Category Archives: pacific northwest

~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #35: Architecture ~Three Peninsula Churches ~

Along with some schools and forts, pioneer churches are among the wooden structures that have been preserved in the Pacific Northwest. For Amy’s Lens-Artist challenge this week I’m featuring three church structures that extend along a 28 mile (45 km) … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artist Photo Challenge #34: Close-Up ~

  Here are some favorite close-ups from my archives.   The photo above was taken at beach level of a piece of rusted flotsam covered in Goose barnacles, with a feather resting next to it.    The light was just … Continue reading →

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~ Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge: Isolated Objects ~

  My contribution to Cee’s Black and White challenge. I love that it is okay to have some toned-down color in this challenge. Thanks, Cee! Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Isolated Objects

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #33: Nature ~

This Lens-Artists challenge from Patti, came just as I was on the way to our condo at Long Beach, for a few days.  Rain and snow from winter storms are filling the marshland, and tree frogs were croaking when I stepped … Continue reading →

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~ Wordless Wednesday ~

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~ Wordless Wednesday ~ Valentine Dune Rune ~

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~ Lens-Artist Photo Challenge #31: Landscapes ~

Looking northeast, toward a Bonneville Power Administration wind farm on the crest of the Columbia River Gorge. On this fascinating and beautiful drive, the terrain changes from dry grassy slopes in the photo above, to steppes hosting evergreen trees and shrubs. … Continue reading →

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~ Wordless Wednesday ~ Frosted Ferns ~

 

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #30: Unexpected ~

Sometimes the weather this time of year in Vancouver, WA (USA) can be clear and pleasant in the daytime, while still getting below freezing at night. That’s been the pattern over the past week.  Though I wanted to get out … Continue reading →

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~ Cee’s Flower Of The Day Challenge ~

Often on my trecks through forests and trails I see flora that is fascinating and I just have to take a picture to commemorate the life forms I’m seeing.   Like these colonies of toadstools nestled among ferns, moss and … Continue reading →

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