Ruby Tuesday

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Camera Critters & Mosaic Monday
are in the next post ...

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Thought for Today
"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know." Louisa May Alcott

4th of July - Camera Critters - Mosaic Monday

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Hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend!

I'm behind again because spent most of last week (and much of the holiday weekend) watching TENNIS at Wimbledon, but I'll be catching up in the 'virtual world' over the next few days.

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This is my 79thMisty Dawn started the meme and explains the rules here.
4th of July Parade-Downtown Huntington Beach, CA

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and for others participating in Camera Critters & Mosaic Monday this week.
See more parade photos & Camera Critters at
Sacred Ruminations in Shadow Shot Sunday.

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Thought for Today
" You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism." Erma Bombeck

T-13 Purple Passion Mosaic 'Window' Views

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Mosaic Windows
13 glimpses of these 3
'poster edged' pansies

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and for others participating
in Window Views, Purple Passion Photo and Thursday Thirteen.
See also another Window Views at Happily Retired Gal
and Colorful T-13 at Sacred Ruminations this week.

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Thought for Today
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." Dr. Seuss

Mellow Yellow Mosaic Monday - Today's Flowers

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My Macro Monday Mosaic & Today's Flowers
are at Sacred Ruminations today.

Delicate yellow
blossoms on this silver plant
unidentified

as of yet, but if
YOU recognize & can name
it ... I'd be grateful.

Striped Gazanias
multicolored pansies too
always make ME smile ;--)

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Find others participating in Mellow Yellow Monday and Today's Flowers.
Mary at Mosaic Monday is taking the week off.

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Thought for Today
"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." B. B. King

Looking at the Sky (belatedly) - Camera Critters

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Shadow Shot Sunday, Today's Flowers, & another Camera Critters
are at Happily Retired Gal
Haiku Friday Sky Watch is at Sacred Ruminations

This is my 77thMisty Dawn started the meme and explains the rules here.
A little sparrow
dining on some bottle brush
on a cloudy day.

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Thought for Today

"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing." Eric Berne

WW - T-13 - Color Carnival

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My neighbor's garden
certainly has colorful
flowers to enjoy ;--)

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... and for others participating in
Wordless Wednesday (on Thursday)
Thursday Thirteen & Color Carnival this week.

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Click to see my Purple Passion Pansies-WW-Thursday Thirteen
at Sacred Ruminations and More Colorful Pansies at
Happily Retired Gal today.

Thought for Today
"Time, indeed, is a sacred gift, and each day is a little life." John Lubbock

Ruby Tuesday Neighborhood Roses-Wordlessly

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Multiple MONDAY Mosaic Memes

are at Sacred Ruminations

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and Wordless Wednesday on Tuesday.
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Thought for Today
"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." Harry S. Truman

Shadow Shot Sunday - Camera Critters - and Today's Flowers too

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A while back I asked
what these flowers might be called
... now I think I know

African Iris
(also Fortnight Lily) so
I am most relieved!

If you embiggen
you will see a tiny ant
visiting this bloom

and of course Molly
managed to get 'captured' with
these shadowed blossoms.

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and for others participating in Camera Critters, Today's Flowers,
Shadow Shots at Hey Harriet
This is my 76thMisty Dawn started the meme and explains the rules here.
You'll find a variety of birds at Happily Retired Gal
in another Camera Critters post this week.

Thanks to Harriet for hosting this nifty Shadow Shot activity
and for sharing this kewl award with all SSS participants.
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Thought for Today
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." Eric Hoffer

T-13 Haiku Friday - Looking at the Sky

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Today's Flowers & Color Carnival
are in the next post ... Wordlessly

Thirteen Sky Views

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This week's neighborhood
skies kept me outside with my
camera in hand

frequently because
each time I headed indoors
views shifted again ;--)

I've shared 13 more
colorful skies earlier
if you've time to click.

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Looking at the Sky and sharing Haiku on Fridays.
Another T-13 Haiku Sky Watch Friday is at Happily Retired Gal today.

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Thought for Today
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." Carl Sandburg

WW - Color Carnival -Today's Flowers too

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Original photos above - Watercolor Filter below
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... and for others participating in
Wordless Wednesday, Color Carnival and Today's Flowers
I'm also Wordless at Happily Retired Gal (with Window Views)
and Sacred Ruminations (with Watery Views) today.

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Thought for Today
"Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. Goethe

MosaicMonday-RubyTuesday-MonochromeMania

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Shadow Shot Sunday & Camera Critters are in the next post.

Old roses ... new buds
each seem beautiful to me ...
red or monochrome
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and for others participating in
Mosaic Monday, Ruby Tuesday, & Monochrome Mania.
See another Mosaic Monday with Mellow Yellow & Today's Flowers
at Happily Retired Gal and Purple Passion Photo at Sacred Ruminations.

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Thought for Today
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." Niels Bohr