Just look around you! How many circles are there? They are everywhere! I am driving in circles every day, though Audi calls them The Rings. I looked up while in the Everett Public Library, and what did I see, but some brightly-colored glass circles. OK, Tina, here are some for you. Seattle's Great Wheel How's …
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In thinking about what to use for this challenge, I thought about Windows, and what they mean. A window is an expanse of glass, normally clear glass, designed so the people inside a building can see out, and let the light of the Sun in. It occurred to me to consider the big glass windows …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and Commentary. #288, Window Shopping, and Trust
Once again, the local news is chock-full of stories of crime, mayhem, homelessness, and demonstrations. The Seattle Police are losing officers weekly, resulting in longer response times. Here are just some of the stories in the local news today. Tacoma Police are sharing the sketch of the perpetrator of a stabbing in Point Defiance Park. …
Continue reading It’s time for another dispatch from the Seattle-area Dystopia
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Hello, Readers. Have you had a secret (or not so secret) desire to go to work for Disney? Do you have a yearn to act, or staff a ride or restaurant at Disneyland? Do you have a degree in animation or set design? Once you read today's post, put up by Elon Musk himself, you might want to …
This last Photo Challenge of 2023 is supposed to be your best photos of the year. I think I was exceptionally fortunate to be on the roof of the Bellevue Square parking garage on a clear day at the end of December. The Mountain (Mount Rainier) was out in all its splendor. I'm proud of …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #280: Last Chance for 2023
I was thrilled to see the topic for this week's Challenge, as I own some items that are completely unique. The first one is a piece of art, which I inherited from my parents. I remember telling them when I was a teenager that, when they died, I insisted on getting this, and I did …
Hello, everyone. This week's challenge is going to be great fun for me, as I am always in the habit of looking both up and down for good photos. It's amazing what you can spot, if you look down around your knees. We have been some places recently that had beautiful flower containers on the …
Asymmetry is pretty simple for me to find. I just step out the back sliding door, and I find my two small Japanese Maple trees. Both are studies in Asymmetry. The one that I planted first, just after I bought my house in the summer of 2000, is named "Fluffy" (by my husband). It was …
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I knew it was wrong, but I did it anyway. We went to our Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra concert at the Kirkland Performance Center this afternoon. The soloist today was Israeli jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen. We have heard her before with the orchestra, and were eager to see and hear her again. As usual, she …
Continue reading Snippets of Clarinetist Anat Cohen and the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra
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