It's been pretty cold around here in Western Washington. This Viburnum bush is under the eaves on the front of our house. This has to be the definition of "forlorn". Happy New Year! Here's the link to Cee's Original Post for today.
Category: Nature
Boxing Day snow
Hello, everyone, and happy Boxing Day! We woke up to snow this day after Christmas, and here's a tiny sample of our backyard. The video was taken through the window of our bedroom on the second floor. As usual, the yard is swarming with birds, going after the two kinds of suet, and the seeds. …
Terri’s Sunday Stills: #Light the Night
I love to see man-made and natural objects lighted at night. In fact, one of the very first signs that humans were evolving into social, technological creatures, was the mastery of fire. Very early humans could not advance until they were able to harness fire, for cooking, warmth, and light. This mastery is the very …
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #179: Serene
Amid all the chaos surrounding us this year, it's always a good idea to find places and things that are serene. In the comic strip "Rose is Rose", Rose Gumbo has her "Let Things Be Tree", where she goes when the family is making her crazy. I don't have a particular tree where I go …
I spy…with my little eye…Fungi!
In the Pacific Northwest, it gets very moist in the fall and winter. We are also blessed with ample forests and leaf-litter in our yards. Perfect for the growth of mushrooms and other types of fungi. Here are some that I have encountered recently. Below are some mushrooms that were growing under bushes on the …
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #178: My choice; Winter Wonderlands
The theme this week is "you choose", so in this era of fear, loathing, pestilence, and tyranny, I choose to go through the archives and find pictures of winter wonderlands I have seen. One benefit of a blanket of snow over the world is the muffled silence it brings. Fewer vehicles are on the streets, …
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Terri’s Christmas Song Lyric Photo Challenge
This one is a real challenge! In spite of being Jewish, I love Christmas songs, and they tend to become earworms quite easily for me, and not just at Christmas time. I just have to choose one. One of my very favorites is an old German song, Still, Still, Still. I think this photo that …
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #177: Celebrating
In this year of government oppression of the people of our country, sometimes it's hard to find anything to celebrate. I remember March of 2020, when the government locked down society (except for what it deemed "essential" activities). The weekend after the lockdown started, I decided to celebrate my independence, and refusal to accept government …
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Lies of the Left, welcoming tyranny, in one sign
The Left, and its Environmentalist Wacko wing, dominate all discourse here in Western Washington. The Environmental Wackos' religion believes that humanity is a blot on the Holy Planet, and humanity has the power to change the climate, degrade the environment, and otherwise foul our nest. That religion assumes that, with the proper regulation of human …
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CFFC (Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge): All one color
Cee wanted "all one color", so I looked in my archives and came up with these. A whole wall of autumn-red ivy, seen at a big local shopping mall. Shades of silver/gray. The water reflects the gray skies, and the ship is its own shade of dark gray. The deep blue Pacific Ocean off Hawaii. …
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