This year, filled with uproar, health crises, heat emergencies, corruption, as well as new friends and places; what has kept me grounded, "my Inspiration", is knowing that I still live in the Greatest Nation on God's Green Earth. The United States of America, and its great history, has been my inspiration. Even when I get …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #160: Inspiration
I recently came out of retirement to work a temp job. On my first day of work, I took notice of the plantings in front of the building. It's a pretty standard industrial park building, concrete-slab walls, in the middle of the requisite parking lot. But I thought this was a pretty unusual sight in …
Continue reading Better late than never! Cee’s August 6 FOTD challenge: Berries
In 1991, I went to Cambridge, England on a three-week summer program run by UCLA. At that time, I lived in Seattle. I knew that I was going to be meeting new people from all over the US and England, and I remembered something I had read in a magazine somewhere. It suggested that you …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #159: Postcards
Before we get going down some back-country roads, let me disagree with one of the quotes that Tina used in her post this week. Liberty is not a privilege, it is one of your God-given Rights. Let's return to those unforgettable words of the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #158: Back Country Roads. Enjoy your Liberty!
Ahhh, getaways. When you're retired, you can schedule a getaway whenever you want, since every day is a weekend. However, I just had to do this one first, as a response to Tina's photo. Hers was the outside, and mine is the inside of the Denver airport. In 2015, we went to a Hillsdale College …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #157: Getting away
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 …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #156: Black and White
..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 …
Continue reading Independence Day Fireworks-a real celebration
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