#CosPhoChal – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

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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Another ornament, but the blurred, sparkling background may be the real ornament

Cosmic Photo Prompt: Abstract

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

Hopefully these are abstract enough.

If not, I hope you enjoy them nonetheless.

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This is pretty abstract, perhaps an all white photo would have been more so.

If you ignore the little fish in this photo, it is pretty abstract. If you didn’t recognize them as fish, that is even better.

This is bark from some strange tree in Florida.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Reflections

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

The three photos below look sort of symmetrical to me if I ignore the asymmetrical details.

Hopefully they are symmetrical enough for the imagination to see reflections.

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The tall buildings on the left and the right make a U shaped bowl of buildings. (You might have to use you imagination to see this. 🙂 )

The dark lines above and below the central part of this fallen palm branch look somewhat symmetrical to me. Again, imagination required.

There is symmetry in the arches of this portion of the castle and in the exit to more areas to explore.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Autumn Landscapes

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

All of these were taken some years ago when we lived in Illinois.

I used to enjoy walking though the many forest preserves especially in the autumn.

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Daniel Wright Woods and Des Plaines River, Illinois

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Pick A Shape

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

I picked “round” as my shape.

The last one is definitely round. With the first two you might have to use your imagination.

A roundish something-or-other washed to shore

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art For Art’s Sake

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

Here are a few photos that might fit the prompt.

Think of them as paintings made by the waves with stuff left on the sandy shore.

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It is amazing what you will find on the beach.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Halloween

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

We don’t celebrate Halloween anymore. Long ago, we used to carve pumpkins and go trick or treating with our young children. But that was long ago.

Although I don’t have any Halloween images, I do have some fall photos to share.