SEA ANEMONE–a flower-like marine creature with a columnar body and a ring of stinging tentacles around its mouth. Notice the green anemone peeking out at us from its exposed rock lair during a brief hour or two of low ocean tide.

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Ephemeral.”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Walls

MOSES AND THE BURNING BUSH

Long ago in the desolate wastes

A wall of fire

came down a mountainside

and spread across the lands

On Sunday last

the cauterized soil made sacred

prepared to receive

a returning, family matriarch

Rest in Peace, Delores

“Moses and the Burning Bush” — watercolor ⓒ 2015 — J.O’R.

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Orange you glad it’s photo challenge time?.”

Nothing like a spectacular  orange-hued sunrise over the Coast Mountain Range in northern California, looking across from my cabin:

And here are several of my sketches and a painting  I think have some interesting, though more subtle, hues of orange.  The first at left is a quick, colored sketch of Verocchio’s sculpture of David, which has  nice orange ochre hues; the sketch to the right is of a model at a recent life drawing session, and has some  interesting orange pastel shading; and the final, bottom painting has white gesso, purple, and a  vivid reddish orange design.