Sights and Sounds from the 2025 Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration

This year’s LIAC was great fun, and the weather was just perfect. It was mostly sunny, though windy. The temperatures were mostly in the 70s, which was just right for wandering around town. The crowds were manageable and there was enough seating everywhere. Here are some of the sights. Beautiful flowers everywhere Thomas and Cadence …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #293: Moving Waters

I have always believed that moving water was Nature's Original Music (hmmm, should I copyright that phrase?). Before there were plants or animals on Earth, there were rivers, with the sound of rushing water competing with the sound of erupting volcanoes. If the original multi-celled organisms in the primordial seas had auditory organs, what they …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Treasures

I appreciate this week's challenge topic, because I have been prompted in more ways than one to be grateful for all the treasures that make life in our America wonderful.  It would be so easy to wallow in misery at all the country's problems, but we definitely need to step back and appreciate what we …

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CFFC: Landscapes and Waterscapes

What do you think of when someone says landscape?  The wide-open spaces of the prairie?  Big mountain ranges in the distance?  And what is a waterscape?  The ocean?  A winding river?  How about all of the above! Just last Sunday, we drove home from Leavenworth on US Highway 2.  It was a beautiful day, and …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #187: Water, Water, Everywhere

I live in Western Washington, basically surrounded by water on every side.  Silver Lake is our local watery spot. I really wish there were a walking path all the way around, but much of the lake shore is in private hands, so the path only goes around the east and north sides of the lake. …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #153: Wonderful World (in two posts)

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 …

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Over the mountains and through the snow…

To Leavenworth, Washington's Bavarian Village we go!  Last Sunday, which was bright and sunny, on a whim we got into our car and drove over the Cascade Mountains in US Highway 2, to our favorite "day trip" destination.  Hubby's Accordion Celebration, normally held on the third weekend in June will be virtual again this year, …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #139: Special Moments

Life is full of Special Moments, if you will only open your eyes and notice.  It's all in how you look at things.  Just this past week, I was in my computer room,  writing a post for this blog.  When I write, I am pretty much oblivious to most of what's going on around me, …

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