First of all, let me say that the Government-required "lockdown", mandating that free citizens of the United States remain at home under modified "house arrest" has affected me, personally, only minimally. I am employed in an Essential Industry, Aerospace, and I have been going to my job at my company's factory every single workday, except …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Challenge #110..Creativity in the time of Covid
The same Sun shines on us all. Everyone on Planet Earth gets their sustenance from the same Sun. That Sun shines over Alaska, as well as over the Hawaiian Islands. I spent two years in Minneapolis in grad school, and I especially appreciated that sunshine in Winter, when it was bitter cold. In 2016, Hubby …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Challenge #109 Under the Sun…Around the West
A sanctuary is someplace you want to be. It's often a quiet place, or a less-quiet place with no one else around. It's a place to retreat to, when you have had your fill of the honking horns, boomy bass coming from someone's hot-rod, or just backups in traffic. Not far from my home is …
I like Winter. I went to Minnesota to grad school in the early 1970s, and I quickly decided I much preferred winter to summer (98 degrees, 98% humidity-ugh!). In Minnesota, winter is bitter cold, with temperatures as low as -45 at night, but the sun is shining most days. There's no more beautiful sight than …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Challenge #102 – A Quiet Place
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 …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Challenge #100-The long and winding road.
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