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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. And 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 recently visited the San Diego Botanic Garden and photographed the flowers below. I love that garden for the variety of plants I can see there, but it really bugs me to realize only half of them seem to have a label. So I have no idea what the flowers below are. All I can say is, they’re puffy pinkish purple (mostly purple) flowers and their shrub leaves are so light green, they look almost white. This gives a very interesting background to the flowers. If you know what this plant with puffy purple flowers is, please share in the comments section below. Enjoy!
Macro Monday: purple flowers and white leavesMacro Monday: purple flowers with thin, long petalsMacro Monday: Close-up of purple flowers with skinny petals
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This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme is the season of spring. Spring is my favorite season, especially in San Diego. I love witnessing the rebirth of nature and noticing all the beautiful colors popping up around town.
I’m using the gallery format to feature my photos of spring. You can click on any photo below 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!
Yellow rose about to open
Wordpress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV – Orange rose at Balboa Park in San Diego
Purple and whote Ramona lilac in bloom
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Walking down the trail
Trail bordered by Ramona lilacs
Macro Monday: Small purple wildflowers
Travel theme: delicate rain drop on grass
Close-up of pink manuka flowers
A word a week – violet wildflowers with dew drops
Close-up of the pear blossoms in Balboa Park
Wordpress weekly photo challenge: the hue of you – lampranthus productus iceplant
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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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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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