Mellow Yellow Monday and Today's Flowers

Make Time for Small Reflections

This is my 3rd Mellow Yellow post
at Small Reflections but I've published 10 Mellow Yellow posts

previously at Happily Retired Gal.

Purple irises

almost finished blooming in

my yard, but look here!

YELLOW IRISES

have started to open up
with a touch of white.

Yellow Pansies too
grace my garden amidst a
barrage of color ;--)

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Mellow Yellow Monday and Today's Flowers.
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and Happily Retired Gal

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." William James

HaikuFriday#127 - Sky Watch #41

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I appreciate
everyone who's visited ...
leaving comments here

and on each of my
other blogs as well ... I am
amazed that I have

allowed the whole week
to slip by without sharing
what's been happening

in my life. I shall
do my best to catch up soon
but today I'll be

'living life' in the
real world as I've been all week,
rather than at home

at my computer.
Today I have posted skies
on each of my blogs

and am hoping I'll
be at home to visit you
over the weekend.

The good news is that
I'm feeling better and have
much more energy.

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Haiku Friday#128 & SkyWatch#40

The photographs in
this collage were taken on
March the 25th.

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Looking at the Sky on Fridays
Sky Watch, & Haiku Friday this week.

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Thought for Today
"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." John Wooden

Late Ruby Tuesday and Monochrome Monday (on Tuesday afternoon)

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I have no clue what this is, but it's RED ... I've decided to share it 'au natural' and in two Black & White versions too for a belated Monochrome Monday. Which do YOU prefer & why?

Infared ...

Newspaper

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My 3rd Monochrome Monday

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Thought for Today
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." Ansel Adams

Mellow Yellow Monday and Today's Flowers

Make Time for Small Reflections
Creative Photography #7 also features flowers.

This is my 2nd Mellow Yellow post
at Small Reflections but I've published 10 Mellow Yellow posts

previously at Happily Retired Gal.

Walking around my
neighborhood I've happened on
many yellow blooms.

Sharing a few here
in addition to my post
on another blog ...

earlier today
so you can enjoy them too
Hope they make YOU smile ;--)

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Thought for Today
"The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size." Gertrude S. Wister

Creative Photography #7 - Colorful Reflections

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#53 here at Small Reflections

#54 at Happily Retired Gal

#55 at Sacred Ruminations

This is my 7th Creative Photography.

I noticed my parkway flowers
reflected in the side of this vehicle
and snapped this shot between rain showers ...

Curiosity led me to experiment

with a few filters in Photoshop Elements 6

and here are a few of my favorites in alphabetical order.

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Which do YOU prefer and why?
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Thought for Today

"Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it." Sudie Back

Camera Critters #53 - Spunky Sparrow

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This is my 53rdMisty Dawn started the meme and explains the rules here.

Remember these
rooftop sparrows I collaged
& published before?

A bit closer ... this
spunky sparrow watches from
neighbor's Olive tree

waiting 'til it's safe
to dine at the feeder in the
garden just below.

where others join in
feasting together (or not)
asserts dominance.

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See more birds in Camera Critters #54 at Happily Retired Gal
dogs resting in the shade at Sacred Ruminations
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Thought for Today
"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn." Henry David Thoreau

HF #125 - SkyWatch #39 From a recent walk ...

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Haiku Friday#126 & SkyWatch#38

More blue skies to share
of 'Downtown Surf City' snapped
on a Tuesday walk.
Flag flying above
old Post Office building here
midst three tall palm trees ...

Diagonally
reflections captured in these
Starbucks window panes ...

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I love the volunteer 'Johnny Jump Ups'
the birds plant & scatter for me each Spring!
Don't YOU?

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Thought for Today
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." Confucius

Witty Wednesday #7 - Irishman's Wish

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My World & Watery Wednesday are at Sacred Ruminations
Almost Wordless Wednesday is at Happily Retired Gal


My 7th Witty Wednesday

... posted a wee bit early because I'll be away from home tomorrow & I like these 'kewl' St. Paddy's Day graphic wishes too ;--)

Irishman's Wish: Courtesy of Comedy Central's Jokes.com Newsletter ...

An Irishman is sitting at the end of a bar. He sees a lamp at the end of the table. He walks down to it and rubs it. Out pops a genie. It says, "I will give you three wishes."

The man thinks awhile. Finally he says, "I want a beer that never is empty."

With that, the genie makes a poof sound and on the bar is a bottle of beer. The Irishman starts drinking it and right before it is gone, it starts to refill. The genie asks about his next two wishes.

The man says, "I want two more of these."

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where I've enjoyed Witty Wednesday for a while now.

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Thought for Today
"If you're enough lucky to be Irish, you're lucky enough!"
Irish Saying

Happy St. Patrick's Day - Ruby Tuesday

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My World is at Sacred Ruminations today


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Monochrome Monday & Creative Photography

I cannot believe
just how fast my roses came
back this year and bloomed!
This one is the first
to have blossoms but there are
buds on two others.

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Thought for Today
"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses." Hanna Rion