The theme this week is "you choose", so in this era of fear, loathing, pestilence, and tyranny, I choose to go through the archives and find pictures of winter wonderlands I have seen. One benefit of a blanket of snow over the world is the muffled silence it brings. Fewer vehicles are on the streets, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #178: My choice; Winter Wonderlands
In our technological world, we beat back the darkness with copious artificial light, enabling us humans to utilize 24 of the 24 daily hours we are given. In fact, there are groups who mourn the zillions of lumens of artificial light that our civilizations pour into the sky. Personally, I prefer to celebrate the fact …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #166: Artificial Light
I never take our wonderful world for granted. Wherever I go, I pay close attention to my surroundings, on my own level, and above and below me. That is why, today, I am linking to another of my own posts, here at Calling-All-RushBabes. Check out "I've looked at clouds from both sides now", below. Just …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #153: Wonderful World (in two posts)
For Christmas Eve, a sampling of December photos from my library. A Merry Christmas to all! This year, in my own neighborhood. Found at a local market last week. Seen near Silver Lake, about a mile from our house. Seen at our local Asian market. It's a wonder that these exotic fruits are grown right …
It's December, isn't it? Normally, December is filled with parties, and lights, and presents, and snow, and song, and bells, and family celebration. This year, most of those things have been canceled. Due to government pandemic rules, Christmas concerts are not held. Normally, each year on the day after Christmas, I grab my violin and …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #128: Holidays (slightly re-imagined)
First of all, let me say that the Government-required "lockdown", mandating that free citizens of the United States remain at home under modified "house arrest" has affected me, personally, only minimally. I am employed in an Essential Industry, Aerospace, and I have been going to my job at my company's factory every single workday, except …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Challenge #110..Creativity in the time of Covid
I like Winter. I went to Minnesota to grad school in the early 1970s, and I quickly decided I much preferred winter to summer (98 degrees, 98% humidity-ugh!). In Minnesota, winter is bitter cold, with temperatures as low as -45 at night, but the sun is shining most days. There's no more beautiful sight than …
Leavenworth, Washington is a favorite destination for us, and to get there the road parallels the Wenatchee River. The river roars through the Tumwater Canyon, meanders along the foothills, and flows through the town, in one end and out the other. The river is never the same way twice, but it is always a beautiful …
Continue reading Variations on a theme..the many faces of the Wenatchee River
2017 was highlighted by travels, to various destinations to meet with friends, and to get re-acqainted with old (in both senses of the word) friends. Here are my favorite highlights. In February, Hubby and I traveled to Phoenix for a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar. This was our third trip to Arizona with the Hillsdale …
Continue reading Final Photo Challenge of 2017-Favorites-Travels with/to Friends
Hubby and I had the entire week between Christmas and New Years off work. On Wednesday, we got in the car and drove over the Cascade Mountains to Leavenworth. Here are a couple of pictures I took from inside the moving car. Stevens Pass Ski Area. On our way back in the evening, there was …
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