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backyard, beauty, California, Central Coast, color, Nature, photography, rain, rainy day
We’ve been blessed with more than usual rainfall on the central coast of California recently. I love the way the gray skies and damp, rain-soaked surfaces around our home make the colors seem more rich and vibrant. The ordinary becomes extraordinary. Wet cement and a shovel can look like abstract art. While fallen tree branches take on the purple glow of a Fauvist painting. Even a little hummer left behind this winter came out to dazzle me with its red-throated splendor. I hope you enjoy these photos as much as I enjoyed taking them.
Deborah J. Brasket 
Lovely photos, Deborah!
Thank you!
Welcome
vivid — looks like a nice locale.
We love it here on the central coast. It’s so beautiful—vineyards, rolling hills, oak trees, beaches, mountains, and all the wildlife that comes with it.
glad for you 🙂 passed thru that area a few times long ago, and I agree.
Since living here in the swamplands of SC, I’ve learned to appreciate the subtle lighting through the filter of heavy humidity…(ie-your rainy morning reveries). Lovely collage.
Thank you, Laura. Of course, as you know, these photos hardly do justice to the actual colors that are so deeply saturated with all this shade and humidity.