Picture This #488 ~ Yellow

Perfect banner shot by Mitch. Yellow is my favorite color, so I love this theme. As usual, I will come and post my comments on FB.

Daffodils.

Ginkgo leaf.

Yellow swallowtail butterfly.

Goldfinch.

Picture This #488 ~ Yellow

Many thanks to Heidi for hosting this week. A good theme.....just slightly too early to get the new season's daffodils and tulips, so had to have a look through my archive. Found more yellow things than expected!!

1) This little fellow is a Great Tit.

2) The ubiquitous New York yellow cabs. Looks like they're street-racing, but they'd just pulled away from  traffic-lights. 

3) A yellow Calendula.

4) Yellow fishing-boat at low-tide.

PT CDLXXXVIII ~ Yellow

Wonderful theme by Heidi and banner by Mitch.

A wintry shot of my street in town.

One of my first macros - a brass peacock.

One of my first shots with my new camera in 08 - A canola field.

PICTURE THIS #488 ~ YELLOW

HI ALL FROM A FEW WARM DAYS IN GERMANY.

MITCH, LOVE YOUR BANNER. 

OUR NEW THEME WILL BE 

YELLOW - THE COLOUR OF HOPE.

I THINK WE ALL NEED HOPE THIS TIME OF YEAR. 

HOPE SPRING AND PEACE COME TOGETHER!! 

           

HOPE WHEN YOU NEED IT THAT IT WORKS!! 

LIGHTS YOUR WAY.

 

FACING THE SUN.

 

A GOLDEN YELLOW DROP MADE BY THE SUN.

Picture This #487 ~ About Time

Here I am, finally. Thank you for putting my shot of the orange berries as banner shot. I am having a great time looking at your photos, and trying to come up with something as I have only one picture of a clock. Then I decided to go to lateral thinking and show the effects of time.

These stairways used to lead to a lovely long sandy beach. But time and the rising of the sea have eroded the beach and they can no longer be used. The rocks were placed there to try and slow the erosion. From time to time, the park gets money to dredge up sand from the ocean floor and put it on the beach. And the rising sea takes it back.

Blocked off, this stairway was eventually removed.

Happily there are other parts of this beach that are still available for birds and crabs and photographers. Tom said I should show some "before" pictures, so here they are.

Staircases the year before. The erosion has already started, but at least they are usable.

Access to the water's edge without rocks. Again 2009.

PICTURE THIS #487 ~ ABOUT TIME

HI ALL FROM A LITTLE WARMER GERMANY 

LOVELY BANNER 

MITCH GREAT THEME.

TIME AH TIME.

 

LUNCH TIME IN BASEL. 

 TIME IN THE SKY.

 

 TRAIN IS ON TIME.

 

TIME IN BASEL.

 

PT CDLXXXVII ~ About Time

Beautiful banner by Benni and wonderful theme by you, Mitch.

Our old English clock and classical maritime chronometer.

Picture This #487 ~ About Time

Greetings everyone!! This is Mitch, I'll be hosting this week. My theme is 'About Time'.  I'll leave it up to your imaginations on how to interpret it. Here are mine to get started:

1) High Time!!

2) Old Time.

3) Modern Times.

4) Lunch Time.

Picture This #486 ~ Plants And Their Gifts

Many thanks to Benni for hosting this week. A really good theme - I had fun choosing which photos to use. 

1) Osteospermum flowers are a favourite for butterflies.

2) Chive - very popular in salads and a nice flower, too.

3) Taken at Picton Castle's herb garden. Each plant has a board that explains each herb's traditional uses. Of course Horseradish also makes a great sauce to go with roast beef!!

4) Lemon Mint -used in cooking and makes a nice balm, too.

PT CDLXXXVI ~ Plants And Their Gifts

Great banner by Mitch and theme by Benni.

Apple blossoms and their product.

PICTURE THIS #486 ~ PLANTS AND THEIR GIFTS

HI ALL 

HOPE ALL ARE WELL

BENNI A GREAT THEME 

MITCH A WONDERFUL BANNER COOL ARCH.

FOOD FOR BEES.

 

A MAGNOLIA TREE GIVES US AIR AND BEAUTY FOR THE SOUL.

POPPY-MEDICINE FOR ALL.

NASTURTIANS - FOOD FOR BIRDS AND CAPERS FOR US. 

LAVENDER FOR THE BEES AND FOR OUR HEALTH AND NERVES.

 

 SALBEI--FOOD FOR US ALL AND THE BEES.

Picture This #486 ~ Plants And Their Gifts

Hello all from sunny and warm Florida. Hope you are all well. I am posting this early as we may be celebrating this evening and I wouldn't want to forget. Wonderful banner shot by Mitch, such an inviting scene.

I was thinking about how plants flourish down here in the warm and humidity, which led me to this week's theme, plants and the gifts they give us. There are flowers, fruits, vegetables, and habitats. Here are a few selections.

The trees and other plants provide a wonderful ecosystem here close to Lake Superior.

These honeysuckle berries grow in my backyard. The birds eat them and spread the seeds.

I am not sure what type of fruit this palm tree gives, but the squirrels love them.

Bees getting nectar from teasel plants.

Picture This #485 ~ Arches

Hello to everyone. I am late posting and surely the rest of you are in bed. But here I am, I like this theme and Anders' picture of the cows in pasture. As usual I will be around on FB to comment. For those of you on G+, apparently they are shutting down in the next few months. That's too bad. Anyway, here are my arches. Hope you enjoy them.

Archway over an archway. I love this house.

An arched window at St. Mark's church not too far from me.

This is a different kind of arch, a root sticking out of the sand, and the shadow it casts.

Another Venice house, with a blue door in the archway. Another of my favorite houses in Venice.