Picture-A-Week 2019 - Week 26

[pierces]

Pictures taken between Monday, June 24 and Sunday, June 30.

 

Half the year is gone folks...

Make a mid-year resolution to use your camera more!

 

Rules: See above

That's it. This isn't a contest.

All photos taken this week are welcome (not just cruising).

Prizes will not be awarded. Discovering the joy of photography is the prize.

The idea is to get folks out using their cameras for more than vacations and toddler birthdays.

Post one. Post many. Up to you.

Have fun with your camera and share your fun with others!

[Krazy Kruizers]

We were only able to sit outside for a little while.  Humidity got bad.

 

We think we had a dragonfly land on one of the salvia flowers:

 

[Krazy Kruizers]

This crazy site won't let me add anything to the above post.

 

These are regular lilies but I doubt if they will be around after the 60 mph winds come through with heavy winds:

 

[Krazy Kruizers]

We have had so much rain that many of our hosta plants are not doing well.

 

This is a picture of this years pom-pom hosta:

 

 

And this is a picture of what it looked like in previous years:

 

[AL3XCruise]

Its Heron Time!

 

[cruises42]

5 Cedar Waxwings in a bush near our pond.

[kochleffel]

Black currants

[Krazy Kruizers]

On 6/25/2019 at 9:44 PM, cruises42 said:

5 Cedar Waxwings in a bush near our pond.

 

They are cute.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Love the pictures everyone.

[2552phxcrzr]

iPhone photos from around Ireland this week.

 

Staigue Fort

 

Ruins of Ballycarberry Castle

 

Statue of Antarctic explorer Tom Crean in Anascaul.

 

Ross Castle ... Killarney

 

Oceanworld Aquarium in Dingle

 

Sheep at the Famine Farm on Slea Head ... Dingle Peninsula

 

Dunmore Head ... Dingle Peninsula

 

Black Abbey ... Adare

 

Old Cemetery and Church in Ennistymon

 

Paulnabrone ... 5200-5800 year old portal tomb in County Clare

 

Dunguaire Castle in Kilvara

 

Cloister at Muckross Abbey ... Killarney

Edited June 29, 2019 by h2so4
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[2552phxcrzr]

4 hours ago, fyree39 said:

h2so4, those are spectacular! My brother lives in Cork, in the town of Eyeries, to be exact. One of these days I'll use his house as a home base and explore the daylights out of Ireland.

It's a beautiful country.  We've been to Cobh but not Cork ... skipped that area for time on this trip.

[Docker123]

 

A lovely Sunday morning, so i wandered around the wetlands for a while.

 

Found this pretty egret having a look at the purple rubbish in the stream.

 

I moved around to get a different view, but it got spooked and took off

 

Then i saw a bit of a ruckus between a couple of the spoonbills

 

[puppycanducruise]

Great pictures everyone.

Thank you for sharing.

[Geezer Cruiser]

Statue outside Kirkland, Washington public library 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 30, 2019 by Geezer Cruiser

[pierces]

It was a long week. Work was tougher than usual and the kitchen project is moving along. Except for family birthdays, we haven't really had time to wind down and socialize much. When  Sunday rolled around, we coordinated with friends and embarked on a semi-impromptu brewery tour. Our second stop was chosen since it shared an industrial park with a recently opened distillery. The place has a speakeasy with a members only status that avoids some of the more rigorous aspects of California licensing. Good for them and as it turned out, good for us. The proprietors are friendly and according to my Wonderful Wife, they make the best vodka martini ever in the history of man. A good find!

 

Speakeasy

 

 

 

 

Dave

[kenevenpar]

1 minute ago, pierces said:

It was a long week. Work was tougher than usual and the kitchen project is moving along. Except for family birthdays, we haven't really had time to wind down and socialize much. When  Sunday rolled around, we coordinated with friends and embarked on a semi-impromptu brewery tour. Our second stop was chosen since it shared an industrial park with a recently opened distillery. The place has a speakeasy with a members only status that avoids some of the more rigorous aspects of California licensing. Good for them and as it turned out, good for us. The proprietors are friendly and according to my Wonderful Wife, they make the best vodka martini ever in the history of man. A good find!

 

Speakeasy

 

 

 

 

Dave

 Now that is one heck of a recommendation!

[pierces]

1 hour ago, kenevenpar said:

 Now that is one heck of a recommendation!

 

I tasted it. It might be true!

 

Dave

[ricko999]

What a great week in Alaska!!! Returned to Texas yesterday.

 

[zackiedawg]

Finally got around to sorting through the weekend shots - a combination of shots from the wetlands, and a few from my backyard:

 

A rainy wildflower:

 

Closeup of a black-bellied whistling duck, from about 6 feet away:

 

A male cardinal, avoiding the raindrops out in the wetlands:

 

Another very closeup closeup, this time a cormorant sitting on the rail a few feet away:

 

A mourning dove flying quickly past me while I was cooling off in my swimming pool:

 

A neighbor's cat, sneaking along my backyard wall behind my hedges, thinking he can sneak up on my backyard birds (I sushed him along after snapping his photo):

[Oakman58]

A few photos from our trip to the Denver Zoo last week.

 

 

 

 

 

[boeckli]

Found this unknown flowering shrub on my neighbourhood walk

 

[Docker123]

Is it a nutmeg bush?

[Krazy Kruizers]

These pictures are wonderful.

 

Thank you everyone for sharing them.

[boeckli]

10 hours ago, Docker123 said:

Is it a nutmeg bush?

 

That seems to be spot-on (checked out a few online images). I have never heard of it before.

Thank you so much 🙂