Living here in the Pacific Northwest, we are simply surrounded by blue and green. Washington is the Evergreen State for a reason! Driving down Highway 530 on the way to North Cascades National Park, tall trees line both sides of the road, and the late afternoon light makes them look more than one shade of …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #149: Cool colors, blue and green.
On Sunday, Hubby and I went to our very favorite park, Tumwater Falls Park in Olympia, which is a long way from our home in Everett. The park was closed much of last year, but has now re-opened, and we could hardly wait to get there! Well, the park looked even better than it did …
Hmmmmm... I said to myself. This one will be difficult (imagine the Sorting Hat talking to Harry Potter). What is a spot? A place (garden spot, a picnic spot); a stain on your clothes or your hand (Out, out, Damned Spot! said Lady MacBeth); or just something roundish. And, what is a dot? A period …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #148: Spots and Dots
I just posted two new videos over at Rumble. Both are from our trip to South Dakota last year. Links below. Let me know here how you like them! You need to be a Rumble member, so you can comment and like them there. Thanks! Video #1, This is America Video #2, This is America
We live just south of the North Cascades National Park, so we take day trips up there a few times a year. The highway through the park is closed all winter, due to the high elevation, heavy snowfall, and less need (there are two other cross-state highways for big trucks to use). The road just …
I admit it, I have ten brown thumbs. I am not fond of yard work, and know very little about plants, or gardens. But I know a pleasant garden when I see one. If I can keep my mind off all the backbreaking work involved in maintaining a garden, I find them quite relaxing. The …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #147-Gardens, old and new, near and far
Hubby had an appointment in the little town of North Bend, in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains this afternoon, so I went along with him. It had been a couple of years since I'd been there, and there's an outlet mall right on the way, so he dropped me there on his way to …
Continue reading A trip to the outlet mall is very depressing
Our Tennessee trip ended on a pleasant note. We made it to the airport in plenty of time, turned in the rental car, checked our bags, and sauntered over to our gate to wait. It turned out that their PA system was out, so the poor gate agents had to shout instructions. Through their masks, …
On April 25th, my husband and I flew from Seattle to Nashville, for a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar, and to do some sightseeing and meeting with our friends from Ricochet. I had the window seat, and I was fortunate to be able to see the ground for most of the four-hour flight. You want …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #146-Focus on the Details: Flying cross-country
Flight means different things to different people, and it can signify many modes of travel. But it's always travel. Both my husband and I worked in the aerospace industry, before we lost our jobs to the government shutdowns last year. He worked for "big airframer company" for 40 years. When a brand new model was …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #144: Taking Flight
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