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Flowers

Hashtag Floral!!

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Perfect description for today. Here is a gallery of florals from walking the dogs this morning.

Inspired by Terri of Second Wind Leisure’s Sunday Stills: Fabulous Seasonal #florals. Our rather chilly spring has kept many things blooming that would usually be about done by now, such as the daffodils and tulips. Yet the usual suspects, like the wood hyacinth, crabapple and peony are valiantly going ahead as planned. It seems like everything is blooming right now.

Also for Cee’s Flower of the Day.

Africa

Three Amazing Days

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Certainly one of the most memorable things in my life was a three day safari at Masai Mara National Park in Kenya. It was about ten years ago now but the memories have not faded. Words can’t describe being in such an awe inspiring place. I was there for only three days but…wow…I look back and have a hard time believing all of the amazing wildlife we saw.

Elephants and crowned cranes at a watering hole at Kichwa Tembo at Masai Mara in Kenya.
Watering hole.
A male lion in the grass.
Afternoon nap time.
Mother and baby elephant.
Baby looks so tiny, but it’s about the size of a normal adult human.
Mother leopard licking her cub.
Tender moment.
Two lepards in the grass.
Echo in the grass.
One year old leopard at Masai Mara.
The little one.
Three leopards, mom, two year old and one year old at Masai Mara.
Small, medium and large leopards.
Cubs playing while lionesses sleep.
“Nap” time.
Cheetah stretching after his afternoon nap.
Nothing like a good stretch.
Sleepy lion cub in a mass of sleeping littler mates.
Cheetah looking through the grass.
An al fresco champagne breakfast at Masai Mara in Kenya.
Best breakfast EVER!
Cape buffalo with bird accessories block a dirt road in Masai Mara through the window of our safari vehicle.
Traffic stop.
Lioness in the foreground and a group of elephants in the background.
African morning
A male lion during the morning golden hour.
Just out for a stroll.
Elephant at dawn.
A couple of hippos in the Mara River in Kenya.
The do look a bit like horses when they are in the water.
Family of crowned cranes at Masai Mara in Kenya.
Lilace Breasted Roller at Masai Mara in Kenya.
An opal of a bird.
Ostriches, Thompson's gazelles with a Topi just entering the frame.
Savannah mixer.
Topi at Masai Mara in Kenya.
Sleek and handsome.
Herd of giraffes at Masai Mara in kenya.
Watching us watching them.
Small plane arriving at an airstrip at Kichwa Tembo in Masai Mara.
Safari Link
Masai Mara Safari

For Len’s Artists Photo Challenge: Memorable Events, and Sunday Stills: Wildlife.

Puget Sound

Just a hint of green

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Spring is here technically but it’s still pretty chilly. Sunday I went out in search of signs of spring. The first spring green I found was the very healthy moss growing on the fire pit. It was spring green the color, but a very winter-y sort of growth.

From a distance there doesn’t seem to be much green in the woods.

Brrr: The first day of spring wasn’t green and bright.

Looking closer, I found a few brave leaves starting to emerge.

Naturally the stinging nettle was the most lush!

For Second Wind Leisure’s Sunday Stills Spring#green and Jude’s Travel Words Life in Colour.

Picture Galleries, Snapshots from a Happy Life

Fall glory

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The past few days have been glorious. The lower angle of the sun makes the fall foliage glow. The blue skies compliment the golden to red palette of fall leaves. We took a long walk today, it is already clouding up and the next few days will be rainy, if the forecasts are correct.

I also want to share this great quote that I found yesterday:

For Sunday Stills: a celebration of leaves.

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