Chiaroscuro

The bandage on my foot is due to one of my friends accidentally stepping on my toe and breaking the nail...I didn't notice it until after I posted it. I'm still experimenting with chiaroscuro, or lightdark. Hope you like the pictures!

"With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colors. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels." ~ Louis A. Camuti

For you commenters, tell me which one(s)you like best. My favorite is the close-up of the yellow cat. :)

Ethereal

A family friend put together this panorama for me. The person at the left is my dad, and there I am on the right with my camera, Paul. We'd climbed on top of a mountain at Wadi Rum.

Cloudblooms

A miscellaneous post. We went on a visit to a farm in Madaba, where there are peacocks and several different kinds of poultry (not pictured here), as well as the Taiwanese Formosan Sika deer—they had been a gesture of goodwill to Jordan from Taiwan some decades ago and have continued to be bred. An entire family of deer lives on the farm. The nature shots were all taken in places around the farm. The pictures of the gently curling cucumber vines were taken in a greenhouse.

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. ~Bishop Reginald Heber