Photography – Page 4

The Unseen Cat

I am completely unseen, she thinks.

I am Cat, finest predator the world has ever seen.

Pound for pound I am the strongest mammal in the world.

I can run thirty miles an hour, I have ears good enough that scientists have copied their shape when making new antennae, my bite is dangerous enough you should see a doctor if I sink fang very deeply into you, and I can see in the darkest of night conditions.

Ancient civilizations worshiped me, and even after they stopped seeing me as a Goddess, they still saw me as a member of the family.

I am not really domesticated, still mostly wild, and I choose who I will love and who I will not.

Here I am, stalking the backyard Savannah, seeking prey.

Mom calls me Baby Bobcat.

I am Cat, and I am unseen.

(The cat in the picture is a semi-feral tabby named Saia. She really does think she’s a baby bobcat. Picture taken by Lenore Plassman, who can be found writing over at the Creative Fancy site.)

via Daily Prompt: Unseen

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Sunday Images – Infinite Skies

Photography

There were some truly beautiful clouds yesterday. A high, flat layer that made the most beautiful patterns.

I’ve never seen more beautiful skies than here in Tucson.

I just had to snap a few photos.

via Daily Prompt: Infinite

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Resilient Flowers

Photography

If you want to see resiliency, visit the Sonora desert. Even the flowers, that look so delicate and beautiful, are tough survivors.

They live through blistering heat, monsoon rains, cold temperatures and animal nibbling only to exuberantly bloom again.

Usually, no matter how pretty the flower, you must mind the thorns –

They are there, whether you see them or not!

via Photo Challenge: Resilient

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Tiny Caves

Photography

I love looking at geodes. The best ones have tiny crystals all through them. The concept of “the crystal cave” has been an endearing one to me throughout my life, and I love holding one in the palm of my hand. This little geode is not even two inches long.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Tiny

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Another happy moon pic

Photography, Science and Techology

I took this one because in just a few days we’re going to have the biggest Supermoon we’ve had in quite some time, for the same reason that last month’s Hunter’s Moon was so big. Our favorite satellite is coming closer to Earth than it has in quite some time, so the moon viewing opportunities are prime.

Keep in mind that this was taken with a humble Nikon Coolpix L830 while braced on a board fence.

The Giant Prickly Pear Cactus Tree

Photography

Cacti grow large here in Arizona. However, usually they don’t grow beyond a certain level – the size seen up in the featured image, in fact. I normally don’t see them grow more than four or feet tall at most, usually less.

That was, until I saw this old girl.

There she is, roughly eight to ten feet tall, and so big and old that she’s actually developed bark on her trunk. Now THAT’S a cactus. Here’s another view from the same walk.