Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Summer Scenes
Backyard Daylilies!
More of a summer river
Kayaking in the summer
Kids swimming in the river
Water plants along the river
SUMMER SCENES, SUMMER NOT – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
WINTER SCENES – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Winter Scenes
It certainly is winter here and today, it was actually cold. The earlier parts of the month were springlike, sometimes downright summery. Today, cold. Tomorrow? Snow? Sleet? Rain? Cold? Warm? All of the preceding?
NOW you’re talking. our precipitous winter days have mostly been a bit of everything, usually in about 12-hours. Although we have rapidly changing weather, it doesn’t usually all happen in a single day between dawn and the late news.
Junco in a bird’s winter
Waiting to a place at the feeder
Home in the snow – Photo: Garry Armstrong
A bench on the Common with snow – Photo: Garry Armstrong
SPRING IN THE VALLEY – CEE’S FUN FOTO CHALLENGE – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Spring Scenes and flowers of the day
We don’t have much of a spring season here. It tends to stay cold until suddenly in May, the leaves pop out of the trees and everything blooms during one, sunny midday. The process takes just a few hours. It’s amazing. One year, it was winter when we went into the grocery and summer when we came out.
Autumn to winter can be like that too. Garry and I went out for lunch in Boston wearing tee-shirts and shorts,. Two hours later, we came out and it was near freezing, We ran home — which, fortunately, wasn’t very far.
We do get spring flowers, though. And birds. I hope that will count because otherwise, I’m just out of luck!
Harbinger of spring – our purple crocuses
Columbine
More yellow daffodils
The Goldfinch turning bright yellow for mating season.
Spring along the river
Our last Tulip.
More bright Goldfinch
Baby oak leaves and a very blue sky
Along the fence, Forsythia flowers
And the House Finch turns brighter too
Spring on the Mumford River
Solomon’s Seal
Springtime on the Commons
FOTD – January 14, 2020 – Daffodils in Bloom
OPPOSITIONS IN COLOR – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Opposing Colors
As often as we say “opposites attract, ” mostly we are not talking about colors. But opposites do attract, though they may not stay together for long periods.
On the color wheel, the opposites are:
- Blue/Orange
- Yellow/Purple
- Red/Green
I don’t think I’ve ever worn a combination of blue and orange or yellow with purple. Back when we had autumn, red and green were a popular combination and always are at Christmas.
Let me see what I can find!
Bluebird on the fence – the perfect blue and orange combination!
And then, there is are bluebirds, a perfect natural combination of orange (some say red, but it really IS orange). What man may forego, nature brings perfectly to life!
Bluebird
The crocus knows!
Just ask the crocus!
Photo: Garry Armstrong
And finally, red and green!
The brightest Cardinal in our garden
Cardinal
The shed from the side
Mumford Dam in October
The Blackstone River in the fall
And do it goes! Colors in nature and in our little world. Here’s to a vastly improved decade!
BASICALLY TWO COLORS – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Basically Two Colors
It’s not easy to find pictures in just two colors, but these are pretty close. If you don’t count white or black … or hint of brown. But I did the best I could and a happy Christmas and good Chanukah and enthusiastic holidays to one and all!
In the snowy tree
The Episcopal rectory on the Common
This is close to the real color
Sassafras in Autumn – yellow and green
One all my flowers die, this is what takes over.
MONOCHROME: WHEN IT’S ALL ONE COLOR – Marilyn Armstrong
VIBRANT COLORS — BIRD STYLE! – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge:
Vibrant Colors
It was a brilliant day for the birds today. The most brilliantly colored of the birds is the cardinal, and for once, I got a lot of pictures of both male and female cardinals — and a few other birds 😀
Cardinal feeding
The Lady Cardinal
Downy Woodpecker with his red hat
In the snowy tree
Bluebird on the fence – the perfect blue and orange combination!
Fabulous profile!
A titmouse enjoys the bright colorful woods
Six little American Goldinch eating on a wire feeder
There will always be special seeds for you!
Lady Cardinal
Photo Garry Armstrong
WHITE IS WONDERFUL BUT PLEASE, NOT YET! – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: White
We know the big storm is on the way because the news has been full of it. What is funny is that they are talking about huge amounts of snow. Like … nine inches to a foot. We consider that a dusting. It doesn’t get serious until it tops 14 inches and really serious starts at about 18 inches.
I suppose that’s the difference between living in snow country and living in “sometimes it snows” country. I grew up in “sometimes it snows” (New York city and Long Island) as opposed to upstate New York which is like here. Although to be fair, we live in one of the heaviest snow areas in the country. Something about the way the snow goes up over the Worcester hills and when the ground drops away, the clouds just dump a ton of snow. Usually right on top of us. Unless the storm is coming in from the ocean, in which case Boston gets clobbered and we snicker … until the next storm.
Photo Garry Armstrong
By Garry Armstrong
MERRY RED THANKSGIVING – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Red
It’s too early to make it a Christmas Cactus, so let’s make it a Thanksgiving Cactus. Hopefully, it will continue to bloom through the holidays and thus alter itself into a Christmas Cactus. One way or the other, it has started blooming and it is beautiful.
And very red!
FOTD – November 20, 2019
MELLOW YELLOW! Marilyn Armstrong
BLUE LIKE THE JAYS – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Blue
And after the Red-Bellied Woodpecker flew off to do other things, the Blue Jays came back and I took some more pictures! These are beautiful birds. Rather sinister and they destroy the nests of other birds and eat their eggs. But as blue as a bird gets, Blue Jays are. Blue, I mean.
Welcome Blue Jay!
Big Blue Jay
Handsome Blue Jay
Hungry bird
Big Blue Jay
Blue Jay, watching
And a few more blues:
Spiderwort
Garry in blue
Blue benches
GREEN GREEN, IT’S GREEN THEY SAY – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Green
Memories of summertime along the river. And now that autumn is ending, the next color will be white!
Green trees and reflections of green in the river
Quietly afloat down the river – Photo: Garry Armstrong
Summer by the Blackstone
A bright green day for the grazing cattle
Green by the bridge
Za’atar!
FUN FOTOS: TEXTURES – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Textures
Our whole world is all texture right now. It’s October. If you can’t take a pretty picture in New England in October, you should definitely take up another hobby 😀
Crunchy on the lawn by the river
CIRCLES, CURVES, AND ARCHES – CEE’S FUN FOTO CHALLENGE – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Circles, Curves, and Arches
Arched doorway on Beacon Hill
Little arch
Circles!
Curves also have a vanishing point
Gold Elgin .- A circle!
Icy rocks along the road
Radiant window, Autumn light
Reflections in Williamsburg, Virginia
Windows at Joes American Bar & Grill
RECTANGLES AND SQUARES – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rectangles and Squares
We see each other!
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Rectangles!
CARS AND TRUCKS – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Cars and Trucks
The Renegade – We are counting on you!
Photo: Garry Armstrong
The setting sun
Engine block cum end table
Plymouth Prowler
Antique square truck with round headlights – and a roof!
Photo: Garry Armstrong
Red restored antique truck at Hannaford
A big truck and a low bridge
Garry and an old vehicle
Look! Up in he sky! It’s a … car? An old one?
Out here in the country, I don’t feel as surrounded by internal combustion vehicles as I did in the cities in which i lived: New York, Jerusalem, and Boston. I feel safer crossing the street, safer breathing the air.
Most of the world lives in much more densely populated quarters. I often wonder if any of them remember breathing air that wasn’t at least just a teensy weensy bit polluted.
