Since Chinese New Year is coming I have decided to introduce first the theme of "RED" as it is the lucky colour for the festival.
Bear in mind that the folwing one, or even two, weeks will be devoted to Chinese New Year itself, so watch out for all the colour and spectacle that this wonderful time suggests.

This is a dress worn by Marilyn Munro and is on display at our local museum.

At the moment all the school children are getting red lycee packets and making them into different types of lanterns . The banks give the packets out free and there seems to be a new design of lantern every year.

another design

A team hug by the Bristol City football team before a match.
COME ON YOU REDS!

A Little red Plymouth Prowler

The 'Rose and Crown' yesterday lunchtime. Very welcoming after a long walk on a very cold day.

I took this shot in Chinatown in Sydney last December. This was my favourite shop in Chinatown. You can see about one third of the downstairs portion of the shop and, as you can guess from the staircase, there is an upstairs level as well. It was crammed full of the most interesting things and I bought some lovely souvenirs and gifts. I would have bought tons more had it not been for luggage restrictions ("Thank goodness" says Maynooth).

Lovely ! The next step, Carole is to come here . Many of our shops look just like that!

Ren, I would love to see Hong Kong. As a matter of fact, we've been talking about doing just that - and I am making tentative plans to fit it into next year's calendar!

Oh Wow! Great news!

Classic car, a 1948 MG TC.

I'm not sure what plant this is, but it was growing wild in the mountains of Colorado this past autumn.

that looks quite a bit like red baneberry, but (since many berries look very similar) I can't really tell without a picture of a full leaf that shows the true shape. It could also be a red elderberry (which is a good thing lol) If it's baneberry, be thankful you didn't sample the fruits ~

Ahh, thank you, Jakeroo. Here is another photo with a better look at the leaves. I believe it just might be the red elderberry. I was afraid to taste them anyway,

I'm loving this theme, particularly the two gorgeous red cars!

Here's a selection of hats in the window of my friend's antique/vintage clothing store, with red predominating for her Valentine's display.

A very old postbox in Harrow on the Hill which has recently been painted

Nice red stuff all! Liz, since you don't get Chinese New Year Celebrations and displays near you, shall we extend the RED theme to include next week and week after? That would give everyone a chance to put either red or CNY pics. What do you all think?
This is also purely selfish, as my Cousin-from-Maisemore is coming to stay for a week and I shall not be in here much.

Thanks, Ren, that would help, though I have had a couple of ideas for CNYish type subjects - they'd just be somewhat fudged

This has been a great theme, I've enjoyed all the photos.

Managed to go and click this one early morning today. St. Teresa's Church at Girgaum, Mumbai - also known as the 'Laal (Red) Church' locally.

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shall we extend the RED theme to include next week and week after? That would give everyone a chance to put either red or CNY pics. What do you all think?

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Good idea! CNY is celebrated in Australia by the Chinese community but it is not really a huge community-wide celebration. I didn't know when CNY was, so I googled it and it is February 14, which is also Valentine's Day - which also fits nicely into the theme of red.

Super assortment of Red's here!

I've no chance for a CNY photo at all, so I shall keep on searching for a red one.

My Father's car (which will one day belong to me). He finally let me drive it a couple years ago...in my late 20's...for about 2 miles. haha. For anyone that wonders it is a 1968 SS427

That is a gorgeous car, pyonir. I'm so jealous.

This is my friend performing at the recent Oz concert (Australia Day multicultural event). She does a form of Turkish dancing called dervishing or sufi whirling (you may have heard the expression "a whirling dervish"). The skirts are extremely heavy so you need to be fit to do this. I took heaps of photos - this is not the best quality but the only one I can post because it's the only photo where you can't see her face.

SpanishLiz: LOVE the hats!

ClaraSue: thanks for the extra photo. Yes it's elderberry. Makes an "okay" wine (not as good as the darker berried ones) and good bramble pies and jellies. Some say elderberries are slightly poisonous, but they're absolutely fine if cooked first. Native tribes in Canada have used them for ages.

Satguru: another very cool mailbox. Ours are SO boring here (not to mention harder and harder to find now that Canada Post has started "out-franchising")

Pyonir: She's a beauty!

Mother Goose: very nice re: the dervish - I know how hard it is to get a good picture when the subject is moving quickly!

ren33: since the RED theme has been extended a week, can we post again if we already posted in the first week? Also, to save yourself "trouble" you could even make it go for a third week, since Valentine's Day will be upon us shortly.

I've enjoyed ALL the red photos so far!