Category Archives: weekly photo challenge

Two Suns ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Extra-Extra

After a storm, an illusion of two suns slide behind Waldron and Saturna Islands. Photo taken from Beach Haven ~ Orcas Island, WA ~ USA.

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Room In The View ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Room

I have always loved being outside, especially when spring warms into summer. Over the thirty years I have worked to landscape my grounds, making special places for conversation and gathering has been a priority. These photos, taken at my retirement … Continue reading

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Chestnut Backed Chickadee ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Split-Second Story

Once again it is June, and we have a family of Chestnut Backed Chickadees on the feeders.  There are two fledges who cling to any surface they land on, while their parents snag  beak-fulls of suet and rush to feed … Continue reading

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Vining ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Twist Again

How plants climb and entwine to gain a spot in the sun is fascinating. Here are a few from my gardens, twisting their way skyward.

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Treble Clef ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Twist 1

Glass has enchanted me since I learned about millefiori paperweights while working in retail sales with Alan Zell, in Portland, Oregon. Under his tutelage, I came to understand the complex process of glass-blowing, and the intricate beauty that can be … Continue reading

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Bridge ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ On The Move

On a recent trip home from Long Beach, WA, the weather cleared enough for me to take a series of shots of the Astoria-Megler Bridge.  Located fourteen miles (23 K) from the mouth of the Columbia River, it is the … Continue reading

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Baby Ducks ~ Spring ~ Weekly Photo Challenge

When I was a kid in Wenatchee, Washington, as soon as the weather permitted, Mom and Dad would break out the fishing gear.  With the boat secured on top, we’d all scramble into the pickup and head to the nearest … Continue reading

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Rainier ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Letters

My Oh My!  

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Slo + Fast = Faster! ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Looking Down

This is the view from the second story of Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) looking down at my friend from college days, Al Young’s, 1970 Dodge Challenger Drag Racer in which Al won a long list of local … Continue reading

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Greatness and Sacrifice ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Monument

It was 1960, I was eleven years old and had traversed 3,000 miles across the USA with my family in a station wagon hauling a travel trailer.  We started in the middle of Washington state, and landed in Boston.  During … Continue reading

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