First off this week, I have to disagree with one of the quotes Tina used in her post (link at the bottom). The quote stated that all noise is "waste". In my opinion, it depends on how you define "noise". Is the soft plashing of a creek considered noise? Or is it a pleasant, relaxing …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #323: Sounds of Silence
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 …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #314: Shorelines
Magical has different meanings to different people. For me, the most magical thing I have experienced was the three weeks I spent in Cambridge, England, in the summer of 1991, on a UCLA summer program. I had read about it for years in ads in the New Yorker magazine, and I finally decided that I …
Asymmetry is pretty simple for me to find. I just step out the back sliding door, and I find my two small Japanese Maple trees. Both are studies in Asymmetry. The one that I planted first, just after I bought my house in the summer of 2000, is named "Fluffy" (by my husband). It was …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #274: Asymmetry
So, this week's challenge mentions once-in-a-lifetime events. Visiting an erupting volcano is about as once-in-a-lifetime as it gets! On our cruise to Hawaii in 2018, we were treated to an after-dark experience when the cruise ship hovered about a mile offshore the Big Island of Hawaii, and we get all the sensations of a volcano …
Today's theme is aroma, and pictures that lead you to remember the #aroma of something. So, I will start with an aroma that is one of my very favorites: the salt tang of the sea. Since salt water is never more than a few miles away from our home in Everett, Washington, we are …
Continue reading Sunday Stills: What might that Pacific Northwest #Aroma be?
Our topic this week for Cee's Fun Foto Challenge is Wood. Knock on wood. The most important wood object around our place is this. This is my 1987 David VanZandt violin. It is as much a work of art as a musical instrument. Its top is made from close-grained Sitka Spruce, and its back is …
Ahhh, getaways. When you're retired, you can schedule a getaway whenever you want, since every day is a weekend. However, I just had to do this one first, as a response to Tina's photo. Hers was the outside, and mine is the inside of the Denver airport. In 2015, we went to a Hillsdale College …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #157: Getting away
One of my favorite things to do when I'm out and about is bird-watching. I have a 1960s Roger Tory Peterson Field Guide to Western Birds, and I keep a "life list" in the back, checking off the birds I have seen. I especially like traveling, and seeing birds that we don't have here on …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #97 – Pastimes
The week after Memorial Day, I took a solo trip to the Olympic Peninsula, to use up some vacation hours, and get away from the constant stress of work. I jumped in the trusty old RDX (old, from 2008), drove onto the Kingston Ferry (where the fare-taker asked if I was really a senior!), and …
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