Kikyo is looking up through the clerestory window high up in the east wall of our family room. She sat like that for 15 minutes without moving a muscle, waiting for a bird to appear in the vine maple tree just outside the window. One never did. Waiting in vain. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/waiting-2017/
Category: Nature
A Weekend at Jazz Port Townsend
Back in March, Hubby and I attended the After Midnight Gala auction for the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, a wonderful jazz Big Band. At that auction, we bought a weekend package that included two nights of lodging, and tickets to Friday and Saturday concerts, the weekend of July 31. Port Townsend is across Puget Sound …
Ooh, Shiny! Look at that cool bird! (Edit: see below for addition I just couldn’t resist)
I love bird-watching, and when I'm outdoors I try to find them. But sometimes, when I'm doing something else, one will catch my eye. This guy was on the roof of an accessory dwelling in the back yard of a friend in Colorado. What a place for a feeder! We were surprised when a family …
Photo Challenge…Elemental…Water
Here in the Pacific Northwest, we live nearly surrounded by water. In Western Washington, anyway, you are rarely more than a mile from some body of water or other. Lake Washington, Puget Sound, the Green River, the Snoqualmie River, and Silver Lake are minutes away. No two bodies of water or rivers are exactly the …
Photo Challenge…Textures
It seems counter-intuitive for a plant to be both soft and prickly at the same time. This Arizona cactus, at progressively-closer views shows two entirely different textures. Seen from relatively far-away, it looks soft, with rounded curves. Seen closer-up, the big spines look pretty dangerous, and the plant looks like you wouldn't want to get …
Photo Challenge~~~Unusual
Varied Thrushes and Robins are ground-feeding birds. They are carnivores, and everyone has seen or heard of robins rooting around on the ground for worms. I caught this Varied Thrush on the fence in my back yard. He looks indignant, and I think this photo cries out for a caption. Can my readers supply one? …
Photo Challenge, Collage. One Natural, One Man-Made
I love living in the Pacific Northwest, where the abundant rain contributes to a profusion of plant life. Here in the temperate rain forest ecosystem, life grows in many layers. Green growing things have other growing things on top of them. Take this tree, for instance, at Rockport State Park, in the foothills of the …
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Photo Challenge: Delta…Transitions and the Passage of Time
In the Inside Passage, the strait separating Vancouver Island from the mainland of Canada and Alaska, there is an intersection, where the protected waters of the Passage are met by the rougher waters of the North Pacific Ocean, between islands. You can actually see where the waters meet, because they form a whirlpool with rushing …
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Photo Challenge……Transient
If a huge thundercloud isn't transient, nothing is. We outran this one in Iowa in the summer of 2010, on our way to Hillsdale College in Michigan. It nearly caught us when we stopped for lunch, but we got to our destination before the storm broke. I took this picture through the front windshield of …
Photo Challenge – Order – All Lined Up
See the differently-colored punts, all lined up on the banks of the River Cam, in Cambridge, England. They are just waiting for some people to come along and rent them for a lazy trip down the slow-flowing river. Perfect for a summer afternoon. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/order/
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