I will forgive Cee for having her FOTD for my birthday be a weed (dandelion)! For my birthday flower, I chose two different colors of the tulips that make the Skagit Valley famous. These were taken last weekend on our jaunt up to Mount Vernon and LaConner. Tulips grown there come in a multitude of …
Continue reading Birthday Flowers of the Day, for April 16…Tulips
Our topic this week for Cee's Fun Foto Challenge is Wood. Knock on wood. The most important wood object around our place is this. This is my 1987 David VanZandt violin. It is as much a work of art as a musical instrument. Its top is made from close-grained Sitka Spruce, and its back is …
Once again, we drove up to the Skagit Valley to see the vaunted tulips which were still not blooming the last time we went. And today was the perfect time, with dramatic skies, on-and-off rain and hail, and beautiful light. This corner of the valley produces potatoes and other vegetables. That plowed field in the …
Signs of Spring are everywhere. This is a bush in a planting strip near the building where I work. The flowering pear tree in our front yard. And a cherry tree along the road in Mill Creek, the next town south of our house.
Another in the Elements series. If these photos aren't Fire, I don't know what is. This is Earth's Primordial Fire, the eruption of the Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii in July of 2018. This lava formed in the literal fires at the center of our planet, and the movements of the tectonic …
Hubby and I took a little spur-of-the-moment trip up to the Skagit late this afternoon, to see if the tulips were out in all their splendor. It was heavily overcast and threatening rain all afternoon. We saw minimal tulips, but we did see some new sights. Like this field of green veggies. And this really …
I'm privileged to have my birthday in April. I love being a Spring Baby, when the garden wakes up from its winter slumber, leaves and buds show up on our trees, and our chorus frogs begin singing in the holding pond across the street from our house. Last year, I planted a little Hydrangea bush …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #193: (Re-)Birthdays
This past weekend, my husband and I took a stroll in the Narbeck Wetland Sanctuary, a little oasis of nature directly across a busy street from the huge factory where he used to work. We came upon a tree that had fallen over completely, its base and roots perpendicular to the ground. In the lower …
I have a bit of a problem with today's topic. It sounds to me a bit like "earth worship". I have always appreciated how God put us on the most beautiful planet known in the Universe. I appreciate how wonderful our planet is, and the fact that we humans are at the top of the …
I am just getting used to black and white again, trying to see my color photos that way. There are some scenes that just cry out to be black and white. Like these clouds. I took this photo through the windshield of our car on the highway. Here in the rainy Pacific Northwest, it's often …
Continue reading Sunday Stills: #Daylight in Black and White
