Milka Pejovic

Travel theme: Wood sculpture of lifesize raccoons in tree trunk

Travel theme: Sculpture

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Today I’m participating in Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Theme photo challenge. This week’s theme is “sculpture”. If you like what you see, feel free to subscribe and receive nature photography updates a few times a week.

For this theme, I decided to use wood sculptures that were all created by the same person, David Roy from Idyllwild, California. You can find his wood sculptures as you walk around town, in front of people’s homes and local shops, and of course, right in the center of Idyllwild, with this huge town monument.

Travel theme: Sculpture - town monument in Idyllwild, California — Travel theme: Sculpture – town monument in Idyllwild, California

This is probably the biggest wood sculpture I saw while visiting his outside workshop. This Buddha statue below is unfinished at this point but it shows this artist doesn’t only carve animals. Not that I don’t like this animal sculptures. They all look great. My own Buddha wood sculpture at home would fit in the hand of this Buddha.

Travel theme: Sculpture - large wood sculpture of Buddha — Travel theme: Sculpture – large wood sculpture of Buddha

Check out this lifesize wood sculpture of a bear – impressive!

Travel theme: Sculpture of a lifesize bear

Here’s another bear wood sculpture, this one a little similar to the town monument, but smaller.

Travel theme: Wood sculpture of a lifesize bear and eagle

I also love the various animals he has peeking out of tree trunks. Very cute!

Travel theme: Wood sculpture of lifesize bear cubs in tree trunks

Travel theme: Wood sculpture of a lifesize owl in tree trunk

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Layers of pine tree sap

Macro Monday: Pine tree sap from up close

Today I’m taking part in the Macro Monday photo challenge. If you like what you see, I encourage you to subscribe so you can enjoy the new photos I post a few times a week.

I love pine trees. I love their many varieties, their fragrance, their height and the way their branches stretch out as far as they can. I got to enjoy a lot of pine trees last week and for the first time, I took a closer look at their trunks. As I tried to photograph the many patterns of their bark while at a park, I noticed many trees had sap dripping out of their bark. And that sap itself was worth taking pictures. Here are a few photos of pine tree sap I had time to sort out. I have way more photos to go through, so I hope to do more posts on this in the near future. I hope you enjoy these few photos to start with.

The first thing I noticed when photographing pine tree sap is, it often comes with bugs that are stuck in there. The second thing I noticed is, if you photograph it from the right angle, you’ll see plenty of reflections in it.

Macro Monday: Pine tree sap from up close

Tree sap comes in all shapes and sizes. Check out this long hanging sap, as well as the small hook that’s attached to the tree trunk. How cool is that?

Macro Monday: Pine tree sap hanging from tree

Tree sap can also comes in different colors, depending on the color of the bark on the trunk. Check out this mix of light yellow and red tree sap.

Of course, tree sap can just drop and harden in drop shapes, but even then, you can see some patterns inside each drop. Lovely.

Macro Monday: Reflections in drops of tree sap

July 1, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Forest Photos, Photography, Tree PhotosTags: Macro Monday, Macro Monday: Pine tree sap from up close, nature photography, photography, photos, photos of trees, pine tree sap, tree sap, tree sap colors, tree sap drops, tree sap shapes 1 Comment

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Companionable

Today I’m participating in the WordPress weekly photo challenge and this week’s theme is “companionable”. If you like what you see, feel free to subscribe and receive nature photography updates a few times a week.

During our recent vacation, we tried to make friends with this little guy below, a white cottontail rabbit.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Companionable - white cottontail rabbit — WordPress weekly photo challenge: Companionable – white cottontail rabbit

He enjoyed munching on the grass all around our cabin and didn’t seem too skittish every time I took pictures of him. First I tried hiding behind trees to take his picture.

After a few days, he didn’t seem to mind the picture taking so much. The best part was watching him chase around another cottontail rabbit. Or maybe it was when he got chased by a chubby gray squirrel. Unfortunately I don’t have photos of either, so this little guy alone will have to do. No wonder people have rabbits as pets, they’re very cute and fuzzy.

June 28, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal PhotosTags: cottontail rabbits, nature photography, photography, photos, white cottontail rabbit, Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Companion, Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Companionable 10 Comments

Floral Friday Fotos: Fragaria red ruby / red ruby strawberry

Today I’m participating in Floral Friday Fotos. Remember you can click on the photos below to see them in a larger format. If you enjoy my images, I encourage you to subscribe and receive updates when I post new photos, usually 3 to 5 times a week.

A few weeks ago I visited the San Diego Botanic Garden and I spotted strawberry leaves but something was different about the strawberry flowers that came with them. These strawberry blooms weren’t white, they were bright pink!

Many of the plants in that garden are unlabeled and usually, this applies to the plants I’m really interested in. So I did some research on Google to figure out what these plants were. They are called Fragaria red ruby – the red ruby strawberry. They’re mostly used for ground cover, as they rarely bear fruit. They sure make for a pretty sight. Check out the amazing yellow and red pistils on the flower in the upper right corner. They look like someone handpainted them!

June 27, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Flower Photos, Plant PhotosTags: Floral Friday Fotos, Fragaria red ruby, nature photography, photography, photos, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, pink strawberry flowers, red ruby strawberry, strawberry blooms, strawberry pink flowers, yellow and red pistils 3 Comments

Giant dandelions in seed

I’m finally able to take a lot of photos this week and it’s taking me a while to delete the bad ones, and keep and edit the good ones. I’m capturing a nice mix of flora, fauna and landscapes and I’ll be sharing these photos as I clean them up.

Today I’ll like to share these giant dandelions in seed I spotted in a large meadow. They were the only dandelions around and measured a couple of inches wide. I was tempted to go out there and blow on them, but I wasn’t crazy about climbing over barbed wire and probably stepping on a few snakes hiding in the dry grass. I’m just glad the wind didn’t blow all these dandelions away so I could take a picture first.