Today I'm going to show you a mix of photos again, that have not been posted yet. There may not be any connection between them, but who cares. Photos are photos, right?
Let's start with a premiere as I've never posted a frog photo before.
Yesterday I saw a movie in which the woman said she was told by her mother, "you have to kiss a lot of frogs, till you find a real prince". Well, this is a proper frog that I photographed in my dad's garden. I totally would have stepped on it as his color was almost similar to the dirt surrounding him, but my dad knows his garden better and showed him to me. So I immediately took out my phone, set my camera to macro and started getting closer to him.
While being careful not to get too close to him, I took a bunch of photos, most of them useless honestly, but these two are not so bad. My biggest fear was he would jump on me and although I'm not the scared type, I would have screamed for sure. 🐸 Maybe one day I'll have the chance to take some decent photos, but that day won't be this year.
Next, here's a still life, that caught my attention because of its simplicity. The pots don't look so nice as are of different size and color, but this shows nothing was staged. That brick wall looks amazing though, I could have set up a nice flower stand there, if it were mine.
Next, an orthodox cathedral, that has two towers and I think looks better in black and white as it helps you focus more on the details. From architectural point of view, this building is amazing, although I have never seen how it looks from the inside.
This photo is sitting in my folder since august and now I'm sharing it with you. Although the petals have some raindrops, I focused on the pollen as it's more interesting. But looking at the photo, with a little more patience and light, maybe I could have taken some raindrop photos of the petals as well. Lesson learned.
Today I finally did a search to see what's the flowers name. Turns out the common name is rose of Sharon and the botanical name is Hibiscus syriacus.
Now comes the pine, that I love so much. Last year I started to observe how this type of pine is starting to grow new branches each autumn. This is how it starts.
Those light brown things that look like buds are going to be the branches. The other thing is the pine cone. Mother nature's creation.
This is one year of growth and I love it. Looking at the photos I can smell the pine. I wanted to buy some pine oil and could not get it anywhere. I was told it's not available yet. 😳 The yet at the end made me raise my eyebrow as what does yet mean? Is pine oil exclusively for Christmas? This is crazy.
Last, some moss, that is growing now nicely as the drought is over, with the recent rain there's plenty of moisture for them to grow.
Soooo, this is my photo parade for today. Which one is your favorite?
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