For this week’s challenge, Ritva invites us to have some fun shooting photos from above. Often when I’m walking along the beach or on a trail, I see small entities that have little importance in the whole scheme of things, yet they catch my eye and I snap the shot. Also, when I’m in places with beautiful vistas from on high, I take photo after photo hoping for one that captures what I’m seeing.
Looking out and down from inside the top of North Head Lighthouse is a thrill. From this vantage, as waves crash into the headland just below, in the distance beyond the trees we can see Long Beach stretching to the northern horizon for at least 10 miles (16 Km).
Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) is so fun to watch as it pops up and unfurls in my garden, a Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) butterfly, so beautiful at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. From Long Beach, WA sea foam bubbles sparkle in the sun, a shy Praying Mantis hides in the dune grass, and a small feather casts a long shadow on an early January afternoon.
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North Head Lighthouse was a place I loved to visit and looking down from there was a great, the view is beautiful – thanks for the memory. The butterfly and daisies ( white flowers reminded me of summer. Lovely images and it is wonderful what we can see if we once in a while look down.
Thank you, Ritva. Look down, look up, look out and look back – amazing photos await discovery!
Well done Lindy! The feather image is amazing and I loved the lighthouse image.
Thank you, Tina. Gotta love feathers on the beach! I hope you are fairing well with your backup furnace and fireplace heat. One time years ago now, our heat pump gave out on the coldest day and on a week-end. We used our wood-stove and ample wood supply to warm the house for two days, until the shop opened and we could get help in to fix things!
Lindy, I love the view from the North Head Lighthouse. The lighthouse wasn’t open for climbing when we were there in 2007 but I have a very similar picture taken from the path around it. I also love the praying mantis and the butterfly.
Thank you, Beth. I love that you, and many of those who follow me on WordPress, appreciate the sweet insects and butterflies all around us!
Posts like this are wonderful. You give us beautiful photos, such as the opener, and you also make us think with the way you write. It’s wonderful in every way.
Thank you so much, Egídio. Writing is another of my creative ventures. When I retired in 2012, I became involved with a community of writers in Portland, OR and have continued with a core group since then. Seems like I’ve come full-circle since writing, visual art and nature have been important to me throughout my life, though writing and visual arts had to be “tucked in around the edges” of my career!
Lindy, it’s wonderful how life circles around and brings all these things together.
So true!
Awesome and varied views from above Lindy!
Thank you, Anne!
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Beautiful and summery! Loved especially the daisies and butterfly. Welcom in the greyness here. Lovely photos.
Thank you, Leya. It’s been cold but clear here for two weeks. That will soon change as rain and maybe snow are predicted by the week end!