Dandelions

They may be weeds but they’re still beautiful – Just wild flowers in the wrong place! Have a gorgeous evening/day – love & Peace

Colorful Red Flowers

A request came in to post a color version of yesterdays black and white flower photo. Here it is but the angle is a little different. Cheers!

These past few weeks, when Megan and I take a night-time trip to the store, she will look up, point at the sky, and say “stars.” She will also start singing ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” sometimes. She’s just a baby, so she wouldn’t worry about other people being able to hear her. Her main focus is on singing loud enough for the stars to hear her. And when our night-time shopping trip is over and I’m carrying her back into the house, she looks in the sky, waves and says, “Bye-bye stars.”

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In some areas there are not a lot of street lights, and any other lights are pretty dim. So this allows us to clearly see the quiet, dark sky and the peaceful brilliance of the stars. It’s all certainly one of nature’s many gifts to us. As she gets older, I’m sure the stars will remain magical to her. And she’ll ask the old age question of ‘Why is the moon following us.’ When I was little, I certainly thought I was extra special because the moon kept following me as dad and mom drove us around town. As Meg gets older, a telescope as well as some nice, backyard camping nights will be a treat for us.

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The Gift of ‘Moon & Stars’

In my blog that centers around gift ideas for babies, I use themes to keep me organized and focused. One theme for my gift ideas is Moon & Stars. Looking back on some of my old photos, I decided to see what type of photos I can find that relate to this theme. Well, I certainly  don’t have any photos of stars in the sky. I am thinking that very specialized equipment is needed for those type of photos.

But I do have a picture of a star! This star is not in the sky,but it’s a star. Just look inside this yellow flower, and there’s a perfectly shaped star. And the star sits within a pentagon. I am a nature-lover and find some of the little details of nature so fascinating. I try to learn the names of the flowers that I photograph, but I haven’t been able to find the name of this flower.

Little Star

The photo below was taken with a point and shoot, and very little experience. It’s the best moon photo I’ve been able to get. With an equipment upgrade and more time to practice, I’m sure I’ll have some better ones one day.

To Megan, my nephew and nieces—Always remember I Love You to the moon and back.

Black And White Flowers

For this Macro Monday, I’ve decided to feature a dandelion in seed. Believe or not, I’ve never taken a photo of one, so this was a first for me. Not all of it came out in focus so next time I’ll have to play with the depth of field a little bit more. I have to say my kids were very patient and waited until I was all done with my photos to pick this dandelion and blow on its seeds.

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Macro Monday: Dandelion in seed

Macro Monday: close-up of a dandelion in seed

Christmas Cactus

I love how this cactus is flowering at this time of year – the colour is gorgeous. Have a beautiful evening/day.

The past couple weeks have been busy!

In the past two weeks, I (and sometimes Daniel):

• completed my first and second week at the new job
• made the discovery that I’m mildly allergic to vinyl
• bought some greige nail polish at Sephora
• wore shorts for the first time in 6+ months
• drank at least one cup of iced tea every day
• realized we’ve lived in Charlottesville for more than 8 months now
• went to Staunton to meet Daniel’s dad for breakfast
• took lots of photographs of flowers
• ate at a new Mexican restaurant
• went on a nature walk with a friend
• lamented the fact that my car AC no longer works
• thought about growing out my hair (again)
• attended a portion of the Tom Tom Founder’s Festival
• bought a vintage denim skirt at Low Vintage
• ate at Song Song’s Zhou and Bing with a friend (I really love that place)
• missed my old job
• finally bought some studs to wear in my second and third ear piercings
• made chocolate chip banana bread
• attended a fun potluck
• tried to make a daisy chain
• thought up a few new features for Style Wise
• reduced prices at Water Lily Thrift in honor of spring time
• contemplated how to balance ambition with contentment
• felt sorrowful over the return of house centipedes, sugar ants, and spiders
• talked to a friend on the phone
• got lots of allergy-induced headaches

- Reading: anything and everything on Rachel Held Evans’ blog
- Watching: Treme; King of the Hill
- Listening to: random Pandora stations at work; the Penguin Cafe Orchestra CD my sister got me for Christmas
- Anticipating: life puzzle pieces falling into place so I can take the next steps with confidence

Have a very nice week!

Dreaming Of Spring

First Purple Tulip Of Spring

Orange Blossom

Orange Blossoms

For this specific challenge, I decided to share photos I took in a single day, while visiting the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. There sure is a lot of color there if you look closely.

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My first photo is of a busy bee on bright yellow flowers. I’ll share more photos of bees on these flowers in an upcoming post in the next week or so, so stay tuned.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Color – yellow flowers and bee

I wanted to photograph this protea pin cushion up close and I used the purple flowers as a contrasting background. The bright blue sky helps too. If you like protea pin cushion flowers, you can view more here.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Color – orange protea pin cushion flower

Besides lilac blooms, I’m not sure there’s anything more beautiful than wisteria blooms. If you like wisteria, I’ll be posting more photos of it in the next week or two. Remember to subscribe to this blog if you haven’t already.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Color – purple wisteria

If you follow this post, you just saw the photo below this morning, but I wanted to share it with the people who do the WordPress weekly photo challenge. I really like how the pink flowers stand out next to this amazing giant owl butterfly.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Color – pink flowers and giant owl butterfly

I used the last photo in a post earlier this week but I thought it’d fit perfectly here too. These fluffy yellow blooms belong to a very large tree that was covered with thousands of them.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Color – yellow fluffy blooms

I hope you enjoyed my photo picks for this colorful theme!

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