It’s been a while since I’ve done a 52 Photos Project post! I have a few moments and wanted to participate in this week’s prompt: gold.

This is a piece of gold leaf that was left on a ruin in Sukhothai, Thailand:

When I was in Japan, we visited a town called Kanazawa. There is a lot of work done with gold leaf there, and we got to see a demonstration. This man works with gold leaf and I was enchanted with all the dust that covered him – including his lips!

Here’s a tiger lily from a hike I did in the Olympic mountains:

I cannot resist a dahlia bursting with color:

Nor the green and gold bacterial mats in the geysers at Yellowstone:

And finally, any excuse I have to share a Buddha picture, you know I will take it: