An Accordion? So, you're about to participate in the Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration Accordion Parade, and your bellows spring a leak. Just drop by this Vendor booth, and pick up a Spare to play! https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/spare/
Jubilant! New Photo Challenge
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/jubilant/ These Jubilant gentlemen dance and play music at the same time, celebrating Life. (surrounded by evidence of death-many of the surrounding buildings are full of bullet-holes and chips from the 1967 war)
Weekly Photo Challenge:(Missing) Face
This lady is around 500 years old, and it is unknown how she lost her face. She is carved in two pieces, and you can see the depression where the peg that held her head and face went. She represents Agriculture, and she was harvesting grain from her family's fields, to feed her family, and …
My Beautiful Pacific Northwest
I was born and raised in Seattle. I have lived all but 2-1/2 years in the Seattle area. We have the world's best climate. Temperate with a Capital T. No scorching hot summers or frigid winters. The Seattle area has the highest concentration of dentists in the US. Why? The University of Washington has a …
Weekly Photo Challenge Earth
Magnificent Earth. Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. The view from Rainbow Point shows the beautiful red-rock cliffs, sculpted over millennia by wind and water. Bryce Canyon, from Rainbow Point https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/earth/ I've been getting such nice comments, here's a fellow who greeted us at another of the overlooks at Bryce.
Weekly Photo Challenge…Admiration for a Thing of Beauty
I have always admired my violin, which I bought from its maker in 1987, when it was nearly brand new. David VanZandt lives in Seattle, and every once in awhile I take my beautiful violin home to "Daddy" for him to touch up the varnish and do any needed adjustments. I found that, once I …
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Weekly Photo Challenge…Abstract
If you're not careful, your eyes will cross and your brain will tie itself in knots, wondering what it's looking at. From far away, just a riverbank. Up close? Just don't walk down by the Columbia River in bare feet. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/abstract/
Weekly Photo Challenge…A Most Extraordinary Dinner
In May of 2013, I organized my first Seattle Ricochet Meetup, a physical meeting of Ricochet members, around a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar held in Seattle. Ricochet members are always up for a meeting, and many Seattle members support Hillsdale College. I posted an invitation on the Member Feed, and asked for advance notice …
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Thursday Thoughts
I found an interesting statement in a Wall Street Journal review of a new book of the letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, writer of the "Little House" series about her childhood in the Midwest and on the prairie. It seems that, in her eighties, she did a radio broadcast, to the "Children of Chicago", and …
Conquering my revulsion
For most of my life, I have had a revulsion reaction to people whose bodies are deformed, or whose behaviors are offensive in public. I believe this revulsion is probably hard-wired into human beings from prehistory, as a survival characteristic (others whose looks or behaviors are not "civilized" might be foes); so I'm betting that …
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