#CosPhoChal – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Cosmic Photo Challenge: What’s Flowering Where You Are

Dale offers the prompt “what’s flowering where you are” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I did find an unusual white blossom recently. The first two photos show it.

The last photo is of a palm tree that I have not seen flowering, but I like the shape of the leaves.

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I don’t know what this tree is, but it was blooming recently

This isn’t flowering, but it is growing where I am now

Cosmic Photo Challenge: After The Rain

Dale offers the prompt “after the rain” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

We could probably use some rain where we are. There is usually sun in the sky.

The first photo is evidence that there is something called rain. The last two are a recent sunset with clouds, but no rain.

This would better fit a “during the rain” prompt

A sunset with just enough clouds to make it interesting

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Other People’s Houses

Dale offers the prompt “other people’s houses” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

These are scenes from near Miami, Florida.

They are close to where we are currently staying, but not where we normally live.

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People live in buildings like those in the distance. There is one still being constructed as well.

Other places where people live especially if they have boats

In the distance are condos if you look past the bicycle, the people, the palm trees and the whatever-it-is art

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Some of my poetry was recently published in The Short of It. I am grateful to the editor for accepting them.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Minimalism

Dale offers the prompt “minimalism” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Some of these may be more cluttered than a true minimalist would find acceptable.

Except perhaps for the last one.

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The beach with a minimal amount of stuff washed to shore. At the top is sand pushed aside by a plow smoothing the beach.

So minimal, not even the sun is in the photo

This one is so minimal I almost called it “White On White” except it is gray, the gray sand left as the waves retreated.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Morning Light

Dale offers the prompt “morning light” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

These photos are from the past, but they are all of morning light over the Atlantic Ocean.

It is great to get up early and go to the beach to watch the birds and the sun.

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Early morning over the Atlantic Ocean with birds

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Still Life

Dale offers the prompt “still life” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. These were cut flowers in a vase.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: A Cold Start

Dale offers the prompt “a cold start” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

It is rather warm where we live in the Carolinas and Florida although sometimes it reaches Florida freezing temperatures below 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

These photos are from when we lived in the Chicago area where Chicago freezing temperatures reached minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Or so I heard. On those days I didn’t go out to check.

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Cold, but still warm enough for snow to cling to the trees

Snowing along a path in Northbrook, Illinois

Cosmic Photo Challenge: The Best Of The Rest

Dale offers the prompt “the best of the rest” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Leaves of a magnolia tree (I think) just south of Charlotte in South Carolina

Blue bark on some strange tree in southern Florida although it might be a common tree in that area

A view of the fort at St. Augustine, Florida

Cosmic Photo Challenge: A Winter’s Walk

Dale offers the prompt “a winter’s walk” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

There are many trails where we live in South Carolina.

This trail is a couple miles long and I can walk to it from the sidewalk. Indeed, it is hard to tell where the sidewalk stops and the trail begins.

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Here is where the trail becomes interesting

I haven’t gone under the railway yet, so let’s see what’s there

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Lights, Camera, Christmas

Dale offers the prompt, “lights, camera, Christmas” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Below are some ornaments from our tree this year. We’ve had them for decades. We’ve had the tree for decades as well.

Merry Christmas!

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