The Changing Seasons: September 2020 – Beauty and Weirdness

Marilyn Armstrong of Serendipity Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth has taken over a monthly challenge called The Changing Seasons. The Changing Seasons is a monthly challenge where bloggers around the world share what’s been happening in their month. To join in, you can either: 1. post 5-20 photos in a gallery that you feel represent your month. […]

A Photo a Week: Rainbows

I so rarely get a photo of a rainbow – or at least a decent one! Rainbows are so ethereal and fleeting – one has to really be in the right place at the right time to see one! Therefore, I always consider it a special moment when I do get a photo of a […]

LAPC: Delicate Colors in Nature

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #98 is by Leya: Delicate Colors. The first thing that comes to mind is flowers. Gardens in springtime, when the green is new A graceful swan on a rippling lake Trees in fog Sunsets are sometimes brilliant, but sometimes their colors are delicate.

2020 Photo Challenge: Backlighting

Travel Words has a 2020 Photo Challenge with its May theme of being creative with light. This week the challenge is to use strong backlighting so that the subject becomes a silhouette.

Sunshine’s Reflections

Sunshine’s Reflections is a photo challenge by Irene at Heaven’s Sunshine, a weeklong challenge with no prompt nor minimum or maximum limit on photographs. It is Week 5, but this is the first time I am posting photos for this challenge. Clouds on a lake Ducks on a pond Swans on a river

The Hunt for Joy: Making a Rainbow

Cee’s On the Hunt for Joy is in its 18th week and the theme for this week is Make Your Own Rainbow. I love to draw and occasionally paint. I also enjoy coloring books. Here are two coloring pages I did. The first is called “Rainbow Wheel Mandala,” done with markers. The second is “Rainbow […]

Top o’ the Morning!

I don’t usually get up early. Especially now – what’s the point? I can’t go anywhere anyway! I have a routine of getting up, getting a cup of tea (I can’t tolerate coffee anymore, although I love it), a banana and a piece of Babybel cheese, and then going to a comfortable spot to read […]

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Simplicity

Lens-Artists’ challenge this week has the theme simplicity. P.A. Moed says: As the coronavirus pandemic spreads and intensifies, many of us around the world are spending a lot of time at home, following governmental regulations to shelter in place. More and more of us feel like we’re returning to a simpler time–cooking our own meals, […]

CB&WPC: I’ve Looked At Clouds

Cee’s black & White Photo Challenge this week has the topic clouds. This is an interesting topic, because one of the things that makes cloud pictures spectacular is color – especially sunsets. I tried and rejected several photos because they just didn’t have appeal without the color. Others, however, look even more dramatic in black […]

Going Out in a Blaze of Sunsets

It’s the last day of Becky’s January Square with the topic of ____light, and I am ending my participation with refracted light, such as the light that makes sunsets so colorful! South Dakota Tanzania Illinois (Mississippi River) Illinois – Arlington Heights Mont St.-Michel, France Egypt (on the Nile) On the Caribbean Sea