#CosPhoChal – Page 4 – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Bridges

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

Below are pictures of two bridges in Prague that I took last summer.

The first two show up close views of part of two statues on the Charles Bridge. The last shows another bridge in the distance with swans.

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From the Charles Bridge in Prague: a mixture of part of a statue on the bridge and scenery

Part of another statue on the Charles Bridge with a building in the background

If you ignore the swans, in the distance is a bridge, not the Charles Bridge because there aren’t any statues on it, but still in Prague

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art For Art’s Sake

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

It occurred to me that most art on display has an ulterior motive even as it pretends to be minding its own business.

These are all up-close photos of large palm branches that fell to the ground.

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The still, small voice inside said, “Take the picture.” But it’s just another palm branch, I replied. Then I got the silent treatment. So, I took the picture. “Don’t forget to post it somewhere.”

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Wild Flowers

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

I went across the street into the park to look for wild flowers, but I couldn’t find any. So I went deep, deep into the woods, that is, I went on a trail I normally wouldn’t take, and found three examples.

Here they are.

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I am not sure if this is a flower or not, but here it is.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: By the Water

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

Here are some bodies of water. Although there is a small pond across the street where we are now, it doesn’t compare to these.

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Intracoastal Waterway with a tree, clouds and setting sun

Sun with a boat trying to get in the way

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Community

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

There is a park across the street from us which serves many housing communities in the area. Some of the trees there are beautiful even when they are not blooming.

The area used to be part of Heritage USA a Christian theme park which fell apart some decades ago. Although we knew nothing about that park when we moved here many of the people we now know were associated with it in some way.

The blossoms on a particular kind of tree in the park symbolize the area for me. I think the tree is a kind of magnolia, but I don’t know. I just walk through the park.

I think this is the blossom of a kind of magnolia tree.

And this is what happens to it after it finishes blooming.

Another view of what happens after the blooming.

In the Evening Light

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

A couple weeks ago I went to the ocean to watch the full moon rise. The first photo shows one of the pictures I took.

The second photo was taken some years ago in Tiberias watching the moon over the Sea of Galilee. The third was back at the Atlantic Ocean.

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Moonrise over the Atlantic Ocean a few years ago

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Pick a Color

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

Since I am near huge bodies of water at the moment, I’ll choose the color blue.

To add contrast I’ll also include the reds and yellows of a sunset and the dark silhouettes of trees and maybe even some people if they get in the way.

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Intracoastal Waterway with palm trees blocking the view. I better get more blue in the next photo.

That’s the Atlantic Ocean at the horizon.

The Intracoastal Waterway. I need more blue.

Maybe too much blue, but more Intracoastal Waterway.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Up, Down, Sideways

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

For the up direction, I chose clouds during a sunset.

For the down direction, I chose an ancient pavement which was so far down it was below the normal walking surface.

For the sideways direction, while waiting for a sunrise, I noticed the moon which thankfully my phone was able to capture clearly enough.

LOOKNG DOWN: Ancient pavement in Jerusalem somewhere below the Western Wall

LOOKING UP: Colorful clouds during a sunset over the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida

LOOKING SIDEWAYS: Although there will soon be a sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean, look sideways to see the moon

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Here’s Some Cool Stuff I Found

Dale offers the prompt “here’s some cool stuff I found” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

One of the places I walk to in order to take pictures of the sunset is a small park.

The photos show my walk to and from that park as the sun set recently.

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As I crossed this bridge I could see the sun setting and reflecting in the clouds.

Here is a view of the park, but I was attracted to the shadow of the bike on the wall.

Looking away from the sun the cloudy skies stood out on the water.

On the way back it was dark enough for the bridge lights to be on.

Fun In The Sun

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

The first photo could also viewed as fun in the wind. Since I can’t swim, this is not something I plan on trying to do.

When the sun rises the birds are there to greet it. Sunrises are more fun with a few clouds to color the sky and many birds.

I imagine whoever is in the boat in the last photo is trying to get home before it’s dark.

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