Sacre Coeur

While in a scenic frame of mind, I decided to complete this striking Arrow brand 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle of Sacre Coeur in France. This Roman Catholic church is located on the summit of Montmartre, the highest point in the city of Paris. The main part of this jigsaw puzzle was reasonably easy to assemble. It was merely a matter of initially working down the tree then across the gardens before moving into the stonework. The building had enough detail to simplify its completion then filling in the small patch of sky between it and the tree was quick to do as most pieces had a scrap of something solid to reference them to. The remaining pieces of totally blue sky probably made up the final one eighth of the photo. By concentrating on them by their shapes and moving between the slightly lighter and darker hues, that area was then filled in surprisingly quickly, to finalise an interesting view of this grand scenic monument.

Rhododendrons Mount Hood

In another tranquil photograph featuring flowers, this time we have a scenic vista of rhododendrons spread out in a field before Mount Hood in Oregon. This is a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle by Big Ben that shows the highest point in Oregon and the fourth highest peak in the Cascade Range. Mount Hood is considered the Oregon volcano that is most likely to erupt, although based on its history, an explosive eruption is deemed top be unlikely. At over 11,000 feet, or almost 3,500 metres, Mount Hood is very high, and the snowy mountain peak rises beautifully prominent from an extensive area of more lowly elevated land. The areas of comparatively similar tones made this a relatively easy jigsaw puzzle to assemble. Once the mountain filled sky was completed, followed by the far timberline and yellow flowers in the forefront, it was already easily half done. Then to finalise the lovely clustered pink rhododendrons only slowed the pace, not the pleasure.

Horses in a Field of Poppies

This is such a charming photo of a mare and foal in a tranquil setting that it had to be a charming experience to assemble this 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle.

It is from the comparatively cheap Fame brand so the pieces are somewhat thin but at the peaceful scene helped make up for that. At first glance it appeared to be a difficult jigsaw puzzle to put together but in fact the balance between the main areas of colour meant that each section of blue sky, white horse, brown foal and vermilion flowers could be easily isolated then connected. With the assistance of those pieces that overlapped a section of two main tones, no one area was too arduous to complete.