Spiky Squares & FOTD: Israeli Flowers

I spotted these bright red flowers in Israel and decided to post the photo for Becky’s Spiky Squares and Cee’s FOTD 3/9/19. If anyone knows the name of this flower, please add its name to the comments! Thanks!

FOTD: Orchids

For Cee’s FOTD today, I continue with the orchid show at Chicago Botanic Gardens.

Spiky Squares – Desert Greenhouse

Becky has begun a new month of squares – yay!! This month the theme is spiky. On my visit to the Chicago Botanic Gardens the other day to see the orchid show, I also went into the desert greenhouse – I love cactus and succulents and there are plenty of “spiky” examples there! Here’s a […]

FOTD: Orchids at Chicago Botanic Gardens

On Friday, I went with a friend to Chicago Botanic Gardens’ annual orchid show. It is wonderful to see these incredibly varied and beautiful flowers, especially at this time of year when flowers provide a break from Midwest winter! So I am now ready to participate regularly in Cee’s Flower of the Day again! The […]

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge 33: Nature

Lens-Artists’ photo challenge for this week is the subject of nature. Nature is beautiful everywhere, but I chose just a few photos from our recent trip to Egypt and Israel. Egypt: On the Nile River at Aswan Israel: Hermon River at Tel Dan Israel: En Gedi nature Preserve Back home again! West Park, Des Plaines, […]

FOTD: Israeli Flowers

I don’t know the name of these flowers, but they are so bright and pretty! I took this photo in Israel last month. You can admire many more flowers at Cee’s FOTD 2/19/19.

FOTD: Bougainvillea in Egypt

At the Winter Palace Hotel in Luxor, Egypt, there were beautiful flowers growing in the gardens in back of the hotel. This is, I believe, bougainvillea. For more flowers to brighten your day, head over to Cee’s FOTD 2/11/19.

FOTD: Bright and Sunny Yellow

As I write this, the thermostat says that outside my house right now the temperature is: -12°F. The “real feel” (or wind chill) temperature is -35°F!! (That’s -24°C and -37°C respectively!) Therefore, for any others in the blogosphere who live in the Midwest and are currently being hit by the “polar vortex”, I thought it […]

A Photo a Week: Contrasting Colors in Nature and by Design

Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week challenge this week is about contrasting colors, using a color wheel which shows which colors contrast with each other. In art, we often see paintings with colors that seem to pop out of the image. An artist may use what are called “complementary colors” (contrasting colors) to emphasize something […]

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fickle December

For Weekly Prompts Photo Challenge, the theme this week is Advent weather. November here in Chicagoland was unseasonably cold – in fact, our first and only major snowfall was just after Thanksgiving! Since then, we haven’t had more than a dusting or flurries. We are never guaranteed a white Christmas and this year it looks […]