So Terri gave us alternatives this week. Photos of our town, or our favorite town. I live in Western Washington, in a small city considered a suburb of Seattle. This is the waterfront on Puget Sound, just north of the US Navy Base in Everett. This is Silver Lake, just south of my house. And …
Continue reading Sunday Stills: My Town, and my Favorite Town (not the same)
I've traveled to cities large and small, old and new, in my 73 years. In all of my travels, my very favorite city is an old one, a college town in England that has been settled for around 2,000 years. I first went there in 1984 with my first husband. We liked it so much, …
Continue reading CFFC: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: City Structures
This week, I want to start with a design in Nature that is ubiquitous, among things animate and inanimate. When the Original Designer finds a scheme that is simple, elegant, and effective, He tends to employ that design across species and materials. That Original Design is "branching". This is the scheme used in the …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #174: Shapes and Designs
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!
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.
I admit it, I have ten brown thumbs. I am not fond of yard work, and know very little about plants, or gardens. But I know a pleasant garden when I see one. If I can keep my mind off all the backbreaking work involved in maintaining a garden, I find them quite relaxing. The …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #147-Gardens, old and new, near and far
I guess I'd have to say I've always been a lazy photographer. When I was married to my first husband, who was an excellent photographer, besides being an engineer; I had an SLR film camera (this was back in the olden days before digital photography), but I had trouble mastering all its ins and outs, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #133: My photography journey
I've had a pretty long life, at age 71. I've been through two marriages, multiple careers, dozens of jobs, many layoffs, a fair amount of therapy, and years of education. This year, the Plague Year, has had its share of precious moments, especially, for me, those moments when I chose to defy the first actual …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #127: Precious Moments
See the differently-colored punts, all lined up on the banks of the River Cam, in Cambridge, England. They are just waiting for some people to come along and rent them for a lazy trip down the slow-flowing river. Perfect for a summer afternoon. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/order/
Ever since I returned from Cambridge, England in 1991, I have wished I could go back. There's just no other place on Earth like it. If I was told I only had a year to live, I'd pull up stakes and spend my last days in Cambridge. King's College Chapel, back side, from the River …
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