The little azalea bush that my real estate agent gave me in 2000 as a housewarming present has been outside my front door since 2001. I was worried at first that it might not bloom this year. Thankfully, I was wrong. It is blooming! Isn't it beautiful? Here's a closeup. This just made my day …
This week's topic is tailor-made for me. On my computer, I have an album dedicated to photos of clouds. Here in the Pacific Northwest, the sky is as apt to be covered with gray clouds all winter, and they are never the same one minute to the next. But when Spring arrives and the gray …
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In my travels around my city, my state, and other states, I keep my eyes open for interesting "public art". These days, you find public art in some of the strangest places! Like the transformer boxes you find outside buildings, apartment complexes, and along roads. New painted boxes are popping up daily, it seems. And …
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When I tried to pull into a parking space at a grocery store, I found it already occupied. I gave up the space to the Ducks.
There is a place not too far from where I live, which immediately conveyed a mood. It is a large parcel of land that, at some time in its history, was flooded. The entire parcel is still mostly under the water, and is filled with dead trees. This place says "desolation" and "despair" to me. …
Yesterday I took a break at work, and went for a walk in the wooded area on the south side of the business park. Here are photos. The path in front of me The path behind me Big log covered with moss We live in an old temperate rain forest, so most trees get a …
This will just be a quickie. On Sunday, as it happens, we took a little road trip up US Highway 20 to North Cascades National Park. It's still pretty early in the year, and the highway isn't fully open yet. But it was open as far as our favorite destination, the Diablo Lake Overlook. We …
Yes, it's that time of year again. The entire month of April is the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. Due to the onerous Health Nazis instilling fear in the population, the Festival was canceled in 2020 and 2021, regardless of the fact that the festivities are all outdoors. This year, Mother Nature was not very cooperative, …
Thanks to my iPhone 13 Pro, I am now always ready with a camera, when a likely subject comes into view. It's fun to capture scenes that seem to just have been waiting for me to come along and capture them. I got this one at my local outlet mall. The display of old sewing …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #246: Still Life
We live in Western Washington, but one of my favorite environments has always been rural Eastern Washington. On this side of the Cascades, it's often wet and rainy, with gray cloudy skies for most of the fall and winter. Eastern Washington is much drier, with brown, rolling hills. Eastern Washington grows wheat, hops, and, increasingly, …
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