I just noticed an interesting icon next to the percentage values and gave it a try 
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Catahoula Lake pastels
Golden hour wasn’t too golden today (although sunset delivered – too bad I was already driving at that point!), but there were some pleasant muted colors down low in the west. It made for a decent minimalist image.
A funny sidebar…
As I was getting ready for this shot, I noticed what looked like a critter’s head / jaw of some sort bobbing in the water about a meter or so off the edge. There were little eddies showing around it, so I figured it was possibly a snapping turtle or even alligator just hanging around waiting for . But something didn’t look right and I couldn’t nail down the species of critter. I have to admit I was a little … ahem … “aware” of the possibility of said critter taking an interest in me and suddenly emerging from the water!
Turns out I was totally wrong. It was the fearsome, deadly, DDD: Discarded Duck Decoy! So much for my identification skills in the fading light!
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Nice pastel colors in the lake shot…before you got mooned!
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Fancy that!
Mooned by a decoy by Len
That could be the title. 
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Took a walk with my camera late yesterday to deliberately get out on a day off from work. Hot and somewhat humid, but late afternoon light was good.
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Is that a Schlüsselblume?
Was? 
Sorry, I have no idea. I like to take pictures of flowers but they are not my thing otherwise.
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No probs.
I don’t speak German, but I used to know someone from that part of the world, and their favorite flower was the Schlüsselblume. I believe it’s a kind of Primula.
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It looks like Primula vulgaris (primrose), which is one of the Schlüsselblume, but not the Echte Schlüsselblume (Primula veris or cowslip)
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The Alps illuminated by the setting Sun, as seen from the western side of Zürich. Snapped during our evening walk.
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Amazing. Style reminds me of the pencil shading exercise in art class. It is a good fit for the [Capture Challenge] People without people thread and the Showcase category.
Summer long gone.
There were just a few rays of sun in a mostly gloomy day. But it didn’t rain so the walk was welcomed. I took one lens only this time. Not enough to reach the distance. Regardless - this is better than nothing. Besides - I carry what I really like - my camera is on my shoulder. There have been too many times going out without it. Oddly (or not) each time when I leave it home - there is something that draws my eyes. A few times I picked the phone. But it is just not the same. I don’t think it ever will. Some times it is one keeper - that is all. And there are times when there is none. This is a keeper for me. A fractured stamp - a fleeting moment. A memory.
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Desperation abstraction
The weather has been really and unexpectedly nice here just recently, like 70F / 20C with blue sky. It was cold by our standards a couple of weeks ago but has warmed up. I’m sure more winter is coming, but while the weather is good I headed out locally with my camera.
And found nothing. 
So out of desperation I ended up shooting some really weird tree bark. It looks like it’s been eroded, like something from a Utah landscape, I’ve never seen (or at least noticed) anything like it before. And no, I don’t know what kind of tree. Just a tree… 
It has an alien, almost lunar-like quality.
DOF was real fun to try and achieve… (NOT!)
As a negative, it takes on a very lava-like character.
In positive, this one isn’t anywhere near as interesting.
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Bark or some insect colony?
It’s apparently the bark. There were several trees like this and they were all the same. Each feature is about a third to half a finger in size, more or less.
Disagree, hard. You found something spectacular.
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Thanks! And to clarify, “nothing” referred to what else I didn’t find, not to the tree / bark. That was after I found “nothing” (else). I could’ve been more clear on that.
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