Dale offers the prompt “autumn landscapes” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
All of these were taken some years ago when we lived in Illinois.
I used to enjoy walking though the many forest preserves especially in the autumn.
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Dale offers the prompt “autumn landscapes” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
All of these were taken some years ago when we lived in Illinois.
I used to enjoy walking though the many forest preserves especially in the autumn.
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Dale offers the prompt “pick a shape” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I picked “round” as my shape.
The last one is definitely round. With the first two you might have to use your imagination.



Dale offers the prompt “art for art’s sake” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Here are a few photos that might fit the prompt.
Think of them as paintings made by the waves with stuff left on the sandy shore.
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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.


