Cathy Flanagan

Adobe walls with trunks as beams tied together with twine overhead as a roof structure. Ocotillo stems provide cross strips, spaced to let light in

Nature provides both shade and sun—framed roof in Alamo Plaza #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed

Looking up through several Giant Sequoia trees, with sunlight filtering through from above

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekEforEponymous
Giant Sequoia trees named not for Cherokee Sequoyah but for Latin verb “sequor” Who knew?

Cold, snowy winter brings floofed feeder mates, posing in symmetry #AlphabetChallenge #BonusDiptych

6 anthers in the sunlight and 1 pistol inside an Amaryllis houseplant

Oh, the horrors! All that pollen and no place to go Houseplant woes😱 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic

Amaryllis bud just opening with 3 buds

Amaryllis buds now separated; 5 are evident but none are open

One open pink amaryllis with anthers loaded with pollen in the center

Anticipation and possibilities; nature and beauty no matter what stage
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekCforCloseup

Several shelves of books with several stacks in front

personal collection meets inherited through downsizing collection
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekBforBooks

Patterns on the surface of a patch of ice on the creek—taken from kayak

Nature’s artwork—ice on the creek
#Alphabetchallenge
#WeekAforabstract

Silvery Seattle Center in a silvery-grey sky #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSilver

A nice rock in Big Bend Natl Park #RockinTuesday

And berries! Black, blue, rasp, and goose😂 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMulticolored

Fresh tomatoes in December; of course in San Diego! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMulticolored

High Wheel Race, only in Frederick, MD—always entertaining to watch! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKinetic

View of the Roman Pool at Hearst Castle #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInside

My heroes are scientists, especially women scientists. Barbara McClintock was way ahead of her peers (men) and won a solo Nobel Prize in 1993 for her work on maize cytogenetics. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes

Edge of frozen lake where fallen leaves rest in pockets in ice. How? Did dark leaves absorb light, triggering melting? Did the leaves prevent wind underneath and trap heat? Or, did the leaves get trapped in holes already there?🤔
#wonderofnature

#BlueSkyartshow #monochrome

Crowded Koi pond #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold

Love Ginkgo leaves—magically compelling even littering the ground
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold

Kayaking in February on a still icy creek
#BlueSkyArtShow #reflections

Bike on the battlefield, Gettysburg, PA #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforB

San Diego! But very similar

A sea of blue (and red) in a blue light #Alphabetchallenge #WeekBforB #lightscapesandiego

Birds on the beach
#Alphabetchallenge #WeekBforB

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAngles
#lightscapesandiego

Edge of pond is frozen, same coloring as rock on shore amidst fallen leaves and winter trees

Water icing up as rock remains unchanging. #nature #wonder

Ocotillo cactus with leaves on the sunny side only

Ocotillo cactus—why is one side leaves and the other thorns? Or, were there leaves all around, and they fell off on one side only? #nature #wonder

Happy New Year! Out with the old, in with the new: New leaf ready to unfurl (how does it know it is time?); old leaf a bit worn at the edges (does it know it is damaged? what does it do about it?) #nature #wonder

Love these Bird of Paradise flowers! The junction of bright colors, each on a different structure, makes me wonder—how? And why? #nature #wonder

Asphalt flows and cools at Tar Pits park. Oozing constantly, for eons; geology at work #nature #wonder

Grayish plant, with red emanating from the bright yellow flower center

Bright yellow center suggests pollen, so how much of this is flower? And, the plant is not even green! Lovely colors, but what was the selective pressure? Who or what does the pollinating? #wonder #nature #flower