JUL 24, photo-collage: voting from abroad + an upgraded sign

  a) Reprise of material posted on July 24 in previous years ...

2020: Ontario nostalgia, Toronto ravines (illustrated poem)
2021: magical palindromes, selfless (wordplay) 
2022: Italian loanwords, fiasco (poem)
2023: word-pair lexicon, duplications D-G (wordplay)

To access any of these items, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... fiasco) , into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath each item you will find a further link to explore a collection of items (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.)  on the relevant topic.

b) Today's offering (Jul 24, 2024): 

photos by Giorgio Coniglio... 

seating at an airport departure gate,
Vancouver, Canada

We owe a debt of gratitude to the volunteers who staff organizations like this.. 

Unrelated to the previous photos, here's the reworking (for enhanced legibility) of a sign attached to a housefront, as posted recently on the internet. ...