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
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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
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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
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.
Beauty and the beast
Posted: October 11, 2021 in Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, squaresTags: #PastSquares, Arizona, cacti, cactus flower, flower, Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Life in Colour: orange, squares, SquareUp challenge
Where I live, “spiky” and “flower” are often found side by side. In this case, we’ll just add “orange” for the trifecta. Happy Friday!
Art
Posted: October 10, 2021 in One Word Sunday, squaresTags: art, pastries, circles, One Word Sunday, #OWS, SquareUp challenge, #PastSquares, One Word Sunday: art, edible art, San Diego farmers market
This orange is not for eating!
Posted: October 9, 2021 in Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Six-Word Saturday, squaresTags: #PastSquares, #sixwordsaturday, #SWS, Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria), Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Life in Colour: orange, mushrooms, poisonous mushrooms, Six-Word Saturday, squares, SquareUp challenge
Giants from squares past: trees
Posted: October 8, 2021 in squaresTags: McDowell Forest Preserve, Naperville Illinois, Past Squares, squares, SquareUp challenge, trees
Needless to say, NOT from Arizona, although we did get a huge thunderstorm and hard rain (for about half an hour) yesterday. Loved it and I loved these trees from my old haunt in Illinois, McDowell Forest Preserve.
Orange you going to say you missed me??
Posted: October 6, 2021 in Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, squaresTags: French pastries, Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Life in Colour: orange, orange, squares, SquareUp challenge, Sweet Wheat Redondo Beach, tartlet
Like the poltergeist in the eponymous movie “Poltergeist”, I’m baaaaack. 🙂 Actually got back the end of last week but have been dealing with helping-aging-parents things so today’s the first day back on the blog. But first news first: God willing, we’ll be grandparents to a baby boy end of March-ish next year. 🙂 First one for both sides of the family so exciting times. ❤
On the blogging side of things, Jude’s moved to one of fall’s bright colors/colours: “orange”, so here’s my first offering: an apricot tartlet from the newly-opened “Sweet Wheat” in Redondo Beach, California, an artisan boulangerie run by French brothers and it is, as my sister-in-law in France said when I sent her some photos, “a proper bakery.” Don’t hate me if you look at the photos and read descriptions of what they have to offer. The first day I had a wonderful pain au chocolat (“proper name”, no “chocolate croissant” here); the morning I left, this not-too-sweet tartlet. Délicieux!
I also noticed Becky is allowing us crazy retro freedom this month with “Past Squares” as the theme. Several she shared are “bright” and “circles and squares.” This hits “bright” and “circles” so, Becky, you get a tartlet as well!
