Terri’s latest color challenge is peach and orange. When I think of these colors I think of autumn leaves and pumpkin patches. Here in coastal Georgia our leaves don’t change colors and I don’t see many pumpkin patches.
My home state of Georgia is known as the Peach State so my first two images feature delicious Georgia peaches. Their season is short and is over for this year. I really wish I had some fresh Georgia peaches to enjoy right now.
Georgia PeachGeorgia Peach Daiquri
I don’t have any images of orange leaves or pumpkins but I found these orange flowers and butterflies in my garden this month.
Terri’s Sunday Stills challenge is Nature’s Golden Yellows. The Lens-Artists challenge from Ann-Christine is What’s in a Garden? Both these challenge have flowers and nature in common so combining them into one post made perfect sense to me.
I’ve discovered many golden yellow flowers and butterflies during walks in nature and when visiting gardens. The following images are a few of my favorites.
Yellow at Calloway GardensGarden in AlaskaYellow Butterfly
Terri wraps up her Great Outdoors Sunday Stills photo challenges with the challenge of Landscapes.
America’s National Parks are some of our greatest treasures. Our national parks, monuments and preserves feature many different types of landscapes. The header image is from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, America’s most visited national park. I’ve included a few different landscapes from around the United States.
Everglades National Park, FloridaAcadia National Park, MaineHoh Rain Forest, Olympic National Park, WashingtonPolychrome Overlook, Denali National Park, AlaskaView from Glacier Point Road in Yosemite National Park, America’s first national park
Tina’s challenge is to examine the habitats of both humans/and or animals.
A quote from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources tells us that “Georgia’s coastal marshlands encompass approximately 368,000 acres in a four to six mile band behind the barrier islands. Thriving in the waters of the estuaries, these marshes have been identified as one of the most extensive and productive marshland systems in the United States. There are nearly 400,000 acres of coastal marshlands in Georgia which represent a considerable portion of all remaining marshlands along the entire eastern coast of the United States.”
I chose to feature images of some of the birds that feed on the fish, shrimp, snails, and other small creatures that live in the salt marsh. Sometimes I see the birds perched in a tree or on a dock above the marsh as they search for food. It’s fun to watch them wade through the marsh or a creek as they feed.
Great egret wades through the salt marsh searching for foodIbis feeding in the salt marshWood StorkRoseate Spoonbills and Great Egrets share a tree Roseate Spoonbill fishing in a tidal creekGreat Blue Heron perched on a rail above the marshOsprey searching for fish
In honor of Earth Day Donna asks us to “showcase anything from rocky landscapes to cobblestone streets”. I was excited when I first read her challenge because I have so many pictures of rocks I didn’t even know where to begin. It was hard but I finally chose the few I’ve included here.
The header image and the first gallery are natural rocks I’ve found during our travels. The header is of cactus flowers growing on top of Enchanted Rock near Fredericksburg, Texas.
Black lava rocks, St. KitsBarbadosGiant’s Causeway, Northern IrelandCreek in GeorgiaRock formation at Cliffs of Moher, IrelandBalanced Rock at Arches National ParkGrand Canyon North Rim Point ImperialThree Patriarchs in Zion National Park
These next magnificent natural rocks deserve a gallery of their own.
Devil’s Tower, WyomingEnchanted Rock, TexasLooking Glass Rock, Blue Ridge ParkwayHalf Dome in Yosemite National Park, California
The next gallery shows some ancient man made rock structures.
Beehive huts, Dingle Peninsula, IrelandAncient Pueblo dwellings, Hovenweep National Monument, Colorado and UtahBridge at Eileen Donan Castle, Scottish HighlandsMesa Verde National Park, Colorado Stone Stairs in a castle in the Scottish Highlands
This final gallery includes some rocks Henry collected during our years of Wandering Around the United States and Canada in our RV. If any of you have ever seen the 1954 movie “The Long, Long Trailer” starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz you’ll know that rock collecting while traveling in an RV might not be a good idea.
After we watched the movie, I resisted collecting rocks. Little did I know that Henry was collecting them! Luckily, he limited his collection to small rocks. The three in the big image on the left were collected during our Alaska and Canadian travels in 2013. The two smaller images on the right are the front and back of a rock Henry picked up in the cemetery near Seth Bullock’s grave.
Wandering Dawgs 