Weekly Photo Challenge: Purple

Today, a color challenge from WordPress. Here are a couple of my favorite purple shots.

Does anyone know what the flower is in the first one? It’s a wildflower, I think. We didn’t plant them, and they appear all over in early spring.

doves and flower, early spring

iris 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

. . . the intricate workings of an old pinball machine, minus its legs—a funky coffee table, maybe? Plus the glass bowls with their yellow price stickers (inside) set on top, and their reflections going inside . . .

Pinball machine (minus legs) at the flea market

Weekly Photo Challenge: Close

This week’s Photo Challenge is “close,” which can be interpreted many ways, I suppose. Here’s one, but don’t make me swear to what this critter really is. The specks aren’t “noise” in the photo, by the way. Dirty window. The author hangs her head in shame. It’s bad housekeeping, pure and simple, but what’s more important–writing, reading, taking photos, family, cooking (see how far down on the list cooking is?), hanging out with Oliver the cat–or dust on the glass?

grasshopper up close