Monday Up Close

Thought I would share a few more photos from our summer trip.  These were taken in a small roadside area that is maintained by individuals it appeared.  The park was near Door County, Wisconsin.  Hope this brings some sunshine to another Monday.

Thanks to Gemma & Magical Mystical Teacher
for hosting Macro Monday 2

Thursday Challenge – Motion

“MOTION” (Things Spinning, Going Fast, Motion Blur, Moving, Running,…)

Thursday Challenge is a place for photographic fun and learning. A theme is announced on this site each week. You may either take a new photograph related in some way to the theme or select one that you have taken previously;

 All the participants can been seen at Thursday Challenge.  Thanks to host Dale of spunwithtears

Macro Shots

Its is another Monday.  Staying inside today as there are heavy rains and bad weather.  Sharing a few snaps between rain showers.

Please, drop by the two sites hosting sites to share life up close:

Thanks to Gemma & Magical Mystical Teacher
for hosting Macro Monday 2

Thanks to Laura for hosting i heart macro

Still Life

“STILL LIFE” (Food, Flowers, Rocks, Shells, Vases, Books, Jewelry,…)

Thursday Challenge is a place for photographic fun and learning. A theme is announced on this site each week. You may either take a new photograph related in some way to the theme or select one that you have taken previously.

Mine are previously shot photos cause I do not like getting in the cold wind to take photos of winter dead things : )  We in the Northern hemisphere are ready for some sun and color!

I will be submitting to Skywatch Friday, Saturday Critters, Macro Monday II, and I Heart Macro.  Please, take a few minutes to visit the meme sites for wonderful photos.  You’ll be glad you did.

Goldfinch among the summer flowers

Hyacinth and wolly lamb’s ear in spring.

Summer skies with a critter on the cleome hasseleriana

Robin in the rock garden.

Thursday Challenge

Thanks to host Dale of spunwithtears

Thanks to Skywatch Friday hosts

Yogi,Sylvia and Sandy

 Thanks to Saturday’s Critters host Eileen.

Thanks to Gemma & Magical Mystical Teacher
for hosting Macro Monday 2

Thanks to Laura for hosting i heart macro

Sunday on the Patio

Sunday morning time was spent in the little garden area around our apartment patio.  Here are a few of the captures from this time spent working with the new camera using two different 39-year-old lenses from our first SLR camera.  Not much automation for these.  Hope you can enjoy this little bit of beauty I saw this morning.

Gossamer winged dragonfly viewed through our patio fence.

 Some nice grasses.

 Rose bushes and trumpet vines in bloom.

 There is a fence gate, just out of focus as the flowers were getting my attention.

 A white winged dove with a damaged foot/claw.  It limps around our place.  Wish I could help it.

Holding the foot/claw as it perches.

Another Google Awesome animation shows the limp.

At last my husband came to join me and brought press pot coffee!

Thanks for stopping by and for any comments you may wish to leave.

Contributing to:

MACRO MONDAY 2

I Heart Macro

 

Wild Bird Wednesday

Good Fences

In The Pink

A recent stroll yielded this lovely specimen of what research shows to be a red yucca, Hesperaloe parviflora.

Enjoy other views of our world up close.  Macro Monday 2 and I Heart Macro are two excellent photo mems for this viewing.

Macro Monday

Wow!  How did it get to be Monday already!  Hope all had a good weekend.   Here in the States folks celebrated Mother’s Day.  But that has nothing to do with what I am sharing today, a photo from a recent stroll through a nearby park.  For lots of beautiful closeups visit Laura for I Heart Macro and Gemma at Macro Monday 2.

I am submitting to:

Sky Watch Friday, TX

The most wonderful thing happened last night, a thunderstorm.  Lots of lightning, wind and some much needed rain.  Much of this state is in severe drought conditions so all moisture is welcome.  Here are my contributions from my morning walk in a rain soaked portion of Texas.  For more sky shots from around the globe click on over to Sky Watch Friday.  Thanks to hosts Yogi, Sylvia and Sandy for the opportunity to share our world sky views.

 

SKY WATCH FRIDAY

 

Macro Monday 2

Macro Monday 2 shares the world closeup.  This week I am sharing the trumpet vine flowers on our patio.  Click here for all the beauty of this earth up close and personal!