JoAnn and Kathy, thanks for your comments. Hope I’ve given you yet another way to look at nature.

Joan, it took me some time to get my head around feng shui too. For the scavenger hunt, it’s the essence of the thing that’s most important. Not everyone might have access to the ‘real’ element in their environment. The most important thing is to have fun. Creative expression releases endorphins.

For the close-ups I just basically get… close up. It’s easier with some subjects than with others. Once the image is on my computer I also crop it. Taking photographs is something I’ve only started doing regularly since I began keeping this nature journal last October. In the past, I was always more keen to make a drawing than take a photo of anything. If I can do it, anybody can.

The scavenger hunt prizes will be clarified in a future post before the deadline. The spirit of the spring scavenger hunt organized by Kathy at http://centria.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/lets-have-a-scavenger-hunt/ was more cooperative than competitive and I’d like to keep that in this hunt as well.

Air is included in numerous element sets (Greek, Japanese, Tibetan, Hindu, Medieval and Buddhist) – but not the Chinese one I decided to use.

For the scavenger hunt, which is preferable–the actual element, or a representation of it?

I was out with my camera again today, this time at Sardis Park. (Want to see the Sardis ducks, Amy?) I think I got some neat shots, but will have to figure out how to view them on computer to tell for sure. I am one technologically challenged gal! So far, I only know how to TAKE pictures with my digital camera. What do you use to get such amazing close-ups, like the poppy?

Is this scavenger hunt a competition? Like, who gets their photos in first? Or whose are the best, or what? ;0D

Jessica