Inside Flowers – A WordPress Photo Challenge!

The WordPress Photo Challenge this week is to go inside! After thinking about the subject overnight, I decided to feature the lovely features one can find inside flowers! I hope that you will enjoy these photos!

The inside scoop of an apple blossom

The inside of broccoli

Crawling inside a plum blossom

Inside a daffodil!

Inside vinca major

Inside a helleborus

Check out these other posts that I really like that capture this subject well!

In Da Campo

Fire Bonnet

Chris Breebaart

Travel Words

Captured by Kylie

I hope that you found my photos amazing! Enjoy your weekend! And, as always, thank you for dropping by!

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Selfie? A WordPress Photo Challenge!

This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is “Selfie.” This is something new that has come about with the new cell phones where one takes a photo of themself. I must say that the last thing I ever think of when I am taking photos is to take a photo of myself. There is certainly a lot more of the world out there that is more interesting to me than to share than a photo of myself! So, with this in mind, here are my photos of “Selfie:” Photos that represent my personality and interests!

Inside the Birds Nest

Reflections

A lone wolf

Face in the Desert Stone

For the women

Dinner is served!

Well, there you have it! My version of “selfie!”

Enjoy your Saturday, and thanks for dropping in today!

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One! A WordPress Photo Challenge!

This week’s photo challenge from WordPress is “one.” They ask for photos that have focal point and tell a story…That’s a lot for a photo to do, and I have a few to share with you. My challenge to you is for you to tell me the story that you see in the following photos!

Still life

Alone on the rocks

Solitary confinement

Fishing on the Pacific in Hawai’i

A buffalo rolling in the dirt!

My best side!

Well? What stories do you see?

Have a great weekend, and enjoy your day! Many thanks for stopping by today!

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Layers – A WordPress Photo Challenge!

Layers, layers, layers! This is the subject of this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge! So, let’s get to it, shall we? I hope that you enjoy the layers in all of these photos!

Ruffles….

Pink double ruffle peonies

Textures….

Flames on a newborn star!

Growth….

Kicking Up the Skirts

Feathers….

Feathers

Developing leaves….

The soft green of a Woolly Mullein

Clouds…sky…clouds…sky…

An amazing play of colors

Lasagna! 🙂

Such a lovely lasagne!

I just had to get food in this post somehow! 🙂

Check out these pretty cool posts:

You know how I love bark….Snaphappi

Busy Elle Bee

Memories Are Made of This

Thinking Through My Lens

Deb Bees Hive

Enjoy the day, and thank you for visiting!

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Habit – A WordPress Photo Challenge!

Sometimes it is really hard to come up with photos for a photo challenge, other times not. This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit is one of those that is a challenge.

Habit is defined as “a settled or regular tendency or practice, esp. one that is hard to give up.” Well, clearly writing this blog is a habit, and one that is hard to give up! My husband puts up with me spending an hour in the mornings, even while on a vacation, adding to my blog. Clearly a habit!…Thank you my husband!

So I got to thinking about what to feature in this post, and the one thing that stuck in my mind, is that I have a regular practice of taking photos of things close up. So today, I share with you my habit of looking at the world in my way: Closer up than most would do! I hope that you will enjoy this selection of photos!

Rhapsody in Blue

Daddy Long Legs

Big Katydid

The curves in a fern fiddle

Fur coat

Filled with gold

One last one…

Flowing colors

I hope that you enjoyed this habit of mine, and ask kindly that you consider coming back to see more! Thank you for stopping by today! May Saturday be an absolutely fabulous day for you, and same with the weekend!

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Horizon – A WordPress Photo Challenge!

The horizon is where the sky meets the earth in an apparent line where the two are divided. This is the topic of this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge! Here are some views of the horizon through my lens…

What shows the horizon better than the sun setting at the edge of the world?

Watching to sun set at the waters edge

Here is a shot from sea of the horizon at Mazatlan.

An ocean view of Mazatlan

Looking towards the horizon in the desert of Arizona one can capture some amazing, intense colors as the sun sets.

