Welcome to the Glorious State of Washington

From the header photo, you can see that Washington is blessed with abundant natural beauty. From the Pacific Ocean to the Cascade Mountains to the Mighty Columbia River, God has endowed our state with every possible kind of wild and scenic landscape. Well… Maybe not all of the landscapes are quite as scenic as they …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #314: Shorelines

Living in the Pacific Northwest, we have lots of shorelines within a few minutes, or hours drive. And we have lakes and rivers, which also have shorelines, along with the oceans. The shoreline closest to me is along Silver Lake. This was early in the morning on my way to work. About 50% of the …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #276: Looking Up, Looking Down (and trying not to trip over one’s feet)

Hello, everyone.  This week's challenge is going to be great fun for me, as I am always in the habit of looking both up and down for good photos.  It's amazing what you can spot, if you look down around your knees.  We have been some places recently that had beautiful flower containers on the …

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The State of Washington: East Vs West

The State of Washington is divided by the North-South Cascade Mountains, a line of "extinct" volcanoes.  The scare-quotes are real (see 1980's eruption of Mount St. Helens).  The climate (in more ways than one) of each half of the state is dramatically different.  The Western half is known as the "wet" half, due to the …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #253: Fragments

Fragments are parts of things.  Sometimes, you can tell what the original thing was, just by looking at the fragment. These pieces of driftwood were once trees. These fragments, all in a row, tell you that once on this beach, there was a dock for boats to tie up.  This remnant is probably from the …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #218: Over the Hill

At age 73, I still don't think of myself as "over the hill".  However, I have taken some hills in my long life.  Here in Western Washington, we are hemmed in by the Cascade Mountains to the East, and we cross them often.  On the way to Stevens Pass, the road winds by Mount Index. …

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Washington State Pastoral-a break from all the ugliness

With Antifa and Insane abortion promoters firebombing women' clinics; perverts celebrating their perversion in the streets of many cities, and Supreme Court Justices being threatened with death, I thought I'd try to add some beauty to take your mind off all the filth.  Below are some photographs of my state, Washington's rural areas, whose natural …

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First day on the road. East.

Day one was a sunny cool one. First stop after leaving home was Starbucks in Issaquah for a Frappuccino. Yum!! Over Snoqualmie Pass. Snoqualmie Summit I-90 to rest area outside Ellensburg at Indian John Hill. Great view of the Stuart Range from the rest stop. Next stop at Sand Hollow on the east side of …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #164: Looking Up/Down

Thanks very much to Sofia, who echoes what I always tell my friends, photographers or not.  I make a habit of looking up, wherever I am.  Most people, when they are in a city, walk or drive along looking forward, or down at their phones (which is dangerous!).  I suggest that they take their eyes …

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