JOY's FAVORITE FOTOS: June 2012

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"You G*d are the Compassion, the Strength, the Beauty, the Victory, the Splendor, and the Foundation of everything in Heaven and on Earth. " (1 Chronicles 1:29)

I see Your Face in All Nature that I photograph.

I enjoy being an official "Observer" with the California Academy of Sciences
and posting some Lake Balboa photos with them for other organizations to also know that specific birds have migrated to Lake Balboa.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9935445

In Japanese culture, the sakura (桜) or cherry blossom is a beloved symbol of hope.
Hanimi, flower viewing, is the Japanese traditional custom of enjoying the transient beauty of flowers.
This includes spring time cherry blossoms (sakura) or plum blossoms (ume).

Lake Balboa Poem: http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2012/02/blossoming-cherry-trees.html

52Frames LA-SFV Photo Walk, Lake Balboa, Thursday, March 22, 2018, 10 am - Noon
All invited. UN's World Water Day celebration.
Nature Guide - Joy Krauthammer

Japanese Cherry Tree Blossoms © Joy Krauthammer

Japanese Cherry Tree © Joy Krauthammer

Japanese Cherry Tree and Cascade
© Joy Krauthammer

Japanese Cherry Tree (Sakura) & Cascade © Joy Krauthammer

Japanese Cherry Tree & Cascade © Joy Krauthammer

Japanese Cherry Tree © Joy Krauthammer

Japanese Cherry Tree (Sakura) © Joy Krauthammer

Japanese Cherry Tree (Sakura)

Japanese Cherry Trees (Sakura), Lake Balboa

Japanese Cherry Trees (Sakura) and bird, Lake Balboa

Japanese Cherry Trees (Sakura), Lake Balboa

Japanese Cherry Tree & Cormorants © Joy Krauthammer

Japanese Cherry Tree and Ducks © Joy Krauthammer

Japanese Cherry Trees (Sakura), Lake Balboa

Japanese Cherry Trees (Sakura) & Great Blue Heron

Swan?, Geese & American Coot (Fulica americana) (a.k.a. mud hen)

Lake Balboa

Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) and Japanese Cherry Trees, Lake Balboa

Japanese Cherry (Sakura) Blossoms and Butterfly

Japanese Cherry Blossoms

First of the Sakura Season

Cherry (Sakura) Blossom by G*d

Japanese Cherry (Sakura) Tree by G*d

Tree Pods

Lake Balboa

Passion Flowers, Passiflora (Passifloraceae)

Shared with iNaturalist.org 12.18.16, first posting for Lake Balboa.

Passion Flowers, Passiflora (Passifloraceae)

Shared with iNaturalist.org 12.18.16, first posting for Lake Balboa.

Passifloraceae, a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants. They are mostly vines, with some being shrubs, and a few species being herbaceous." Many gorgeous flowers transform into edible fruits consisting of a hard dark purple egg-shaped shell, filled with seeds and juice inside. Fruit is ripe when fairly firm yet wrinkly and falls off vine. Used as juice, baked goods, ice cream, etc.

Wisteria Arbor

Lake Balboa

Levitation with Double-Crested Cormorant and Wisteria

First day of Spring, Lake Balboa

Composite created for 52Frames

Joyous Levitation with Cherie Weldon, Balinese Dancers, Parasol and Mute Swans (Cygnus olor)

First day of Spring, Lake Balboa

Composite created for 52Frames

CW flies.

Black-Crowned Night Heron

First day of Spring, Lake Balboa

Turtle, Lake Balboa

"Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder." - Abraham Joshua Heschel

Have you stopped lately to acknowledge G*d's beauty?

Blossoms, fruit buds, ladybugs, butterflys, clouds, rainbows, sunrises, sunsets, birds, wild bunnies, peacocks in trees, turtles, even a man-made lake…

Greylag Geese (Anser anser), Lake Balboa

Being this low on ground with fast agressive snappy geese was a bit scary.

Greylag Geese (Anser anser), Lake Balboa

Mallard Ducks (Anas platyrhynchos), Duck Goose, American Coot (Fulica americana) (a.k.a. mud hen) and Rock Pigeon

Lake Balboa

Sea Gulls, and American Coot (Fulica americana) (a.k.a. mud hen)

Lake Balboa

by Joy Krauthammer ©

Flying Ducks or Geese, Lake Balboa

by Joy Krauthammer ©

Ducks, Lake Balboa

Sunbathing Double-Crested Cormorants, Lake Balboa

by Joy Krauthammer ©

Escaping Double-Crested Cormorants, Lake Balboa

by Joy Krauthammer ©

Flying Great White Egret, Ardea alba with lined up Double-Crested Cormorants,

Lake Balboa

Great white Egret, Ardea alba

Lake Balboa

Great White Egret, Ardea alba

Lake Balboa

Great White Egret, Ardea alba

Lake Balboa

Snowy Egret

Lake Balboa

American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos), Mute Swan

Lake Balboa

American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos), Lake Balboa

American White Pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) Waterfall, Lake Balboa

American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos), Lake Balboa

Bird Bath, Lake Balboa

White Crested Duck

Lake Balboa

White Ducks, Lake Balboa

Duck, Lake Balboa

Mallard Duck (Anas platyrhynchos), Lake Balboa

Mallard Ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) and American Coots (Fulica americana) (a.k.a. mud hen)

Lake Balboa

Ducks and Coots (Fulica americana) (a.k.a. mud hen) and Pigeon

Lake Balboa

Reflections

Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cvanocephalus)

Lake Balboa

Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cvanocephalus)

Lake Balboa

Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cvanocephalus)

Lake Balboa

Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cvanocephalus)

Lake Balboa

Tree

Lake Balboa

Mallard Duck, American Coots (Fulica americana) (a.k.a. mud hen) and Pink Child

Lake Balboa

Lake Balboa, sunset

Greylag Geese (Anser anser) at dusk

Lake Balboa

Greylag Geese (Anser anser)

Lake Balboa, sunset

Greylag Geese (Anser anser)

Lake Balboa, sunset

Greylag Geese (Anser anser) and white goose

Lake Balboa, sunset

Greylag Geese (Anser anser)

Lake Balboa, sunset

Greylag Geese (Anser anser)

Lake Balboa, sunset

Lake Balboa

sunset flock