Today's Flowers - Shadow Shot Sunday

Macro Monday, Ruby Tuesday & more Today's Flowers
are at Small Reflections ...
and this post could work for Ruby Tuesday too!
Scroll down for Shadow Shot Sunday
Haiku Sky Watch Friday & Camera Critters
are in the next post here ...

The SECOND time my
Mr. Lincoln bloomed this year
it produced these two

lovely red roses
rather than just one the way
it did earlier.

This is my twentieth …

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and for others participating in Today's Flowers
Shadow Shots at Hey Harriet

If you missed Purple
Passion Photo earlier
you will find it here.
(A previous Today's Flowers post last week.)

Thought for Today
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." Dalai Lama

Haiku Sky Watch Friday - Camera Critters too

HF#142 - Sky Watch#54

This is my 68thMisty Dawn started the meme and explains the rules here

Standing on the pier
last weekend I noticed these
pelicans in flight.

Seven ... then just five

soaring together in this

v-shaped formation.

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Find others participating in ...Camera Critters,
Haiku Friday and SkyWatch

I could not resist

filtering a few of these

pictures ... just because.

On the left untouched

photos as they came from my

Nikon D60 ...

On the right I used
Poster Edges to alter
the views just a bit.

Thought for Today
"A wonderful bird is the pelican
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week,
But I'm damned if I see how the helican."
Dixon Lanier Merritt

WW -Today's Flowers - Purple Passion Photo

Week Five - My 4th ...

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

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in Wordless Wednesday, Purple Passion Photo and Today's Flowers.

I'm celebrating MILESTONES at Small Reflections
& giving away awards there too.

Thought for Today

"The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers." Basho

Haiku Sky Watch - Camera Critters

Click for my 1st Brenda Photo Challenge

Doorways at Small Reflections ...

for my Haiku SkyWatch Friday at Happily Retired Gal
and Haiku Friday#139 & SkyWatch#53 at Small Reflections too.

HF#140 - Sky Watch#52

This is my 67thMisty Dawn started the meme and explains the rules here

Sitting in a park
watching squirrels scurry I
looked up and noticed

this crow watching me ...
so I shifted my focus
skyward, watching him ;--)

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Find others participating in ... Camera Critters,
Haiku Friday, SkyWatch and Looking at the Sky this week.

Thought for Today
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." Abraham Lincoln

Today's Flowers - Purple Passion Photo

Week Four - My 3rd ...

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

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in Purple Passion Photo and Today's Flowers.

Thought for Today

"The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers." Basho

Shadow Shot #18 - Blog Your Blessings Sunday

This is my eighteenth …

More Neighborhood Shadows

Frequent visitors
may find palm trees familiar
yet the shadows I've

captured & collaged ...
photos taken in the late
afternoon are new.

For new visitors
I share a few more snapshots
of my neighborhood

palm trees to provide
perspective for the shadow
photographs above.

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and for others participating in Shadow Shots at Hey Harriet

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
Cherokee Indian Proverb

Really Good Things

1. Monday I enjoyed a delightful lunch with the Retired Gals but skipped the shopping spree afterward because I wanted to be alert for the first Digital Media class at Adult School.


2. I remember enough from my previous PSE6 classes to keep up in the Digital Media class I'm taking this session Mondays & Wednesdays from 6-9pm. I knew my friend Carol was enrolled but am pleasantly surprised to learn my neighbor Barbara is taking the class too. I made these on Wednesday evening ...

3. I received a DVD in the mail this week with Alaska photographs from my sister & her husband so I can view their travels vicariously.

4. As noted in the daily gratitude list in the sidebar at Small Reflections ...

I'm finally getting my photos organized and tagged in a methodical manner.

I'm gradually figuring out a useful set of 'keywords for tagging' photos & learning to use the 'software tools' to integrate previous tags into the new system I've generated experimentally.

I'm able to access my blogs even though something has gone crazy with my 'C-drive' leaving less than 8mb of 'free' space after running a Back Up to my 1TB 'G-drive' last night.

5. I appreciate those who regularly BYB on Sundays visiting & leaving comments on the weekend even when my own BYBS post is missing. Sometimes the day just gets away from me and I post belatedly, but other times (as for the past few weeks) life intrudes and I don't get around to it at all. I hope to catch up with your recent posts soon ... though I'm not sure just when that will be.

What are some blessings in YOUR life currently?

For others who 'Blog Their Blessings'

go to My Blog Rolls and/or click on the
Blog Your Blessings logo above.

Thought for Today
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." Carl Sandburg

ThursdayThirteen & Today's Flowers

Explosion of Blossoms

13 photos of ...
Beautiful White Bulbs in Bloom
Do YOU know their name?

Once upon a time
I believed these to be called
'Lily of the Nile'

or Agapanthus ...
Checking Wikipedia
raised questions and so


I'm asking for help.
Do you know the actual
name of this flower?

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in Thursday Thirteen and Today's Flowers.

Thought for Today

"The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers." Basho

Haiku Festival - Spunky Sparrows

lovely neighborhood
garden delicacies bring
numerous sparrows

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for other Haiku Festival Participants,
and for my other 'Haiku Festival' posts at
Grandma's Garden at Happily Retired Gal
& Day Lilies at Small Reflections.

Feel free to join the Haiku Festival Fun today!

more garden delights
collaged & shared earlier
on another blog

Thought for Today
"Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes." Carl Sandburg

Shadow Shot Sunday #19 & Happy Mother's Day!

For Mom's Everywhere

This is my nineteenth …

MoreNeighborhood Shadows

Mostly afternoon

photos taken around home

with sun in the west.

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for others participating in Shadow Shots at Hey Harriet
and my previous Shadow Shots here, at Small Reflections & Happily Retired Gal

Thanks to Harriet for this nifty award!
I'd like to share it with all MY friends too ... just because!

Thought for Today

"What you seem to be, be really." Benjamin Franklin

HF#138 - SkyWatch#50

Click for Haiku SkyWatch Friday at Happily Retired Gal
Haiku Friday#137 & SkyWatch#51

HF#138 - Sky Watch#50

Gratefully sharing
smoke-free skies from Orange County
while praying for those

coping with fires
burning uncontrollably ...
Everything's so dry

here in California.
Beautiful though skies may be
RAIN is what we need!

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and for others participating in
Haiku Friday, Looking at the Sky on Friday
and Sky Watch this week.

I took these photos
with my Nikon D60
while watching the news

on television
then created the collage
with PSE6.

Conditions like these
make fighting the wildfires
much more difficult.

Please pray for quick containment and for everyone affected ... especially the fire-fighters facing dangerous conditions on precarious terrain.




Thought for Today
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." Ambrose Redmoon

Purple Photo Passion and Today's Flowers

Week Two - My 2nd ...

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

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Visit others posting purples and Today's Flowers too.

Click if you missed previous purple collages I've shared
here & elsewhere...
Roses
Pansies, Alyssum & Heliotrope
Irises, Johnny Jump Ups, and more

Thought for Today

"God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road." Isak Dinesen