I spy with my little Eye

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Eyes. This week’s topic is Eyes. Eyes have such an expression in animals and humans.  Have fun with this challenge this week.  Use your imagination if you want for this theme.  The thing is to have a lot of fun with this challenge. I was sitting at my desk one morning when I suddenly had […]

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Temple Bells

I noticed these wonderful flowers in San Francisco’s Botanical Garden, in the area known as the Exhibition Garden.  They are a rare variety of abutilon, sometimes called Flowering Maple. It’s very easy to see why they’re called Temple Bells.  I was fascinated by their brilliant colors and the appearance of the red veins.  Apparently other varieties of the abutilon are saucer […]

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WPC: Frame

The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of August 26, 2016. Use your surroundings to capture a different point of view. One of my favorite local trails runs through a thick grove of mostly oak, cottonwood, and willow trees, with some occasional evergreens mixed in.  This beautiful old redwood reaches high above the tree canopy, guarding the trail in […]

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Before and After

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance — Alan Watts Today I’ve been digging around in my collection of old prints and negatives.  Since I’d never tried my new slide scanner on negatives yet, I was interested to see what sort of results I would get.  If nothing else, […]

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