For Wordless Wednesday, let your images tell the story.
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” ~ Rumi.
Sharing for Cee’s FOTD, Cee’s CMMC, Denyse Whelan’s WW and Pics, Lens-Artists: Monochrome/BW, and Marsha’s WQ: Fire
Join me this Sunday, Sept 10 as we play with gold and orange, this month’s featured colors for the Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge. Hope you enjoyed this preview.
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Great photos, Terri. The Valley of Fire outcropping looks like chocolate ice cream to me. Lol.
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Heehee, are you hungry? Thanks Diana!🤎
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I must be. Doesn’t it though? A big helping of chocolate ice cream.
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The Teddybear Sunflower is spectacular! Love it!
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Thank you, Kym. They are so unusual.
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Beautiful, Terri!
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Thank you, Anne-Christine!
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What a visual delight here Terri. Thanks so much for linking up and joining the community at Denyse’s Words and Pics. Join in next week if you can. No themes, just share a post! Warm wishes, Denyse
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Thank you, Denyse! See you soon!
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Beautiful photos, and the black and white one shows such detail – just stunning.💖
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Thank you, Eugi! That is one of my favorite B&W images.
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Color photos are beautiful but black and white photos seem so crisp.
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To think a sunflower bud can be that stunning in black and white is amazing. Great contrasts, Terri. Enjoy your week too.
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Thank you, Donna! A sunflower in b&w seems the opposite of our expectations.
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glorious, Terri x
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Thank you Toni!
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Lovely photos getting ready for your orange and gold this Sunday, Terri! I have to find them from my archives.
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Thank you, Miriam, I look forward to your post 🧡
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Sure, Terri! ❤
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These three beauties answered a lot of challenges, Terri. 🙂 Well done.
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Thank you, Janet! There was some fun inspiration this week!
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Now I’ve had to look up Valley of Fire. Wow – spectacular.
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It really delivers, too, Bernie! A few years ago, we got snowed out of Sedona during the winter and my plans for visiting Antelope Canyon fizzled due to weather. We left and ended up in Las Vegas for a week and there we discovered VOF. It even had a small slot canyon to enjoy among other amazing attractions. It’s a state park so only $10 American dollars to enter.
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It seems like a cool place. I’m not sure when travel will take us south to the USA, but that whole area with all those interesting landforms will be on the list. We’ve only done Joshua Tree National Park.
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Great job of monochrome and why am I not surprised there is a sunflower in the group😉.
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Thank you, Bernie! You know me well! 🌻
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Terri, my favorite here is the Teddybear Sunflower as it’s so vibrant and you see the textures of the petals up close.
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Thank you, Linda! I grew that cutie from seeds. They weren’t very big but definitely lived up to their name.
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How nice that our challenges were so well coordinated Terri. Beautiful images all!
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Thank you! Love when that happens!
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GREAT photos. LOVE the Vally of Fire.
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Thank you, John! VOF is a magical place isn’t it?
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Love the various gold Terri!
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Thank you, Debbie!
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Lovely images, Terri. My neighbor’s sunflowers are sadly coming to their end. Maybe next year I’ll suggest that he plant a few Teddybears.
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Thank you, Janis! Yes the sunnies are drooping or have had their seeds completely eaten. Some are still blooming but by the end of September it can get cold at night, and that’s it. I was successful growing the teddies in Sacramento.
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I love your Valley of Fire picture and your monochrome of the sunflower. Wow! You should see my beautiful sunflower now. It looks like someone beat it up! Thanks for linking.
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Thank you, Marsha! Yeah, I have a lot of weepy, drooping sunflowers, but still quite a few growing. At least the birds are feeding off the seeds. The Valley of Fire is such an awesome area, I knew I had a color monochrome I could sneak in 👍
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Very well done!
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Love your sunflowers for this week 😀 😀
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Thank you, Cee! 🌻 Isn’t that Fluffy Teddybear a stunner? I might still have the seeds I harvested from it a few years ago.
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Very nice Terri. Love the Valley of Fire.
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Thanks, Graham. Being surrounded by the red rock seems to be healing.
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Great images Terri! You win the prize for blogging on the most challenges in a single post!
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Lol, thank you, Anne! I really appreciated your description of monochrome using color. Another blogger told me it wasn’t true monochrome a while back. I think they make compelling images. Thanks for hosting!
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A great precursor to Sunday, Terri. I love the monochrome sunflower bud too.
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Thank you, Cathy! See you Sunday!
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Just sorting out some photos 😁
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I like all of those, but mountains–with their horizon lines–always speak to me the loudest.
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Thank you, Jacqui! Those cliffs are everywhere in the Valley of Fire State park near Vegas.
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The teddy bear sunflower looks so wonderful 🙂
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Aren’t they something? I still have the seeds, and I want to try to grow these next spring. Thank you, Hammad!
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Great images, Terri. The closeups of the flowers are poetic!
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Thank you, Colleen! I really love how the one b&w sunflower came out. 💛 🤍
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I love the detail! It really shows you how lovely nature is!
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Beautiful photos Terri 🙂
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Thank you, Brian!
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great shots Terri!
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Thank you, Wayne! Been missing your posts!
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will try to get out soon,gets tougher as I get older.
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