One of our favorite day trips, here in Northwest Washington State is a ferry ride and drive to the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge on the Olympic Peninsula. In the afternoon on Friday, we headed down to the Edmonds Ferry Dock, to take our ferry ride to Kingston on the Kitsap Peninsula for the first leg …
Sometimes, you just have to see life in black and white. Most of the time, there are myriad colors all around you, so you can get jaded. I am in no way any kind of professional photographer, and these days most of the pictures I take are with my iPhone. So the pictures for this …
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..to the Flag, of the United States of America And to the Republic for which it stands. One Nation, under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All. We hung out our new flag today. The enduring symbol of the United States, the Greatest Nation on God's Green Earth.
While eating my lunch today, I happened to look out the back glass door into the yard, and I saw a scene of destruction. So I went outside and looked closer. Someone, or something, had tipped over the birdbath, draining all the water and knocking over the stand. The blue float rested some distance away. …
In 2020, every single town in Western Washington cancelled their Independence Day celebrations, parades, and fireworks shows, due to Government restrictions on "gatherings" of people. Even outdoors, the risk of spreading the Wuhan Coronavirus was too high to let the people celebrate perhaps the most important holiday on the calendar in America. This just added …
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When you live in the Pacific Northwest, you can be "on the water" in moments, from most places. We have the Pacific Ocean, Puget Sound, and numerous lakes and rivers within a short drive. Silver Lake is less than five minutes from my house, and I never get tired of taking pictures of it. Its …
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Thanks loads to my friend, photographer Cee Neuner, for hosting these fun FOTD challenges. For the Wet Grass challenge, I just had to go out to the back yard and water the plants. Now, we don't have a lawn in the back yard, since I decided I'd rather have something that looked more like a …
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I like flowers, but no way can I grow them. The azalea bush below has grown near my front door since I moved into my new house in June of 2000. My real estate agent gave it to me as a housewarming present, and it has flowered most years since then. Not bad, for …
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There are certain benefits of being retired, one of which is being able to take day trips on weekdays, when destinations may be less crowded. One of the most popular photos on this blog has been a picture I took many years ago, from the Deception Pass Bridge, which connects Whidbey Island with the Washington …
This week's theme is one that I actually think of quite often. If I see something picturesque, I normally try to capture it more than once, from two angles, or zoomed in/out. Most things are beautiful in multiple ways. Take the big pine tree I captured last week along the Wenatchee River. Standing right at …
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