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Today I’m participating in the A Word A Week Challenge. This week’s theme is “pink”. 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.
Pink is one of my favorite color and I’ve been able to photograph it quite a lot these past few days. Here a splash of pink for you!
I love bright pink waterlilies.
A Word A Week Challenge – Pink water lilies
How about this lovely pink hibiscus flower?
A Word A Week Challenge – Pink hibiscus flower
This pink / magenta flower blooms on an Island Mallow tree, a California native shrub.
A Word A Week Challenge – Pink island mallow flower
These last flowers are from the Bromeliad exotic pnat. They feature neon pink stems with purple blossoms.
A Word A Week Challenge – Pink and purple bromelia flowers
Here’s what the plant looks like from closer.
A Word A Week Challenge – Pink and purple bromelia blooms
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Today I’m participating in the A Word A Week Challenge. This week’s theme is “face”. 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.
Nature can display faces in so many ways and places. There’s the cute face of the mama panda bear.
A word a week – face of a giant panda bear
The big bug-eyed face of the orange dragonfly.
A word a week – face – orange dragonfly with big eyes
There’s the face of the tiger longwing butterfly (Heliconius hecale) with his rolled-up proboscis.
A word a week – face with proboscis of a tiger longwing butterfly
There are the faces of two brother grizzly bears enjoying some intimate moment.
A word a week – faces of two brother bears
There are the faces of animals carved in the wood on purpose.
A word a week – faces of animals carved in wood
And the face of a woman that Mother Nature drew in this tree trunk for us to notice.
A word a week – face of woman in tree trunk
Mother Nature also likes to use rocks to make faces.
A word a week – face of man in a large rock
These hidden faces of a man and a dog (profile angle) are some of my favorite faces to spot in nature. Can you see them?
A word a week – face of man and his dog in rock cliff
And finally even the sky can show you faces, like this smiley face in the clouds!
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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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Today I’m participating in the A Word A Week Challenge. This week’s theme is “dawn”. With young kids, I never get to sleep in, so I often have an opportunity to see the dawn, especially in the winter months. I love listening to the sounds of nature at dawn, where the animals start waking up and the birds start chirping.
Here are a few of my favorite photos of dawn. Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view.
A Word A Week Challenge – Dawn in the winter
I’m lucky to see the sun rise behind trees and hills every morning. I love the soft glow of this winter sunrise. Such lovely dawn!
A Word A Week Challenge – Dawn in the winter
Of course, sometimes dawn wants to show up in all bright colors. What a cheerful entrance!
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Today I’m participating in the A Word A Week Challenge. This week’s theme is “zoom”. I thought I’d take this opportunity to feature a few animals I took photos of recently. I used the zoom for each snapshot since I wasn’t close enough.
Remember you can click on each photo below for a larger view.
I took the first photo at the San Diego Zoo a few weeks ago. These are two brother grizzly bears enjoying a sweet moment with one another. The white on the photo is some snow the zoo made for them that day.
A Word A Week Challenge – Zoom – brotherly love at the San Diego Zoo
One of the bears then smelled some popcorn someone was eating in front of the exhibit, so he came closer and started charming us with cute faces and poses, hoping we’d throw some of that delicious food to him. Poor guy…
A Word A Week Challenge – Zoom – grizzly bear at the San Diego Zoo
During that visit at the San Diego Zoo, we decided to visit the new baby panda and her mom. Here’s mama panda bear, snacking on bamboo shoots.
A Word A Week Challenge – Zoom – Mama panda bear t the San Diego Zoo
And here’s six-month old baby panda waking up from her nap.
A Word A Week Challenge – Zoom – Baby panda bear t the San Diego Zoo
I took the next photo on a warm, sunny day. This little lizard was trying to get my attention by doing cute lizard push-ups. I wasn’t too impressed.
A Word A Week Challenge – Zoom – Lizard basking in the sun
I took the last picture for this zoom challenge at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. This cheetah was laying down quietly, waiting for lunch to be served. When it heard the zookeeper behind the scenes, it started meowing, just like a cat (OK, a big cat). It was a great moment to witness, but today all I can share with you is the visual part. 🙂
A Word A Week Challenge – Zoom – Cheetah at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park
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