FOTD: Orchid

For more beautiful flowers, go to Cee’s FOTD 4/6/20.

FOTD: Red Chestnut Bud

This bud is on a young red chestnut tree. Cee’s FOTD 4/4/20

FOTD: Daffodils

I’m going with Cee’s idea to post yellow flowers. These are my daffodils. I planted daffodil bulbs last fall all around the outside of our new house. Most of them are still coming up, no buds yet, but the ones I planted on the east side of the house are blooming nicely! Zooming out, all […]

FOTD: Orchids

Cee’s FOTD 4/2/20

SquareTops: Red-winged Blackbird

I photographed this red winged blackbird at Masada, in Israel. Zooming out a little: #SquareTops 4/2/20

FOTD: Orchids

Cee’s FOTD 4/1/20

Fan of…Swans

Jez has an open-ended photo challenge, Fan of…. You can end this phrase in any way you want to whenever you want to. Right now, swans are what I have to look forward to. The only time I leave the house is to take walks around the campus of our community. We have two ponds, […]

FOTD: Bromeliad

Cee’s FOTD 3/27/20

FOTD: Orchids

I have plenty of orchid show pictures so I don’t need to worry about not finding flowers to post for Cee’s FOTD!

Sunday Trees: Biblical Trees

Last year on our trip to Israel, we visited the Garden of Gethsemane, where we saw centuries-old olive trees. Olive trees don’t grow super tall – they just seem to get more gnarly with age! This massive olive tree, now protected by a fence, is the tree against which Jesus prayed in the Garden of […]