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

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Up, Down and Sideways

Dale offers the prompt “up, down and sideways” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

These photos are not recent. At the moment I am closer to the Appalachian Mountains than the Atlantic Ocean.

Up (These birds could see I was eating a sandwich.)
Down
Sideways though not on the same day nor the place where I saw those birds and the shells.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Landscapes

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

Below are landscapes from three different locations taken may years apart.

The areas represented are South Carolina, Switzerland and Colorado.

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South Carolina: An old golf course that is now a field with a pond
Switzerland: Lake with mountains and trees above and reflected below
Colorado: Below Pikes Peak

Cosmic Photo Challenge: In the Garden

Dale offers the prompt “in the garden” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The following photos were taken last year at Mirabell, the garden in Salzburg, Austria, where the song, Do Re Me, from the Sound of Music was partially filmed.

I think I was in the 8th grade when our class went to see this film at a theater in Chicago when it first came out in 1965.

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One entrance with a view of the castle in the distance
Flowers along a rock wall
From inside the garden
One of the dwarf statues. Others can be seen around the circle.
The garden is in the last part of the song, but there are many views of Salzburg before that

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Take a Hike

Dale offers the prompt “take a hike” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I begin the hike by crossing Regent Parkway. I go up and down many hills because this part of South Carolina is not the plains, but more like the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, or some other mountains, I don’t know which.

After following the trail (or sidewalk) I reach a park. Soon I reach my neighbor’s flower garden. Then I wander down the neighborhood street until I reach the entrance to the abandoned golf course.

There is a (very) steep incline which I normally wouldn’t take except today I’m giving a tour. Then I follow the cement trail making sure I avoid any snakes needlessly sunning themselves. Then I reach the pond with the ruined structures.

And then I’m back home.

We have crossed Regent Parkway and are on the sidewalk lining that road.
Now we are at the park with Regent Parkway to the right.
A sunflower that is no longer in bloom, but producing seeds in my neighbor’s garden.
The steep incline. The top in the picture is not the top.
If you survived the incline, here is a view of the top.
A view of the pond.
On the way down the hill there are some ruins such as this one.
On the way home there are wild blackberries.
I bring some home for my wife.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Say Hello To Summer

Dale offers the prompt “say hello to summer” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

On my walks in the neighborhood one of my neighbors has an amazing flower garden. I often stop by to take a few photos.

Here are some of the many flowers in his garden.

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Sunflower with bee
Another flower
And a bunch more

Cosmic Photo Challenge: North, South, East and West

Dale offers the prompt “north, south, east, west” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Now, I can’t keep my lefts and rights straight so I hope what I label as north, south, east and west doesn’t get confused as well.

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EAST: Looking toward the Atlantic Ocean on the bridge connecting Bal Harbor and some other place I can’t remember the name of.
WEST: The water is the Intracoastal Waterway
NORTH: The door to the stairs at the place we stayed at in Florida
SOUTH: But the bird is facing west