NO, not That Kind! This kind! On Saturday, Hubby and I took a drive from our home in Everett, over to the East Side of Lake Washington, and up to the town of Snoqualmie, via Fall City. In July, the Snoqualmie River there is about three feet deep and pretty slow-moving. The kids put their …
Month: July 2020
Tulips, and more Tulips
In a normal year, the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival takes place during the entire month of April. Washington State's Skagit Valley is the world's second largest producer of tulips and bulbs, outside of The Netherlands. There are a couple of large growers who open their fields for the festival; they charge for parking across the …
South Dakota Sights
For all you Ricochet members who are planning to go to the SD Meetup in September, I thought I'd do a little post with some of the photos I took when we visited on our way to Hillsdale Hostel in 2010. We didn't visit all the places Randy has found, but we did catch a …
Lens-Artists Challenge #105-Spring
Spring. The first sign is the gradually, gradually, lengthening days. Still awaking in the dark, but driving home from work in daylight. Here in the Pacific Northwest, Spring is normally pretty rainy (yeah, the cliche about April showers bringing May flowers that we all know and love). But we actually love the rain here, because …
Could you resist this face?
This little one doesn't have to wear a mask! Kikyo
NO. Absolutely not. No way. Ever.
The latest "expert" opinion on the Wuhan Coronavirus Crisis, brought to you in all its Red, Communist plumage. Coronavirus expert estimates how long we will be required to wear masks. This particular "expert" estimates that we will be required to wear masks when around other people for Several Years. How many of my readers are …
Lens-Artists Challenge #104-Summer
First, a little musical introduction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWSiMhEkFVk For some reason, this song plays pretty often on my internal tape. In the summer of 2010, Hubby and I took a three-week vacation, and drove from our home in Washington State to Michigan and back, for a Hillsdale Hostel. We took the Southern Route to get there, through …
A bittersweet Independence Day
This year of 2020, when we Americans should be celebrating American Exceptionalism-the big difference in America's founding and history from every other nation on Earth; our great country is riven by rioting, looting, Marxism, ugliness, vandalism---oh, and also a worldwide pandemic of a virus that originated in Communist China. Instead of the sound of parades, …
Calling-all-RushBabes 