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Wordless Wednesday…up for a snack
Posted: January 13, 2021 in squaresTags: animals, Nature, rabbit, Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch, squares, SquareUp, SquareUp challenge
Winter pomegranates
Posted: January 5, 2021 in NatureTags: fruit, Nature, pomegranates, Southwest winter, trees, winter
Playing with editing again at the start of this new year. Winter looks different in the Southwest…and feels different, too. Yesterday I was sitting on our back patio reading and basking in the sun. Of course it’s in the mid-thirties when I get up in the morning, but it’s generally managed to edge into the mid-sixties or higher by mid-afternoon. Since I can’t have snow, I guess I’ll take it. 🙂


Christmas cactus
Posted: December 28, 2020 in UncategorizedTags: Arizona, Arizona cactus, Christmas, Christmas cactus, humor, Nature
Arizona-style.

You were perhaps expecting…?

Nothing clever. I just like it.
Posted: December 12, 2020 in Six-Word Saturday, UncategorizedTags: #SWS, abstract nature, Nature, Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch, Six-Word Saturday
Wordless Wednesday…leaves
Posted: December 9, 2020 in Wordless WednesdayTags: autumn, fall, leaves, Nature, Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch, Wordless Wednesday

Backlit
Posted: December 8, 2020 in birdsTags: backlit, birds, lighting, Nature, Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch, snowy egret
Everything is black and white
Posted: December 7, 2020 in birdsTags: American pelican, American pelicans, birds, black and white, cormorants, fishing birds, Nature, Pearl Harbor Day, pelicans, photo bombing, quotes about black and white, Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch, snowy egret
Although when in the sleepy pod the first day I saw them these American pelicans looked, with the exception of their exceptional beaks, completely white, on this day they were showing off their underlying black decorative touches.
“Life is better in black and white!”
― Avijeet Das
“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!”
― Ted Grant
Does this count for birds, too? Stretch those wings!
“The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.”
― Vikrmn, 10 Alone
Little photo bombing snowy egret in the background.
Photo bombing again, but in aggressive cormorant black. Doesn’t the middle pelican look as if it has its proverbial hands on proverbial hips in annoyance?
It’s also Pearl Harbor Day here in the U.S. as well as my mom’s and good friend’s birthdays. Can you imagine living in California and having your birthday on Pearl Harbor Day? Not the best birthday my mom ever had!
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #126: An Alphabet Challenge–Subjects That Begin with the Letter A.
Posted: December 5, 2020 in Lens-Artist Photo ChallengeTags: animals, animals in McDowell Forest Preserve, architecture, art, Chicago, Lens-Artist Photo Challenge, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #126: An Alphabet Challenge–Subjects That Begin with the Letter A, McDowell Forest Preserve, Naperville Illinois, Nature, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Bean, Things that begin with the letter A
Phew! Patti, I think you win the award for the looooongest title challenge to date, at least that I’ve seen.
I’m featuring photos from Illinois today and although I know most of you expect nature when you come here, what could be more iconicalyl Illinois than the Arcs and Arches of the Bean in Chicago? It’s a mind-bending Awesome Artistic beauty.
These Architectural features (and yes, you could say Arcs again) are found in the Art Institute of Chicago.

Let’s close with a two-fer: Animals in a nature Alley.
for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #126: An Alphabet Challenge–Subjects That Begin with the Letter A.
Wordless Wednesday…black and gold
Posted: December 2, 2020 in NatureTags: Descanso Gardens, fish, Nature, Wordless Wednesday