Lately, a lot of weird and wonderful things keep popping out around me. When Hubby and I walked over to Costco, six blocks away, a few weeks ago to get a hot dog for lunch, I spotted a large fungus growing in the beauty-bark by the sidewalk. I have no idea what it really is, …
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When Cee Neuner put this challenge up, these trees we saw in Maui immediately came to mind. If you're not careful, they'll get ya! The park had a bunch of big banyan trees that just twisted all over the place. Speaking of getting gotten, you don't normally think of cactus as being long and squiggly, …
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When my Hubby told me he wanted to drive up to the town of North Bend (Washington), in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, I jumped at the chance. He had told me about an event going on that involved various blues bands playing at assorted cafes in town-you would buy one ticket for the …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #170: Street Art
Nature does not do anything in straight lines. No natural feature of the landscape, or living thing on Earth has straight lines. Only we humans make straight lines. A Rabbi friend of mine says that human beings are like pebbles, and not like bricks. Pebbles have rounded outlines, and protuberances everywhere. You cannot categorize pebbles-each …
Everyone should be aware of the two huge issues in the news lately. One is the cascade of "worker shortages" everywhere, from local bars and restaurants to big airlines, delivery services, and trucking lines. Everyone is having trouble hiring enough workers, now that things are opening up everywhere after government closures of businesses due to …
I learned a long time ago to pay attention to even the ordinary objects around me, which can become extraordinary if you photograph them the right way. Even a russet potato looks interesting, with the brightly-colored background. When Hubby and I were in Michigan last month, we had meals in a big dining-room, with many …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #169: The Ordinary
Ooh, this one is going to be really fun! One of the original photos I posted on my blog, way back when, is a twisty road in Eastern Washington along the Columbia River Gorge. I have always loved the shrub-steppe terrain there. How about our kitty, curving her body to rest on our barrel chair? …
Continue reading Curvy or Arches: Cee Neuner’s Challenge for this Week!
This week's challenge, to show photos of places and things that have seen better days, could start with pictures of myself! But it won't, sorry. I will, however, start close to home. A few blocks away from my house, along the arterial street, is a house that has definitely seen better days. It's not that …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #168: Seen Better Days
At the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, we found a very convenient Starbucks at which to buy a nice drink for what promised to be an unpleasant flight (due to mask requirement, which is stupid and very uncomfortable for five hours). I was very taken with the well-done, lighted wood wall decor there. Some designer did an …
I just had to do this one, for my friend Cee, who doesn't live too far from me. Circles make the world go round (see what I did there?), and trace the roughly-circular orbits of all the planets and their satellites. Did you know that the ancient Egyptians did not use the wheel? They found …
Continue reading Circles and Wheels: This week’s Photo Challenge from Cee Neuner.
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