Dale offers the prompt “Halloween” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
We don’t celebrate Halloween anymore. Long ago, we used to carve pumpkins and go trick or treating with our young children. But that was long ago.
Although I don’t have any Halloween images, I do have some fall photos to share.
Dale offers the prompt “autumn color” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Prompt.
These are photos of the forest preserve in northern Illinois when we used to live there a few years ago.
Where I am now in the Carolinas, the trees haven’t started changing yet.
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Dale offers the prompt “from an unusual perspective” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
The unusual perspective I used is getting so close to the object that I tend to forget just what it was originally.
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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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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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.
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.
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.
Dale offers the prompt “summer fun” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
The first two are photos of flowers from the past enjoying the sun.
The last photo is a view of Lake Wylie, from the North Carolina side.
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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Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 