Macro Monday Mosaic - Today's Flowers

July 6th addendum:

Posted last Monday
when Mosaic Monday took
a brief vacation

without my knowledge ...
Once again I highlight my
apricot roses ;--)

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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... and for others participating in
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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... and for others participating in
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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... and for others participating in
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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and for others participating in Purple Passion Photo and Today's Flowers

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

Haiku Sky Watch Friday - Views from Fashion Island

Thursday Thirteen & Camera Critters
feature Ms Kitty in the next post.

HF#146 - Sky Watch#56

On a recent trip

to the only Ritz Cam'ra

shop left nearby I

snapped these photographs

of the skies in Newport Beach ...

Happy Flag Day all!

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and for others participating in Haiku Friday and Sky Watch this week.

Thought for Today
"You're a grand old flag,
You're a high flying flag
And forever in peace may you wave."
George M. Cohan

Thursday Thirteen - Ms. Kitty Watches her World

... and an EARLY (or very late) Camera Critters

Thirteen 'Stylized' Photographs
featuring Ms. Kitty

In last week's T-13 I shared PSE6 collage experiments with Molly & Ms. Kitty at Happily Retired Gal, and THIS week I've chosen to highlight Ms. Kitty in 'filtered photos' ... because Molly 'at play' was presented in late May at Small Reflections. ;--)

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Find others participating in Thursday Thirteen and Camera Critters

This is my 72ndMisty Dawn started the meme and explains the rules here

Thought for Today
"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose." Garrison Keillor

(WW)Purple Passion Photo - Belated Monday Mosaic

ALMOST ...

Week seven - My 6th Purple Passion
and my First 'official' Monday Mosaic!

Keeping up with new

photo memes is challenging ...

yet I do my best ;--)

Here I've 'tweaked' a post
I shared yesterday for the
Mellow Monday Meme.

Using filters in
PSE6 it's become
totally diff'rent

so today I share
it in TWO versions as my
Passionate Purple

Monday Mosaic ...
multi-tasking just because
there's not enough time!

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Purple Passion Photo and belated Monday Mosaic...
(Almost) Wordless Wednesday too.
I did modify my Mellow Monday post at Happily Retired Gal
when I discovered this Mosaic meme earlier today ;--)

Thought for Today
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." Usman B. Asif

Blog Your Blessings and Today's Flowers

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

Really Good Things

1. I've enjoyed applying the new 'Digital Media' skills I'm learning in my evening Adult School classes ... most recently creating original templates for my collages as I did for my T-13 (featuring Molly and Ms. Kitty) at Happily Retired Gal, my Monochrome Maniac & Haiku Friday post at Small Reflections ... and again for Shadow Shots and Today's Flowers.

2. Tennis at the French Open this year has been exciting and unpredictable. I'm happy Svetlana Kuznetsova won the Women's Championship against Dinara Safina and am looking forward to the Men's Championship Match between Roger Federer and Robin Soderling tomorrow morning.

3. I published May's Sidebar Gratitude List from Small Reflections at Happily Retired Gal and started a new list for June. I'm looking forward to Monday's Retired Gal's Luncheon to see what everyone's been up to the past few weeks.

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.

The blossoms in the top collage are from two weeks ago ...

and the ones below from this past week ...
both on the same bush & straight out of the camera.

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and for others participating in Today's Flowers
You can see MORE Today's Flowers at Small Reflections.

Thought for Today
"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." Hans Christian Anderson