My Big Beautiful "Backyards"

This week is a choice to publish my favorite nature photos from the past week here in California, our temporary destination....my favorite time of day is about an hour before sunset....while traveling all over the country as a full time RVer, we see some amazing things, but some of the most amazing, are in our own little backyard of where we are staying, or in the bigger "backyard" of the RV park.....

I love the way the sunlight casts the shadows late in the day, or highlights the simplest flower. I try to capture that on my little Panasonic Lumix camera. Some day I hope I to get an SLR.

It's such a peaceful time of day...it helps me to take photos of pretty flowers and bushes because I miss my old nature trail back home in Indiana...Ropchan Nature Preserve in Fremont, IN. I used to walk about a two mile hike every other day or so through the preserve, and it was always late in the day after work when I did it. Seeing the sunlight through the trees and the angles of the light on everything, reminds me of that peaceful happy time, that solitary time of walking in the woods as the daylight lessens. I'm not stressed now that I am retired, but I still love that peaceful feeling of the light that time of day.....

I don't know the names of these beautiful flowering bushes, but they are all over the RV park where we are staying....

These little orangy red flowers below were sticking out of a dirt hillside...nothing around them at all, but here they were, persistent and pretty and holding onto the hillside, kind of like holding onto life when it gets a little ugly. You know that there's beauty around the corner or beauty in every day if you just look and pay attention.....