For the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekMForMovies, "The Passion of the Christ" (pink crown of thorns) #photography #flowers #CrownOfThorns #plants #garden #nature #GoodFriday 📷🌱

For #FeatheredFriday, #FlyDay, and the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme, #Riverbank, a great blue heron in the reeds at the edge of the creek #photography #birds #heron #nature 📷🦉🪶

For the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekMForMovies, "Passion Flower" #photography #flowers #plants #garden #nature 📷🌱

California ground squirrel #photography #squirrel #animals #nature 📷

Bougainvillea #photography #flowers #bougainvillea #plants #garden #nature 📷🌱

For #WaterWednesday, #WaderWednesday and the #AlphabetChallenge theme #WeekMForMovies, "White Bird" (a snowy egret looking sporty by the pond) #photography #birds #egret #nature 📷🦉🪶

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme, #BestOfTheMonth, and the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekMForMovies, "The Sparrow" #photography #birds #sparrow #nature 📷🦉🪶

For #TextureTuesday (and the #AlphabetChallenge theme #WeekMForMovies), "Redwood" #photography #trees #bark #redwood #nature 📷🌱

For #BlueSkyMonday, some blue sky behind a cluster of Bradford pear blossoms #photography #flowers #trees #nature 📷🌱

For #MallardMonday (and this week's #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekMForMovies), "Wings" #photography #birds #ducks #mallard #nature 📷🦉🪶

Some lines #photography #SomeLines #abstract #abstractphotography 📷

For #SkySunday, winds aloft #photography #sky #clouds #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono #Stunday 📷

For #SmallBirdSaturday, a house finch #photography #birds #finch #nature 📷🦉🪶

No Kings Day 3 #photography #NoKings #NoKingsDay #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷

For #Caturday: I'd name this one Vanta #photography #cats #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷🐈

For #FlyDay, a painted lady on wild radish #photography #butterflies #insects #nature 📷🦋

For #FeatheredFriday and the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme, #Eating, a white-crowned sparrow having a bite of cooked rice #photography #birds #sparrow #nature #FlyDay 📷🦉🪶

New leaves on a wild raspberry vine that has pushed its way up through a bush to reach a sunbeam #photography #plants #leaves #nature 📷🌱

Black-crowned night heron #photography #birds #heron #nature 📷🦉🪶

You talkin' to me? #photography #squirrel #animals #nature 📷

For #WaterWednesday and #WaderWednesday, a snowy egret contemplating the pond #photography #birds #egret #nature 📷🦉🪶

Primrose jasmine #photography #flowers #plants #garden #nature 📷🌱

For #TextureTuesday, a furrowed trunk #photography #trees #bark #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷🌱

For #MinimalMonday, a black phoebe #photography #birds #phoebe #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono #minimalism #minimalistphotography 📷🦉🪶

For #MallardMonday, a couple logging some relationship time #photography #birds #ducks #mallard #nature 📷🦉🪶

Some lines #photography #SomeLines #abstract #abstractphotography 📷

For #SkySunday, some sunset clouds from earlier this month #photography #clouds #sky #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono #Stunday 📷

For #SmallBirdSaturday, a white-crowned sparrow on a rosemary bush #photography #birds #sparrow #rosemary #nature #ColorADay #GreenSat 📷🦉🪶

For #Caturday, the tough little neighborhood cat #photography #cats #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷🐈

Iceplant #photography #flowers #iceplant #plants #garden #nature 📷🌱

For #FeatheredFriday and #FlyDay, a mourning dove #photography #birds #mourningdove #nature 📷🦉🪶

Birdie nest -- two adults, one juvenile #photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKForKaput #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷

For the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme, #Gulls, a ring-billed gull looking stern #photography #birds #gull #nature 📷🦉🪶

Wisteria #photography #flowers #wisteria #plants #garden #nature 📷🌱

For #WaterWednesday and today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #LandMeetsWater, a snowy egret at the edge of the pond #photography #birds #egret #nature 📷🦉🪶

A yellow-rumped warbler on a redbud branch #photography #birds #warbler #redbud #nature 📷🦉🪶

For #TextureTuesday (and #RockinTuesday and #AnimalArtTuesday), a turtle basking on some rocks by the pond #photography #turtle #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷

For #ColorADay #PinkMon, Indian hawthorn #photography #flowers #plants #garden #nature 📷🌱

For #MallardMonday, a couple of duck butts -- mallard on the right and I think that's a gadwall on the left #photography #birds #ducks #mallard #nature 📷🦉🪶

Some lines #photography #SomeLines #abstract #abstractphotography 📷

For #SkySunday, some jellyfish clouds #photography #clouds #sky #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono #Stunday 📷

For #SmallBirdSaturday, a lesser goldfinch #photography #birds #goldfinch #nature #SensoryArt #animals 📷🦉🪶

For #Caturday, arrangement in grey and black #photography #cats #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono #SensoryArt #animals 📷🐈

Pride of Madeira #photography #flowers #plants #garden #nature 📷🌱

For #FeatheredFriday and #FlyDay, a double-crested cormorant #photography #birds #cormorant #nature #SensoryArt #animals 📷🦉🪶

Reception #photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekJForJuxtaposition #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷

One of our local bald eagles at the nest in a tall coast redwood #photography #birds #eagle #baldeagle #redwood #nature 📷🦉🪶

Breath of heaven #photography #flowers #BreathOfHeaven #plants #garden #nature 📷🌱

For #WaterWednesday, some water with a ruddy duck in it #photography #birds #ducks #ruddyduck #nature 📷🦉🪶

For the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme, #LongNecks, a great egret among the reeds #photography #birds #egret #nature 📷🦉🪶