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!
I'm always on the lookout for patterns in the natural, and man-made world around me. And I am always thankful for my trusty iPhone 13 Pro which is always with me to capture intriguing patterns, since you can never know when something will catch the eye. Yesterday afternoon, I had a bit of shopping to …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #229: Perfect Patterns
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
Once again, we drove up to the Skagit Valley to see the vaunted tulips which were still not blooming the last time we went. And today was the perfect time, with dramatic skies, on-and-off rain and hail, and beautiful light. This corner of the valley produces potatoes and other vegetables. That plowed field in the …
Hubby and I took a little spur-of-the-moment trip up to the Skagit late this afternoon, to see if the tulips were out in all their splendor. It was heavily overcast and threatening rain all afternoon. We saw minimal tulips, but we did see some new sights. Like this field of green veggies. And this really …
I got lucky, having been born in April, just when the flowers are blooming, temperatures are slowly warming, and the chorus frogs are in full voice in the pond across the street. Our backyard is starting to look more like a garden and less like a bare field. The birds are back at our feeders, …
Continue reading Lens-artists Photo Challenge #143-Colorful Spring
Today's challenge is a "You pick it", and being that it's April 4th, I decided to make my post about April. April is the first full month of Spring, and the lengthening days bring out so much new growth in all the plants around us, you can't help but notice. For me, the most important …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #142: April Foolin’
Spring. The first sign is the gradually, gradually, lengthening days. Still awaking in the dark, but driving home from work in daylight. Here in the Pacific Northwest, Spring is normally pretty rainy (yeah, the cliche about April showers bringing May flowers that we all know and love). But we actually love the rain here, because …
Today is officially Day Four of my two-week furlough from work, due to the economic effects of the Wuhan Coronavirus. Last Friday just before noon, we were told that our aerospace manufacturing factory was shutting down for two weeks, due to a falloff in business, including customers pushing out and cancelling orders. For the purposes …
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I admit it. I'm a Pacific Northwest Chauvinist. I believe that I live in one of the most beautiful places in the USA. We are never more than 2 hours from the ocean, or the mountains, here in Western Washington. Here are some of my favorite, beautiful, places in my corner of the Earth. …
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