Pelican, Charleston, South Carolina during impending Hurricane Gustav
Date: August 22nd, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: City Streets, Elements, Historic significance, issues, Leaves, Seasonal, South Carolina, Storms, Summer, Travel, Travel USA, Trees, USA.
Date: August 16th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Birds, City Streets, Garden, red, Seasonal, Series, Summer, Texas, USA.
Date: August 15th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Design, Flowers, food, Garden, red, Seasonal, Series, Summer, Texas, USA.
Date: August 14th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Design, Flowers, food, Fruit, Garden, Green, Seasonal, Summer, Texas, USA.
Date: August 10th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Architecture, City Streets, food, fruit and veggies, Green, Leaves, Seasonal, Summer, Texas.
Date: August 6th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Birds, Dallas, Seasonal, Summer, Texas, Unusual Interest, USA.
Date: August 2nd, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Birds, flowering trees, Garden, pink, Seasonal, Summer, Texas, Trees, USA.
Date: July 31st, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Design, Flowers, Garden, golden light, Seasonal, Silhouettes, Sky, Summer, Sunset, Texas, USA.
Date: July 30th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: City Streets, Dallas, Landscape, Seasonal, Sky, Storms, Summer, Sunset, Trees, USA.
Date: July 16th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: City Streets, Elements, Garden, Seasonal, Storms, Summer, Texas, Water.
Date: July 13th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: food, fruit and veggies, Garden, Green, Seasonal, Summer, Texas.
Date: July 6th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Alberta, Canada, City Streets, clouds, Elements, Seasonal, Sky, Storms, Summer, Travel, travel Canada, Unusual Interest.
Date: July 1st, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: BC, Canada, forest, Landscape, Moths and Butterflies, Seasonal, Shadows, Summer, Sunset, Travel, travel Canada, Trees, Urban and Provincial Parks, Vancouver Island.
Date: June 16th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Design, Elements, Garden, Green, Leaves, Seasonal, Summer, Texas, USA, Water.
Date: June 10th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: amphibians, Children, City Streets, Dallas, Seasonal, Smile, Summer, Texas, Unusual Interest, Water.
Date: August 16th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Birds, City Streets, Garden, red, Seasonal, Series, Summer, Texas, USA.
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Date: August 15th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Design, Flowers, food, Garden, red, Seasonal, Series, Summer, Texas, USA.
Date: August 14th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Design, Flowers, food, Fruit, Garden, Green, Seasonal, Summer, Texas, USA.
Awesome Sunflower seed-head, 12 inch diameter, and healthy Cantaloupe, Lewisville TX
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Date: August 10th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Architecture, City Streets, food, fruit and veggies, Green, Leaves, Seasonal, Summer, Texas.
Scarlet Runner bean vines overtake this abandoned barn in Denton Texas
Date: August 6th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Birds, Dallas, Seasonal, Summer, Texas, Unusual Interest, USA.
It’s amazing that doves have survived to evolve as far as they have. For one thing, their nests are flimsy. They are also more comfortable nesting openly near humans than any other wild bird, at least here in Dallas.
Today this chick and it’s parent were sitting on the curb beside a very busy street. When I came too close the mother tried to fly across the road, and tried to appear injured as if to fool me. Uhh, better to create a less exposed, less vulnerable nest in the first place, Mama!!! Judging from the experience of doves nesting in the wreath at our back door last year, this chick is not ready to fly yet either. Perhaps they both fell from a nest in the tree. I wonder what their chances are for survival with all the cats, dogs, people and vehicles in the vicinity?
Date: August 2nd, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Birds, flowering trees, Garden, pink, Seasonal, Summer, Texas, Trees, USA.
A little Wren chirps, perched on our fence every afternoon. Soft pink Myrtle trees bloom in the background.
Date: July 31st, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Design, Flowers, Garden, golden light, Seasonal, Silhouettes, Sky, Summer, Sunset, Texas, USA.
The Sunflower plant has so much character. Here the flower heads droop with the weight of seeds against the backdrop of a spectacular sunset — silhouettes nodding and swaying against the sky. Amazing!
Date: July 30th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: City Streets, Dallas, Landscape, Seasonal, Sky, Storms, Summer, Sunset, Trees, USA.
I was just coming home from shopping so I missed capturing the double rainbow arching over our neighborhood after a short storm. Both ends were visible, and rare sights like that are so electrifying! I hurried home to get the camera, then still managed a few shots of the golden glow accentuating everything as the sunset.
Date: July 16th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: City Streets, Elements, Garden, Seasonal, Storms, Summer, Texas, Water.
Date: July 13th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: food, fruit and veggies, Garden, Green, Seasonal, Summer, Texas.
After two weeks away, one of the first things I did was inspect the garden, most curious about the cucumbers, because it’s the first year they’ve survived this far into the season. There I was at midnight, feeling around in the dark, and found a cucumber that had grown from 1/2 inch long to 8″L X 3″ wide during that short time. I expected to find a virtual Jack And The Bean Stalk situation this morning, but all the other cukes are average-sized. The heart-shaped cookie cutters I placed around some veggies have fallen off, so will have to try again; now able to monitor the progress of growth.
Date: July 6th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Alberta, Canada, City Streets, clouds, Elements, Seasonal, Sky, Storms, Summer, Travel, travel Canada, Unusual Interest.
I have yet to see a tornado in Texas since we moved there, yet here is the first one I’ve ever seen, about to touch down in Airdrie, near Calgary Alberta while we’re on holidays. Watching it form is surreal, and though it’s not far away I don’t feel in any danger. It formed a perfect funnel then I watched it pull back again, spawning a skinny long string-like tornado, then dissolve. The associated clouds are ominous and dark in contrast to the sunny neighborhood where I’m standing. I learned later this afternoon that the tornado touched down in a farmer’s feild for a few moments.
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Date: July 1st, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: BC, Canada, forest, Landscape, Moths and Butterflies, Seasonal, Shadows, Summer, Sunset, Travel, travel Canada, Trees, Urban and Provincial Parks, Vancouver Island.
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Arbutus trees, first thumbnail, only grow in the Pacific Northwest, here on Salt Spring Island, B.C. and in parts of China, nowhere else in the world. They are popular carve-your-name-in-the-trunk trees because the bark heals into a soft well-defined scar. A few trees on the island have been abused like this. Still, they couldn’t take the beautiful away! Groups of three and four Fluted Swallowtails spiraled in and out of the sunlight as I walked down the mountain road on Salt Spring Island. Fortunately one briefly settled on a fir tree.
Date: June 16th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: Design, Elements, Garden, Green, Leaves, Seasonal, Summer, Texas, USA, Water.
Everything in the garden looks 10 times as beautiful with water on it.
Date: June 10th, 2008 | Comments : none | Categories: amphibians, Children, City Streets, Dallas, Seasonal, Smile, Summer, Texas, Unusual Interest, Water.
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