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Floral Friday Fotos: Celosia flowers look like flames

Floral Friday Fotos: Celosia, the flowers on fire

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Today I’m participating in Floral Friday Fotos. If you enjoy my images, I encourage you to subscribe and receive updates when I post new photos, usually 3 to 5 times a week.

Celosia are ornamental plants in the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae. Their name is derived from the Greek word κηλος (kelos), which means burned. Celosia comes in a variety of colors, but when you spot the red, orange and yellow Celosia flowers, you can understand why their flame-like look earned them their name. I hope these Celosia blooms bring some color to your day. Enjoy!

November 21, 2013February 6, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Flower PhotosTags: amaranth flowers, blooms, Celosia blooms, Celosia flowers, Floral Friday Fotos, nature photography, photography, photos, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, red Celosia, yellow Celosia 18 Comments

Cee’s fun foto challenge: Three items or the number 3

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Today I’m participating in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge to show photos featuring featuring one item or the number one. You can click on any of the photos below to view them in a slideshow format for a larger view.

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Floral Friday Fotos: Pink water lilies and lily pads

Three waterlilies

Travel theme: Wood sculpture of a lifesize bear and eagle

Sculpture of three animals: bear, eagle and snake

Three giant dandelions in seed

WordPress weekly photo challenge: The world through my eyes - great blue herons

Three birds: two herons and one hummingbird

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Saturated - iceplant blooms

Three flowers on fire

Mariachi band topiary - San Diego Botanic Garden

Three mariachi band players

Cee's fun foto challenge: raindrops on green branches

Three raindrops

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Illumination

Christmas decorations: three penguins

Three wet lemons on the tree

November 21, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal Photos, Bird photos, Bloom Photos, Christmas Photos, Flower Photos, Fruit Photos, Plant Photos, Tree Photos, Water photos, Woods PhotosTags: blooms, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, Cee’s fun foto challenge: Three items or the number 3, nature photography, photography, photos, photos of blooms, photos of flowers 4 Comments

A word a week photo challenge: lines of a pink powder puff bloom

A Word A Week Challenge: Lines

Today I’m participating in the A Word A Week Challenge. This week’s theme is “lines”. 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.

For this “line” photo theme, I decided to use a few random photos I took recently, displaying the various aspects of fall in San Diego. I love the fall foliage of the sycamore tree captured in the right light. You can clearly see the lines running through every leaf of the tree.

A word a week photo challenge: lines of a Sycamore tree leaf

The warm weather here means we get a lot of blooms in the fall, like this purple bougainvillea. Bougainvillea trees always seem to grow new branches at random heights and directions, creating a disorganized web of lines.

A word a week photo challenge: lines of a bougainvillea tree branches

Finally, check out the many, many lines of this pink powder puff bloom. Can you guess how many lines that would be?

November 20, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Flower Photos, Plant Photos, Tree PhotosTags: A Word A Week Challenge, A Word A Week Challenge: Lines, A word a week photo challenge, bougainvillea branches, nature photography, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, photos of trees, pink powder puff bloom, pink powder puff flower, puffy pink flower, purple bougainvillea, sycamore leaf, sycamore tree leaves Leave a comment

Close-up on a bee on pink powder puff flower

Macro Monday: bees on pink powder puff flower

Today I’m taking part in the Macro Monday photo challenge. You can click on each photo for a larger view.

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With the year-round blooms we get in San Diego, bees are busy every day. We’re lucky to enjoy colorful flower and tree blooms even when winter is approaching, which helps me greatly since it means I can take new photos every week.

Here are a few busy bees on a pink powder puff flower. The many bees on that tree weren’t happy to have me so close to them, so I had to give up after a few minutes, but I managed to get a few decent shots before I left.

Macro Monday: bees on pink powder puff flower

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November 17, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal Photos, Bloom Photos, Flower Photos, Plant PhotosTags: bee macro, bees on pink powder puff flower, blooms, close-up on bee on pink flower, Macro Monday, nature photography, photography, photos, photos of bees, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, pink powder puff bloom, pink powder puff flowers 8 Comments

Floral Friday Fotos: light and dark purple asters

Today I’m participating in Floral Friday Fotos. Remember you can click on the photo below to see them in a larger format.

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I love asters because they seem so easy to grow and maintain, they just pop up in every public place. And what’s not to like about them? They’re not too big, not to small, and very colorful. To me, a bed of asters is always shouting, we’re happy today and you should be too!

Asters come in a variety of colors but my favorite is purple. Here’s a dark purple aster flower, followed by a light purple aster. Both flowers show leftover raindrops on their petals from the morning’s watering, a lovely touch left for me to capture on camera.