Tulips. Reiman Gardens, Ames, Iowa. April 26, 2021.
Red is the August color for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge. I browsed my digital files and found more red in 2021 than I imagined I had!
Flowers first: tulips, a fairy duster (who knew there was such a thing?!!), and a rose.
Baja Fairy Duster. Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona. May 16, 2021.
Red Rose. Des Moines Rose Garden. May 26, 2021.
Next up: a glimpse of my visit to the Iowa Arboretum. The school house is so small there’s just enough room for a student or two with the teacher. The metal sculpture of a cardinal is the best cardinal photo in my collection – maybe someday I’ll get the right equipment to take live bird pictures.
Little Red Schoolhouse. Iowa Arboretum. July 20, 2021
Metal Cardinal. Iowa Arboretum. July 20, 2021.
For a little fun, here is a new fire hydrant looking at an older relative to see if it is safe to remove its covering.
Fire Hydrants. Hamilton, Missouri. July 16, 2021.
And, finally, the side of a red barn.
Barn. Jasper County, Iowa. April 22, 2021.
Another LQQK 
Each photo kept getting better and better. I love the old tattered barn. I love your reds this week 😀
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I know Jasper County!!! My sister and family lived there for years…in Newton.
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I served as Interim Pastor for Bethany United Church Christ of Christ, Baxter for a couple of years. Such wonderful people.
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Love collections of red!
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I know that you have probably read this already but it appeared in my daily Center for Action and Contemplation offering and it so clearly made me think immediately of you. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=om#inbox/FMfcgzGkZsvwXkJPCGGRcbZPpvlXvwXs
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Oh, Maren, thank-you! While I couldn’t read it through the link you sent, I immediately checked my email inbox to see what CAC had sent today. It truly resonated with me.
My nature photography is frequently a contemplative practice, a combination of wonder and prayer. I might even call it a quiet celebration of creation.
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For others – particularly photographers – who might like to read the reflection “Receiving Images” here is a link that should work: https://cac.org/receiving-images-2021-08-19/
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Teressa, May I use with credit the photograph Baja Fairy Duster as my illustration for a daily prayer on the RevGalsBlogPals website onSaturday September 4? I think the prayer will focus on how the beauty of another region startles me into really experiences my own … how watching scripture Signed deepens words that I in fact can hear, how the food of another culture lets me travel miles over borders with my tongue and end up back at my grandmother’s pie … sort of like that. I would appreciate it very much.
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Absolutely!! I’d be honored.
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Thanks so very much.
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