#CosPhoChal – Page 11 – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Interesting Buildings

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

Below are photos of the wall around the Temple Mount in Jerusalem I took a couple years ago.

A view of the east wall around the Temple Mount in Jerusalem

A view of the western wall

A view of the wall on the south side

Taken From Below

Dale offers the prompt “taken from below” to be used in this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

These were all taken on Normandy Isle of Miami Beach, Florida.

Unusual (at least for me) palm tree

Bougainvillea overhanging a high wall

Looking up through leaves

Wide Open Spaces

Dale offers the prompt “wide open spaces” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Blue Ridge Mountains, somewhere in North Carolina

Morning sunlight through the trees and to the pond — Morning sunlight on the pond

Myrtle Beach sunrise

Bare Trees

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

Almost Bare Trees

Bare Trees Except For Snow

Bare Branches Except For A Tiny Bird

Water, Water Everywhere

Dale offers the prompt “water, water everywhere” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Sunset, Storm, Atlantic Ocean

Sunrise Over the Atlantic Ocean

Birds, Water and Sunrise Through Clouds

Shades of Gray

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

Without having to change a color photo to black and white, the sand on a beach offers a lot of gray.

These photos were taken on the beaches at the 71st and 72nd streets of Miami Beach.

Birds on wave-smoothed sand

The smooth part is what the ocean did. The rough part came from a tractor

Footsteps in the raked sand

Where waves once were

Corrosion and Decay

Dale offers the prompt “corrosion and decay” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I don’t think the jellyfish washed to shore will survive.

Jellyfish washed to shore

Whatever these things are I think they are in a similar situation as the jellyfish

What’s Flowering Where You Are

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

We are currently travelling in southern Florida between Tampa and Miami. I noticed these while walking on sidewalks in the Miami area.

I don’t know what these plants are or even if they are technically flowers, but they were colorful which drew my attention to them.

Bright red against shades of green

More bright red and green

Orange, red, green, gray and white

A New Year Dawns

Dale offers the prompt “a new year dawns” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Focusing on the word “dawn” and realizing I was often in Florida for New Year’s I picked a few of my favorite winter sunrises over the Atlantic Ocean.

Sunrise Through Leaves

Sunrise With Red Clouds

Florida Sunrise Over the Atlantic Ocean

Sunrise with two birds — Sunrise with Two Birds

2023’s Greatest Clicks

Dale offers the prompt “2023’s greatest clicks” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I don’t know why I like these, perhaps, the colors, perhaps, the shapes.

Tiny Bird

Edge of Pond

Flowery Entrance

Spreading Seeds

Sunset with Incoming Storm