Morning has broken: from the plane
Posted: October 23, 2021 in Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Six-Word SaturdayTags: #SWS, airplane, dawn, Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Life in Colour: orange, morning, morning sky, orange, Six Word Saturday, sky, view from the airplane window
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Friday (orange) flowers
Posted: October 22, 2021 in Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, squaresTags: #PastSquares, bright, flowers, Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Life in Colour: orange, orange, orange flowers, Past Squares, SquareUp challenge
Thursday Doors…up the garden path
Posted: October 21, 2021 in Thursday doorsTags: #ThursdayDoors, California, doors, gardens, gates, Redondo Beach, Thursday doors
While out for a walk in Redondo Beach, we came upon this lovely sight sporting a gate, two doors (one very hidden on the house), and a gorgeous garden. The husband of the couple who owns it was outside working and turned out to be someone our daughter and son-in-law knew. The couple had lived in this house for many years and had obviously put in a lot of work. But what a magical place!
Bee-ing orange
Posted: October 20, 2021 in Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, squaresTags: bees, Life in Colour, Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Life in Colour: orange, McDowell Forest Preserve, orange flowers
What’s not to like about a bee going about its bee buzziness? This is from “my” park in Illinois which must look beautifully fall-like now.
#PastSquares: flowers
Orange reflections
Posted: October 19, 2021 in Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021Tags: Arizona flowers, flowers, Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Life in Colour: orange, orange flowers, Pride of Barbados, reflections
We don’t get lots of falling leaves in autumn colors here but we do have some lovely orange flowers, even when upside down. 🙂 This beauty is formally known as Caesalpinia pulcherrima , a member of the pea family, and more familiarly as Pride of Barbados, Barbados Flowerfence, Peacock Flower, Mexican Bird of Paradise, Dwarf Flamboyan, Caesalpinia, and Dwarf Poinciana.
“Orange strengthens your emotional body, encouraging a general feeling of joy, well-being, and cheerfulness. Orange vibration foods are: oranges, tangerines, apricots, mangoes, peaches and carrots.”
~Tae Yun Kim, The First Element: Secrets to Maximizing Your Energy
Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow. ~Wassily Kandinsky
Palm reading Coronado Island style
Posted: October 18, 2021 in squaresTags: Coronado Island California, hotels, palm trees, squares, Squares: trees, SquareUp challenge, travel, trees
We didn’t stay in the Hotel de Coronado, but we had a grand time walking around outside and admiring the grounds as well as the stately building itself. Palm trees are iconically California (and Arizona), but they do a lot of shedding and take a great deal of work, work you have to pay someone else to do. I’ll stick with just admiring them on someone else’s property. 🙂
Seasonal
Posted: October 17, 2021 in One Word Sunday, squaresTags: #OWS, #PastSquares, California, Halloween, One Word Sunday, One Word Sunday: seasonal, Past Squares, seasonal, Squares: time, SquareUp challenge, time of the year, witches
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #170: Street Art
Posted: October 16, 2021 in Lens-Artist Photo ChallengeTags: Lens-Artist Photo Challenge, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #170: Street Art, quotes about street art, Redondo Beach street art, street art
I found the answer to Patti’s challenge of finding street art during a recent visit to Redondo Beach, California. This isn’t your street art by well-known artists, but rather the sort you find as you walk around the shops and businesses in a neighborhood.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~Pablo Picasso
That’s the test of street art – to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn’t like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them. Jenny Holzer
Speak softly but carry a big can of paint. ~Banksy
(Sorry about the railing, but I wouldn’t get the entire picture if I was on the other side of the railing.)
To bee or to bee big
Posted: October 16, 2021 in Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Six-Word Saturday, squaresTags: #PastSquares, bee, bee sculpture, California, Descanso Gardens, Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Life in Colour: orange, Past Squares, SquareUp challenge
Friday flowers: love is a rose
Posted: October 15, 2021 in Cee's Photo Challenges, flowers, Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, squaresTags: #PastSquares, Flower of the Day, flowers, FOTD, Life in Colour, Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Life in Colour: orange, Manhattan Beach, orange roses, roses, squares, SquareUp challenge
If Linda Ronstadt is right and “Love is a Rose”, walking along Manhattan Beach provides plenty opportunities to be loved! This rose has just enough orange for this month’s Life in Colour challenge.
