KC Creations Photography, July 2020
Beauty found near Beauty Creek
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Tag Archives: wildflowers
Birds and Burns
There’s a mama and baby turkey hanging out in our neighborhood these days, and by neighborhood I mean they mostly seem to be hanging out in our yard — front, back, peering in the windows, basically whatever they feel like doing.
The first time I looked out the window at the mama turkey looking in at me was a bit startling but we’re getting used to seeing them daily now that it’s been about a month. Junior has grown quite a bit since I took these photos. My DIL who loves birds and majored in animal science tells me that turkeys normally have about 5 eggs to hatch, so we don’t know what happened to Junior’s siblings.
As I’ve written before — several times — we have a small wilderness park behind our home. Every year around the 4th of July I get a little tense, worrying about wildfires due to fools and fireworks. Well, this year it happened, more than a week after the holiday, and we’re lucky the fire department arrived quickly. (Personally, we’re lucky it happened on the other end of the street and the wind wasn’t blowing our direction so we didn’t even have to breathe the smoke.) The fire came close to several houses but only one is having to replace siding that melted in the heat of burning trees.
It could have been so much worse.
And nature is resilient.
May all of those who are so terribly affected by the [much, MUCH WORSE] wildfires in other places be shown grace, hope, mercy, and respite from the anxious worries that now consume their thoughts and lives.
Springtime in the Desert
I’m back from our annual trek to the desert southwest and treading water in my photo files.
Shoot, sniff, and leave(s)
KCINNOTX enjoying the lilacs
Arrowleaf Balsamroot in the park near my home — photo by KCINNOTX
Bitterroot, AKA rock roses (earring added for size comparison)
White Rock Roses (Bitterroot), photo by KCINNOTX
Build Me Up, Buttercup
brilliant golden gem
easily missed, yet startles
signifying spring
Still here… sort of…
…but was here…
From one Oregon coast (Pacific Ocean) to another (Columbia River Gorge)
…and there.
Unnamed Flora
Heavenly scented
**UPDATED 3/2015 : The flowering shrub pictured above is the Syringa, or Mock Orange shrub.
Both photos were taken at Syringa Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada.
Purple trumpets fill the forest with glorious silence.
Syringa, part two
Syringa, part one
Fields of purple and yellow wildflowers
Tall pine trees, cold water
Walking on an undulating trail
the smell of warm grasses and bursts of sweet floral-scented air
the hot kiss of sunshine, the cool embrace of shade
Dappled light in green and ochre
splashes and shouts, yells and barks
soft voices and raucous laughter
slithering of mud-brown snakes
ascending trill of unseen songbirds
crackling fire and Texas S’mores —
marshmallows, chocolate, tortillas
Sudden storms, sideways rain
And stars that wink while we sleep.
Flora and Fauna on the Mountain
Spokalulu 