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A word a week photo challenge: Weather

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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

Three wet lemons on the tree

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/photo-challenge – Eerie foggy morning in San Diego

Let’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge: Green raspberry leaves

Sunday Post: Natural Resources – water – Lake Hemet, California

Pink and violet clouds at sunset

Sunday Post: Simplicity

Today I’m participating in Jakesprinter’s Sunday Post photo challenge. This week’s theme is Simplicity.

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.

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 — 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.

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 — 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 — Sunday Post: Simplicity – Green heron at the San Diego Botanic Garden

January 20, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal Photos, Bird photos, California Photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Water photosTags: bamboo pond, California pictures, green heron, green heron photo, Jakesprinter’s Sunday Post photo challenge, lily pond, mallard duck, mallard photo, photography, photos, photos of water, San Diego, San Diego Botanic Garden, Sunday Post, Sunday Post: Simplicity 12 Comments

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: moon at the horizon

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Beyond

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

January 18, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Forest Photos, Landscape Photos, Ocean photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Sky Photos, Sunset photos, Tree Photos, Water photos, Woods PhotosTags: California pictures, forest photos, ocean waves photos, photography, photos, photos of trees, San Diego, sunset photos, tree photos, woods photos, Wordpress weekly photo challenge, WordPress weekly photo challenge: Beyond 11 Comments

Small waterfall at Mission Trails park, San Diego, California

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Water

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

January 17, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Fruit Photos, Ocean photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Plant Photos, Water photosTags: California pictures, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Water, dew drops, ocean waves photos, photography, photos, photos of water, rain drop photos, raindrop photos, San Diego, water photos, waterfall photos 10 Comments

Frosty mornings in San Diego, California

Guess what I’ve been doing almost every morning these past couple of weeks? Taking photos of the frost we’ve been experiencing here in San Diego, California. It is CHILLY here, down to 30 degrees, even 28 recently, every single night. And the days are not very warm, even with the winter sun shining through a cloudless sky. The wind is a killer too. After we suffered from repetitive heatwaves the whole summer, Mother Nature must have thought we’d appreciate a cooling trend. And she’s right. I’ll take 30-degree winter nights anytime over 105-degree summer afternoons. 🙂

I’ve been taking lots of photos of frosty leaves and frosty plants. I don’t want to bore you to death so I’ll split them in a few posts, with other themes in between. Remember you can click on each image for a larger view.

We don’t get snow here so frost is the closest to ice we’re going to get. Talking about ice, here are some beautiful ice crystals on a leaf.

If you like ice crystals, how about these long ice crystals on twigs? Now that’s a lot of ice, brrrr!

I’ve saved my favorite photo for the end. I love how frost can also look like sugar frosting and I think this photo is the perfect example of a frosty leaf. I love how the ice crystals at the top of the picture are trying to recreate the missing end of the leaf. Out of all the photos of frost I’ve taken (and you’ll get to see more in upcoming posts), I think this is my favorite photo.