Shadow Shot Sunday - Camera Critters

Sunny day creates
lots of shadows everywhere
July 4th Parade!

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parade photos by clicking
to Small Reflections.

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and for others participating in Camera Critters and
Shadow Shots at Hey Harriet
This is my 80thMisty Dawn started the meme and explains the rules here.

Thought for Today
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." William J. Clinton

Haiku Friday - Monochrome Sky Watch

T-13 and Color Carnival are in the next post

HF#150 - Sky Watch #58

Sharing neighborhood

skies in Monochrome this week

... for variety

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Sky Watch and Monochrome Mania

Thought for Today

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." William Faulkner

Mostly Wordless (T-13) Color Carnival

Colorful blossoms
in my front yard currently ...
mixed varieties

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and for others participating in Thursday Thirteen,
Mostly Wordless Wednesday, Color Carnival, and Wordless Wednesday.
Macro Monday Mosaic & Today's Flowers
are in the next post here.

Thought for Today
"In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them." Aldo Leopold

Macro Monday Mosaic - Today's Flowers

My apricot rose
in bloom for the second time
this Spring ... fragrantly

Embiggen to check
out the tiny visitor
in the center row

for greater detail
of these lovely blossoms a
friend calls 'Just Jody'


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Macro Monday, Mosaic Monday and Today's Flowers.
See also my Mellow Yellow Mosaic Monday & Today's Flowers
at Small Reflections this morning.

Thought for Today
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Haiku Sky Watch Friday - Filtered Views

T-13 & Color Carnival is in the NEXT post
HF#148 - Sky Watch#57

Shared previously

untouched ... (as a T-13) ...

revisited with

Photoshop 'filters'

applied creating subtle

'kewl' variations

'Fresco' filter first

followed by 'Palette Knife' then

ending with 'Smudge Stick'

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and for others participating in Haiku Friday and Sky Watch

Thought for Today.

"Problems worth of attack, prove their worth by hitting back."
Piet Hein

(WW) T-13 Purple Passion Photo - Pansies

Watery Wordless Wednesday and Window Views
are at Happily Retired Gal this week.

Week Nine - My 8th ...

A new colorful
meme featuring favorite
hues ... Feel free to play ;--)

Sharing 13 'Filtered' Pansy Images
in these two PSE6 Mosaics

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and for others participating in Thursday Thirteen,
Purple Passion Photo, Mostly Wordless Wednesday, Color Carnival,
and Wordless Wednesday (on Thursday) too.
Click to see my COLOR CARNIVAL Thursday Thirteen
at Small Reflections and More Colorful Pansies at
Happily Retired Gal today.

Thought for Today
"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us." Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Multiple Monday Memes in Mosaic

Late to play because
I am watching tennis at
Wimbledon today ;--)

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Macro Monday, Mellow Yellow, Monochrome Mania,
Mosaic Monday and Today's Flowers too.

Thought for Today
"Make the most of every sense; glory in all of the pleasures and beauty which the world reveals to you." Helen Keller

Colorful Haiku Sky Watch Friday

Color Carnival
linked with Sky Watch Friday and
a bit of Haiku ;--)

sunrise at the beach
glorious & colorful
almost every day!

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Sky Watch Friday, Color Carnival and Haiku Friday



See MORE of MY Sky Views this week at
Happily Retired Gal & Small Reflections.

Thought for Today
"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln

Wordless Watery Wednesday

Mostly ...

Wetlands at Bolsa Chica - Southern California

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in Wordless Wednesday, Mostly Wordless Wednesday, and Watery Wednesday.
I'm equally Wordless at Happily Retired Gal & Small Reflections this week.

Thought for Today

"Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills." Ambrose Bierce

Today's Flowers - Purple Passion Photo

Week Eight - My 7th ...

A new colorful
meme featuring favorite
hues ... Feel free to play ;--)

Each year I worry
that my little Hydrangea
won't make it each Spring

because the Lime Tree
provides too much shade and Ms.
Kitty loves to hide

in the Maidenhair
fern that grows just like a weed
surrounding it like this.

Yet it comes to life
just about this time in June
blooms all summer long

various pastels
pink, blue, lavender blossoms
accented by red

blooms on the Fuschia
plant growing nearby ... I love
this combination

but do wish this bush
would grow bigger ... finally.
It is six years old

but not much larger
than when I first planted it!
Guess it needs more sun?

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Thought for Today

"A flower's appeal is in its contradictions - so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect." Adabella Radici