Today the weather was cool and overcast so I went for a walk around the neighborhood, and I couldn’t resist shooting some of the gorgeous roses I saw blooming at various locations. I just love these colors — and luckily they are easier for my camera to render more accurately than the deep red ones I often stop to admire.
Last Friday, after spending about an hour wandering from the top to the bottom of Fort Point, I was happily surprised to discover all kinds of colorful flowers near the Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Center. Even though I can’t identify them, they were just what I needed to see on this day when the sun was obscured not by […]
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Pastel colors.
July is not my favorite month, mostly because of the heat. Still, there are plenty of good things that happen during July: Independence Day, family birthdays, anniversaries — and of course the Tour de France. And no Tour can be really complete until I see the peloton riding through a field of sunflowers: Since that video doesn’t really do justice […]
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an iris quite this color before. There are so many different categories and shades of these graceful flowers! To learn more about bearded iris color terms, check out the American Iris Society’s blog, World of Irises.
Although I can’t identify all the locations this week, some of the images are becoming more familiar. Crater Lake is easy for me since I visited it (however briefly) back in 1979; but now I’ve learned to recognize some of Yosemite’s prime beauty spots purely from going through all these old slides!