Posted in response to Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge – November Close-up or Macro.
CMMC November Close-Up: Cottonwood Leaves
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Fall Colors @ Riverfront Park
A few autumn leaves and other fall color. These photos were all taken at Riverfront Park, Billings, Montana on Saturday, October 8, 2022.
Yellow becomes brown in a hurry!
Blue and white aren’t typically thought of as “fall” colors. But ripening berries and the seeds of milkweed are part of the landscape!
Posted as part of Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge. Although I certainly could have used it for her Midweek Madness Challenge yesterday!
CMMC March Close-up: Branches in Early Spring
A few close-ups for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge. Not a lot of color, but spring is on the way!
CMMC January Alphabet Letter V in Word: Leaves
Rather than searching long and hard, I decided to stick with a simple theme of leaves for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge of Words that Contain the Letter V. My tree pictures a week ago did not include any autumn splendor, so I am making up for it today.
CMMC October Color Oranges and/or Light Green
A little bit of autumn (2011 and 2021), some Halloween (2015), flowers from three seasons (2016, 2021, 2011), a monarch butterfly (2021) and a view of my cul-de-sac (2021). All for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge – October Color Oranges and/or Light Green.
CMMC October Close Up – Leaves
Posted in response to Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge – October Close Up or Macro. I put all the photos in one ‘gallery’ so you should be able to enlarge any one of them then scroll through the rest. While you’re at it, you might notice the shapes, the textures, the shadows or the light, and the colors.
CMMC July Color: Brown
My first thought for this week’s Midweek Madness Challenge: “Brown? Seriously? I can’t imagine I have any pictures of things that are brown.”
But, of course, cattails are brown.
Sunflowers and yellow cone flowers have brown centers.
As summer turns toward autumn, pine cones and leaves turn brown.
Another thought: “Like green, there are shades of brown.” Keeping an open mind, I started scrolling through photos on my computer. And found more pictures than I could have imagined!
Thanks for the challenge, Cee!
TreeSquare: Leaves on Path
Posted in response to Becky’s July TreeSquare challenge.
Raindrops on Leaves on Path
Though it was still heavily overcast, the rain had stopped.
My primary goal was to walk before the day got too steamy.
I took the camera because there was a butterfly garden along the trail and because the theme for the July Squares challenge is rumored to be trees.
The butterfly garden was a bust. The flowers will be beautiful a little later this summer.
Square pictures of trees is proving to be a great challenge. But all was not lost.
Early in the walk I noticed raindrops on fallen leaves.
And I think the shapes of leaves, the shapes of the water droplets, and even the texture of an asphalt path all deserve Another LQQK.
What have you seen recently that caused you to pause to take Another LQQK?
CMMC June Close-Up or Macro Photograph
One of my early thoughts for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge June Close-Up or Macro photo challenge was a picture I took of the bark on a palm tree. But it wasn’t as interesting as I remembered. So I set out this morning to photograph the bark on trees along my usual walking path. (No palm trees here in central Iowa!)
Leaves growing directly from the trunks of trees caught my attention on the way home.
The spider on the underside of the leaf in the next photo was serendipitous. (Don’t worry, Cee, it’s the only one with a bug in this week’s collection.)
Finally, one set of leaves in the sunlight shown from two different angles.
Another LQQK 