I have started keeping my big camera (just a Canon point-and-shoot) on my kitchen table, so if anybody shows up in the back yard, I can capture him. Well, yesterday I got a good one! My favorite little Townsend's Warbler showed up, and I got in a couple of great shots of him on the …
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #130: It’s a small world
This week's theme is Macro/micro photography, and perhaps these photos don't qualify, but they were taken this afternoon, with my iPhone XR camera. Once again, we went on an excursion to Uwajimaya, our excellent local Asian grocery store. I am always fascinated by their wide assortment of exotic fruits and vegetables, and I just took …
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The River is High
On Sunday, I took a drive. On the way back, instead of driving down the freeway all the way home, I decided to take an alternate route, a road that leads to a riverside park, along the Snohomish River. We have had very heavy rains for the past few days, and I knew the river …
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #129: Favorite images of 2020
Since I consider 2020 to have been the worst year in my 71-year life, let's get the bad stuff out of the way first. In 2020, we underwent the worst government-imposed denial of individual liberty in living memory, when our state governments locked down entire states, preventing millions of citizens from earning their livings, and …
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New Years Day at the suet feeder
In our backyard, we have two suet feeders. One has an extension on the bottom for large birds like woodpeckers to rest their tails while feeding; the other is a standard cage feeder with no extension. At both feeders, we get numerous different species, including flickers, a Bewick's wren, juncos, nuthatches, chickadees, and a Townsend's …
When I was 71, it was a Very Bad Year. The Year of “Closed” and “Canceled”
...a year of record-low unemployment, and job opportunities for ex-prisoners and black and other minority workers...until it wasn't. A year of thriving small businesses, after-work drinks at our favorite Chinese restaurant, and ample overtime work due to a full order book at my aerospace job...until it wasn't. Quite quickly, 2020 turned into the Annus Horribilis. …
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Washington State’s Marine Highway
Better known around here as the Washington State Ferry System, which connects the Puget Sound mainland cities of Seattle, Edmonds, Tacoma, and Mukilteo with the numerous islands in the Sound, and the Kitsap Peninsula, and even Canada. Thousands of island residents commute via ferry daily, either walking on or driving their cars. And every year …
Have another Very Harry Christmas
Welcome to Christmas time at Hogwarts Castle. Harry Potter's first Christmas at Hogwarts was perhaps his first, real Christmas of his life. He had been mistreated by his only living relatives most of the time, and had no idea of what Christmas was all about. [Editorial comment: There is no mention of anything really religious …
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #127: Precious Moments
I've had a pretty long life, at age 71. I've been through two marriages, multiple careers, dozens of jobs, many layoffs, a fair amount of therapy, and years of education. This year, the Plague Year, has had its share of precious moments, especially, for me, those moments when I chose to defy the first actual …
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #126: Alphabet, Subjects beginning with the Letter “A”
This week's challenge turns out to be more difficult than I had anticipated. I had lots of subjects in mind, but then thought a little harder. With all the very upsetting things happening in our Nation this year, I have decided that, for me, the most important "A" subject must be, America. At age 71, …
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