The Crystal Symphony is a beautiful ship, and my readers and followers know my penchant for taking "artsy" pictures when I am aboard ship. Following is a group of pictures I took aboard ship, at various times on the 15-day cruise. These lockers hold life jackets and other safety gear. The bow of the ship …
Continue reading Vacation Travelogue-Hillsdale College Cruise to Hawaii-Interlude, Aboard Ship
Finally, on our sixth day out, we spotted signs of nearing land. I love transportation, and was thrilled to see a container ship on the horizon. We finally saw signs of land. Finally, we rounded the last headland and got our first glimpses of Honolulu. The famous Diamond Head, an extinct volcano that almost stands …
Sea days were lecture days on the Hillsdale Cruise, and the first two helped get us into the standard daily routine of morning lectures, lunch, afternoon lecture, and free time. Monday the 16th of July introduced us to the lecture hall, known aboard ship as the Galaxy Lounge. Here we all are that first morning …
Continue reading Vacation Travelogue-Hillsdale Cruise to Hawaii-Days Two and Three
Boy, do I miss those WordPress Weekly Photo Challenges. It was wonderful to have at least one day of each week where you had a reason to do a post on your blog. And it was great motivation to visit other WordPress bloggers' sites to see what they were up to. I got many followers …
Herewith, some Summer pictures from around the Pacific Northwest.
I am SO sad that the Photo Challenge by the editors at WordPress is ending. It gave me something to look forward to each week, and a reason to mine my photos for just the right picture. And it's so difficult to find the all-time favorite. But, since it has to be done, I did …
Continue reading Sigh…Final Photo Challenge…All-time Favorites
A couple of miles south of my house, next to a Les Schwab Tire Center, is a small wetland, populated by mostly dead trees. I have always wondered what that piece of property started out as, and how it got to be the way it is now. Last week, I took my camera and got …
Continue reading Strange Beauty-Twisted, yet Supporting Life
I practically live surrounded by water. Last week I shared a picture of the lake just south of my house. Puget Sound is just a few miles to the west, and Lake Washington is to the East and South. Back in 2016, we went on a cruise to Alaska, and I posted numerous photos of …
I was born and raised, and still live, in the Puget Sound area of Washington State, 20 miles north of the People's Republic (?) of Seattle. These photos were all taken within a 60-mile radius of home. Silver Lake, about two miles south of my house in Everett. I don't think there's any more beautiful …
Continue reading My Little Corner of the World-Photo Challenge
Here's another unlikely place for a cat. There is no good spot for her to stand to jump up on top of the door. But she got there. Sorry for the poor picture quality-I took this with my iPod camera. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/unlikely/
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