“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
Category: Color
Sunshine’s Macro Monday: Color
Colors can impact your emotions. Warm colors can help evoke happiness and optimism. Bright colors like yellow, orange, pink and red are Happy Colors! The lighter and brighter the colors the happier they will make you feel. “Colors are the smiles of nature.” ~ Leigh Hunt “Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes…
Macro Monday: Desert Canterbury Bells
“…human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blueness becomes as real as a keynote of music.” ~ Sally Carrighar Also called Desert Bluebell: Try as I might, I can not for certain identify the light…
This is what I see…
These are crazy times. Yesterday I found myself packing up my laptop and heading out to work from home for the next two weeks. The past few days have been tense and stressful. My brain focuses on one thing then another. Monday night on my walk, not only did the fresh outdoors help me refocus,…
Amsinckia: commonly known as Fiddleneck
Fiddleneck was another wildflower quite prevalent on my recent Sunday morning hike. I also saw them on Saturday walking along the wash. They are very beautiful in the way they curl, and the green and yellow colors are quite stunning. A small factoid from Wikipedia: The seeds and foliage of fiddlenecks are poisonous to livestock, particularly cattle, because they…
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