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More photos of frost in San Diego

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This is the rest of the photos of frost I took these past few weeks in San Diego, California. You can find my other photos of frost here and here. I think this may have been my last opportunity to photograph frost this winter, since we’ve been experiencing a warming trend. And what a warming it has been! While the rest of the USA is suffering from subzero temperatures, we’re enjoying afternoons in the low 80s. How crazy is that? Of course, there’s a chance the warmth won’t last and we’ll have a few more frosty mornings before the end of winter. We’ll see, but in the meantime, I’m pretty happy with the large set of photos I got.

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I think this may be my favorite frost photo of all. What do you think?

Here’s some frost on a spider web. And what a messy spider web it is!

I like the look of the frost on these dried flowers, covering every petal. And I really like the bluish gray tint from the winter morning’s light.

Here’s a dusting of frost on dried leaves. Did somebody sprinkled powdered sugar?

Here’s the last photo, showing not only frost but also small ice crystals on this leaf. It almost looks like a hairy leaf!

January 24, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Plant PhotosTags: California pictures, frost on dried leaves, frost on leaf, frost on leaves, frost on plants, frost on spider web, frost on spiderweb, frost photos, frosty leaves, frosty plants, photography, photos, photos of frost, San Diego 4 Comments

Travel theme: Multicolored Cotoneaster Lacteus

The color red: the Cotoneaster Lacteus’s red berries

You’ve got to love Google search! I love these very thick and adundant bushes at my son’s school that display hundreds of tight grapes of red berries in the winter, bringing color to our chilly winter mornings. I took several photos of the bushes and their red berries recently and wanted to post a few here (see below), but I had no idea what the plants were.

So I searched for “bush with red berries”, and after looking through dozens of photos on Google, I found out these bushes are called Cotoneaster Lacteus. A fancy Latin name for an evergreen hedging shrub that features both flowers and berries (not simultaneously of course). So if you’ve ever wondered what Cotoneaster Lacteus bush and its berries look like, this is the post for you. 😉

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The red berries of the Cotoneaster Lacteus

I love the abundance of red berries on each branch!

Close-up of the Cotoneaster Lacteus and its red berries

I took these photos on a frosty morning, so you can see the frost melting in some areas, while it leaves a layer of white dust in others. This last photo is my favorite of the bunch.

Red berries and red leaves of the Cotoneaster Lacteus

January 22, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Plant PhotosTags: bush with red berries, California pictures, Cotoneaster Lacteus, Cotoneaster Lacteus photos, Cotoneaster Lacteus red berries, photography, photos, photos of berries, red berries bush, red berries Cotoneaster Lacteus, red berry bush, San Diego 5 Comments

A word a week photo challenge: Weather

I’m participating in A Word in Your Ear’s photo challenge. This week’s photo theme is weather. San Diego weather is pretty regular, mostly sunny and warm, but we get rain sometimes (never enough), and even frost in the winter (a lot of frost this winter).

Here are a few photos that represent weather in San Diego, using the WordPress gallery format. You can click on any image to view all of them in a slideshow format. I’ve used these photos in previous posts so I’ve left the original captions. This way, if you’d like to view the original post, just search for the caption text in my website’s Search box.

Do you like the weather where you live?

Travel theme: delicate frost on leaves

Frost on leaves in San Diego

Travel theme: sky with puffy clouds

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Escape to Coronado Beach

Three wet lemons on the tree

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/photo-challenge – Eerie foggy morning in San Diego

Let’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge: Green raspberry leaves

Sunday Post: Natural Resources – water – Lake Hemet, California

Pink and violet clouds at sunset

January 21, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Landscape Photos, Ocean photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Plant Photos, Sky Photos, Sunset photos, Water photosTags: A word a week photo challenge, A word a week photo challenge: Weather, A Word in Your Ear photo challenge, California pictures, fog in San Diego, frost in San Diego, frost photos, Pacific ocean photos, photography, photos, photos of clouds, photos of fog, San Diego, San Diego skies, San Diego sky, wet lemons 7 Comments

Small waterfall at Mission Trails park, San Diego, California

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Water

This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme is water. Water is a precious resource in Southern California. “Precious” as in rare, and as in expensive. They aren’t many large areas of water around San Diego (besides the huge Pacific Ocean) and what are labeled as “lakes” here would probably be labeled as “ponds” in most other states.

I have a lot of photos of water to share. Ocean water, river water, rain drops, dew drops, frozen water… So I think a photo gallery will be best. You can click on any image to view all of them in a slideshow format. I’ve used these photos in previous posts so I’ve left the original captions. This way, if you’d like to view the original post, just search for the caption text in my website’s Search box.

I hope you enjoy these photos of water!

Small waterfall at Mission Trails park, San Diego, California

Travel theme: delicate frost on leaves

Close-up of raindrops on netting

Let’s be wild weekly photo challenge – water – wet branch after the rain

Sunday Post: Natural Resources – water – Lake Hemet, California

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – the waves at Coronado Beach

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Reflections – Water lilies at Balboa Park in San Diego

Sunday Post: Concept – close-up of raindrops on spider webs on green grass

Travel theme: Stones with rain drops on spiderweb

Let’s be wild weekly photo challenge – weather – a wet lemon in San Diego

January 17, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Fruit Photos, Ocean photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Plant Photos, Water photosTags: California pictures, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Water, dew drops, ocean waves photos, photography, photos, photos of water, rain drop photos, raindrop photos, San Diego, water photos, waterfall photos 10 Comments

Frosty mornings in San Diego, California

Guess what I’ve been doing almost every morning these past couple of weeks? Taking photos of the frost we’ve been experiencing here in San Diego, California. It is CHILLY here, down to 30 degrees, even 28 recently, every single night. And the days are not very warm, even with the winter sun shining through a cloudless sky. The wind is a killer too. After we suffered from repetitive heatwaves the whole summer, Mother Nature must have thought we’d appreciate a cooling trend. And she’s right. I’ll take 30-degree winter nights anytime over 105-degree summer afternoons. 🙂

I’ve been taking lots of photos of frosty leaves and frosty plants. I don’t want to bore you to death so I’ll split them in a few posts, with other themes in between. Remember you can click on each image for a larger view.

We don’t get snow here so frost is the closest to ice we’re going to get. Talking about ice, here are some beautiful ice crystals on a leaf.

If you like ice crystals, how about these long ice crystals on twigs? Now that’s a lot of ice, brrrr!

I’ve saved my favorite photo for the end. I love how frost can also look like sugar frosting and I think this photo is the perfect example of a frosty leaf. I love how the ice crystals at the top of the picture are trying to recreate the missing end of the leaf. Out of all the photos of frost I’ve taken (and you’ll get to see more in upcoming posts), I think this is my favorite photo.