Even gray skies can be scenic, once in awhile. I love this image and am calling it my weekly Top Shot.

Overlook vista from residential street in Normandy Park, WA on a late winter day

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It’s travel weekend, here at Sara’s Fave Photos blog. The pictures below were taken in Peru by my cousin Aurora, the daughter of Sheila, who just went to Hawaii. Peripatetic family! I have never been to Hawaii, but I truly loved my visit to Peru many years ago.

Birds perching on arch rock in Paracas Peru on the Ballestas islands

Ancient Inca stonework in Machu Picchu, Peru. The stones are fitted so closely that a knifeblade cannot be forced between them.

On the hike up to Machu Picchu, Peru

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There’s more to life than just flowers. There are rainbows.

Late February rainbow decorates the sky over Burien, Washington

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It’s been pretty gray and I haven’t managed to get outside much when the sun did peek through, so it’s back to the archives for a blast of sunshine. Dahlias are such summer stunners.

Yellow dahlias with pink tips bask in the late summer sunlight in the garden

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This photo is from exactly one year ago, taken at the overlook right near my house. All the rain going on in Seattle lately doesn’t yield much in the scenic mode. But who doesn’t like snow-covered active volcanoes in the sunset?

Snow looks pink in the sunset light at Mt. Rainier in Washington in the Pacific Northwest

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These teensy yellow flowers bloom on my south window every January and February. So welcome! And since they are succulents, they certainly tolerate my forgetting to water them very well. I appreciate that, too.

Gourd-shaped little stems give hatiora the common name of Drunkard’s Dream

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It didn’t last long, but it sure was beautiful for awhile in my yard. See the snowy branches reflected in the hummingbird post below.

Magnolia and dogwood trees clothed in snow

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A recent visit to Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory was a sun and shadow symphony

Sun and shadows decorate some barrel cactus and gray-green succulent spikes at Seattle’s Capitol Hill Conservatory

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We had nice weather break through for a bit a couple of days ago, and this is what the sunset looked like in my backyard:

Winter sunset above the trees in the Pacific Northwest

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Today I was at Lincoln Park in West Seattle and saw these huge, mossy branches. What a Pacific Northwest winter sight!

Moss covered branches on a very big tree

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