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

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

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.

On the way down the hill there are some ruins such as this one.

On the way home there are wild blackberries.

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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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

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.