As summer ends in Canada, I look at the first joy of Spring, when bulbs start at the end of March. On grey winter days, we wait for the magnificent colours to return

One day, I flew. The sky was a brilliant blue and the hot air balloon bright. High High High up there, they turned off the gass and we free floated in silence. Free. High above this earth. Gone for a moment

I have a raccoon who lives in my back yard. I named him Dante, because he has a wise look on his face. He think that he owns my yard and rearranges the garden ornaments daily by moving them from upside

I took this photo in a street market in Lima, Peru. The artist was very gifted and captured the images of children so brilliantly. I love the vivid colors, the traditional clothing and what they wear on

I took this photo in Cuba, where there are the most beautifully colored homes. This my entry for today Friday #skybluecolorchallenge hosted by @kalemandra @photocontests

Lettuce plants in Canada. In summer, the farms near my house, grow fields of plants. This is my entry for #colorchallenge Thursday Green. #colorchallenge is a contest initiated by @kalemandra. Original

"Humming bird" plant macro. Crocosmia Lucifer. My hummingbirds love the red flowers of this plant. Crocosmia is a small genus of flowering plants in the Iris family of "Iridaceae".

I took this photo in Poland. I loved this display of bottles. This is my entry for WednesdayYellow photo contest.

This is my entry for colour Yellow Wednesday. (It is still Wednesday on the West Coast of Canada.) I took this photo on Vancoouver Island. s s

Stay. (South Africa. Beloved country.) my beloved country whispered: stay (I have to go I said) my beloved country begged: stay (I have immigration papers, I said) my beloved country cried: stay stay stay

Ek kom uit Suid-Afrika en ek praat Afrikaans. In/op Engels is ek iemand anders. Ek dink aan my sinskonstruksie en wonder of ek 'n beter sinoniem kon gebruik. Ek hou skool in Kanada en die kinders lag oor

I was born near Johannesburg, in South Africa and I love to say that I lived on a gold mine. I did. Tunnels ran under our homes, where my grandfather, Cornelius Eloff, worked as a gold miner. I do not

My entry for Monday Red. These tulips are planted for the export market. The one yellow one made its way into the sea of red. The photo was taken in the USA in the state Washington, close to the border

I took this photo near the city of Kelowna in the province of British Columbia in Canada where they have Lavender farms to make honey. This is a dry region where it snows in winter. This is my entry for

For Purple Sunday I found a photo I took in Cuba. All the homes there have vivid colors. This is my entry for today's #colorchallenge Purple. This Sunday#colorchallenge is initiated by @kalemandra.

I often use water for effect in a photo. This flower was dry when I took the first shot and very dull. I then sprayed some water on it and went closer. This is a tiny flower and the waterdrops worked so

The Prague astronomical clock, (or the Prague orloj), is a medieval astronomical clock located in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic and has been there for 600 years. Hundreds of tourists from all

I live near fields of tulips. This is a photographer's dream. I was flat on the ground for this photo in a field of only bright pink tulips. It rained the day before and this made the flowers clean and

I shot this on a sunny day in bright sunlight with my macro lens. We were in Costa Rica and I had time to stay and do a number of shots from my tripod.

I take snapshots of my Apogee portfolio on certain days, to remind me not to get to excited when some of my alt coins jump by 20% on a good day. Today was down and down more. Yet. I have hope for Binance