Pink Flowers
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Pink or Magenta Flowers: Neighborhood roses Homegrown camellias
WPC: Optimistic
The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of January 22, 2016
Blue or Purple Flowers
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, […]
WPC: Alphabet
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of January 15, 2016 Seen at Folsom Pioneer Village, January 2016
Yellow/Orange Flowers
Garden flowers: It took me a fair bit of Googling but I believe these are Canna Lilies. Although the flowers look a bit droopy, their bright orange hue caught my eye as I was walking through my neighborhood, and I had to go back for a photo. The colors here a more subtle but still glorious. I’m lucky to have neighbors who enjoy tending to roses, and just walking past the colorful blooms brightens my day. Wildflowers: Indian paintbrush along the base of the cliffs at Negro Bar State Park. I had to try several times before finally getting some good shots of these flowers; they lie at the base of a cliff that gets heavy sunlight most of the day, and that tends to make accurate photo coloring tough. If it’s not too sunny, it’s usually too breezy — these beautiful buds do a lot of swaying in the wind!
White Flowers
Hollyhock flower seen in my neighborhood. These flowers originated in Asia and Europe and are now widely popular with gardeners. Kyoto, Japan, holds an annual Hollyhock Festival every May. For white flowers, I need look no farther than the camellias in my driveway. We have two plants; one produces white petals and the other produces pink/red flowers. Now is the […]
WPC: Weight(less)
The Daily Post weekly photo challenge for the week of January 8, 2016 This enormous granite core is displayed in Folsom’s Pioneer Village just off Sutter Street. Here’s a close-up of the attached information card: And for contrast, here’s a feather I spotted as it seemed to levitate near the edge of one of my favorite portions of the Pioneer Express Trail at Negro Bar State Park.
WPC: Circles
The Daily Post Photo Challenge for the week of January 1 Most knitters, whether they’ve learned to spin their own fiber into yarn or not, will feel the urge to sit up and take notice whenever they spot one of these: I’ve no interest in learning to be a spinner, but when I saw this old wheel in the Folsom History Museum, I felt duty bound to take some pictures. Because even though, these days, most yarn does not come from such a spinning wheel but rather from big industrial machines, those of us obsessed with the craft feel a firm connection to knitters in the past, who didn’t have the convenience of a quick trip to the local yarn shop or ordering online. The ones who had to prepare the fleece and spin up their own wool before they could knit a pair of socks or a hat.
WPC: The Ice Rink
The Daily Post Photo Challenge for the week of November 27 — just a little bit late. Transition Before: After: