So Terri gave us alternatives this week. Photos of our town, or our favorite town. I live in Western Washington, in a small city considered a suburb of Seattle. This is the waterfront on Puget Sound, just north of the US Navy Base in Everett. This is Silver Lake, just south of my house. And …
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Sorry, I just couldn't resist the urge to put a couple of keyboard diagonals in the post title! Even the "number or hashtag" sign is made up of diagonals. Nature presents us with diagonals all the time. This shrub-steppe hillside in Eastern Oregon presents an obvious diagonal against the sky. For that matter, the clouds …
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This morning over breakfast, I looked out the glass door to the backyard, and spotted a couple of our chickadees taking advantage of the suet feeder. The one on the left is a Chestnut-backed Chickadee; the one on the right is a Black-capped Chickadee. I also managed to capture the one on the left fluttering …
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So, after 12 years of resistance, you can now find RushBabe49 on Twitter. And I got my first follower already! I have followed a bunch of British travel accounts, and my normal assortment of conservative pundits. I also follow a few Harry Potter people, including JK Rowling and Tom Felton, as well as WizardingWorld. I …
Today, just as forecasted, we got our first snowfall of the winter. It's really early for our area, and so far the snow isn't very heavy. Of course, the first thing I did this morning was get out my trusty iPhone and go out in the backyard to get some pictures. This is the east …
We really need some humor, right about now, so here are some of my favorite cat memes for this week. How many of you see this every day when you get up from your home office computer to get lunch or a cup of coffee? How could you resist that face? Can you find the …
The story over at MyNorthwest dot com is about the "decommissioning" of the official Covid-19 response site that has been operating since early 2020. This is due to the fact that the pandemic emergency is over (yeah, right, with medical facilities still requiring ineffective masking for everyone), and site visits had decreased. So anyone wanting …
My husband and I are fortunate to live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, surrounded on all sides by water, mountains, green fields, and spectacular landscapes. We are also fortunate to have been able to travel to many other places in this Greatest Country on God's Green Earth. Starting in our own neighborhood of Western Washington. …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #227: Home, Sweet Home
Do you take the Moon for granted? Or are you fascinated by our huge satellite, that is a significant proportion of the size of Earth, making it unique in our Solar System? Do you look at the Moon through binoculars or a telescope, and wonder what all those craters look like closer-up? Were you alive …
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