Way back in the 1970s, a favorite phrase describing something you liked was "Cool, man!" Living in a place with abundant bodies of water, and the nickname of "Evergreen State", you'd think that cool colors would be everywhere. You would be correct! Sometimes, though, you get too much of a good thing, with vegetation run …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #313: Cool colors
How do you capture time? How do you even describe time? That's a brain-breaker indeed. One of my favorite things to photograph is the wake of a boat or a ship. The boat cleaves through the water, and always leaves behind evidence of its passing. If the boat is turning, it shows you where the …
On my Photos on my iMac, I have an album entitled Spring. After autumn, spring is my favorite season, especially here in the Pacific Northwest, where winter is often gray and depressing. In my backyard, the first sign of spring is the little scrawny hydrangea I planted, getting its first leaves. Last year, I took …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #241: Spring has Sprung!
Like Tina, I am no flower expert, so I often don't know what a flower is called when I see it. But I always try to get photos of new flowers, and new versions of old ones. I think that my very favorite flower is the azalea that my real estate agent gave me for …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #221: Favorite Flowers
I don't have much of a garden, since I'm not much into yard work. But I do have a couple of plants that add some color to the front and back yards. In 2000, when I bought my house, my real estate agent bought me an azalea plant, which I added to the front yard. …
In my life, the most important thing that starts with the letter "H" is Hillsdale. Ever since we found out about the College in Michigan, which teaches Classical values, Western Civilization, and the Liberal Arts, my husband and I have been big supporters of the small school which accepts NOT ONE PENNY of government money, …
I'm privileged to have my birthday in April. I love being a Spring Baby, when the garden wakes up from its winter slumber, leaves and buds show up on our trees, and our chorus frogs begin singing in the holding pond across the street from our house. Last year, I planted a little Hydrangea bush …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #193: (Re-)Birthdays
Have you ever noticed that Nature's God abhors straight lines? Just look around you at Nature, and you will see that there are no straight lines in nature. Everything in the natural world is curved. Straight lines belong to items of human manufacture. When explorers and archaeologists are searching for signs of human habitation, from …
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