How sparse does a tree have to get before it ceases to be a tree and becomes a branch?
https://beccagivens.wordpress.com/2016/11/06/sunday-trees-5th-year/
Bare Minimum: Sunday Trees, Nov 6,2016
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Last Day at the Beach (Share Your World, Week 37)
There was still more to discover at the beach on Prince Edward Island, including one big surprise. (Different day, different beach.) If you want to read the captions to share the plot of that day, you’ll need to click on the first photo and then follow the arrows.
I’ve heard of Italian ice cream and Gelato is delicious, but these things can be carried too far!
On one side of the inlet, everything was copacetic.
The beach refuse was slowly rusting away right according to schedule.
At first I thought this big crab was attacking the other one, but after playing the heroine and separating them, I figured out the truth.
Then far far away on the sand bar across the inlet, we noticed something going on.
The cormorants were collecting in a long strung-out line
dealing with a few pushy seagulls, but totally leaving alone another black blob a bit down the way on the sand near the water. Was it??
I “upped” the power on my zoom and sure enough, it was a bald eagle.
He was taking a little time out for quiet contemplation, as were we.
And now, to answer the questions:
Have you ever owned a rock, pet rock, or gem that is not jewerly?
Yes. I have owned tons of rocks! We used them to make art lamps and I have always loved collecting rocks, including the ones I used to make creches the year before last. I was a jewelry maker before I moved to Mexico and so also had trays of unset gems. You are barking up the right tree with this question, Cee!
What is your greatest strength or weakness?
Chocolate! Guess it qualifies as a weakness. Definitely not a strength.
What makes you feel grounded?
Writing or creating art.
Would you rather never be able to eat warm food or never be able to eat cold food?
I actually prefer most foods cold so would choose to eat cold food over hot. Ice cream!!!
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I was so grateful for time spent with Dianne and Andy, my wonderful hosts on Price Edward Island. now I look forward to eighteen more days spent with Forgottenman as well as other friends and family members. Then I’ll be grateful to go home to see Morrie, Frida and Diego–and hear the tales of my house sitters Ian and Pen, for whom I am also grateful.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/12/share-your-world-2016-week-37/
Snowy Egret: A Vision of Maternity
(Please click on the photos to enlarge)
It would be hard to choose which sense is most stimulated by Mexico. I’ve written a few times about the sounds of Mexico as well as her flavors, but for me it is the visions of Mexico that top my sensory list of thrills. Time and time again, it has been color that has attracted the lens of my camera, but last week I exited Cafetto Saga and happened to look up at the monstrous “Egret tree” where egrets perch for the night and I was thrilled to have this opportunity to photograph white––not only the snowy perfection of egrets, but to also find that I was in a perfect location to photograph this mother and her chicks. The somewhat goofy appearance of the chicks offsets the elegance of the adults. I especially love the one of the chick stretched out to caress its mother’s beak. In fifteen years, I have never lost my excitement in viewing these graceful, gorgeous birds.
Night Heron: Seven Day Nature Photo Challenge, Day 5:
Night heron in the mangroves, La Manzanilla Laguna, Jalisco, Mexico, February, 2016 Judy Dykstra-Brown Photo
I was invited by Cee from ceenphotography.com to participate in a challenge called Seven Day Nature Photo Challenge. (Check out Cee’s wonderful nature photos by clicking on the link above.
As part of this challenge, I am to post one nature photograph a day for one week and to ask one other person to join the seven-day challenge each day I post. Today I ask you to check out the photography in Our Rumbling Ocean as I’m nominating him to take part in the Seven Day Nature Challenge as well. I hope you will check out his link just above. You won’t be disappointed.