The intensity of the colors resonates

Here is a shot of the lovely Long Beach lighthouse in the foreground of this horizon shot!

The Long Beach Lighthouse

Behind this crop duster the hills meet the sky!

A crop duster

Do you hear the silence as the moon rises in this next photo?

The moon quietly rises

I hope that you enjoyed these photos that feature the horizon! Enjoy the day!

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Hues – A WordPress Photo Challenge!

Show yourself with hues! This is the topic of this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge! Well, I am ready, are you? 🙂 Let’s head on into the world of color and let’s see what these photos tell you about me!

Lavender Iris

Starburst

Into the center

Orange ruffles

Colorful pansy

White Iris

My lovely Madison

What do these photos say to you about me? I welcome your comments!

Be sure to check out some of the other posts out there. Just click here to get there!

Have a superb Saturday, and thank you for stopping by!

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Good Morning! A WordPress Photo Challenge

The subject of this week’s photo challenge is “Good Morning!” So today I share with you a few early morning shots of sunrises in three different areas of the world!

The rising sun over the San Francisco Bay

Sunbeams in the early morning

Sunrise in the desert

The morning sun lights up the clouds

Check out other posts in this photo challenge by clicking here!

I bid you a good morning, and have a wonderful day! Thanks for stopping by!

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Lines and Patterns Found – A WordPress Photo Challenge!

I love this week’s photo challenge, which is “Lines and Patterns.”  The challenge asks that we find “lines and patterns in the world around us, in nature and things man-made. Sometimes we don’t realize they’re there:   On the street; across the walls; up in the sky; and along the ground on which we walk.”  Here are lines and patterns that I just recently photographed, some man-made, others in nature!

Let’s begin with two that captured my eye recently that are man-made….The first is a patterned wall that I discovered.  The colors and weave are what caught my eye!

A wall in a building

Glitz was everywhere in this building and looking up I found these lovely lines and patterns. The random patterns are reflections of all underneath this area of the ceiling…

Reflections from a ceiling

Moving on to those found in nature, check out these lovely lines and patterns found in sandstone in the desert!

A design found in rock

Getting close to a rock wall shows all the details that one could miss just walking by…

Taking a closer look at life

Looking at the earth beneath my feet the earth is parched.

Parched earth

Continuing on it changes to beautiful grains of sand that squish beneath my feet as I walk.

Sand

Walking on further I find the skin shed off of a snake. Holding it up to the light I see beautiful lines and patterns, a fingerprint of sorts from the snake that moved on.

Snake skin

A plant in the desert, one of my favorite, a barrel cactus, sits before me. The beauty of this is found in the contrasting colors, lines and spinal patterns…

Lines go every which way

I hope that you have enjoyed this posts filled with lines and patterns! Here are a couple of posts by others that I really enjoyed and thought that you might too!

A Really Full Life
Alien Shores
The Ambitious Drifter
Film Images
Figments of a Dutchess

And if you click HERE you will be able to check out more challenge photos!

Thank you for visiting me today! I hope that you have enjoyed this post! Now go out and have a great Saturday!

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Swiming with Dory!

I am writing this on Thursday night so I can post this early in the morning on Friday.   I found Dory from “Finding Nemo” fame in a fish resort at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas!  Go figure!    And I just had to post photos of my new friend Dory!  She felt like posing…and she wanted me to ask you…”Do you feel like swimming with me?”

Meet Dory. She is beautiful, and you just want to kiss those lovely lips…don’t you?

My name is Dory

Dory is unbelievably shy…but she poses for me anyway!

Dory poses

BTW, she did not remember posing for this photo when we did a photo review!

“Kiss me!” she says…

Kiss me!

She does not remember this one either!

Time to go to sleep! “Do I know you?” she asks. (Huge yawn!) Here she is taking a nap!

Sleeping in the coral

Now that you have gotten to know my friend Dory, don’t you think she is pretty cool? I do, and hugs to you Dory for allowing me to take your photo and for all of the amazing poses you did for me!

Way to go for making it to the end of the week! Have a fabulous Friday, and HUGE THANKS for stopping by to visit! Hugs to you all!

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