Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #303: Connections

All the individual blooms on my Birthday Orchid are connected by the branches from which they spring. My birthday was in mid-April, and I have taken photos of it from then until now, watching all the individual blossoms open from buds. This was the day I received it, at the hotel where Hubby and I …

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What I saw on my little drive through the Skagit Valley

Yesterday afternoon, before meeting up with an Internet "friend I hadn't met yet", I took a little excursion through the Skagit Valley.  The day was gray, and the clouds were spitting rain occasionally, but the roads were quiet and I was able to stop in the road to take pictures without causing anyone to have …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 136: Subjects starting with the Letter “S”

So.....  In a month characterized by a nationwide Snow Storm, that left Streets Slippery with Snow and ice, where do we begin? How about with a triple-S photo:  Song Sparrow in the Snow, taken just last week. And how about his Snow-buddy, our Squirrel? From a prior year, a Snowy Street, right in front of …

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