CFFC: Greens

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is my favorite color: Green!! Here’s an essay I wrote years ago about green, in a series about colors. Yes, I know this is a PHOTO challenge but I am going to try to combine the photos and narrative. Green is the best color because it is the color […]

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Monochrome

Lens-Artists’ weekly photo challenge #70 has the topic monochrome. Monochrome can be either black & white or varying hues of the same color. Normally, to create a black & white photo, I use my photo software to change it from color to B&W, since I do virtually all my photography in color. In this photo, […]

FOTD: Raspberries

Taken at the Moorings community gardens, August 2019. Posted for Cee’s FOTD 10/19/19 (which she says may include leaves and berries!).

Friendly Friday Photo Challenge: Leaves

S.t.P.A. has a photo challenge called “Friendly Friday Photo Challenge” and this week’s challenge is leaves. This is my first time participating in this challenge! I took this photo at a local park in Des Plaines in June. Since this was taken, I have moved! I know live at a senior community in Arlington Heights. Here […]

One Word Sunday: Vertical

Debbie S. at Travel With Intent has a challenge called One Word Sunday. This week the word is vertical. You know spring is coming when you see vertical shoots emerging from the ground in your garden! Des Plaines, Illinois, USA Vertical columns at the ruins of Caesarea, Israel Upright slab (stela) with vertical symbols at […]

Last Spiky Square!

For this last day of Becky’s Spiky Squares month, I am posting another photo taken in the desert greenhouse at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. I found this month’s challenge to be fun and interesting. I didn’t have a chance to participate as much as I would have liked because, well, LIFE intervened! My spiky desert […]

Spiky Squares: Cactus

I liked this twisty, spiky cactus at the Chicago Botanic Gardens, and am posting it for Becky’s Spiky Squares Month photo challenge.

Spiky Squares: Desert Spikes

Another spiky plant from the Chicago Botanic Gardens for Becky’s Month of Spiky Squares today. Join the fun by posting your spiky photos to this challenge!

Spiky Squares: Cacti

Becky’s Month of Squares in March is spiky. Here are some cacti I saw at Chicago Botanic Gardens the other day.

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 […]