Picture-A-Week 2022 - Week 29

[pierces]

Pictures taken between Monday, July 18 and Sunday, July 24.

 

Hot in the Northern Hemisphere, cool Down Under. Both offer photo-ops! 

 

Rules: See above

That's it. This isn't a contest.

All photos taken this week are welcome (not just cruising).

Prizes will not be awarded. Discovering the joy of photography is the prize.

The idea is to get folks out using their cameras for more than vacations and toddler birthdays.

Post one. Post many. Up to you.

Have fun with your camera and share your fun with others!

[Docker123]

 

 

 

Set topic: Places of Worship.

 

Heavenly Queen Temple, Footscray

 

 

[boeckli]

A decrease in rain has brought out a bit more variety in flowering plants this week

 

 

 

Edited July 25, 2022 by boeckli

[zackiedawg]

Yep - back to the wetlands Saturday!  Heat index was 118 degrees F, so it was a bit cooler this time.  ;).  Here are some of the critter highlights:

 

Grasshopper singing noisily away with those wings:

 

Killdeer, stretching out his wing and leg:

 

A very tiny bird, very far away, shot with a very long focal length and a very big crop...but since I hadn't seen a least sandpiper in a few years, I was willing to take what I could get:

 

One more shot of the killdeer, with that lovely orange eye ring:

 

A red-bellied woodpecker, hanging out at the entrance to its new home, which it was carving out last week:

 

A Florida softshell turtle cruising by secretly underwater...except the water was shallow enough that I could clearly see him:

 

A juvenile glossy ibis, waiting for a parent to return and give it some food:

 

A black-necked stilt standing in the shallow water, keeping an eye out for any threats:

 

And the reason for that vigilance is that the juvenile stilt was standing nearby:

 

Also being very vigilant was this momma alligator, sitting up on the bank in the shade, and hiding behind some palm trees, watching me very closely as I wandered past its nest:

[pierces]

Sunday morning found us in the High Desert area for the second week in a row to watch Pastor Dan enlighten his congregation then head over to his new house to do handyman stuff. We stopped for breakfast as usual but not at the same diner. Someone had suggested a place a few exits back, and we tried it out. The Outpost Café has been in the same arid, remote location since 1961 and based on the photos on the wall, hasn’t changed much. The truck stop next to it has grown but the café seems frozen in time. A time when food was good, people were friendly, and prices were fair for the period. I doubt the hot mess of a breakfast burrito shown here was on the original menu, but I’m very happy it was added.

 

A Hot Mess

 

 

 

 

Dave