Cosmic Photo Challenge: My One Weakness

Dale offers the prompt “my one weakness is…” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

In my case, one of my weaknesses is to take photos of water during sunrises or sunsets. Others may like to sit on the shore or go into the water during the day. I can’t think of a good reason to do either of those two things.

Here are some examples.

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I especially like sunrises with birds
If there are no birds, a boat or buildings will do.
Clouds are also welcome.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons

Dale offers “changing seasons” as the prompt for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Here are photos from all four seasons over various years.

Also in many different places.

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Summer: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Fall: View of Lake Michigan from Lake Bluff, Illinois
Winter: Northbrook, Illinois
Spring: Somewhere or Most Anywhere

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Shades of Gray

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

Beach sand without too much debris is mostly shades of gray.

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One of my poems, Light and Dark, was published today in Whispers and Echoes. I am grateful to the editor for selecting it.

Mostly shades of gray
Birds
I don’t know how this happened

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Ferns and Fungi

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

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Also, today, one of my poems, “Library”, has appeared in Whispers and Echoes. I am grateful to the editor for selecting it.

Mushrooms
Along the trail by the old golf course
And a bunch more of them

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Off the Beaten Track

Dale offers the prompt “off the beaten track” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Although there is likely a paved bikeway nearby in Florida you could get off that beaten track to walk on the sands of the ocean shore for many miles.

However, it is not as easy to walk on the shifting, unbeaten down sand as it is to walk on the bike trail. You do get to see all kinds of things the waves wash to shore.

More stuff washed upon the unbeatened down track
More stuff littering the track (or shore)
To the left footprints try to beat down the track; to the right waves keep the track unbeaten down.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Early One Morning

Dale offers the prompt “early one morning” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

On Saturday morning I opened the door and asked myself: Just what photos should I take in this morning sun for the challenge?

The three below, all within 10 feet of the door, are what I found.

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One flower in the morning
Many flowers in the morning
An early rising stone with fossils

Cosmic Photo Challenge: As The Sun Goes Down

Dale offers the prompt “as the sun goes down” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

These were taken earlier this year.

From where I was they are sunsets, but for other folk they would have been a sunrise.

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Sunset behind a tall building and the Intracoastal Waterway in southern Florida
Sunset behind a tree
Sunset with clouds

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Close Up

Dale offers the prompt “close up” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I think I was less than a foot or so away from the object when I took the photo with my phone.

These are not recent photos but likely within the last year or two.

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Up close on the bark of a tree growing in southern Florida
Up close on a bee and a sunflower
Up close on a fallen palm branch