Sunday Still - Rays of Sunshine

View from Taft Point, Yosemite National Park - click on image to enlarge.

Sunday Still

Sunday Stills - reflections

Furnace Creek Inn, Death Valley National Park [click on image to enlarge]

Couldn't get the song "Midnight at the Oasis" off my mind. Except, I was singing, "mid-day at the oasis."

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Sunday Stills - new beginnings

Golden Full Moon Maple beginning to leaf.

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Sunday Stills - potluck

I was jazzed when I read that our assignment this week was "potluck" meaning whatever we wanted as long as we shot it now and didn't pull out photos from our archives. And then the week started and I didn't think about it again. Maybe because it's been an overcast and rain showers kind of week. The one day that was really nice weather I went for a bike ride down along the river. The first shot is from early in the week when I noticed how well the blanket flowers are doing despite our weirdly cool spring. The second I took today while out and about. I love old barns and buildings left over from the gold rush. I just noticed this iron door the other day after not noticing many times before while driving by it on Gold Hill Road. Little did I know I had only enough juice in the camera's battery for one shot. Of course you always think your second or third shot will be the best but at least I was able to get one.

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Sunday Stills - blue fescue

This week's challenge: weeds and grasses.

Blue fescue is in bloom in the front of the house. [ornamental grass]

Non-ornamental grass behind the house.

A pink flower/weed behind the house. Notice how it is wound around a stem of grass.

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Sunday Stills - prairie sky

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A big, beautiful prairie sky in Custer State Park in South Dakota. Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota -- truly big sky country.

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Sunday Stills - looking low

Looking down at a succulent after a spring shower.

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Sunday Stills - red door

One of my favorite local doorways.

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Sunday Stills - blue

I'm participating in Sunday Stills for the first time. Today's challenge is to photograph the color blue. Easy-peasy you think....but you can't use the sky and you can't use a photo from your archive.

Check out what the rest of the gang has come up with here.