~ Herbs & Fleurs ~ Weekly Photo Challenge – Future ~

In the background of this photo is a garden of roses and companion plants I created two springs ago. In the foreground is a ceramic pot ready to be filled with this years assortment of colorful annuals.

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“Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.”

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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~ Color Your World – Sky Blue ~

“Blue skies smilin’ at me
Nothin’ but blue skies do I see…”

Irving Berlin

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~ Best Friends ~ Cee’s B&W Challenge: Candid [Camera]~

Cee’s challenge this week is to show a candid photo of a person or animal. This one includes both!

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Missy Jello loves her Creighton, he loves her and I love both of them.

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~ Sunny Face – Wordless Wednesday ~

 

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~ I’m Shocked! ~ Color Your World – Shocking Pink ~

Flowers, flowers everywhere — and some of them shocking pink!

Another reason to love spring!

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~ Primrose ~ In a Vase on Monday ~

After six days of sunshine, today is cooler with showers. My daffodils have faded and tulips are starting to bloom. Today’s vase is a small arrangement of Primula (primrose), Brunnera (small blue flowers) and Beesia (small white flowers), all hardy, shade tolerant perennials in my gardens.

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In a Vase on Monday, is hosted by Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.

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~ Sunrise Mist ~ WPC – Landscape 2 ~

An unassuming, clear-water creek at the summit of Willamette Pass in Oregon’s Cascade Mountain Range, Crescent Creek is lovely as dawn breaks and mist rises.

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Some of my favorite shots are a case of serendipity — right place, right time & right camera!

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~ In Living Color ~ Weekly Photo Challenge – Landscape ~

Last December, I posted this photo in Black and White for Cee’s challenge (link below). The colors and vistas at Crater Lake are truly spectacular!

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Wizard Island – Crater Lake National Park, Oregon USA

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~ Geese On The Wing – Friday Flyers ~

Our fine feathered friends are in migration formation these days! It was a magnificent blue-sky day, when this flock sailed across the sky right over where I stood in an open field.

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Meanwhile, my back-yard songbirds are finding and settling into their spring nesting grounds. Two by two by two…!

 

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~ Almost Full – Wordless Wednesday + WPC – Half Light 4 ~

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