Palm Tree Blossoms: Flower of the Day Mar 22, 2016
This little woodpecker wakes me up most mornings, pecking away 80 feet or more up one of my palm trees. This morning it brought a gift by bringing my attention to these beautiful palm blossoms that I usually only notice floating in my pool.
http://ceenphotography.com/2016/03/21/flower-of-the-day-march-22-2016-daffodil/
Pacific Blue
Strange how many times the Pacific is not Pacific blue! In these photos, somewhere in the water is the color of blue that this challenge calls “Pacific Blue.” The phrase has an added meaning to me, however, because I go home in six days and this time I am really not ready to go back. Here are some of the reasons why.
(Click on first photo to enlarge, then click on arrows to view gallery. When you are ready to return to this page, hit the X in the upper left side of the page.)
http://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/03/09/color-your-world-pacific-blue/
“No Soggy Doggies” and other Found Beach Stories
My rental house at the beach is no place to socialize three dogs raised behind high walls and accustomed only to their own company. At home on Lake Chapala, their relationships with other dogs consist completely of sitting on the roof and barking at every dog who dares walk by my house. I miss them, but they are well-cared for by Maggie, who is housesitting. The found art piece dedicated to them as well as a few others recently completed are shown below. All of these sculptures were assembled by me over the past two months from assorted plants, shells, bones, wood and other objects found on the beach during my morning walks.
(Click on first photo to enlarge. Then click on each arrow to view other enlarged photos. After viewing all photos, click on X at top left of screen to return to this page. A link to other found art wall sculptures recently completely is given at the bottom of this page.)
Dressed-up Detritus Bird
Vaquero (sold)
Parrot
I Miss My Dogs.
I Miss My Dogs (detail) This single flip flop found on the beach made me think of Morrie. In truth, he’s only eaten one of mine, but they were my favorite pair of Crocs.
I Miss My Dogs (detail). Any one of my three dogs, left at home with a housesitter, would have made quick work of this bone washed ashore with the tide.
Go HERE to view recently made found art sculptures shown in an earlier post.
I responded to today’s one word prompt, “Object” as a noun. Here is the link for the prompt, in case you want to see how others responded: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/object/
Travel Theme: Flutter
Flutter
One morning I woke up and came out onto my porch to view this spectacle of the birds waiting to get the leftovers from the fishermen as they cleared their gill nets of small fish used for bait. They waited patiently until the men tossed the excess fish onto the sand and departed. Then this flutter and dance ensued.
Weightless
Almost weightless
More weightless
Weightless for the time being.
Mhttps://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/weightless/
I Heard the Owl Call Your Name: Serendipity Photo Prompt Chai (Life)
Looking through my photos to try to find something appropriate for the Chai (Life) prompt, and yet also thinking I wanted to find something for Nan, I came upon these pictures of Aztec dancers who were dancing in the Ajiic plaza right outside the cultural center where we had the dance performance for the second Camp Estrella group. At the end of their performance, I heard the loud drumming and went out to find what I judged to be a thunderbird dance. Certainly, this dancer looked like a thunderbird. Growing up in South Dakota, I was very familiar with this Sioux symbol of thunder and lightning and rain, but I was a bit confused about why they would be executing a North American indigenous dance.
It was only later, while editing, that I realized that it was not in fact a thunderbird, but rather a white owl, which can be seen very clearly from this front view.
I then remembered how I was kept awake last night by the very loud hooting of an owl, which reminded me of the white owl who had swooped down over my yard on three different occasions the last time my friend Patty visited me. She had seen it twice at night and was afraid I wouldn’t believe her until finally, one night, he appeared while I was outside as well. Then, the entire theme finally came together for me. Legend has it that when you hear an owl call, someone near to you will be leaving this plane.
I also love it that in the above picture, one of our camp participants is standing above the dancers in his own mask, made in the camp. It is on top of his head.
And so Marilyn and Garry, here for you is the white owl that called Nan’s name. I hope you soon find peace in remembering what a wonderful life you shared with each other and in remembering what the owl teaches us: that death is just a part of life and that without it there could in fact be no life. Somehow the only way we ever seem to be able to try to comfort each other is in stating the obvious.
http://teepee12.com/2015/08/12/serendipity-photo-prompt-2015-18-chai-081215/
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