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Today I’m participating in Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Theme photo challenge. This week’s theme is “beaches”. Living in San Diego, it’s easy for me to get to the beach, yet I don’t do it very often. I love the fresh air and the wind, the smell of the ocean. I can’t stand the sand in my shoes and driving around for a parking spot. You can’t have it all!
I featured most of the photos below on my site before but I thought it’d be nice to put them together in a single post on beaches, in this case Coronado Beach. I’m using the gallery format for this today. Click on any photo 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!
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – the waves at Coronado Beach
Wordpress weekly photo challenge: horizon at Coronado Beach
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth – San Diego sandy beach
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – the waves at Coronado Beach
Sailboats out of the San Diego Bay
Cee’s fun foto challenge: One crab camouflaged in the sand
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the waves of the Pacific Ocean
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Escape to Coronado Beach
Travel theme – beaches
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the ocean waves
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Well, it’s taken me a while but I finally did it! I went through all the photos I took of the Ramona lilacs in bloom during my latest visit at Dos Picos County Park in Ramona, California. I ended with a few good photos I’m sharing below in a gallery format.
If you’d like to see any image larger, just click on it and it will open a different screen with a photo slideshow. Then stroll down the page to see below the image and click “View full size” on the right hand size.
Ramona lilacs are different from the regular lilac trees you’re probably used to. The flowers are a lot smaller and much less fragrant, but just as beautiful. You can see on some photos that the trees are completely covered with clusters of purple flowers. The flowers actually look blue when they are unopened. As they open they get dark purple and when they’re open completely, they’re more of a light purple. This gives each tree a unique look and color. That’s why each cluster looks different on the photos.
Thank you for your patience! I hope you enjoy the show. And let me know what you think if the comments section if you’d like.
Trail bordered by Ramona lilacs
Purple and whote Ramona lilac in bloom
Blooming Ramona lilacs
Ramona lilacs on a trail in Dos Picos County Park
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of Ramona lilac blossoms
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Once you take a trail at the back of Dos Picos County Park and pass the enchanted stone steps I showcased last week, you find yourself walking on a path bordered with many Ramona lilacs. If you hike in the spring, when the lilacs are in bloom, this is what you get to see as you follow the trail:
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Trail in Dos Picos County Park
And it only gets better as you walk along. Here’s a blast of green, purple and bright blue! I know, I still owe you a few close-ups of the Ramona lilacs, but at least you can see what the lilac trees look like full size. Aren’t they pretty?
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Trail bordered by Ramona lilacs
Another favorite spot where we enjoy hiking in Louis Stelzer County Park. On the day I took the photos below, the sky was completely gray but everything on the ground looked very green. In a couple of months, most of it will turn to yellow or brown, and the green probably won’t return until next January.
Here’s the trail that follows the side of the hill. This trail is fun to walk on a cloudy day, but I avoid it like the plague in the heat of summer since there’s no shade.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Trail at Louis Stelzer County Park
Fortunately, this park offers a lot of wooded areas by the small creek. This is a great trail to walk on any day of the year. This is as green as it gets in San Diego.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Green trail at Louis Stelzer County Park
Like many parks in San Diego County, this park is full of coast live oak trees, which tend to feature many thick, often contorted branches. Look how this large tree branch curves over the trail to create an arch.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Trail with coast live oak trees
To me, there’s nothing more pleasant than walking down a shaded trail to make me feel in unison with nature. What about you?
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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.
While recently hiking at a local county park in San Diego, I found these tiny purple wildflowers bordering the trail on the hillside.
Macro Monday: Small purple wildflowers
Each cluster of these purple flowers was no bigger than the size of my thumbprint.
Macro Monday: Tiny purple wildflowers
After photographing the first two clusters, I thought I had enough, until I found the next set of wildflowers and saw several tiny bugs keeping busy inside the flowers. I felt I had been transported into Miniature Land for a minute.
Macro Monday: Tiny bugs in small purple wildflowers
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This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme is steps or stairs. I only have one photo to share for this theme, but when I saw these beautiful steps a couple of weeks ago, I knew they deserved their own photo post.
I found these amazing stone steps at Dos Picos County Park in Ramona, California, while hiking on a trail at the back of the park. In the spring, Dos Picos Park is simply beautiful. The grass that grows there is quite particular. It’s very fine, very tall, very soft, and very… green! Believe me, living in San Diego, you don’t get to see grass this green very often.
Between the many coast live oaks, the blooming lilacs (you can see photos of those lilacs here and here), and greener than green grass, sometimes I feel like I’ve stepped into some type of fairyland. And that’s why I think these stone steps fit perfectly with the fairyland theme. What do you think?
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