Our living-room with the owner, Kikyo, guarding our presents. Merry Christmas! https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/now/
Out-of-the-ordinary Christmas music
I am a Jew who loves Christmas music. All year round, my internal tape has carols playing. Since 1991, I have collected CDs of unusual Christmas music. I try to buy something new each year, and I have accumulated quite a collection of those outdated compact discs. My collection ranges from medieval and Renaissance music, …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Gathering
This gathering happens six times every year, the first three weekends in December, in the town of Leavenworth, Washington. Leavenworth is "Washington's Bavarian Village", and right at dusk on Friday and Saturday nights, the Tree Lighting happens. Hundreds of visitors literally hold their breath, waiting for the switch that turns the town into a winter …
A Momentous Decision…And No Regrets
In 1977, I was 28 years old. I had been married for four years, and my husband and I lived in Seattle fairly happily. I was a hospital pharmacy technician, and he was a transformer winder for a company that made industrial transformers. Neither of us really knew what we wanted to be when we …
This is What.Is.Wrong.With.Seattle
The title of the story on the KOMO news web site is Watchdog: SPD Needs Big Mayday Reforms. In Seattle, MayDay every year brings out the Anarchists, masked and destructive, breaking glass in store windows, and other acts of vandalism. See this picture-this is what the Seattle Police Department is faced with EVERY MayDay! See …
Weekly Photo Challenge…Eye Spy
Can you find the well-camouflaged creature in this picture? He blends in with his surroundings very well (which Nature probably designed him for). He was on the grounds of the visitor center at Garden of the Gods park in Colorado. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/eye-spy/
Welcome to Winter at Calling-all-Rushbabes
New header, and it's snowing again at Calling-all-Rushbabes. Wear a warm coat, and enjoy!
Weekly Photo Challenge : Transition..Building..to Ruin..to Building
In the town of Bury St. Edmunds in England, the Abbey buildings have been crumbling for centuries. From the original stone buildings, ruins. Local residents pulled stones from the monastery ruins. To build new dwellings. Modern residence, built right into the ruins of the 11th Century Abbey. How did the monastery become a ruin? From …
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Properly Grateful…Joy of Giving
I like to think that I count my blessings every day, not just on Thanksgiving Day. This year, I've had numerous occasions to reflect on the manifest blessings in my life, and my country. I was fortunate to be born in the United States of America, which has, since its founding in the 18th Century, …
Le Jour de Gloire est Arrive!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg237J9JGxo This past week, Hubby and I were fortunate enough to attend the World Men's Squash Championships in Bellevue, Washington. He went all week, and I attended the quarter-finals Friday, semi-finals Saturday, and exciting Final match on Sunday. There were players from all over the world. South Africa, Egypt, USA, Canada, Finland, Pakistan, England, France, …
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