Well, I thought I would close things out with a big finale, so I’m offering you four pictures this week. The first three are the ‘Chicago Windows Trilogy.’ They are some shots my sister took (from her hotel window) while in Chicago this past year. I believe these enormous skyscrapers with their thousands of windows say something significant about our culture: Windows are no longer just an opening in the wall through which we can see out or see in. They have become a major and an influential part of our architecture, and as such, have a great deal to say about our society — for now and for the future when people look back on the kinds of buildings we created in which to live and work.
This last little window is one that I’m sharing because I began this challenge with a small personal window that had a flower box sitting on its ledge. I thought it was appropriate to share another of those charming windows with you in closing. They really are one of my favorite kinds of windows in the whole world.
This challenge has been so much fun for me. I never dreamed, when I whimsically posted that first picture that so many of you out there would also enjoy taking and sharing pictures of windows. You have been great, and I’ve enjoyed all of your photos very, very much. I’m also grateful to have had this opportunity to meet so many of you through this venture, and I will most definitely still visit your blogs and stay in communication. I’m not leaving the blogging community. I just need to step out of this challenge because I can’t be sure right now that I will be able to post something on a strict schedule, and I don’t want the rest of you having to wait on me to post your pictures.
But one of our participants has asked to take over the challenge and keep it going from her site. Her blog is called “The Day After — Musings of a Wannabe Photographer.” Here’s the link to her site:
http://lingeringvisions.wordpress.com/
So if you are still enjoying this challenge, just hop over there and follow her blog so that you will see the notification of next week’s challenge from there. I’ll join in as often as I can. The Lord bless you all. Keep having fun.
The Happy Wordcrafter 
Wonderful Sandra, it’s been fab sharing with you!
Here is my last Sandra post! http://lucidgypsy.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/thursdays-windows-week-17-tetbury/
Gilly, this is SO UNIQUE! I love this building. I’m assuming during its original use, marketeers set up stalls of some kind in the open lower lever and also on the second level that was enclosed. Do you know for sure how it was used? Is it still in use?
You always have such interesting photos. Looking forward to seeing more through the LingeringVisions site.
Thank you so much for allowing me to take on this challenge. I hope I am worthy and that you will find time to join us when you can. http://lingeringvisions.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/thursday-windows-week-17/
Wow, these are terrific shots! A great contribution to the windows theme for sure.
Hope you enjoy the run with ‘Thursday’s Windows’ as much as I have.
Out on a high ! Great Lofty Heights 🙂
Thanks Sandra …. I think you started a new hobby ….Window Photo Shopping !
Yes. It gives a whole new meaning to the term “window shopping” doesn’t it?
Hi Sandra, thanks so very much for all your time in having these challenges. I have so enjoyed it. Your windows this week make a HUGE statement. I look forward to the new host of this challenge. I’m already a member of The Day After’s blog and its fabulous.
Here is my entry for this week! ENLJOY!
http://www.ceephotography.com/2013/01/10/photo-challenge-thursdays-windows-week-17/
How beautiful! And what a creative way to display the merchandise! Thanks for sharing it, Cee.
Thank you for this opportunity to share photos for the past year.
Here is my entry for this week: http://ohmsweetohmdotme.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/photo-challenge-thursdays-windows-week-17/
Oh, how gorgeous and how dramatic! I love it, Allan. Is the header picture on your blog right now the outside of that same structure?
I’ve really enjoyed participating in your windows challenge, Sandra. Love the pics for your Grande Finale. Here is my contribution: http://adinparadise.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/thursdays-windows-with-clouds/
Thank you. I’m so glad I got to know you through the challenge. Your photos for this week are a real treat. Looks like a fun trip.
I wouldn’t want to be a window washer and have to clean those skyscraper windows! The buildings look so imposing, even in photos; it makes my neck hurt just to think about standing on the ground and looking up at them. Great choices for your final week hosting the windows challenge, especially the small window, those really are the most charming. Thank you for hosting this photo challenge Sandra, it was a fun way to focus on one particular subject, and to see all the different submissions each week. I certainly understand why you need to discontinue it, and maybe it will be even more fun for you if you don’t feel the stress of trying to meet a deadline. I’ll still participate, and probably still be late more often than not 🙂 Here’s my entry for this week: http://wp.me/pT3BE-R0
This is really pretty, Sharon. Looks like a place to relax with a cup of coffee and watch the world go by.
And yes, this has been great fun. Hopefully Lingering Visions will have as much fun hosting it as I did.
It’s my first time but I’ve really enjoyed participating in this windows challenge!
Your window pictures are really stunning, I like them a lot^^
Here are mine http://mannalexandra.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/photo-challenge-thursdays-windows-week-17/
These are lovely and truly interesting. They all seem to tell a unique story. The one with the window cleaner at work is amazing. But I honestly think if I had to choose just one, it would be the Emerald Hill Houses. Thank you for sharing, and be sure to check into the new site that is going to be hosting the challenge from now on.
Sandra, thank you for hosting this series! It took me several days to find a picture that I thought was good enough for your last week of hosting it, but here it is at last – http://newpillowbook.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/thursdays-windows-thank-you-sandra/.
I love the contrast between your two groups of pictures this week – the drama of the skyscrapers, and the friendly closeup of that flowery little window.
Oh, this is amazing! And a perfect picture for the final post on my site. I’ve really never seen anything like it. Thanks so much for taking part in this. I hope you continue to enjoy it as it is hosted by Lingering Visions.
And thanks for the comment on my photos. I really wanted to post that little sweet window, but I just couldn’t pass up those dramatic pics from Chicago by my sister.