Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge
Nooooo… it’s too soon for autumn, despite autumn being one of my favorite seasons (aside from spring), where I am – in northern Utah – summer is still very much alive with 90+ degrees temperatures and no sign of autumn is approaching but who knows, these things can come with a snap of a finger. Not my fingers, Mother Nature’s.
Continue reading “#SundayStills: Too Soon for #Autumn” →
Happy Sunday! This week, on Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #264, Sofia of the blog, Photographias, invites us to share pictures and stories about primary colors.
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #264: Primary Colors” →I don’t participate in this challenge often but I will have to admit, I will miss this challenge. Here is a gallery of some of my all-time favorites black and white photos so far. I hope you enjoy.
Continue reading “CBWC: Finale – All-time Favorites” →I actually learned about Corvids in a podcast a few weeks ago. Before then, I would’ve been like “What? Cor-what?” Though I still can’t tell what’s what in that family, I now have a general idea of what’s included in that family. I hope you enjoy the gallery of every Corvid I can find in my archive, and please no judging if I get one wrong.
Continue reading “Nature Photo Challenge #26 – Corvids” →
Words begins with the letter O? This is a tough one. The only words come to mind are orange, October, octopus, origami, opal…
Continue reading “CMMC: August Alphabet: Begins with an O” →
I am certain that no amount of money or credit card can buy moments with nature as every moment is priceless and different.
Despite having some failures in the garden this year like the pest infestation and my inability to grow squash, I feel this garden season has been a wonderful and successful one and as August ends and September rolls around, I have a sinking feeling I’ll have to say goodbye to the 2023 garden very soon. I can’t express gratitude enough for all that it’s given me from food to joy to admiration to other wonderful feelings. Therefore, I will dedicate this post to celebrate the garden. I hope you enjoy this photo gallery.
Continue reading “#SundayStills: Let’s #Celebrate the Garden Harvests” →
Happy Sunday! This week, on Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #263, John from Journeys With Johnbo is challenging us with faces.
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I agree, seedheads aren’t always the prettiest thing in the world to photograph.
Continue reading “Nature Photo Challenge #25 – Seedheads” →
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge
Finally, these are interesting looking tree trunks, aren’t they? The first image reminded me of horse’s hooves like one is raising while the other one remains on the ground. The second image makes me think of a teepee.
I’m surprised to say there aren’t much to do in the garden these days.
Continue reading “#SundayStills: Monthly Color Challenge: #Yellow in the August 2023 Garden” →
Happy Sunday! Amy from the blog – The World is a Book… – is the lovely hostess for this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge and this week’s theme is all about Framing.
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #262: Framing Your Photos” →I have no shortage of edibles in my backyard and front yard gardens. After all, I eat mostly out of it during the summer.
There was a rainstorm about a week ago. I love the look of the garden after a storm. The water droplets on the leaves made for a great photo opportunity and I got to play with my macro lens filters because I find the camera focuses better on small subjects (like water droplets) with a sort-of magnifying glass attached. I love how the pictures turned out.
These are kale leaves, by the way. I doubled my kale production this year from 3 plants to 7 plants this year – 2 dinosaur kale and 5 Red Russian kale. Ever since June, I’ve been eating kale once a week – cooking it down in a broth. I didn’t know what it was doing to my gut but it didn’t take long to find out. I believe it was the thing that contributed to my 7-pound weight loss in 2 months.
I also have herbs in my garden this year. I had dill in late spring and early summer before it went to seed, making a corner of my garden smell like dill pickle. That’s one of my favorite smells and often found myself visiting that corner of the garden just to inhale the scent since I’m not going to get to make my pickles this year (thanks a lot, earwigs).
After heavily pruned the Holy Basil back in July, it’s starting to grow back again, producing more of that bubblegum pink blooms. Did I mention it smells like bubblegum? Another one of my favorite corner this year.
Finally, lemon balm. I love the smell, too. It doesn’t smell like lemon. It smells like one of those lemon-flavored super sour hard candy. It was a herb I wish I had last year because it was one of the plants that died on me. This year, however, I have such an abundance of it that I don’t know what to do with.
Last but not least, I can’t forget the most obvious edibles in the garden. I’ve sowed a new round of snow peas for the fall garden, hopefully, those will emerge soon, before I get anxious. I’ve had a few of the Japanese cucumbers and they were, so far, the best variety I’ve grown so far as they don’t get bitter.
The strawberries are getting ready for another flush as the temperatures cool. I’m looking forward to it. I’m loving the sweet banana peppers this year and am considering replacing my usual bells with this pepper in the future. I’ve eaten at least 10 of these already and my bell peppers have not even produced one. So disappointing this year.
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge
Last week’s rain has made me a lazy gardener.
Continue reading “#SundayStills: Feeling #Lazy yet Triumphant” →
Happy Sunday! Hosting this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, Ann-Christine has presented an intriguing theme of Work in Progress. I hope you like my offering.
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I’m opening this week’s post with a close up of a sunflower in my front yard. I absolutely love them and all the pollinators they attract. I took the first photo before the rain came in and the second after. It’s been raining on and off for the last 2 days and when it’s raining, the pollinators are usually nowhere to be seen but it also gives me an opportunity to get closers without having to worried about getting stung by Mr. Bee.
My favorite photo this week has to be this photo – Mr. Grasshopper doing yoga under my shade cloth. Since last year, I have been noticing quite a few of these guys in my garden. I haven’t determine whether they are good or evil, yet as I haven’t seen much damage done by them. I guess I’ll let it be for now.
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge
Happy Sunday! Concluding the month of guest hosts, Janet from the blog – This, That, and the Other Thing – is hosting this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge with the theme of Overlooked.
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