Autumn has always been my favorite season. Warm weather does not agree with me, and I prefer the crisp air of autumn to heat and humidity. Here on the West Coast, we don't have the hardwood forests found on the East Coast, but we do get some of the fall colors. We went to Victoria, …
Category: Nature
Tulips, and more Tulips
In a normal year, the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival takes place during the entire month of April. Washington State's Skagit Valley is the world's second largest producer of tulips and bulbs, outside of The Netherlands. There are a couple of large growers who open their fields for the festival; they charge for parking across the …
Lens-Artists Challenge #105-Spring
Spring. The first sign is the gradually, gradually, lengthening days. Still awaking in the dark, but driving home from work in daylight. Here in the Pacific Northwest, Spring is normally pretty rainy (yeah, the cliche about April showers bringing May flowers that we all know and love). But we actually love the rain here, because …
Lens-Artists Challenge #104-Summer
First, a little musical introduction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWSiMhEkFVk For some reason, this song plays pretty often on my internal tape. In the summer of 2010, Hubby and I took a three-week vacation, and drove from our home in Washington State to Michigan and back, for a Hillsdale Hostel. We took the Southern Route to get there, through …
Lens-Artists Challenge #103-Surprise
A surprise is something unexpected, exciting, thrilling. On our Hillsdale College cruise to Hawaii in 2018, we had a few hours in Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. We were taking a rest in a pleasant little shopping center, deciding where to go next, when I happened to glance at a tree behind me, …
Photos
I have not had nearly enough opportunity these days to get outside with my camera. So I thought I'd go back to the archive and find some of the photos that I'm fondest of. Here are some. For some reason, this photo of the Potholes Reservoir has been the most popular photo I have ever …
Lens-Artists Challenge #102 – A Quiet Place
In this very noisy world, where you are always surrounded by man-made sounds, it can take a long search to find a really quiet place. It also depends on how you define "quiet". Can a quiet place have people in it, or do you have to be alone to have quiet? Can you be indoors, …
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Power. The Power of Nature.
Can you watch this, and not know that Nature is more powerful than you are? This is a source of the inexpensive hydro-electric power that we in the Pacific Northwest rely on. That river flows day and night, summer and winter, with no interruptions. Flow is heavier when fed by Spring runoff when mountain snow …
Lens-Artists Challenge #100-The long and winding road.
When I see a road, I usually wonder where it leads. On our travels in the Pacific Northwest, Hubby and I pass many freeway turnoffs with roads down which we have never traveled. On the way to Mount Vernon, there is a freeway exit marked "Starbird Road", and I have always been intrigued by the …
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #98-Delicate Colors
Others have mentioned that life is fragile. This blogger begs to differ. On our Planet Earth, not only is Life not fragile, there is no niche anywhere on Earth that is not occupied by some form of Life. Living things have been found from the deepest deep-sea trenches under the oceans, to the volcanic craters …
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