Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #278: Unique

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Happy Sunday! This week, Amy from The World is a Book is the lovely hostess for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and what a difficult theme – unique.

When I was in Japan in September, I had the pleasure of visiting a public garden near the foot of Mt. Fuji. If you had asked me to identify flowers two years ago, I would’ve come up blank but since I started growing flowers in my garden in 2022, I’ve slowly begun to be able to identify some of the flowers.

I was quite surprised I could name the flowers by looking at them as I toured the beautiful flower garden – cosmos, black-eye susans, hydrangeas, climbing roses, English tea roses, marigolds, etc. – but I couldn’t identify this red flower. I haven’t seen it before, perhaps it’s a flower that’s unique to this region?

Having lived in a dry climate for almost 20 years, I rarely see moss-cover anything, even on my hikes. So when I saw the moss-covered tree trunks in Japan, I instantaneous took pictures of it. It looks so different from anything I’ve ever seen. Perhaps, it’s because I’ve never been to a rainforest before where it’s humid and wet year round but this, to me, was an unique sight.

Finally, what can be more unique than the hoodoos at Bryce Canyon National Park? The colors, the formations, all formed by nature? Even after 3 visits, I hope to return to see it in the winter time, I heard it’s prettier with snow.

23 thoughts on “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #278: Unique”

    1. Thank you. I think mosses only exist in very humid and wet areas. I’ve lived in Texas before and OMG, was it humid. I remember I didn’t want to get out of the car in Houston. 😀 So I have no doubt moss exists there.

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    1. Thank you. I live in the high desert region of the U.S. It’s a place where one must rub butter on the skin nightly to avoid it cracking. The mountains here are full of spruce trees and rocks. Moss is a rare sight, if one’s lucky, in spring.

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