#CosPhoChal – Page 22 – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Art From Nature

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.

First Hints Of Spring

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.

Cold and Bright

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.

When the Wind Blows

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.

Picturing the Past

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.

Blurry collection of books, blurry because it is now all a blur what I learned from them.

The Returning of the Light

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.

Yesterday's Sunrise — Yesterday’s Sunrise

From My Window

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.

Temperatures hit a Florida freezing of 50 degrees Fahrenheit — Temperatures hit a Florida freezing 50 degrees Fahrenheit

Shades of Grey

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

The top photo is a sunrise coming through silhouetted palm trees. The bottom is an afternoon storm coming in over the Atlantic Ocean.

The lighted path and the sunrise (though not shades of grey) provided contrast hopefully accentuating the darkness in the rest of the photo. These photos were taken some time ago.

Evening clouds over Miami Beach with a lighted path

Less Is More

Dale offers the theme “less is more” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

These are photos of sand on a beach. I hope less detail motivates more interest.

There is a shell and markings where the ocean waves reached on the sand as the tide went out. I once saw a painting in a museum that was simply a canvas painted white. This sort of reminds me of that, but there is that shell.