Share Your Cup #200

I washed the kitchen rug and put it out to dry in the wonderful sun this morning.  As you can see it fits right in with the navy and sunshine yellow color theme of my kitchen.  I wash it in the bath tub then put it in the washer on spin only to get most of the water out.  Then it sits on the balcony till it's dry.  I have to turn it over a couple times during the day but at the end of the day it will be dry.  This rug was woven by my Mom on the loom she inherited from her mother. Mom asked what colors I would like and filled the bill.  She's a great lady. 

It rained last night but this morning was warm.

The pot of herbs planted on May 21st is showing signs of life and green sprouts.  It will be a while before I cut them and put them in my cooking.  Patience is a virtue.

I received the latest Stampin Up catalog from my demo Gail.  I made a cup of Jade Citrus Mint and browsed every page carefully.  That was 60 minutes well spent.

I've put a check next to the Woodland and Seaside embossing folders and the new balloon punch which is the right shape in my humble opinion.  The others were perfectly round and balloons are not usually.

I captured this water drop this morning on my walk.  It rained last night so most natural surfaces were wet. 

Roses blooming is a good sign it's June.  I took this one again on my walk this morning.

Mosaic Monday - Water & Sculpture

I was feeling like a change of pace this week so I chose not organic subject matter.  The large metal sculpture on the left is at the new structure at the entrance of our zoo.  The top centre is the corner of the wading pools at the Legislative Buildings.  The top right is of the large fountain at the LEG and this is of where the water coming down meets the pool and creates this netherland place.  The bottom right is of a fountain just down from my place which has leaves on it's basin and I caught the drops leaving the edge.  The bottom centre is of a in ground water feature near the LEG which is new this year.  It creates a splash park effect as a series of these water spouts start slowly and increase in height to about 5-6 feet tall.  Each circle has LED lights which are likely lit up at night.  Very Cool!

Submitting to Mosaic Monday host by Judith at Lavender Cottage.

Water Drops

I took this photo right after the gardener had watered the flower bed.  The flower had wonderful water drops on it's petals.  I like the way the background was dark and the flower light.  I just cropped this image a bit. 

Submitting to the following:
Macro Monday 2

I Heart Macro

Water Drop

There aren't many water drops around here because things are so dry.  I walked by these hostas shortly after someone watered and the drops were still there. Once I converted the photo the water drop popped!  Looks like it's headed down the slope.  I cropped the photo to have the water drop be the focus.

Here's the colored one.

Submitting to:
B&W Wednesday.

Photo - Macro of a Water Drop

I visited the Muttart Conservatory to get a macro photo for the challenge at Personal Photo Challenge. I have selected a few pictures for this challenge.

They has just recently watered the plants and many leaves had water drops on them.  I got in close and got several of them in this picture

I took this photo of a center of a cactus. It looks so much like a rose which is very pretty.

I took this photo several years ago.  I found this tiny lady bug on the green and silver leaf.  

Photo - Devonian Botanic Gardens

I took a trip to the Devonian Botanic Gardens on the weekend.  It's a large property and a good thing I went early as it rained later in the day.
The background for this collage is a copper pot in the Arid show house which had this terrific patina on it.  I do water drops every chance I get and they had just irrigated so there were plenty.  The Koi fish is in the brook in the Kurimoto Japanese Gardens.  I've been trying all kind of options with my camera and this one worked out really well. The fish was about 12" long. I saw 4 different ones in the waters there. In the Butterfly show house I got this pic of a very nice warm colored butterfly.  He was just sitting there so I got a lot of shots.  The bottom picture is of course Bird of Paradise.  I think this is the first one I've seen in real life.  It's beautiful.