When I go for a walk in a scenic location (or even just around my neighborhood), I try to pay attention to my surroundings. I live six blocks away from my local Costco store, so if I just want to pick up a prescription, I walk there and back. [let me put in a pitch …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #163: Keep Walking
Well, it would be, wouldn't it? It's pretty hard to make photographs in complete darkness! Except that, in the film-camera era, all photographs were "made" in complete darkness! When my first husband and I were looking at the house we eventually bought, he was convinced we should buy it, by the little basement room …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #162-It’s all about the Light
Periodically, Hubby and I drive from our home in Everett, Washington to the town of Leavenworth, along US Highway 2. For years, I have noticed the roadside sign, pointing to the exit to Flowing Lake County Park. I have always wondered what was there at the park, but we were normally in a bit of …
I recently came out of retirement to work a temp job. On my first day of work, I took notice of the plantings in front of the building. It's a pretty standard industrial park building, concrete-slab walls, in the middle of the requisite parking lot. But I thought this was a pretty unusual sight in …
Continue reading Better late than never! Cee’s August 6 FOTD challenge: Berries
In 1991, I went to Cambridge, England on a three-week summer program run by UCLA. At that time, I lived in Seattle. I knew that I was going to be meeting new people from all over the US and England, and I remembered something I had read in a magazine somewhere. It suggested that you …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #159: Postcards
Before we get going down some back-country roads, let me disagree with one of the quotes that Tina used in her post this week. Liberty is not a privilege, it is one of your God-given Rights. Let's return to those unforgettable words of the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #158: Back Country Roads. Enjoy your Liberty!
Ahhh, getaways. When you're retired, you can schedule a getaway whenever you want, since every day is a weekend. However, I just had to do this one first, as a response to Tina's photo. Hers was the outside, and mine is the inside of the Denver airport. In 2015, we went to a Hillsdale College …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #157: Getting away
One of our favorite day trips, here in Northwest Washington State is a ferry ride and drive to the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge on the Olympic Peninsula. In the afternoon on Friday, we headed down to the Edmonds Ferry Dock, to take our ferry ride to Kingston on the Kitsap Peninsula for the first leg …
Sometimes, you just have to see life in black and white. Most of the time, there are myriad colors all around you, so you can get jaded. I am in no way any kind of professional photographer, and these days most of the pictures I take are with my iPhone. So the pictures for this …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #156: Black and White
While eating my lunch today, I happened to look out the back glass door into the yard, and I saw a scene of destruction. So I went outside and looked closer. Someone, or something, had tipped over the birdbath, draining all the water and knocking over the stand. The blue float rested some distance away. …
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