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 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.

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.

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.

Dale offers the prompt “woodland winter” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challege.


Dale offers “starting afresh” as the prompt for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. I picked some morning scenes for the prompt.


Dale offers the prompt “show us your Christmas” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. I am posting some photos of the sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean on Christmas morning.



Dale offers the prompt “your best bits” featuring what we feel are our best photos from this past year for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.



