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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
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Yesterday was a beautiful winter day in San Diego. Not a cloud in the sky, slight breeze, unusually warm (75 degrees by the coast). Perfect for a visit at the San Diego Botanic Garden with my kids. You’d think January would offer few opportunities for taking photos of nature but I got to snap a few. I’ll share them in several posts and I thought I’d take the opportunity of displaying a few here, with this simplicity theme.
Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view of it.
A pond with some running water exemplifies simplicity to me. And simple is beautiful, like this sculpture at the lily pond by the entrance of the San Diego Botanic Garden.
Sunday Post: Simplicity – lily pond at the San Diego Botanic Garden
There’s also a Bamboo pond in the Bamboo Garden, which is about three times as big as this one, but still very small and simple.
Sunday Post: Simplicity – Bamboo pond at the San Diego Botanic Garden
It has a basic waterfall set up, again, very simple. A trickle of water over rocks.
Sunday Post: Simplicity – Bamboo pond at the San Diego Botanic Garden
There may have been some animals underwater but we didn’t spot any. Instead we spotted a couple of mallards, or technically a mallard couple having a snack in the pond. I love the simple ripples in the water.
Sunday Post: Simplicity – Ducks at the Bamboo pond at the San Diego Botanic Garden
Finally we were lucky enough to see a green heron, checking out the water and looking for some potential lunch. Again, I love the simple reflection of the green heron in the water. Simplicity, what a beautiful theme!
Sunday Post: Simplicity – Green heron at the San Diego Botanic Garden
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A lot of the photos I take tend to be close-ups so there’s either no beyond or it’s out of focus. I did go back through all the photos I’ve posted on this website so far and there actually are a few photos that feature an interesting beyond, so here we go!
Since I’m showcasing several photos of beyond, I’ve decided to use the gallery feature. 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 present you…. beyond!
Sailboats out of the San Diego Bay
Wordpress weekly photo challenge: horizon at Coronado Beach
Sunday Post: Natural Resources – water – Lake Hemet, California
Travel theme: through the forest
Wordpress weekly photo challenge: the golden hour – bright skies as the sun sets
Wordpress weekly photo challenge: the golden hour – fall foliage glows through the fog
Wordpress weekly photo challenge: horizon at Idyllwild Park, California
Wordpress weekly photo challenge: moon at the horizon
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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
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We seem to be enjoying a pretty rainy winter in San Diego. Besides the seven days of almost continuous rain we had before the holidays, we also had some rain just before and after Christmas, and again this past weekend and a couple of nights ago. The good thing is, most of this rain is steady but not overabundant, so the ground is soaking it up nicely and floods are few around the county. Another good thing is, we’re starting to see new green growth on our hilly landscape. Of course, it will all turn brown by May but we’ll probably have a green spring before then. I can’t wait!
I like taking photos of raindrops after the rain. I’ve found them on spider webs, and again on more spider webs. After the latest rain, I noticed a large amount of raindrops on the netting I put around my garden. This netting is there to protect my produce from the darn squirrels that try to eat it. So far, the squirrels have won every time.
Here’s what I saw when I stepped out in the garden. You can click on an image for a larger view. I like the wavy patterns the raindrops make because of the loose netting.
And yes, it’s my bougainvillea in the background, not faring well with all the frost we’ve had. I guess it will need a good trimming when spring comes. Talking about frost, I took a few more photos of frosty leaves last weekend, so I’ll be working on a post with lots of frosty photos. Brrrrrr….