A literal interpretation of Cee’s Mid-week Madness Challenge: forest or dark green.
Spring forest greens
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Spring Greens
Lots of colors in the flowers at this time of year, but the dominant color of spring is green. The green of new leaves emerging, but also of moss, catkins and some flowers. Here are a few spring greens from this morning’s walk for Cee’s Mid-week madness challenge: Spring Season.
One Drop
For Cee’s Black and White: Just one of anything. Also For Wordless Wednesday.
Early morning waves and rocks in black and white
Sandy Beach on Oahu really is sandy, but toward one end it has these interesting lava rocks. Watching the waves crash on the rocks is rather hypnotic. Even though the sunrise colors were very lovely I think black and white brings out the drama of the water.
For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Rocks, Boulders, Stones, Lens-Artists Challenge: Water, and Brashley Photography’s Mid-week Monochrome.
I used a combination of the black and white tools built into the GIMP and Nik Collections Silver Effects Pro to create the images above.
Who needs words?
The gray is back today
It’s too dark to take decent photos outside today. But I want to share yesterday’s golden hour and sunset. The clouds were rather unusual; they had a cool texture that caught the light in interesting ways.
Sunset through a dirty window
A little sky in the clouds
This week the cloudy skies have let up quite a bit. The skies have been beautiful. A nice change from flat grayish-white.
At the end of a gray day
Why do you go away? So that you can come back*
Today’s Bloganuary prompt is “What is a road trip you would love to take? (I skipped yesterday’s because I have absolutely no clue what advice I’d give to my teenage self. Way too long ago.)
Driving trips are not my favorite thing
I am not a big fan of road trips. Things go by too fast.
I am better now about pulling over, but I still feel like I miss too much. For some reason, a mix of my personality and up-bringing make it hard for me to pull over easily. Driving takes too much of my attention to let me see things well and I don’t react fast enough to opportunity. I’m often well past before I decide I want to see something better.
But I digress…
There’s no place like home
There are many places to see and things to do in the world. I’ve been blessed to do, perhaps, more than my fair share. And there are more places I’d like to go, but my only recurring road trip ambition is to explore all the nooks and crannies of my home state: Washington.
Through the years I’ve made some progress.
Continue reading Why do you go away? So that you can come back*
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