Sorry, I just couldn't resist the urge to put a couple of keyboard diagonals in the post title! Even the "number or hashtag" sign is made up of diagonals. Nature presents us with diagonals all the time. This shrub-steppe hillside in Eastern Oregon presents an obvious diagonal against the sky. For that matter, the clouds …
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Everything in our world has texture. Even thoughts can have texture, even if they can't be seen. Just last night, I captured our soft, shiny black cat on her high perch. Her coat is as soft as mink. Then again, she has so shredded the carpet on her tree that its texture has changed from …
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I have a few favorite trails, here in beautiful Western Washington State. The nearest, and probably least-known, is the Narbeck Wetland Trail, which is right across a major thoroughfare from the biggest building (by square footage) in Washington, an aerospace factory. The trail winds through wetland ponds (when there's not a drought-this year was very …
The destination for our road trip was Boise, Idaho. It had been a while since we had been there (2013). The convention hotel was located in the center of downtown Boise, and during the conference we didn't venture very far outside the hotel. I did notice a few interesting items in the vicinity, however. This …
I decided that it would be fun to add some photos of my state of Washington, from our recent road trip to Idaho. Both ways, we drove down Highway 823, the Yakima Canyon Road, a more scenic route than the Interstate. The hills rise on both sides of the canyon, framing the sinuous, wide, shallow …
Here are some seriously mysterious photos. Some are almost eerie. This one was just meant for Halloween, wasn't it? Will a pirate ship materialize out of the fog? This really was scary. At the top of Logan Pass, on Going-to-the-sun Road in Glacier National Park, the construction left absolutely nothing between that rock wall and …
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We have just returned from a road trip to Boise, Idaho for a Hillsdale College Economic Forum. My readers know what Washington looks like already! Here are some photos from Eastern Oregon, on I-84. Holey Stump, Batman! Seen in Pendleton. The Blue Mountains, snowy near Baker City. My favorite Shrub-Steppe Terrain near Baker City. More …
You know, it does help to live in a place with mountains on all sides, like we do in Western Washington. To the West are the Olympic Mountains. This photo was taken years ago, from the deck of a Washington State Ferry, just shy of the Kingston Ferry dock on Puget Sound. To the East …
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I have managed to capture many of life's fleeting moments in my backyard, with my iPhone 13 Pro. What has more fleeting moments than most? That would be birds. Every moment is fleeting for them, and they do not concentrate on any one activity for more than a moment, because they always have to keep …
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Like Tina, I am no flower expert, so I often don't know what a flower is called when I see it. But I always try to get photos of new flowers, and new versions of old ones. I think that my very favorite flower is the azalea that my real estate agent gave me for …
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