Welcome back to the Sunday Stills monthly color challenge. It’s all about pink this month, and we can celebrate pinks found in the outdoors. But any shade of pink will do wherever it is found.
Nature’s Pink
What better way to continue to enjoy the great outdoors than to view beautiful plants and flowers?
“Anything is possible with sunshine and a little pink.” ~ Lilly Pulitzer
Last September, My pal, Marsha, and I took a trip to Portland, Oregon. We initially planned to visit the Dahlia fields but ended up sticking close to my cousin’s home where her neighbor had two huge beds full of dahlias.
Who knows how many images the two of us captured, over 100 each, I’m guessing. I had a little fun with photo editing in this dahlia image to delete the background!
Closer to home, I have a few petunias in my backyard that wanted to show off a bit this month.
Then some wildflowers butted into the show.
Not to be outdone, the butterflies and bees horned in on the flowers. A good thing–we need those pollinators!
And then the sky wants attention in the spring and in the winter. So needy!
Pink Glow of Sunrises and Sunsets
“I love how it feels to unwind by the ocean.” ~ Miranda Rae Mayo
How about a pink sunset from Baja, Mexico?
Or the pale pink sunset glow looking toward downtown San Diego from Shelter Island marina?
“Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches…” ― Vera Nazarian
While we continue to enjoy the great outdoors, please be careful around smoke-filled skies caused by wildfires. If you camp this summer, please be mindful — douse your campfires and tighten trailer chains so they don’t spark on asphalt.
Adding Pink to the Fun
I’m always surprised by how much pink we see while out and about. Are pink SUPS too girly-girl? Nah!
My windsurf harness was pink and in this image, my sail was, too.
“Whoever said orange was the new pink was seriously disturbed.” Elle Woods
Inspiring Photo Challenges This Week
Each week I find inspiration from my fellow bloggers’ photo challenges. I enjoy incorporating these into my Sunday Stills weekly themes.
- Cee’s Flower of the Day
- Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Close-ups
- Dawn’s Spring Festival
- Hammad’s Weekend Sky
- Johnbo’s Cellpic Sunday
- Marsha’s Wednesday Quotes: Ocean
Sunday Stills Photo Challenge Reminders
The Sunday Stills weekly-themed photo challenge is easy to join. You have all week to share and link your post.
- Remember to title your blog post a little differently than mine.
- Please create a new post for the theme or link a recent one.
- Entries for this theme can be posted all week.
- Tag your post “Sunday Stills.”
- Don’t forget to create a pingback to this post so that other participants can read your post.
- I also recommend adding your post’s URL to the comments.
This Week’s Featured Bloggers
Sunday Stills is a wonderful community of bloggers, poets, and photographers who desire to connect with one another. Below are this week’s links from bloggers who shared their PINK photos. I add these all week as new links are posted.
- YOUR BLOG’S NAME GOES HERE…
- Always Write
- And Miles to Go Before I Sleep
- Between the Lines
- Bushboys World
- Cats and Trails and Garden Tales
- Cee’s Photo Challenges
- The Day After
- Easin’ Along Image shared in comments
- Equipoise Life
- Flights of the Soul
- Gfpacificbee’s Insights & Photography
- Graham’s Island
- Graham’s Island
- Hugh’s Views and News Image shared in comments
- NEW JJJInteractive Books
- Kamerapromenader
- LadyLeeManila
- Loving Life
- NEW Minding My Ps with Qs
- Natalie The Explorer
- NutHouse Central
- Photos By Jez
- Quaint Revival
- Roberta Writes
- Stevie Turner
- This is Another Story
- WillowDot21
- Working on Exploring
I can’t wait to see how you interpret the various shades of PINK this week! Join me next week as we explore…”Furred and Feathered Friends.”
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