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This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme is the season of spring. Spring is my favorite season, especially in San Diego. I love witnessing the rebirth of nature and noticing all the beautiful colors popping up around town.
I’m using the gallery format to feature my photos of spring. You can click on any photo below 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!
Yellow rose about to open
Wordpress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV – Orange rose at Balboa Park in San Diego
Purple and whote Ramona lilac in bloom
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Walking down the trail
Trail bordered by Ramona lilacs
Macro Monday: Small purple wildflowers
Travel theme: delicate rain drop on grass
Close-up of pink manuka flowers
A word a week – violet wildflowers with dew drops
Close-up of the pear blossoms in Balboa Park
Wordpress weekly photo challenge: the hue of you – lampranthus productus iceplant
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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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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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This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme is texture. What a fun theme! Here’s a nice sample of different textures you can find in nature. Make sure you click on each image for a larger view.
I took this first photo yesterday while at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. These very fluffy yellow blooms belong to a very tall tree that was just covered with them.
Cee’s fun foto challenge – texture of yellow puffy blooms
I took the next photo at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park yesterday also. There have been a lot of baby elephants born there in the past few years. Even at a young age, elephants have quite a wrinkled skin, don’t they?
Cee’s fun foto challenge – texture of elephant skin
Have you ever touched a sea jelly? That’s quite an interesting texture. Very… jelly like!
Cee’s fun foto challenge – texture of sea jellies
How about a sea star? If you’ve ever touched one, you know if it feels as rough as sandpaper. I also love the color patterns on this specific sea star.
Cee’s fun foto challenge – texture of a sea star
My last pick for this theme is frost. Have you ever walked on frosted grass and realized how crisp it felt?
Cee’s fun foto challenge – texture of frost on grass
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This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme is lines. Nature is full of lines, but they’re not always straight, vertical or horizontal so it can take a little time to spot them in the scene.
Here is a selection of a few photos that display all sorts of lines. Remember you can click on each image for a larger view.
I took this first photo at SeaWorld San Diego. I love the lines formed by the legs of the various flamingos in the shot. By the way, check out the duck that’s walking in front of the flamingo in the water. He thinks he’s one of them but his legs are about two feet too short!
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lines – flamingo legs
I love the lines on this tiger swallowtail butterfly’s wings.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lines on a tiger swallowtail butterfly
I love the numerous thin lines the petals form on this bottle brush tree flower. Also take a closer look at the leaves on the left and how they’re outlined with a lighter shade of green.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lines on a bottle brush tree flower
The pistils of this yellow lilium start in a straight line but take a vertical turn halfway.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lines of pistils on a yellow lilium
My last photo for this theme is an ice plant lined up with frost, leaf by leaf. The brown blade of grass in the background also displays lines of frost. This is one of my favorite photos of frost I’ve taken so far. You can see more photos of frost here and here.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lines of frost on ice plant
These are just a few photos that highlight lines in nature. I hope you enjoyed them!
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