After the Hillsdale seminar was over, and the Ricochet folks had dispersed on Wednesday night, we had a day to visit Nashville proper. For the first time that week, we slept late on Thursday, and when we awoke, it was raining pretty hard outside. Not that we are not used to rain! We live in …
Last Wednesday, April 28, was our big Ricochet Meetup day, and it started in the morning when Phil Turmel and his wife Patricia picked us up at our hotel for the drive to Lynchburg and a tour of the Jack Daniels Distillery. Stad and Neutral Observer were already in the big Suburban, so Ray and …
Continue reading A big dose of Freedom (and whiskey): Nashville Ricochet Meetup
Last week, we flew to Nashville (see Photo Challenge post for flight pictures), for a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar, entitled "Educating for National Leadership". Now, we are longtime supporters of Hillsdale, and we always look forward to these two-day seminars which include dinner, lunch, a reception, and a range of nationally-recognized speakers. We combined …
Continue reading Nashville Trip: Hillsdale National Leadership Seminar, and a taste of Liberty
On April 25th, my husband and I flew from Seattle to Nashville, for a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar, and to do some sightseeing and meeting with our friends from Ricochet. I had the window seat, and I was fortunate to be able to see the ground for most of the four-hour flight. You want …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #146-Focus on the Details: Flying cross-country
There is a place, which I have only known about since 2007, which has become in the intervening years, very dear to my heart. That place is Hillsdale College, in Hillsdale, Michigan. The College has been in existence since 1844, celebrating its 175th Anniversary in October of 2019. Besides being an exemplary Liberal Arts College, …
Continue reading Lens-artists Photo Challenge #145: Getting to know you.
Flight means different things to different people, and it can signify many modes of travel. But it's always travel. Both my husband and I worked in the aerospace industry, before we lost our jobs to the government shutdowns last year. He worked for "big airframer company" for 40 years. When a brand new model was …
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Today's challenge is a "You pick it", and being that it's April 4th, I decided to make my post about April. April is the first full month of Spring, and the lengthening days bring out so much new growth in all the plants around us, you can't help but notice. For me, the most important …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #142: April Foolin’
Here in the Pacific Northwest, we have a varied terrain, ranging from the high Cascade Mountains splitting the state North to South; and lowlands in the West, going down to the Pacific Ocean. Today, there are signs of Spring from both places. First, The North Cascades Highway (Highway 20) runs from the small city of …
Nature designed the world geometrically. We just build on that natural geometry. However, Nature doesn't use very many absolutely straight lines, so one way to spot a man-made structure is to check for straight lines. Just a few weeks ago, on one of our day trips up to the Skagit Valley, I happened upon a …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #141: Geometry
Life is full of Special Moments, if you will only open your eyes and notice. It's all in how you look at things. Just this past week, I was in my computer room, writing a post for this blog. When I write, I am pretty much oblivious to most of what's going on around me, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #139: Special Moments
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