Tag: Sunday Stills

Sunday Stills – In the Swim

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Terri’s latest Sunday Stills challenge focuses on water safety. Her challenge is to show fun things in and around the water.

I love being in, on, or close to water. I’m a former lifeguard and scuba diver. I love boating, kayaking, canoeing, swimming, or just floating in the water. My favorite form of exercise is water aerobics. I strongly believe in educating people about water safety.

My first two images involve swimming. The featured image is swimmers at the start of the swim portion of a triathlon. The next image is a swimmer at a swim meet.

Swim Meet

These next two images are lifeguards keeping beach goers safe. On the left are lifeguards on a beach in Georgia. On the right are lifeguards in Kauai, Hawaii. Many thanks go out to all the lifeguards everywhere.

The next two images feature kite surfers. This is a water sport I never attempted. It’s a lot of fun to watch them, though.

The next two images are kayakers in Hawaii on the left and Florida on the right.

I can’t have a post about swimming without featuring a photo of our beloved dog Blondie. Oh how she loved to swim! I still miss her.

It was a joy to see Blondie swim.

Shared with Terri’s Sunday Stills challenge In the Swim but Staying Safe

Also shared with Debbie’s One Word Sunday Red

Sunday Stills – Sunrises and Sunsets

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June is Outdoors Month and this month Terri’s Sunday Stills challenges are all focused on the great outdoors. This challenge is Sunrises and Sunsets in the great outdoors.

The featured image and the next one are of recent sunsets in my neighborhood in coastal Georgia. The rest are from various places around the United States.

Sunset over the salt marsh, Georgia

Mount Redoubt sunset, Ninilchik, Alaska

Sunset at Devil’s Tower, Wyoming

Sunset over the Mississippi River

Sunrise in Everglades National Park, Florida

Shared with Terri’s Sunday Stills challenge Sunday Stills Sunrise and Sunset in the Great Outdoors

Sunday Stills – Paths and Trails

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June is Outdoors Month and this month Terri’s Sunday Stills challenges are all focused on the great outdoors. This challenge is Paths and Trails in the great outdoors.

I more of a wanderer than a hiker but I enjoy being out in the great outdoors. I like to take my time wandering on a scenic trail or path looking at the trees and searching for birds, wildlife, and wildflowers. The featured image is from the McKenzie Head Trail at Cape Disappointment State Park in Washington. The following are a few others that I have enjoyed.

We read the warnings and started on the trail anyway. We turned around after rattlesnakes were sighted on the trail in Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas.

The trail leads to Landscape Arch in Arches National Park, Utah.

Swamp Trail, Silver Springs State Park, Florida

Boardwalk Trail at Stephen C. Foster State Park in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia

Walking through fire weed in Alaska

Trail at Eagle Creek, Ketchikan, Alaska

Shared Terri’s Sunday Stills challenge Sunday Stills Paths and Trails

Rosy Red Roseate Spoonbills

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The color rosy red makes me think of Roseate Spoonbills. A few years ago I captured these beauties when we visited the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Wading Bird Rookery. During nesting season wading birds come to nest in the trees there. These nesting birds are wild and can come and go as they please.

Shared Terri’s Sunday Stills color challenge Rosy Reds