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

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