At age 73, I still don't think of myself as "over the hill". However, I have taken some hills in my long life. Here in Western Washington, we are hemmed in by the Cascade Mountains to the East, and we cross them often. On the way to Stevens Pass, the road winds by Mount Index. …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #218: Over the Hill
For some reason, I'm feeling very oppositional today. And I caught all these opposites on our shopping trip this afternoon! My readers will know that I am opposed to the government's insistence that we all drive electric cars, for reasons discussed in many previous posts here. I happen to live in a far-left-environmental-wacko area of …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #217: Opposites
Since our local smoke is gone, the following photos are from our trip to Montana and back in September of 2017. Glacier Park was closed, and fires were burning within a few miles of our vacation cabin. Lake Coeur D'Alene from I-90. Spokane Valley from I-90 View across the street from our cabin in Bigfork, …
Thinking back on the past three years, it occurs to me that we have pretty much stayed out of big cities, both at home and on vacations. In the last three years of Covid madness, I have only been to Seattle once, for a private concert at the new Center for Chamber Music, which Hubby …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #216: Urban Environments
Hubby said "Let's drive to Leavenworth", so we got in the car and set off, up US Highway 2, to our favorite day-trip destination, just on the East side of the Cascade Mountains. It was a beautiful high-70s day, and most of the traffic was going in the opposite direction! We were quite fortunate, and …
Ooh, this is going to be fun! I have been a transportation buff since the mid-1980s, when I spent a year as an apprentice to a transportation consultant. Whenever I see a train, I try to watch it until it is out of sight. Living in the Pacific Northwest surrounded by bodies of water, we …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #215: Planes, Trains, Automobiles and ?
We live in a part of the world that normally is deficient in sunshine. In fact, we in the Pacific Northwest are the home of the syndrome Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), which means that in the winter with mostly-cloudy skies all the time, it can get depressing. And the treatment? UV light, or artificial sun. …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #213: Under the Sun
So much of what we see around us is in motion, especially outdoors. If there is any wind at all, all the plants are in continuous motion. Birds on the wing are some of my favorite subjects to capture with me cameras; both my Canon point-and-shoot camera, and the excellent cameras on my iPhone 13 …
I gave this one a lot of thought. I'm a rank amateur, and I mostly take photos and video with my iPhone. I looked back at what subjects I most like to photograph, and that mean the most to me. I decided that waterfalls and fountains are among my most favorite subjects. I believe that …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #211: My Photographic “Groove”
I checked, and I can't find any place where dessert and desert happen at the same time. So I thought I'd highlight a little of both. Multiple times, we have gone to Arizona for Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminars. Of course, much of the state is desert, so it's really simple to take photos of …
Continue reading Terri’s Sunday Stills Challenge. Dessert? or Desert? Or both?
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