Posted in Photos, tagged Beauty, Blogging, Gardening, Green, Inspiration, Life in the Foothills, Nature, Photography, Photography (2), Sierra Foothills on September 12, 2014|
There are so many shades of green aren’t there? I thought that for today I would share some of the different shades of green before they disappear in the coming fall! Ready?
Green beans
The center of a clover leaf
The blue green of lamb ears
Shades of green
Thank you for taking the time to drop on by today! Have an amazing day! Be well! ^..^
Posted in In the Garden, Life in the Foothills, Photos, tagged Beauty, Green, Life, Nature, Oaks, Photography, Pines, Spring on April 16, 2013| 15 Comments »
Spring seems so early this year. The last two years spring came along in late April and early May. This year it arrived at the beginning of this month. Leaves on the trees appeared seemingly overnight. Wildflowers and weeds are showing their beauty rapidly. So I thought that today I would share with you some of the varying greens in my yard.
Where do I start? I took this shot from my deck looking over the vegetable garden. I found the many green colors amazing, and the breaking of dawn really made their colors pop!
Amazing greens in my yard
Check out the vivid green on the oaks to the muted greens of the digger pines.
Oaks and pine
Looking to the end of the fruit orchard, I am amazed at the colors.
Looking off the deck
The island in the center of our driveway is chock full of weeds, mostly grasses, but the colors are amazing. The redbud tree just left of center, with its leaves just opening, seem to be floating in the air.
The island as the sun rises
The contrast of colors from the old to the new are amazing too. Here is a shot of our night blooming jasmine with last year’s leaves and the new growth that will bear those amazing aromatic flowers.
Old and new
Grasses that were not there the other day come up around the daffodils.
Newly sprouted grasses
And the lambs ears have a lovely blue green leave that in the winter is almost a pale white.
The blue green of lamb ears
We will end with a view of the park like setting that spring gives to us in our backyard.
Park like setting of our back yard
Well, I hope that you have enjoyed the greens in my yard as much as I do each and every morning. Now go out and have a great Tuesday, and thanks for visiting today!
Posted in Photos, tagged Green, Nature, Photo Challenge, Photography, postaday, Weekly photo challenge on February 7, 2013| 19 Comments »
First – a huge thank you for being honored once again by you, the audience, for yet another Audience Choice Award on the Let’s Be Wild photo challenge! This week’s challenge is Green. I have already done a lot of green lately, but thankfully, I am able to share with you additional shots of the lovely shade of green!
Let’s start with one of my favorite shots that features the color green. I was lucky to get a call from my neighbor and friend Ethel to come over to check out the bugs on her garage wall! Check out this amazing Katydid!
Katydid Green
Pretty, isn’t she?
Let’s take a walk through green, shall we? Ferns abound at this time of year, and they are just truly lovely to see!
Green symmetry
I was amazed at the symmetry of the two separate sprouting fronds in the above photo! There are some big ones too! Here is a shot of fern fiddles with the lovely greens of their leaves behind them.
In a fern forest
Walking around I have found some everyday plants in the wild. Check out the wild spinach and strawberries!
Wild Spinach
A wild strawberry patch
Then there is the woolly mullein that is all over the place here. The miners used this for TP during the gold rush!
The soft green of a Woolly Mullein
My garden has one of my favorite vegetables: Broccoli! And I was lucky enough to catch a visitor when I took this shot!
Broccoli with a visitor!
I really like these shots too. These are photos of some of the moss that is in abundance here at this time of year!
Up close with moss
Mossy moss
Be sure to check out the other entries for this challenge by clicking HERE! And, please feel free to comment on their site if you like my photos!
Well, I have to dash and head off to work! May today be a day filled of joy for you! Thank you for stopping by!
Posted in Life in the Foothills, Photos, tagged Art, Beauty, Ferns & Moss, Green, Life, Nature, Photography on February 2, 2013| 10 Comments »
Today, I grabbed the camera and headed outside. There is something about an overcast winter morning, the briskness in the air, the smell of woodsmoke, and all kinds of nature just waiting for someone like me to come along and capture the beauty and simplicity of it all! So, come on and take a stroll down the road with me to see what my lens finds!
The area around Mosquito Bridge is quite spectacular at this time of year. The little ferns are a vivid green against the backdrop of the greens and browns of the moss that covers the granite boulders that reside in this canyon where the bridge makes its home. Let’s take a look shall we?
Under the rocks
An alumroot amongst the ferns
Baby ferns don the granite walls
Cascading down the granite
Lobb’s buckwheat
Looking up the hillside
Ferny looking moss
I hope that you enjoyed the photos that I posted today!
Thank you for coming along today! Have a great day!
Posted in Photos, tagged Beauty, Green, Life, Nature, Photography, Photos on January 15, 2013| 3 Comments »
In coming up with a topic for today, I chose to focus on the color green. Green surrounds us in our everyday lives. There are so many different shades of this color, it is hard to choose a favorite shade…How about we take a walk through all the shades of green I have found in my neck of the woods? OK! Let’s go!
Here is one of the native plants in this area that is a lovely green shade. It puts out a beautiful flower stalk loaded with yellow flowers. Rumor has it that the miners used the leaves of this plant as we would toilet paper…rumor – OK?
Soft green
At this time of year the moss explodes with color! It goes dormant in the summer, turning brown.
Moss green
How about two different views of the forest? The first is of the rolling hillsides of the foothills taken from the air, and the second looking through the trees.
Rolling green hills
Green in the forest
From this last spring, the lovely greens found in blowing grasses…
Green, green grass
Looking close to the ground, we find this lovely green!
Prickly green
Green dew
Stopping by the lake, we find one last shade of green!
Shades of lily pads
Thank you for coming along and for visiting today! Now go and have a great Tuesday!
Posted in Photos, tagged Beauty, Green, Life, Nature, Photography, postaday on November 16, 2012| 34 Comments »
Green is the topic of this week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge. It was requested by Sara, who did the WP post, that entrants use the new “gallery” formats that WP made available.
Challenge on! Going though my photo gallery, I came up with the following for this week’s challenge!
Be sure to check out some of the other entries! Here are a few that I like!
To see all the entries, click Here!
Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award
3 Versatile Blogger Awards!
Sunshine Blog Award
Mrs. Sparkly's 10 Commandments
One Lovely Blog Award (3!)
Very Inspiring Blogger Award
Liebster Blog!
Beautiful Blogger Award
