Nature’s gold

I think nature’s gold is the very best and I offer you two examples of why I think so. This will be my last post for September as I’m on the way to southern California for another visit with our older daughter, husband, and grandchild-in-the-making. I’ll even be attending my first gender-reveal party but no, there will be no fireworks to start forest fires or anything happening that might kill someone or destroy property! Just family and friends and a cake that when cut, will have frosting colored to reveal boy or girl. Whatever happened to the element of surprise that we looked for? 🙂

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for Life in Colour: gold

Lamp of many colors, including gold

We had a Tiffany-style light fixture in our Ohio house, shallower but wider than this one, but it stayed with the house when we sold it. Kind of wish we’d taken it along, but you can’t take everything.

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Golden fungus

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Golden walls

Some years ago we were in Philadelphia for our younger daughter’s graduation from art school. Our very nice hotel had golden walls, probably paid for by the not-inexpensive rates they charged, but we did have a grand time and an enormous room that served as a gathering place for the entire clan.

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for One Word Sunday: closed and Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge: gates and fences

Lens-Artists Challenge #166 – Artificial Light

Ann-Christine is looking for examples of artificial light in this week’s challenge, which is quite a challenge for me as most of my light is in nature. I’ve trawled through some of my archives to find a few examples to share with you. I hope you enjoy them and have a marvelous weekend. We’re binge watching the Vancouver rugby 7’s tournament today and probably tomorrow as well. 🙂 What are you doing?

My favorite view of a large city, Los Angeles in this case, is at night when the artificial light reigns supreme. This is a view from the observatory.

Light in the chapel in Sedona’s lovely shopping area, Tlaquepaque, reminiscent of some of Europe’s small chapels. If you book early and pay an unknown amount, you can have your wedding here. 🙂

Indubitably artificial light.

A thing more precious than gold

for Six-Word Saturday and Life in Colour: gold

Friday flowers…crowned with gold

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Thursday doors…Boyce Thompson Arboretum

Boyce Thompson Arboretum is a place that many people recommended when we first moved here and we finally visited with my brother and sister-in-law earlier this year, getting there very early to avoid the heat or at least the worst of it. It turned out to be half price day, making it even better. Although it was recommended as a place to find birds, we didn’t see many but had a great time anyway. Thankfully the wildfire that threatened it later in the year stopped just at the top of the ridge. It would have been a terrible loss.

It seemed an unlikely place to look for doors, but I found some anyway. 🙂

All I can find out about the house is that it was built in 1915 and was home to a family of 5 who sold produce to local miners. But if you’d like to take a walk to the house while seeing what a tiny slice of the arboretum is like, click here.

Sailing gold

It’s a bit of sailing gold for us today as we’ve been sailing through life together today for 37 years. 🙂

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