When I think of fall color I don’t generally think of roses. But these rosa rugosas really grabbed my eye.
Fall color from an unexpected source
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Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2022 Week 31
This challenge is simple: step back for a few minutes each week to find a lovely thing, a precious moment, anything you find lovely. Then post about it. You can just post a picture or you can go into detail and tell it as a reflection, story or poem.
It could be anything:
a smile…a rainbow…a flower…a kind act…a tasty treat
What was lovely in your life this week?
Continue reading Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2022 Week 31Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2022 Week 30
This challenge is simple: step back for a few minutes each week to find a lovely thing, a precious moment, anything you find lovely. Then post about it. You can just post a picture or you can go into detail and tell it as a reflection, story or poem.
It could be anything:
a smile…a rainbow…a flower…a kind act…a tasty treat
What was lovely in your life this week?
Continue reading Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2022 Week 30Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2022 Week 29
This challenge is simple: step back for a few minutes each week to find a lovely thing, a precious moment, anything you find lovely. Then post about it. You can just post a picture or you can go into detail and tell it as a reflection, story or poem.
It could be anything:
a smile…a rainbow…a flower…a kind act…a tasty treat
What was lovely in your life this week?
Continue reading Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2022 Week 29Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2022 Week 28
This challenge is simple: step back for a few minutes each week to find a lovely thing, a precious moment, anything you find lovely. Then post about it. You can just post a picture or you can go into detail and tell it as a reflection, story or poem.
It could be anything:
a smile…a rainbow…a flower…a kind act…a tasty treat
What was lovely in your life this week?
Continue reading Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2022 Week 28Bright spots on a dim day
I missed a day yesterday so here are two bright spots from this morning’s walk.
For Becky of Winchester’s Bright Squares and Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Winter roses
R’s & S’s for Cee
A little mid-week madness.
First I thought of roses:
Then I thought of irises:
Then I saw this little sparrow:
For Cee’s Mid-week Madness Challenge: word that contains the letters R and S.
Different ways to see a dewy rose
This is an interesting rose that changes color and tone as it ages. The tiny drops of not quite rain (it was more a heavy enough mist that it was yielding to gravity than rain) create an interesting texture. That is more noticeable in the black and whites, especially the inverted one, than the color.
As I seem to often do I seem to think about perspective as how you look at something. Since I’ve been focusing on black and white processing this past month or so it is becoming second nature to turn a photo black and white at some point as I work with it.
For Becky of Winchester’s July Squares: Perspective and Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Raindrops on everything
May has been a peculiar month. Warm and cold, sunny and rainy. The news of the day combined with the weather made me think about a poem I learned in my French class in high school:
Il pleure dans mon coeur,
Comme il pleut sur la ville…
Guillaume Apollinaire
Translated: it is crying in my heart like it is raining on the city. The weather was gloomy and wet, suiting the gloom in the news.
I took these photos yesterday. I’ve often thought that May and June are really seasons of their own, not really part of spring and summer. May is iris season and June is rose season. Summer in the Puget Sound region really doesn’t start until July. This little gallery shows what’s in bloom right now on the cusp of the change, with raindrops to represent the tears so many have had to shed this month.
My wish is that you and yours can stay safe and sane as the storms rage about us. May your season of the rose be blessed.
For Photos by Jez’s Water Water Everywhere, The Changing Seasons Challenge, and Cee’s Flower of the day…in this case many flowers, but then I’ve missed many days…and City Sonnet’s Goodbye, May.
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