Early Fall Shadows

Saguaro Crossing the Road

Button Bush Blossom on Butterfly

Palo Verde

Grasshopper on a Car

Cactus Heart

Linking to Shadow Shot Sunday 2 and I heart Macro

Flower Shadows

Hello!  I noticed these shadows on prickly pear cactus while on a stroll the other day:

Brittle Bush Blossom

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Hedgehog Heart

Enjoy your day!

Linking to Shadow Shot Sunday 2 and Random Hearts.

Along the Mesquite Trail

flycatcher

mesquite beans

cowbird

shadows of leaflets on seed pods

"Everything is perfect in being what it is.
It has nothing to do with good or bad."
~Longchenpa (1308–1364)

Crescents

On May 20, 2012, with a makeshift projector, we viewed the annular solar eclipse in Tucson, Arizona where it appeared as a partial eclipse.

Also during the eclipse, subtle crescent shapes appeared in leafy shadows on the ground and walls.

The tiny sun crescents were a little easier to see on smooth white posterboard.

Linking to Skywatch Friday and Shadow Shot Sunday 2

Leafy Shadows and Colors

For Shadow Shot Sunday.  See more shadows from around the world at Tracy's Hey Harriet blog: click here.

November

"Happiness is a continuous creative activity"

~Baba Amite

December

"We should be open-minded, but not so open that our brains fall out."

~Woody Allen

January

"Never miss a good chance to shut up."

~Will Rogers

Desert Shadows

Hi there! I have some shadows to share that I've found here and there while out and about.

House finch eating burro weed

Cholla cactus

Gambel's quail

Palm shadow

Creosote bush

Tree branch shadow on the bird feeder

 

See more shadows from around the world at Tracy's Shadow Shot Sunday.

El Tour de Tucson

Today was the big 109 mile bike race around the perimeter of Tucson.  Over 8,000 people registered for El Tour.

Most of the cyclists walked their bikes across the Santa Cruz Wash and everyone loved the mariachis.

After watching the participants cross the dry river bed, we watched them cycle through a neighborhood by Canyon Ranch. 

It was a nice sunny day for watching a bike race, and catching shadows with the camera.

For more fun with shadows, visit Hey Harriet, hosted by Tracy for Shadow Shot Sunday.

Autumn mood

For Shadow Shot Sunday:

child's fingers
trace on grandma's hands
the liver spots of aging

Haiku from ahapoetry.com  A Dictionary of Haiku by Jane Reichhold, AUTUMN Moods, accepting aging

Curvy Shadows

We found these shadows at Lake Balboa in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California a couple of weeks ago.  We had intended to visit the nearby Japanese Gardens, but they were closed while we were in the area.  Lake Balboa did turn out to be a great place to watch birds though.

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Camel ?

Ok, not a bird, but it had a nice little shadow at 11:00am.

If you enjoy shadows,  hop on over to Tracy's Hey Harriet Blog for  Shadow Shot Sunday.

Shadows of branches

Hi there!  Here are shadows from last March that I don't think I've posted yet.  The shadows are from branches, thick and thin, of native Sonoran Desert plants:

Mesquite tree

Palo Verde and Mesquite trees

Saguaro cactus

Staghorn Cholla cactus

Globe Mallow wildflowers

For more shadowy images from around the world, visit Hey Harriet's Shadow Shot Sunday here.

Lunar Eclipse

While looking for the sunrise at 5:00 this morning, I noticed the moon setting in the opposite direction.  I didn't realize I was observing a partial lunar eclipse.  Later, I learned that what I had seen was a full moon with the earth's shadow blocking part of it.

If the rising sun had been visible at the same time, I would have witnessed selenelion, an uncommon eclipse phenomenon when the sun and the eclipsed moon are visible at the same time.

The clouds to the east were obscuring the sun, but it was still a pleasant sunrise.

Weird Shadows

Extra-terrestrial Turtle

Artistic Rocks

Hobo Kitty

More Shadow Shot Sunday fun at Hey Harriet hosted by Tracy.