Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Single Flowers or Bud. This week’s topic is a single flower or bud. The concept for this challenge is to show off a single flower in all it’s glory. It can be cropped a tiny bit but no macros of only part of a flower.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is The Colors Yellow and Red. Just like in the White and Blue Challenge you can show off photo that are basically all yellow or all red. Plus I really encourage you to combine the both red and yellow colors in your photos. It turns out I don’t take very many pictures of things that are […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of March 11, 2016: One love refers to the universal love and respect expressed by all people for all people, regardless of race, creed, or color. —The Urban Dictionary This post is late, since for me the past week has been One Of Those Weeks™, but I really wanted to share what’s been on my mind. Recently I’ve been reading Dee Brown‘s classic book, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. I also went to visit (for the first time) a local park where the remains of a historic Maidu village are preserved, along with an attached museum. By coincidence, I’ve also been sorting through some of my very old photos, including some taken at the Miwok site called Chaw sé, also known as Indian Grinding Rock State Park. All this has given me a lot to think about. The Maidu village was perfectly located near a water source, and amid heritage oaks and other trees and plants. All the resources — water, earth, rocks, acorn, willow, tule — and the abundant animal life meant that the people had everything they needed to live well. They lived in connection to the earth, without wasting their resources and in full appreciation of all the earth provided to them. In the Miwok tribal roundhouse, they celebrated all the richness of these gifts and carefully passed on to the next generation the stories and traditions […]
In honor of Leap Year 2016, I’m sharing some of the amazing flowers I’ve been seeing around my neighborhood this month. Since this is the first time in my life I’ve started paying much attention to flowers, I had to do quite a bit of internet research, trying to ID each one. Thanks to Google and the awesome Wildflower Identification Guide, I think I’ve […]
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Things That Are Hot. It’s late May, and we are staying in a small cabin on the shores of beautiful Clear Lake — one of the oldest lakes in North America — during our annual fishing trip with family and close friends. Yesterday I spent a couple of hours on the deck of an […]
Two of my very favorite books growing up, and even to this day, have been Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice was always shrinking and growing and being forced to examine her world in completely new ways. I liked to play at being Alice: peering toward the edges of mirrors and pretending that backward […]
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Pink or Magenta Flowers: Neighborhood roses Homegrown camellias
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week, three wildflowers and a cultivated garden beauty. Wild iris Geraniums (thanks to Mom, when Google failed me!) Purple wildflowers. These are everywhere in the spring; but Google as I might, I couldn’t come up with a proper name. Everybody seems to just call them California wildflowers… Sweet peas (thank you, […]