- intresting for the images used to illustrate the faces, date back to XVIII century or even earlier!
J — Jewelry
This stand I captured at the New Year Gifts Exhibition -- my 1st attempt to earn money as a professional photographer. For 2-days reportage I earned zero dollars. Actually, even less, considering my expenses :=)
But I left it with a few hundred of images. heh...
J — Janitor
Again a very nice word that may be new to non native speakers. 'Janitor' may mean a cleaner, sweeper, doorkeeper, gatekeeper, porter, guard, custodian or simply keeper. Choose any you like! But our White Guard is definitely not a doorman or cleaner :) Recently, with her leg injured in a catfight with some local Jerk, she is spending a lot of time right at our house entrance.
Also. I think, you should educate yourself about the Janitor of Lunacy.
J — Jam
I wish I could present you a Jellyfish but the nearest sea is thousand miles away from me. But I could go with a Jam! We have 3 sort of jam in our frindge -- intended to raise our survival ability here, far away from huge malls and other miracles of civilization.
There exist also other types of jam... for example, a Traffic Jam. Or a Paper Jam (the last one was my alias for a brief period when I worked at a printshop... there was a printer there, producing this sort of jam in a VERY SOLID numbers).
J — Juice
I would like to show you my pictures of collecting the juice from a birch, but they left in my archive at home. So, I go with the readymades from the local store.
All the images taken by me, as always. This round I also considered other J-words that came to my mind, but finally lost their position:
jerrycane / jojoba / jeans / jubilee
... nobody can fit an unfittable, right? // Как говорил мой старый наставник-редактор: "Нельзя впихнуть невпихуемое!
I also created an index to all of my posts for this great challenge.
A: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/my-jorney-to-the-alfabet-land-a
B: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-day-b
C: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-day-c
D: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-day-d
E: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-day-e
F: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-f
G: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-g
H: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-h
I: https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-i
J: https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-j
Hope you enjoyed travelling with me. Come back next week, and join the fun!
what a very cool words lesson ! 😊 I didn't know the 2 first,very interesting to learn about and also the story behind the little tree..
you got plenty of ideas, and maybe give them for others to use..? 😉
a beautiful hunt @qwerrie ! have a wonderful Sunday
my pleasure! have a sunny sky and a good day too.
You are presenting us one more great #AlphabetHunt post, @qwerrie 😊
What a nice cat this is, and these cards look quite often used - we had the Joker already but none had thought of the Jack yet, but I like the Juniper story and its good end most 😊
Have a nice Sunday and a great week ahead my friend.
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who's that, I wonder?
I can't remember who posted the Joker, but I'm pretty sure I have seen one.
Hope your power-off day goes well - I'd love to have such a day too from time to time 😉
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thank you! and the !BEER back.
we plan off from garden works and compy to the local little market town, perhaps sort of a shopping fun :P
I wish you much fun shopping and being away from the computer for a while 🙂
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.I'm sorry to hear someone hurt the little kitty. Bad people.
Thanks for the great shots! 😎
uh, thats not the folks, that was a young sassy black cat, stray cat who doesnt have a master ... we already had problems with him last summer, and nothing can do about him. just pour water when he comes to our place - to show that he is not the boss here and are not welcome (but it turns out extremely rarely. as Russians say: "Наглость -- второе счастье")
glad you enjoyed the visuals :P
cheers!
I love the janitor. That's a fun pic. Thanks for sharing.
thanks, my pleasure. I really love that word (and the song).
I will check others #alphabethunt posts a bit later, a very restricted capacity rn. I am sure you will surprise me with something totally unexpected!
I understand. I'm doing my rounds as we speak. Lol. I've been working on regaining my spirit. It's been a little tired the last week it so.
Jam one of my favorite sweets
I'm so glad that your Juniper Berry survived, let's hope it grows into a big strong tree! Love your play on words;)
Amazing words found once again, nice photography and story telling, with each of the letter "J" being well presented.
my pleasure! glad that you have little fun with it. :=)
Cool @qwerrie The words are different from those found, your search is very good.
в моём карманном словаре на эту букву всего неполных три листа слов...засада)))
Можжевельники плохо приживаются. Бывает даже приживутся вроде, а потом бах и пожелтели. Твой оказался бойцом)
Карты интересные. Это ещё советская колода, как я понимаю или старше?
Хорошая подборка получилась, разнообразная)
советских времён, классическая! вторая свежак из 2010-х, но картинки использованы исторические, 3 века тому назад были в ходу как раз такие карты.
J много слов, хороших и разных!