#CosPhoChal – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Cosmic Photo Challenge: How Does My Garden Grow

Dale offers the prompt “how does my garden grow” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I don’t have a garden, but my neighbors do. Here are some photos from theirs over the years.

A lot of yellow and a little blue trying to get through

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Focal Point

Dale offers this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge to present photos “that lead the eye to a specific place or object”.

To get this effect I think one needs one or more starting points and then an ending point (which might be the starting point through various intermediate points).

I found four photos that I think do this.

This is a wall with missing plaster. Start anywhere along the broken plaster. The final focus is the top of the broken plaster, at least, as I see the picture.

The initial focus is on the dark open doorway with the sun’s light on the walls of the building. The lines of the railing and buildings finally focus my eyes on the trees to the right in the distance which as living objects contrast with the buildings occupying most of the photo.

The curve of the white lights and the curve of the waves made by the boat keep my eyes moving in a curved fashion across this photo. The final focus is the horizon to the right.

The focus here is circular starting with the sun then the silhouette of the people then the white wall to the left and then back through the buildings at the horizon to the sun again. My focus finally rests on the people. Since these three people are together various stories start coming to my mind about them.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Over the Bridge

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

I am not sure if these are all bridges, but there is water, water everywhere.

Here they go!

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I am not sure if this is a bridge or just a protective railing so one doesn’t accidentally fall into the water.

If you have a boat, you would know what to do with this bridge. I am usually stopped at the door.

I’m on a bridge separating two islands. This boat is leaving the Atlantic Ocean and heading for the safer intracoastal waterway.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: A River Runs Through It

Dale offers the prompt “a river runs through it” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

All of these photos are from many years ago. They show a river running though the Forest Preserve in northeastern Illinois near where we used to live.

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Cosmic Photo Challenge: The First Day Of Spring

Dale offers “the first day of spring” as the prompt for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I ran into some technical details moving photos from my phone to my computer. These are from a few days earlier than the first day of spring.

I tried taking some closeups of the sun as it was setting.

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The sun is behind the building under construction

Hmm. All the orange reminds me of a pumpkin

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Looking Up

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

As it turns out recently there was a total eclipse of the moon. The only problem was it would occur about 5 am. So I set the alarm. The next problem I had not anticipated was clouds, but even the clouds cooperated enough. Then I wondered if my phone could get clear enough images.

Anyway, here are the best of the lot including one from the moonrise a few hours earlier.

Moonrise, but after the moon rose high enough to get past the clouds on the horizon

Early morning. The moon is full, but the sun is casting the earth’s shadow on it.

The clouds are coming in and soon blocked the moon, but I did get a chance to get a near fully eclipsed moon before they did.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: First Signs Of Spring

Dale offers the prompt “first signs of spring” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I can’t tell which season it is where I am now except by where the sun sets in the west.

Regardless what it is actually doing the sun keeps moving across the horizon back and forth throughout the year.

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Here the sun is setting just to the right of that building.

The sun is moving even further to the right.

It looks like it is going to hit those buildings. Last night the sun lit up that building to the far right that is still under construction.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: The Path To The Beach

Dale offers the prompt “the path to…” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Just some images of the path along the beach. There is sand, shells and birds. There is even an umbrella.

Keep walking. The path to the beach leads to more beach.

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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.