The wind has been fierce around this way and it’s been hard on everyone. Trees creak ominously and garden birds hurtle across the skies at alarming rates as they try unsuccessfully to defy the gusts. The latest victim was a spider in the eves of a house I was passing, whose web had been shredded. As the spider scuttled around trying to untangle the carnage, I scuttled off to my laptop to write this week’s travel theme. First up, a delightfully cheerful and slightly frisky tangle of ribbons on a Maypole in Seattle.
A welcome tangle of yellow flowers brightening up a rather austere looking forest of bare trees in Mesa Verde.
A tangle of bare tree branches makes the perfect canopy for the snowy promenades of New York’s Central Park.
The bad-tempered, drinking, smoking Mayan deity that is Maximón; decorated in a tangle of ties in the small village of Santiago in Guatemala.
A tangle of webs and oversized spiders; this is Hallowe’en Manhattan-style.
Last but not least, a group of Vikings prepare to tangle with the enemy, last summer in Killaloe.
Are you ready to get tangled up with this week’s theme? If you would like to join in (everyone’s welcome!) here’s what to do:
- Create your own post and title it Travel theme: Tangle
- Include a link to this page in your post so others can find it too
- Get your post in by next Thursday, as the new travel theme comes out on Friday
- Don’t forget to subscribe to keep up to date on the latest weekly travel themes. Sign up via the email subscription link in the sidebar or RSS!
xxx Ailsa
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. – James A. Michener
O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. – Walter Scott
Where's my backpack? 
Oh the spiders – yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck!
Haha they were pretty scary in real life too, Carol. 🙂
Great take on tangle with the Vikings ready to fight.
Thanks Joseph, I wanted to get in there and join in the battle, but had to stay on the sidelines taking photos instead 🙂
Another great theme and brilliant photos. Thanks.
Tod
Glad you enjoyed it, Tod. xxx
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Another original theme, Ailsa! 🙂 And I absolutely adore your first photo!
Here’s my entry: https://drieskewrites.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/travel-theme-tangle/
Have a great weekend
x
Love your photo, Marion, it looks like a tree group hug. 🙂
Oh, I love this sculpture of tangled ties! I could use all the old ties not in use anymore…
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Fun photos this week.
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Great photos! Here’s a few of my tangles
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Great theme! Here comes my contribution: A Antiques Shop in Pingyao China: http://wp.me/p4YOtr-1NP
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Hi Ailsa,
Thanks for another great challenge! Here is my response: https://naomibaltuck.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do/
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Tangled in the mangroves… http://windagainstcurrent.com/2015/05/23/tangle/
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A fishy tangle for the theme this week Ailsa. https://almostitalian.wordpress.com/2015/05/23/tangled-up-in-fish-buddhist-monastery-west-java/
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I haven’t danced around a maypole since I was a child! here’s mine: https://wheresmybackpack.com/2015/05/22/travel-theme-tangle/
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Very interesting challenge and various examples. Here is my entry:
http://lessywannagohome.blogspot.be/2015/05/travel-theme-tangle.html
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Hi Ailsa,
here is my contribution for this week:
Cheers Angela
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You get tangled anywhere, but in Nepal the tangles make life very interesting! Here’s our entry this week: http://ohtheplaceswesee.com/2015/05/24/travel-theme-tangle/
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You keep challenging us and making us think outside the square Ailsa. https://memoriesaremadeofthisblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/travel-theme-tangled/
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Here’s mine.
http://junkboattravels.blogspot.ca/2015/05/travel-theme-tangle.html