On the Hunt for Joy: Shades & Hues

Cee’s On the Hunt for Joy challenge continues with this week’s topic: color code. She says: This one is all about color and keeping the same color or hues together. Tip from Ingrid Fetell Lee: Color-code: Organizing by color brings instant harmony to your bookshelf or your closet. The best photos I’ve taken that are […]

FOTD: Carnivorous Pitcher Plant

This pitcher plant attracts insects with its nectar and is caught on the plant’s rim, which has a slippery surface. When the insect lands or crawls onto the slippery surface, it falls down into the plant and is consumed by digestive juices the plant produces. Carnivorous plants such as the pitcher plant grow in areas […]

2020 Photo Challenge #6: Patterns

2020 Photo Challenge is about working on techniques to improve one’s photography. This month’s theme is patterns. Here are some of the host’s suggestions: February: Being Creative with Patterns look for various types of patterns – squares, circles, triangles and so on. Shoot from a different perspective. Look up, look down or shoot from a […]

CFFC: Autumnal

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is autumn scenes.

CFFC: Summer Scenes

Cee continues her season theme in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge and this week is summer scenes. I could include many more, because summer is my favorite season!

FOTD: Palms & Flowers in Tel Aviv

Cee’s FOTD also includes plants, so I am posting another photo taken exactly one year ago today, on January 16, 2019, our last day in Israel. We took a bus tour around Tel Aviv and I snapped lots of photos from the bus, including this one, of a small green area with palms and some […]

FOTD: Flowering Bushes in Israel: Church of the Beatitudes & Capernaum

Again, I am posting flower/plant photos taken exactly one year ago. On January 10, 2019, we visited several places in northern Israel, including Capernaum, a village where Jesus spent much time teaching and healing. Archaeological excavations have revealed two synagogues, one built on top of the other. This second photo was taken in the gardens […]

FOTD: Plant & Flowers at Tel Dan Nature Reserve

I chose these photos to post for Cee’s FOTD 1/9/20 because I took them exactly one year ago today, when we were in Israel at the Tel Dan Nature Reserve.

Lens-Artists #78: Special Spot Shots

One of my favorite spots to visit in the Chicago area is the Chicago Botanic Gardens. It’s nice to visit during different times of year when different plants and flowers are featured. And in December, there is Lightscape – a light show that takes over the gardens four nights a week during the holiday season. […]

CFFC: Mostly Monochrome

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge continues with the theme of colors. This week the topic is basically one color or hue. This photo was not shot nor edited black & white. The trees and clouds actually looked like this on a spring day in northern Wisconsin. Turtles at The Grove visitors’ center, Mt. Prospect, IL Chinese […]