I am going to challenge myself and hopefully you to take a look at nature. What is going on in your area? Is it spring in your part of the world or are you heading into cold weather. Take a little walk….. look at something you might never had paid attention to..a flower…a plant..an animal…What changes are taking place?..Is your garden starting to come to life again?..Step outside and close your eyes. What do you hear? …take a deep breath…What do you smell?
I’d really like to know how my blogger friends feel about what they observe in nature. Post a photo..a poem..artwork or a even few words about what you see and how it made you feel…
Robin Red Breast, photograph taken in May 2009A Sparrow Sings to Me, photograph taken May 2009House sparrow in the tree, photograph May 2009
I finally got a 75-300mm zoom lens for my camera, and I can photograph…BIRDS! I sent my “exotic” bird photos off to Michelle, and she told me I had captured a robin and a sparrow. Well, at least now I know what an American robin and a house sparrow look like. Thank you, Michelle, for your inspiration! And a local birder expert just informed me: “The house sparrows are both males. Females don’t have that black in front.”
Who would have thought that chives up close can produce such pretty purple flowers? I look forward to my sage plant blooming as well; it also produces lovely purple blooms.
This was what I photographed of my columbine plant one week ago.
Here’s the same plant one week later, with an open white bloom.
The bleeding heart plant (dicentra spectabilis) on the side of my house is showing its little pink hearts. After a while, the greenery of this perennial plant dies down, and one has to be careful to leave it alone so it will bloom again next year.
A Design, For Fun! (more of this design, coming soon PLUS can you answer the question I asked in that post? Dhaval got the answer.)
Upcoming in Highland Park: bring your used books to the Highland Park Public Library starting on Monday. And in Edison, there’s an upcoming mayoral primary.
flower of an andromeda shrub, photo taken March 2009
This week’s Thursday Challenge theme is SPRING (Birds, Flowers, Puddles, Trees Budding, Spring Cleaning, Young Animals,…). Click to enlarge.
Yes, this is the way my life functions; we go on one trip to Sandy Hook, and the result is posts for at least two weeks of this Jersey Shore area. (I still have photos from last June’s Israel trip that I could share, but not today).
This photo has more detail of the object in question. Now can you guess what it is?
See previous Guess the Object post (there are clues in the comments). Mottel correctly guessed the answer; you can see it in the comments. As a reward to him, please go visit his blog and see some of his beautiful photos. Some of have been posted to CNN.
Some of you get paid to speak; others hope to get paid one day. One thing that we all face as paid speakers is the issue of payment vs. exposure. That is, we will be invited to speak pro bono, or will be offered less than our usual rate, and we’ll have to decide if it’s worth it to take less money in order to get exposure or visibility…only a few of my pro bono speaking engagements have paid off in clients or future speaking engagements. Read the rest.
Last Sunday we went to Sandy Hook, a lovely beach with dunes at the top of the New Jersey Shore. There is a bay side and an ocean side to Sandy Hook.
Ocean, beach, and sky at Sandy Hook, New Jersey
In contrast to the golden sunset above, the sky was blue at the beach a few hours earlier.
Sky Watch Friday is a photo meme with photos of sunrises, sunsets, blue skies, gray skies, pink skies, dark skies and any other kind of sky posted by bloggers all over the planet.
Michelle at Rambling Woods writes:
