One of my favorite things to do when I'm out and about is bird-watching. I have a 1960s Roger Tory Peterson Field Guide to Western Birds, and I keep a "life list" in the back, checking off the birds I have seen. I especially like traveling, and seeing birds that we don't have here on …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #97 – Pastimes
I like to call it "Zoom-in-Zoom Out". Instead of taking one photo and cropping out the extraneous features, I find a subject and zoom closer in on it, to see the finer and many times more interesting features that might be missed in the wider view. I took these one day at our favorite day …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #96-Crop the Shot
I live in the Pacific Northwest (AKA Pacific North-WET), which is known for lots of rainfall. We do get our share of rain, but it's mostly light rain, rarely the kind of "raining buckets" that I have seen on the East Coast. Rain doesn't stop most activities-you can see kids playing soccer in the rain …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #95 All-Wet, Near and Far
The Wuhan Coronavirus stalking the land has forced the majority of us to spend more time at home (with the help of the government who orders us to stay home). My husband has been working from home for six weeks now. I was home for a two-week furlough from work. But I had good company …
I am an "essential worker" at my aerospace company (at least until May 29, when I retire), and my days begin at 0510 when my alarm clock rings (really my iPod playing Wildwood Flower). So I mostly go to work in the dark, until just lately. I captured this sunrise picture on my way in …
Thanks to Tina Schell for passing along this challenge. Since the majority of us are "sheltering in place" and not traveling, we pretty much have to post photos of places we've already visited. One of our favorite places is the Diablo Lake Overlook, on the North Cascades Highway, east of Newhalem, Washington. Hubby and I …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Challenge #92-Second Time Around (or more)
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
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