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My 2013 calendar pick for December: pine cones up the pine tree

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Picking the right photo to use for the month of December in my 2013 photo calendar was quite a challenge. I wanted to have something that would illustrate the holidays and winter for most people, but it’s not an easy task when you live in warm and sunny San Diego, California.

After a few days shuffling a few photos around, I settled on the picture below. I actually took it this past June, while visiting Lake Hemet, California. The whole area, including the town of Idyllwild, features a large amount of trees, most of them pine trees. I love the smell of pine trees, and I really like the shape of pine cones too, so I was happy when I spotted these pines cones up the pine tree, surrounded with plenty of long and green pine needles. Don’t forget you can click on the photo for a larger view.

My 2013 calendar pick for December: pine cones up the pine tree

I have a good idea for a more snowy photo I can use in my 2014 photo calendar but I won’t know if I manage to snap that photo until we reach the rainy season and it snows in our local mountains. Yes, we do get snow in San Diego County in the winter if the weather cooperates! But you won’t see me playing it in because I hate the while stuff…

October 10, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Photography, Tree PhotosTags: 2013 calendar, 2013 photo calendar, California pictures, photo of pine cones, photo of pine trees, photography, photos, photos of trees, pine cone in pine tree, pine cone photo, pine cones, pine tree photo, trees 6 Comments

My 2013 calendar pick for November: a lemon in the rain

View all of the pictures I selected for my 2013 photo calendar.

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Unless you’re from California or Florida, you may not know May and November are the prime harvest months for citrus. Since I wanted my 2013 photo calendar to have a definite local flavor, I chose a photo I actually took last November of a lemon tree.

It happened to be a rainy day and I wanted to capture the rain drops on the lemons. The gray sky allowed some sunlight to filter through, offering a great neutral background. The sky looks almost white and allows the lemon to stand out. You can click on the lemon photo for a larger view. What do you think of it?

My 2013 calendar pick for November: a lemon in the rain

October 9, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Fruit Photos, Tree PhotosTags: 2013 calendar, 2013 photo calendar, California pictures, lemon in rain, lemon photo, lemon tree, november lemon, photo of lemon, photography, photos 2 Comments

My 2013 calendar pick for September: a sumac’s colorful fall foliage

View all of the pictures I selected for my 2013 photo calendar.

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If you like to see beautiful fall foliage, San Diego probably is not the right destination for you. Most of the tree leaves either never change colors (think palm trees, eucalyptus, and sage brush) or the few that do just turn yellow, then brown before falling to the ground.

But there’s one tree you can spot here and there that will stand out in Southern California in the fall: the sumac (Rhus Typhina, the non toxic kind). The sumac leaves display various shades of yellow, orange and red and the tree also features grapes of crimson red seeds in between the leaves. I found a great local spot last fall to take pictures of sumac foliage and I’m planning to go back this year for more.

I’m submitting this photo for the Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Fall theme so wish me luck!

What do you think of this sumac in the fall? Do you enjoy colorful fall foliage where you live?

My 2013 calendar pick for September: a sumac's colorful fall foliage — My 2013 calendar pick for September: a sumac’s colorful fall foliage

October 5, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, California Photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Tree PhotosTags: 2013 calendar, 2013 photo calendar, California pictures, photography, photos, photos of sumac, photos of trees, San Diego, San Diego fall trees, sumac, sumac fall foliage, sumac foliage, sumac leaves, sumac leaves in the fall, sumac photos, trees 8 Comments

Cluster of pink flowers blooming on a tree

Beautiful tree blossoms, if I just knew what they were

San Diego County is home to many native and non-native plants and trees. Besides the dense California sage brush, the many types of cactus, and the annoying, ugly eucalyptus everywhere you look, you can be lucky and find some gems, especially during blooming season.

I still have a to take a great picture of a jacaranda tree (it will have to be next May or June) but in the meantime, I’d like to share these beautiful tree blooms. I actually have no idea what type of tree this is but I love the bold pink flower clusters that cover it in the spring.

May 2013 update: thanks to one of my visitors, I found out this tree is called a purple robe locust. Just beautiful!

Beautiful pink flower clusters on a purple robe locust

Here is a close-up of this tree’s pink flowers. Simply gorgeous.

Cluster of pink flowers blooming on a tree in San Diego

September 7, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, California Photos, Flower Photos, Tree PhotosTags: bright pink flower clusters on tree, photography, photos, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, photos of trees, purple robe locust, purple robe locust blooms, purple robe locust flowers, san diego trees, tree with pink flower clusters, tree with pink flowers Leave a comment

A word a week - face of woman in tree trunk

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Wrong

I usually post photos for the WordPress weekly photo challenge on my Perfecting Motherhood blog, but I thought I’d reblog this week’s theme, since the photos I featured are quite interesting and unusual, even wrong.

I recently took some cool photos at a San Diego county park a few weeks ago, so I thought maybe something in there would fit the theme. And that’s when I found not one but two photos to share. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed taking them.

The first one is the photo of a two-third dead tree. I say two thirds because its trunk split in three early on in its growth and two of them had to be cut off, probably because they weren’t doing so well. The three-trunk tree looks wrong, especially with limbs cut off, but I love how nature can make a wrong right by providing shelter in the hollow trunks for animals in need.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Wrong – photo of a hollow tree

The second photo is of another tree where something else wrong happened with its trunk. But if you look closely, you may find something right came out of this wrong. I describe it as the hooded lady with a scarf. I love finding shapes like that!Do you see it? If you don’t, maybe there’s something “wrong” with you. 😉