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Sunday Post: Simplicity

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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

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.

Frost on leaves - looks like sugar frosting — Frost on leaves – looks like sugar frosting

January 16, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Photos of San Diego, Plant PhotosTags: California pictures, frost in San Diego, frost on leaves, frost sugar frosting, frosty leaf, frosty leaves photos, ice crystals on leaves, ice crystals on plants, photography, photos, San Diego, San Diego California photos, San Diego frost 7 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Metal

This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme is metal. I didn’t think I would participate since none of the photos I have on file contain any metal (at least not that I can remember). I also couldn’t think of any place I would go and take photos of metal without the images looking ordinary or simply boring.

That was until yesterday afternoon, when I took my kids to the Cabrillo National Monument / National Park. We originally went to visit the tide pools. After waiting in line for over 30 minutes just to roll through the park entrance and paying $5 for our visit, we waited another 20 minutes going downhill trying to reach the tide pool area. Why that area is only accessible by car and there are no paths from the main parking lot area is a mystery to me. A park ranger finally told us to turn onto a road on the right hand side that said “no outlet”. When we reached the end of it after another few minutes, we found a secondary parking lot where we could have parked… if there had been a parking space available! But of course there was none. Why the park ranger sent us there in the first place instead of telling us to turn around is another mystery to me. So we could do nothing else than give up and drive back up the hill, park in the main parking lot and view the tide pools from very, very far away. Needless to say, I’m not ready to go back to the Cabrillo tide pools any time soon.

The view of the city of San Diego and the ocean from Cabrillo is quite impressive (I’m saving a few photos for a future post). The on-site museum consists of one large room describing the Spanish explorers in the 1500s, and that’s about it. Fortunately there’s also a lighthouse you can visit. That lighthouse is famous from having operated for a very short amount of time, finding itself in thick areas of fog at the times of the year it would be most needed. Oops…

Here’s what the Cabrillo lighthouse looks like as you walk towards it.

Here’s a closer view of the Fresnel light part from the other side of the lighthouse as the sun was setting down. And yes, my photo is a little crooked but I wanted to show you how ridiculously cold and windy it was when I took this picture. Brrrrrrr…. Still, notice the metal railing, as well as the metal light cover and ladder. Yeah, metal! Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Metal? Checked!