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Today I’m participating in Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Theme photo challenge. This week’s theme is “beaches”. Living in San Diego, it’s easy for me to get to the beach, yet I don’t do it very often. I love the fresh air and the wind, the smell of the ocean. I can’t stand the sand in my shoes and driving around for a parking spot. You can’t have it all!
I featured most of the photos below on my site before but I thought it’d be nice to put them together in a single post on beaches, in this case Coronado Beach. I’m using the gallery format for this today. Click on any photo to open the slideshow. To view any photo in a larger format, just scroll down while in slideshow mode and click on “view full size” on the bottom right on the page. Enjoy!
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – the waves at Coronado Beach
Wordpress weekly photo challenge: horizon at Coronado Beach
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth – San Diego sandy beach
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – the waves at Coronado Beach
Sailboats out of the San Diego Bay
Cee’s fun foto challenge: One crab camouflaged in the sand
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the waves of the Pacific Ocean
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Escape to Coronado Beach
Travel theme – beaches
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the ocean waves
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Today I’m taking part in Macro Monday at Lisa’s Chaos. Remember you can click on each image to see it in a larger format.
Last week, it rained. For two days. On and off, but mostly on. You may think rain isn’t a big deal, but when you live in San Diego, rain in May is a rare occurrence. It will probably be the last rain we get until next November so I tried to enjoy every raindrop, even though I hate walking or driving in the rain.
After the rain stopped, I took a few photos of the leftover raindrops on yellow roses. It’s amazing how such big raindrops can remain attached to the rose petals, defying gravity.
Macro Monday: raindrops on yellow rose
I love the patterns these raindrops form on each rose petal.
Macro Monday: raindrops on yellow rose petals
This is the same yellow rose as above, but photographed from a different angle. It’s interesting to see how the raindrops reflect the light and surroundings differently.
Macro Monday: close-up of raindrops on yellow rose
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If you’re a mom, I wish you a very happy Mother’s Day. For this post, I’ll feature something a little different – several of the many mother’s day cards and gifts my kids have given me this past week.
My eldest drew this Mother’s Day card early in the week. He knows for sure that my favorite colors are purple and pink and that I enjoy nature a lot!
Sunday Post: Mother’s Day
This is my youngest’s mother’s day card from school.
Sunday Post: Mother’s Day card
This is what was inside. I’m not sure which one I like best.
Sunday Post: Mother’s Day pledge
My youngest also created many love notes this week. Here are just a few. Can you feel the love?
Sunday Post: Mother’s Day love notes
And here’s his cute present he made at school. It’s a piece of fabric to hang on the wall. Cute!
Sunday Post: Mother’s Day gift from child
My eldest created a “mom book” at school, listing what he likes about me and why he loves me. He’s the front cover for the book. It really looks like me! You’ll notice I don’t have a nose. It’s because the teacher told the kids not to draw one, otherwise the nose could be really ugly. How considerate of her!
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I’m going to use this photo challenge as an opportunity to feature a few more of the rose photos I took this past weekend at the rose garden in San Diego’s Balboa Park. You can see the other rose photos here and here.
Here’s another multicolored rose that featured a pleasant rose fragrance. It helps that it’s also very pretty to look at.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of a multicolored rose
I loved the fragrance of the next rose. It had a very delicate and pure scent. Mmmmmm…
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of a fragrant rose
Other flowers can smell very look, including lavender, which comes in many varieties and sizes.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of lavender
One scent I really enjoy is the one of wet dirt and grass after the rain. This after the rain scent is not too common in San Diego so I love it when it happens.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of wet dirt after the rain
My favorite flower fragrance is lilac blossoms. Unfortunately common lilacs don’t like the San Diego hot and dry weather too much, so we find a different type here in nature called the Ramona lilac. Its scent is very, very light but it still looks pretty.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of Ramona lilac blossoms
For my last photo, I’ll share one of my favorite scents: the smell of the ocean, here at Coronado Beach. I love the mix of iodine, salt and seaweed. Can you smell it?
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Today I’m participating in the A Word A Week Challenge. This week’s theme is “orange”. I encourage you to click on each photo to see a larger view. If you like what you see, please subscribe to this blog to receive updates of the new photos I post, usually 3 to 5 times a week.
Orange is far from being my favorite color but I love how nature displays it boldly. My favorite display has to be this orange dragonfly I captured a few weeks ago. It was a lucky shot for sure. You can see my photo of a blue dragonfly here.
A Word A Week Challenge – Orange rose at Balboa Park
I tried to use the very cloudy sky as a background for the next photo. I kind of like the effect, although I bet this rose would be absolutely beautiful on a blue background since the two colors are opposite on the color wheel.
A Word A Week Challenge – Orange rose at Balboa Park in San Diego
And here’s a last large burst of orange roses for you!
A Word A Week Challenge – Orange rose in San Diego’s rose garden
This next rose is more subtle and displays a mix of orange, yellow and light pink. I love this type of tea roses and they usually smell very good.
A Word A Week Challenge – Orange tea rose in Balboa Park rose garden
Of course, roses are not the only flowers that are orange. Here are a few more orange flowers I’ve photographed in the past, like this beautiful orange protea pincushion.
A Word A Week Challenge – Orange protea pincushion protea flower
I’m not sure what the next flower is called but I love its big fuzzy petals.
A Word A Week Challenge – Orange flower with fuzzy petals
I like the orange leaves of fall foliage. We don’t get a lot of that in San Diego, so it’s nice to spot it here and there.
A Word A Week Challenge – Orange leaves of a sumac tree in the fall
Of course, I can’t participate in an orange theme without displaying an orange, can I? Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
A Word A Week Challenge – Orange on the orange tree
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