I'm not a professional photographer, and I've never been to exotic foreign lands. But I am an amateur bird-watcher, starting in my own backyard. I am often to be found in our kitchen, peering out the sliding glass door, watching to see who shows up at our two bird-feeders (one seed feeder and a suet-feeder). …
Category: Random Musings About Life
The Light Within
I just took these two photos in my back yard. Both cedar trees are in the next yard over. I was fascinated by the sunlight inside the trees. Some of the inner branches are illuminated, when the outer branches are not.
Please keep my Hero, Rush Limbaugh, in your prayers.
He needs them right now. The story over at Fox News is pretty comprehensive. I have been a Rush listener only since 2001, but I can't imagine life without him on the radio. I have been a RushBabe since they were invented. I felt like I had been sucker-punched when I found out that he …
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View This Video. Share it Far and Wide. Today.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/10/02/support-our-american-heroes-by-rush-limbaugh/ This Video by my Hero, Rush Limbaugh, celebrates our First Responders, Police and Firefighters, who have been denigrated, shot at, murdered in cold blood, by the New Thugs of American Society. This has to stop. Please share this video with all your friends and neighbors, on all your Social Media, today. Do it Now. …
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A little something for all you cat-lovers out there
First of all, a favorite scene from the animated movie The Secret of Kells. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32DM5tNeHBA Next, an interesting explanation, and translation of an Old Irish Poem, about a boy and his cat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9YijEdOIsM Enjoy! The animated movie is captivating, and should be in everyone's home library. Loved by adults and children alike.
What I learned from watching the movie The Bowmakers, by Ward Serrill
This past week, I was invited by the Curtis Institute of Music, one of the world's premier music conservatories, to watch a movie about the people who make bows used by string-instrument players. Specifically, the movie profiled bow makers who live right in my neck of the woods (the Pacific Northwest), in and around Port …
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See what showed up on my front walk this morning
I thought to myself: Aren't you pretty? So I turned it over. Pretty fall colors. Life's simple pleasures.
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #117: A Photo Walk on Dungeness Spit
In May of 2019, I took a little driving vacation by myself, to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. One day, I went to one of my very favorite places in the world, the Dungeness Spit National Wildlife Refuge. I have been there dozens of times, and every time I see something new. The path …
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Instant Halloween!
This morning when I went out the front door to walk across the street to our mailbox, I noticed that our neighborhood was shrouded in fog. We have a pear tree in the yard, and on my way back home I noticed that it was shrouded in spider webs, made more visible by the fog-deposited …
Eww!
Have you ever seen a house with a worse color? This one just popped up in my neighborhood. Yuck!
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