My Daylilies are blooming in Coastal Georgia
Sharing with Terri’s Flower Hour #29
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Terri’s Flower Hour #29: May Daylilies
Tag: Photo Challenge
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #396 – Pick a Favorite Quote and Illustrate it
This week Ann-Christine’s challenge is Pick a Favorite Quote and Illustrate it. We can choose one quote accompanied with a maximum of five pictures or a maximum of five quotes illustrated with one picture each. She asks us to “Make us ”feel”your quote(s) in pictures!”
My first quote is one of my favorite sayings. I have a plaque on my kitchen wall to remind me of it’s message every day. Seeing the sunrise is a beautiful gift to start a new day.
“Yesterday is History
Tomorrow a Mystery
Today is a Gift
That’s why we call it the Present”
— Anonymous
The next quote reminds me to live life to the fullest. One of my greatest adventures was flying in a small plane over mountains and glaciers in Alaska and seeing Mt. Denali from the air. I’m not a fan of flying in small planes!
Almost twenty years ago volunteers on Tybee Island planted Oak Trees to help celebrate the 120th anniversary of Tybee Island. Today the trees are thriving and getting taller every year.
“What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants, in sap and leaf and wood,
In love of home and loyalty
And far-cast thought of civic good—
His blessings on the neighborhood,
Who in the hollow of His hand
Holds all the growth of all our land—
A nation’s growth from sea to sea
Stirs in his heart who plants a tree.”
— “The Heart of the Tree” by Henry Cuyler Bunner
The final two quotes and images need no explanation.
It was my pleasure to host last week’s challenge. Your responses took us all around the world with fantastic images On the Water. You wowed us with all types of water from puddles to mighty oceans, peaceful landscapes and thundering waterfalls. The variety of animals, people, and plants on the water were great. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge..
Many thanks to Ann-Christine for this fun challenge Lens-Artists Challenge #396: Pick a Favorite Quotes and Illustrate It.
Be sure to check back on Saturday, May 9 at noon eastern time when Anne will be hosting the challenge.
You can receive our weekly challenges by subscribing to the Lens-Artists team members websites: Tina, Patti, Ann-Christine, John, Sofia, Anne, Egidio, Ritva, Beth.
For information on how to join the Lens-Artists challenge please click here.
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Sunday Stills – National Garden Month
Terri’s latest Sunday Stills challenge is National Garden Month. For this challenge she asked us what is growing in our garden.
None of my flowers are blooming right now so I decided to flash back a few years to some beautiful roses I found at the the Savannah Botanical Gardens and the Minnesota Arboretum Garden.
Many thanks to Terri for her Sunday Stills challenge What’s Growing in your Garden?
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Terri’s Flower Hour #28: Flowers on the Water
In 2013, we were traveling in Alaska from Tok to North Pole when we stopped beside this pond covered with Yellow Pond Lilies.
On another trip, we wandered around in the gardens at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina.
Sharing with Terri’s Flower Hour #28: Flowers in the Water
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #395 – Looking back to #155 On the Water
This week we are looking back to John’s challenge #155: On the Water from July 3, 2021. In his challenge he said “the theme On the Water encompasses whatever manner of water floats your boat (or doesn’t)”. You can see John’s original post here.
For this challenge, I look forward to seeing your interpretation of “On the Water”. The water can be rivers, creeks, lakes, ponds, oceans, puddles, swimming pools or water parks. Think about scenic views of water, people having fun on the water, watercraft on the water, macros of water drops, or animals, birds, and plants floating on the water.
When I responded to John’s original challenge I featured images of boats on the water. You can see my response to his challenge here.
In this first gallery are images of people having fun on the water floating in a salt water creek and floating down the lazy river at a water park in Florida.
The next gallery features a floating alligator surrounded by water lilies and two ducks on the water.
A float plane in Alaska, a boat selling hamburgers, and a dragon boat are all watercraft you don’t see every day.
The last gallery features a pilot boat as seen from the deck of a cruise ship, and a fleet of U.S. Coast Guard Ships in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
I’ll finish with a peaceful, deserted white sand beach, my favorite kind of place on the water.
Your challenge this week is to show anything on the water. You can choose to show watercraft, things floating, closeups of water, scenic water landscapes, or anything else you can think of. I hope you will join us for this week’s challenge. I can’t wait to see your responses. Be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to this post.
Last week your responses to John’s “History Through the Lens” challenge were wonderful. I enjoyed all of the images and learned a lot from your posts. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge..
Be sure to check back on Saturday, May 2 at noon eastern time when Ann-Christine will be hosting the challenge.
You can receive our weekly challenges by subscribing to the Lens-Artists team members websites: Tina, Patti, Ann-Christine, John, Sofia, Anne, Egidio, Ritva, Beth.
For information on how to join the Lens-Artists challenge please click here.
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Wandering Dawgs 