A yellow-breasted chat was down below, but the chat flew first and allowed me to turn my attention to the other beauty.

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Flickr Lounge: blue

These were huge blueberries, but photographed through a close-up lens for more detail. Color added in post-processing since they came out a bit too gray.

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ODC: beneficial moments and textures in nature
Flickr Lounge: photographer's choice


The little ovals of frost caught my attention here, reminding me of flowers in a garden. Photographed in macro, they have many more details than appeared to the naked eye. This is my husband's favorite of the frost-and-snow shots I got this morning. This is frost on a car window with a few tiny snowflakes thrown in for variety--everything in the image is frost, snow, or ice. In real life, this scene is two inches across or less.

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Macro Mondays: lockdown song, album or genre of music
Flickr Lounge: starts with the letter B (blue)

Frost doesn't form as symmetrically as snow, and notice that this isn't a six-sided flake. I loved the bubbles on this one, and the detail on the largest flake. My husband loved the gradated blue.

Classical music is my favorite for weather- or season-related music, including the days of being mostly inside during winter that coincides with the Covid-19 pandemic. Special ones include Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 "Winter Dreams," Op. 13 and Ballet of the Snowflakes (from Le voyage dans la lune) by Offenbach.

Thank you in advance for your views, faves, and comments! My first Macro Mondays shot to hit Explore. By the end of its day on Explore, this had become my number-one faved shot, with about 7,000 views and more than 250 faves--and that was at spot #300. Check out my album of frost photos, with an amazing variety of shapes and frosted items, here: www.flickr.com/photos/cherylmolin/albums/72157717520030323

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I love the transition from green to blue, with the green of the trees moving toward the blue of the sky.

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