CFFC: Green & Orange

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge continues with its color series. This week the colors are orange and green separately or combined. These combos were taken at the Park Ridge Farmer’s Market. My zinnias in the full bloom of summer Ripening tomatoes A tree in the process of turning into fall color Lovebirds in Tanzania Entrance to […]

CFFC & FOTD: Yellow and Pink

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is the colors pink and yellow. Also posted for Cee’s FOTD 10/16/20 Separate: Flowers in October (yellow dahlias & pink roses) Together: Flowers Together: Sculpture Together: Signs Together: Goldfinches on coneflowers Together: Birthday cake

FOTD: Pretty in Pink

Unidentified pink flowers at Chicago Botanic Gardens Cee’s FoTD 9/9/20

One Word Sunday: Wet

Debbie Smyth at Travel With Intent hosts One Word Sunday. Today the word is wet. Fountains Pond Flowers Spider web Birds

L-APC: Pick a Word…or 5!

Lens-Artists’ Photo Challenge this week is Pick a Word: Choose one (1) word or more – choose all of them if you like! The words available are the following: Comfortable Growing Tangled Crowded Exuberant

FOTD: Dahlia or ?

This might be a dahlia but I’m not sure. Anyway, it’s a beauty! Same kind of flower, this one with a bee on it! Cee’s FOTD 8/24/20

FOTD: Verbena

Cee’s FOTD 8/23/20

FOTD: White Shrimp Plant

This unusual and interesting species that I captured at the Chicago Botanic Gardens in July is the white shrimp plant. I don’t know why, but somehow the name fits! It is also called “Squirrel Tail” and “Paper Plume” (I like this name!) and its scientific name is justicia betonica or justicia pallidior. It is native […]

FOTD: Zinnia

Another capture at Chicago Botanic Gardens Cee’s FOTD 8/18/20

FOTD: Dahlia

I found this beauty at Chicago Botanic Gardens in July. Cee’s FOTD 8/17/20