A Retreat for Peaceful Contemplation

GmaFoley

Morning sunrise and now its cloudy and going to rain... Expecting snow on friday.

ruthbru

Canal de Garonne, France

Marple

Amazing picture!!

GmaFoley

Good morning world. This was yesterday - today - clouds and rain....

Chevyboy

Just for fun....

ruthbru

Black Forest, Germany

MinusTwo

Oh wow Ruth.  There ought to be forest fairies dancing somewhere in there.

ruthbru

I'm sure that there are!

ruthbru

Another beautiful picture: Lake Retba, Sengal.

GmaFoley

A bit different view from our porch. Just a late morning view.

Anonymous

Leaving Oceanside, CA

Anonymous

GMA, your pictures are beautiful. I envy your view.

GmaFoley

You can come see it anytime - We have room for visitors

Anonymous

My husband is from Washington State. He's not too fond of California. I'd love to move to the frozen North, but our kids are here in CA.

RhodyMMM

Ruthbru, just curious....what makes the water pink there?

ruthbru

Lake Retba  is naturally pink. Due to its high salt content, the water has the perfect living conditions for a certain kind of micro-algae called dunaliella salina. The presence of these organisms is what gives the lake its pink hue.

RhodyMMM

Thanks Ruthbru! How interesting!

Tomboy

for to look at...my little lumpy

Tomboy

one more...sunshine & leafshadow! watchin shadows dance, on my own porch, so relaxing!

Anonymous

kathec, adorable kitty.

Chevyboy

My "Fairy" garden, last Spring... 

GmaFoley

Wisteria garden each spring.

Chevy, I had real deer on my brown grass last spring. LOL

Chevyboy

Show off!  Ha, ha!   Well, so I saw Racoon's in our ditch last Spring!   It was at night, and I looked out the door, and saw these 2 little eyes and 2 paws on top of our fence!   Then I heard them "chatter!"    And once I watched this big OWL in the top of our tree....  So fascinating!  Like he was watching over the world!  Then a bunch of Crows, came and chased him off!  They are bullies....

 I love this picture!

GmaFoley

Thanks for the Laugh Chevy - I was going to post one without the wording that was in my "group hug image" - google search.  Ok now back to the AHHHH pictures. Not sure if I posted this but too lazy to look - A Tiller, OR campsite during an Arch. dig.

Monis

Deer are a natural part of the landscape here.  We had one buck that hung out by our front walkway last summer.  Deer would regularly sleep in our shady planters in the hot, summer afternoons.  They were real curious, often looking into our windows to see what we were up to.

         

chabba

Our town has a lot of vacant lots and a LOT of deer.  They are so used to city life that most of them stop and look both ways before crossing the street! 

RhodyMMM

This was taken at my daughter's wedding in Charleston, SC, last September 1. The bridal party was on the docks for pics and the sun was going down. An uninvited guest came by!

Chevyboy

Beautiful Picture Rhody!  I know they'll have lots of memories!

Near Breckenridge Colorado!  So many Deer off in the distance!

flaviarose

bird print in my yard the other day

RhodyMMM

Neat picture flaviarose....it must have been looking for seeds on the ground!