I have always liked to take photos of simple scenes, since I do most of my photography outdoors. On our way out to dinner this evening, I looked up and found the most beautiful sky, covered with the puffy white clouds you often see in stock photos. Right above our heads! And the tree in …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #257: Simplicity
As we usually do, Hubby and I headed over to the Bellevue Downtown Park for the Independence Day fireworks show. The park was wall-to-wall people, blankets, and tents. And that was only in one direction! People, dogs, kids, and vendors made themselves comfortable with their picnics and drinks, waiting for the big show to start …
Continue reading Fantastic Fourth-Fireworks on Independence Day 2023
Today is American Independence Day. On July 4, 1776, America with its Declaration Of Independence, marked its separation from England, and the initiation of the Greatest Country on God's Green Earth. In addition to becoming a country of its own, America became the first in all of human history. What First, you ask? America became …
And tourist trap. We are here for the International Accordion Celebration. Here are some highlights. Flowers in window box at our hotel Main Street at twilight Accordions at the Gazebo We had a thunderstorm yesterday afternoon, which was a welcome break in the heat. We drive home today. But we will be back soon.
Fragments are parts of things. Sometimes, you can tell what the original thing was, just by looking at the fragment. These pieces of driftwood were once trees. These fragments, all in a row, tell you that once on this beach, there was a dock for boats to tie up. This remnant is probably from the …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #253: Fragments
My friend, attorney Robert Barnes, tells us that we ordinary, tax-paying American Citizens can have an outsize influence on current affairs, when we communicate our preferences, get together online and in the real world, and let the forces of evil in our country know that WE are the basis of society, not they. We, the …
A couple of days ago, the House Oversight Committee, in a press conference, revealed that they had documents which show, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the illegal activities of the Biden Pay-to-Play Crime Family. Through multiple layers of shell companies, the entire Biden family has taken millions of dollars from a variety of foreign …
Continue reading This is the worst kind of journalistic malpractice
Here are some interesting tweets from today. I am having all sorts of fun with Twitter, and learning a lot. Thanks to Elon Musk for buying the platform and returning it to being a real public square with no censorship. https://twitter.com/GallopingGaye/status/1654279848938856450?s=20 Please. everyone, share this far and wide. https://twitter.com/Real1RipWheeler/status/1654143980345466886?s=20 Running for Governor in 2024. Ferguson …
And I use the word Reign on purpose. Below are links to stories in the local news today, to illustrate the effects of one-party rule in Washington State. Two Men Killed in Cal Anderson Park shooting identified. Growing Illegal Encampment spotted along I-5 Near U District. Encampment takes over site of former Beacon Hill Burger …
Continue reading Jay Inslee’s Washington State. The results of a Twelve-Year Reign.
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, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #245: Environments
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