Weekly Photo Challenge: Growth

Lately, our back yard has become a bird nursery of sorts. A mockingbird couple built a nest in our lime tree and a mourning dove couple built a nest in the rain gutter on our house, right around the corner from the mockingbirds. This is one of the two baby mockingbirds sitting in one of our rose bushes, two days after they graduated to fledglings.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Flee(t)ing Moment

The Race

Talk about fleeting (or fleeing) moments, caught these two one morning in the back yard.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Hands

Drumming Hands

Weekly Photo Challenge: Journey

End of the Journey

Weekly Photo Challenge: Arranged

Bottled Water

Looking through a dark coffee shop window at night.....these bottles of water just stood out in the lighted display case, waiting to be photographed.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Through

The Night

The night, "Beware of that dark door!" (from Djuna Barnes's Nightwood)

Weekly Photo Challenge: Unusual

Hummingbird Swarm

It's not unusual for us, but unusual everywhere else it seems. I don't think I've ever seen so many hummingbirds in one place until we moved to southern California. And this is just one feeder. We have five feeders and there are times when there's five or six birds at each feeder. It's an embarrassment of riches!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrast

Outdoor Plumbing

Some people have gnomes in their front yard. And some people do not.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Distorted

Words In Water

I love how water distorts, blends, and renders abstract the things that are reflected in its surface. This is a list of Los Angeles County Museum of Art patrons' names carved into a wall and reflected in the fountain at the base of the wall.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Indulge

A Few Extras

I believe, firmly, that one can never have too many books, although some fear that my indulgence in bibliophilia has crossed over into hoarding. Nevertheless, I believe the quotation I once read, posted on a wall in City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco that says "The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity." --A. Edward Newton  If this is true, then infinity lives in my garage, not to mention many rooms in my house.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Ready

Joe's Bruschetta

It's not always easy to shoot pictures of my husband's culinary creations because when they're ready, I'd rather be eating them than photographing them.

Weekly Photo Challenge: SImple

Meter

I'm always looking out my car window, framing shots as I run errands. The more I look, the more I see and it is often the simplest, most mundane things that capture my attention. As Annie Dillard writes in her book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, (I paraphrase) life is a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't affair. I try to show up every day with eyes open, to see what I see.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Hope

Sunrise Over The Ridge

It's one thing to say there will always be a new day, but to see one with such unbelievable firey color is a gift......even if I was standing out in the back yard in my pajamas to take the picture. Hopefully, the neighbors were still sleep.