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Today I’m taking part in Macro Monday at Lisa’s Chaos. This is my first time and I hope to participate every week if I have the photos to contribute.
For this macro theme, I’m featuring a couple of photos I took this weekend at the San Diego Zoo. The weather was mostly cloudy but it still made for some decent lighting to capture these close-up shots.
As always, you can click on each image to view it in a larger format. Enjoy!
Macro Monday: pink fuzzy flowers and dark red berries of the Calliandra HaematocephalaMacro Monday: pink fuzzy flowers and dark red berries of the Calliandra Haematocephala
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It took me a little time to figure out what type of photos I could take to best represent this theme. At first, I thought photographing a sunrise or a sunset in progression would be perfect. Unfortunately we haven’t had the best weather recently, so this opportunity has not presented itself in time.
So I’m offering you my second pick for this ongoing theme: bees, hard at work on a variety of flowers. What I find most amazing about bees is how relentless they are at doing their job, even when you stand right next to them for a photo opportunity. Their work is ongoing and uninterrupted and I love watching them and capturing them on camera.
Remember you can click on each photo so you can see it in a larger size.
I took this photo at Balboa Park in San Diego earlier this week. These are pear blossoms from ornamental pear trees. The bees were super busy collecting nectar from the thousands of flowers available to them.
Sunday Post: Ongoing – bees on the pear blossoms at San Diego Balboa Park
This next photo is also from Balboa Park. Apparently the bees weren’t just busy with the pear blossoms. They were also hard at work on these beautiful aloe flowers. You could see the ongoing flow of bees all over these flowers.
Sunday Post: Ongoing – bees on aloe flowers at Balboa Park in San Diego
Sunday Post: Ongoing – bees on cactus flowers at the San Diego Botanic Garden
This next photo is from Idyllwild, California. This bee’s ongoing nectar collection on this wild rose made for a great photo opportunity.
Sunday Post: Ongoing – bee on a wild rose in Idyllwild
My last photo is not of a bee but a tiger swallowtail butterfly. Just like bees, butterflies go from one flower to the next to collect nectar. This is an ongoing job and gives me an opportunity to chase them around to try to get a good shot. This one ended up on my 2013 photo calendar.
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Sometimes I find it hard to believe that San Diego has been my home for a little over 15 years now. In a way, it feels like it wasn’t that long ago when I drove cross country from Connecticut to California. San Diego has grown on me as my new home over the years. Besides the worrisome wildfires, random earthquakes, and lack of greenery, there’s a lot to like about San Diego and its surroundings. San Diego is my home and here are a few things I enjoy about it. Remember you can click on each image to enjoy a larger view. San Diego is home to the big waves of the Pacific Ocean under a bright blue sky.
Beautiful waves at Coronado Beach, San Diego, California
San Diego is home to a large agricultural community, including a lot of citrus (lemons and oranges, mostly).
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home – oranges in San Diego
San Diego is home to not just one single season year round, but also Fall and its bold colors.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home – changing seasons in San Diego
San Diego can even be home to frost in the winter, especially inland. This is as much cold as I can take!
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home – frost in winter in San Diego
San Diego is home to beautiful sunrises, especially in the winter.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home – beautiful sunrise in San Diego
San Diego is also home to beautiful sunsets. This one is from Christmas evening 2012.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home – beautiful sunset in San Diego
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home – amazing topiary at the San Diego Botanic Garden
And as of this week, San Diego is home to some beautiful pear blossoms in Balboa Park. You can view more photos of these pear blossoms in a post next week, so I invite you subscribe to this site if you haven’t already.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home – pear blossoms at San Diego’s Balboa Park
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This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme is earth. At first, I thought I’d skip this photo challenge theme because I couldn’t think of any photos to use. Then I read Cee’s description of earth and I figured, hey I could do that! Earth: Clay, Rock, Dust, Sand, Mud, Crystal, Powder, Shadow, Space, Darkness, Gravity, Bone, Silicon.
Below is my personal take of this theme. Remember you can click on any photo to view a larger image.
Southern California is covered with dirt and rocks, not much green overall. Cactus, succulents and short bushes like California Sage Brush are what grow best here.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth – succulents growing in dirt and rocks
I enjoy painted rocks and these rocks from the San Diego Botanic Garden are a cute and subtle way to ask people to stay away.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth – painted rocks
Of course San Diego is not all dirt and rocks. It also features beautiful beaches, my favorite being Coronado Beach. It is always listed as one of the Top 10 beaches in the U.S. and it deserves it.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth – San Diego sandy beach
My last photo is from Idyllwild, California. I call it the face in the rock, and it’s pretty obvious why. This is as if Earth was watching us as we walk by.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth – the face in the rock
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A few days ago, I shared with you some photos of flowers I took recently. Today I’d like to share a few more photos I took that day, more specifically the ones with the busy bees on the yellow cactus flowers.
Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view. This is the photo I shared the other day.
Bee on yellow cactus flowers
I love how the sunlight reflects on the bee’s wings to show its intricate design on the photo below.
Bee collecting nectar on yellow cactus flowers
I wonder how much nectar the bees can collect from these tiny flowers, which are just the size of a bee. At least the bees were busy doing their job and I didn’t seem to disturb them with my camera.
Bee on cactus flowers
I got lucky for this last shot and managed to get two bees in the frame, a different angle for each. Busy bees!
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bruary 18, 2013: I discovered the flowers below don’t belong to the New Zealand Christmas tree but instead to the Powder Puff Tree. View more photos of powder puff trees, including white and pink flowers.
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