I love the snow! We had a little yesterday, but it is really coming down today. And our backyard has been hopping with birds all day long. Today, we have seen the following: Varied Thrush, Dark-eyed Junco, Song Sparrow, Rufous-sided Towhee, Common Bushtit, Black-capped Chickadee, and Chestnut-backed Chickadee. This morning, I went outside and stood …
Yesterday afternoon, I had a very pleasant drive up to Arlington, about 15 miles north of my home in Everett, Washington, to visit a cat shelter which I have chosen to support. They were having an open house and adoption event, so I expected to see lots of cats and hopefully kittens. I was definitely …
With 2022 coming to an end, I guess it's time to look back at what we captured on the digital equivalent of film. With the vast majority of my photos taken with my always-ready iPhone 13 Pro, that's a lot of photos! I'm going to start in the very near past, and work backwards. Today, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #230: Last chance for 2022
Before I went on a cruise across the North Pacific Ocean, I had never seen water this blue. I don't think there's a better illustration of the cobalt blue that Terri asked for, do you? What about the evening sky, just outside my front door? Looks cobalt to me. Cobalt blue flowers, in a pot …
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Our backyard is a mess at the moment, covered in cedar scales from the tall trees on two sides of our property. These form a near-perfect camouflage for our Varied Thrushes who visit. Can you spot the bird in this photo? Or this photo?
I'm always on the lookout for patterns in the natural, and man-made world around me. And I am always thankful for my trusty iPhone 13 Pro which is always with me to capture intriguing patterns, since you can never know when something will catch the eye. Yesterday afternoon, I had a bit of shopping to …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #229: Perfect Patterns
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 …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #228: \\\ Diagonals ///
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 …
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 …
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