So Terri gave us alternatives this week. Photos of our town, or our favorite town. I live in Western Washington, in a small city considered a suburb of Seattle. This is the waterfront on Puget Sound, just north of the US Navy Base in Everett. This is Silver Lake, just south of my house. And …
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Sorry, I just couldn't resist the urge to put a couple of keyboard diagonals in the post title! Even the "number or hashtag" sign is made up of diagonals. Nature presents us with diagonals all the time. This shrub-steppe hillside in Eastern Oregon presents an obvious diagonal against the sky. For that matter, the clouds …
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My husband and I are fortunate to live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, surrounded on all sides by water, mountains, green fields, and spectacular landscapes. We are also fortunate to have been able to travel to many other places in this Greatest Country on God's Green Earth. Starting in our own neighborhood of Western Washington. …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #227: Home, Sweet Home
Everything in our world has texture. Even thoughts can have texture, even if they can't be seen. Just last night, I captured our soft, shiny black cat on her high perch. Her coat is as soft as mink. Then again, she has so shredded the carpet on her tree that its texture has changed from …
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My back yard is teeming with local wildlife, and I try to get photos of as many creatures as I can. We have a seed bird-feeder, and two suet feeders; one with regular suet, and one with a hot-pepper suet that squirrels hate but the birds love. This pair of Steller's Jays drank from the …
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What colors are my autumn universe? Why, Red and Yellow. Everett Public Library, red and yellow. The yard next door. My backyard. My new pride and joy. Red Rover. Here's the Link to Terri's Original Post.
I have a few favorite trails, here in beautiful Western Washington State. The nearest, and probably least-known, is the Narbeck Wetland Trail, which is right across a major thoroughfare from the biggest building (by square footage) in Washington, an aerospace factory. The trail winds through wetland ponds (when there's not a drought-this year was very …
Here are some seriously mysterious photos. Some are almost eerie. This one was just meant for Halloween, wasn't it? Will a pirate ship materialize out of the fog? This really was scary. At the top of Logan Pass, on Going-to-the-sun Road in Glacier National Park, the construction left absolutely nothing between that rock wall and …
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You know, it does help to live in a place with mountains on all sides, like we do in Western Washington. To the West are the Olympic Mountains. This photo was taken years ago, from the deck of a Washington State Ferry, just shy of the Kingston Ferry dock on Puget Sound. To the East …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #222: The Mountains are Calling
I have managed to capture many of life's fleeting moments in my backyard, with my iPhone 13 Pro. What has more fleeting moments than most? That would be birds. Every moment is fleeting for them, and they do not concentrate on any one activity for more than a moment, because they always have to keep …
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