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Weekly Photo Challenge – early bird

I’m usually up early and some early morning photos were on my mind when I saw the theme this week. Here’s my interpretation. Click anywhere on the gallery to see larger photos.

Sunrise, winter in Minnesota

Sunrise, winter in Minnesota

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Weekly photo challenge – threes

I love this photo of the sunrise in my backyard.  While this is not current, it does show the three trees in one that is my birch tree.  And that branch on the left is now leaning on my roof due to the latest winter storm that left another 8 inches of heavy, wet snow on the twin cities.  It’s also attached to our power line but so far we still have power thank goodness!  I hope that branch springs back up when it starts to thaw (in May…….).

Sunrise, winter in Minnesota

Sunrise, winter in Minnesota

And then I thought of this photo that shows three different balloon flowers.  One that is expired, one on the way and one in full splendor:

And from our recent visit to the conservatory at Como Park, three amaryllis blooms:

such a beautiful red!

such a beautiful red!

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Habit

Like many bloggers here, one of my habits is to take photos.  So here is the gorgeous sunrise we had this morning.  And, what’s more habitual than the sunrise?

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Horizon

I have so many that come to mind for the challenge this week.  Instead I think I’ll post just one, a recent one.

Sunrise in Pembroke Pines, Florida.

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Good Morning

How about I start with a couple of sunrise photos? From my backyard:

Sunrise, winter in Minnesota

Sunrise, winter in Minnesota

Waiting for the bus to go to work recently:

A typical breakfast in Spain, churros y chocolate:

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Okay, I have to add that the above photo does not contain any churros. I include it because I love the photo of this great place in Málaga to have churros y chocolate, Casa Aranda.  It’s also a great spot to people watch.  I highly recommend it!

Churros y chocolate can be eaten at any time and San Ginés in Madrid stays open until the wee hours:

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Beauty seen yesterday

Just a quick post to share some beauty I saw and managed to capture in photos yesterday.  First, this gorgeous sunrise whilst waiting for the bus:

Next a couple of photos of what I’m guessing are hibiscus.  I didn’t think they wintered here but my friend in Illinois tells me she has seen hibiscus there so guessing she is correct.  There was another, bright red one in this same garden in front of the St. Paul Hotel.  Alas, it was too windy to get that one and it was time to head back to the office:

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Sunday Post: Morning

Check out Jakesprinter’s Sunday Post for more entries on the theme morning.  I had to go searching for this one, but this is the photo that came to mind for this week’s theme.

Sunrise, winter in Minnesota

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