#CosPhoChal – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

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.

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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