Yes, it’s that time of year again. The aroma of pumpkin spice lattes fills the air, and seemingly every store and doorstep has its obligatory orange gourds. Here are some from my travels recently. Franklin, Kentucky Kirkland, Washington. Cheekwood, Nashville Tennessee These were for sale at my local grocery store. Ugly ducklings! Everett, Washington With …
I live in the Puget Sound area of Western Washington, and most of our trees are evergreen (Washington isn’t called the Evergreen State for nothing). But we do have our share of deciduous trees, and fall is my favorite season. Here are some bright fall colors I have seen this week. Maples This line of …
Readers will know that we just returned from a week in Nashville for Turdstock2024 and some sightseeing. Here are some highlights. See what welcomed us at the hotel front desk! Friday started out with a short walk near our hotel, which was right across from the campus of Vanderbilt University. Its buildings are from a …
For all my Harry Potter Fan followers, here are a bunch of tributes to Dame Maggie Smith, a superb actress, all of whose roles were widely praised just about everywhere. She was truly one of a kind, and will be sorely missed. https://twitter.com/TheDailyHPotter/status/1839711608878113051 https://twitter.com/HPotterUniverse/status/1839672471970099421 https://twitter.com/TheDailyHPotter/status/1839673513881358634 https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1839656558105592143 https://twitter.com/TheDailyHPotter/status/1839669110134767824 All three above have died in the last …
Continue reading Professor McGonagall Died Today. R.I.P. Dame Maggie Smith
Living in the Pacific Northwest, we have lots of shorelines within a few minutes, or hours drive. And we have lakes and rivers, which also have shorelines, along with the oceans. The shoreline closest to me is along Silver Lake. This was early in the morning on my way to work. About 50% of the …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #314: Shorelines
We took a drive up to Leavenworth today, since I missed the Accordion Celebration back in June. It was a beautiful, warm day, in the 70s near us on the west side of the Cascades, and in the 90s in Leavenworth on the east side. When we arrived in town, we found a place to …
Continue reading Have you ever heard an alphorn? Have you ever seen one? Well , it’s time you did.
Way back in the 1970s, a favorite phrase describing something you liked was "Cool, man!" Living in a place with abundant bodies of water, and the nickname of "Evergreen State", you'd think that cool colors would be everywhere. You would be correct! Sometimes, though, you get too much of a good thing, with vegetation run …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #313: Cool colors
On this day, August 1, in the year 1988, The Great Rush Limbaugh took to the airwaves, the first step on his way to becoming the Greatest Radio Broadcaster of All Time. He broadcast from WABC in New York City, and it did not take him very long to build his huge audience of millions, …
Continue reading Today is Very Important for Rush Limbaugh supporters. Anniversary!
Well, he doesn't actually call himself that, but I will. He is an excellent bird photographer, and has his own Bird Club for his followers to join. He lives in Somerset, in England, so his birds might be new to you. https://twitter.com/CarlBovisNature/status/1788544463264010460 Below are more examples of his work. If you are on Twitter/X, I …
Continue reading The people you meet on Twitter: Carl Bovis the Bird Guy
I just love patterns, both in nature and man-made. I'll often photograph a chair with an interesting upholstery pattern, or even a piece of furniture, like the bench below. I spotted this on a walk through downtown Bellevue, Washington last week. It's remarkable how you can actually bend slices of wood into undulations not normally …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #296: Abstract
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