Dale offers the prompt “in bloom” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
The flowers above are bougainvillea in Florida.
The flowers below are poppies in Illinois.
They were both taken around late winter or early spring although some years ago.
Dale offers the prompt “from an interesting angle” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
In the photo above of the trail, I knelt down to get a different view of the railings. This was taken many years ago on the Barr Trail in Manitou Springs, Colorado.
In the photo below I pretended I was a pigeon. I got down very low and focused on the ground. This was also taken many years ago somewhere in Europe.
Dale offers the theme “as the world warms up” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I was walking along the beach on Friday afternoon. The sun was hot. The sand was hot. If it warms up any more I will have to put my sandals back on. So I waded in the water along the beach and saw a small section where some seaweed (and other stuff) was moving to shore.
I have no idea why I took these two photos of the same seaweed. The hot sand gave me hope they might fit the prompt.
Dale offers the prompt “art from nature” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. I chose a fall flower with a bug, a huge leaf with a heart-like center and the shapes that happen to sand when people walk on it.
Dale offers the theme “first hints of spring” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I assembled the collage below in March of last year.
This is not only what March looks like in southern Florida, it is also what April looks like. And February. And January. And December. And November.
I can’t complain even though I can’t tell what season it is.
Dale offers the theme “cold and bright” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I took these photos in 2019 in the fall. This was the first snowfall, cold, but still warm enough for the snow to stick to the trees.
I imagine it is far colder now in northeastern Illinois where these were taken. Where I am now in southern Florida it is bright, but toasty warm.
Dale offers the theme “when the wind blows” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. These photos were taken some years ago. The evidence that the days in the photos were windy are in those parasails and the waves.
Dale offers the prompt “picturing the past” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
The top photo is an old house preserved in a park in Illinois. I imagine it is sometimes open for tours, but I have only looked through the windows.
In the bottom photo is a bookshelf I made myself. I use it for old books I bought decades ago. They are mostly books on mathematics which is what I studied. They are also mostly unread. I picked a photo where the titles were blurry, since what I did read back then is now blurry in my mind and I have no longer any desire to make it clearer.
Dale offers the prompt “the returning of the light” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
The top photo is yesterday’s rising sun over the Atlantic Ocean from southern Florida.
A few minutes earlier than the top photo, the bottom one shows the sun rising out of the ocean (not literally 🙂 ) cropped to focus on the clouds and waves near the sun.
Dale offers the prompt “from my window” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
In the top view, taken a year or so ago, the water is on the outside dripping down. In the bottom it is condensation on the inside.
After opening the shades in our apartment in southern Florida over the last few days there was enough condensation to write the message below.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 