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~ Mac’s Landing ~ Deer Lake, WA ~
Last night we stayed in Newport, Washington where my family lived from 1950-55. Since I was very young, my recollections of Newport are few and far between. Our focus yesterday, Sunday was to visit Deer Lake Resort for a picnic … Continue reading
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Self-Portrait ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Blur
sundown behind me fir before me ascending resin seeps pitch gleams
Posted in Art, nature, pacific northwest, Photographs, Poetry, weekly photo challenge, Writing
Tagged art, outdoors, photography, post a day, postaday, self awareness, weekly photo challenge
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Spring Roses ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Fresh
tender red-green leaves emerge trembling in springbreeze branches reach stretch taut issuing thorny barbs suckled by warm sun buds anticipate pure joy
Posted in Art, flowers, Gardening, landscape gardening, nature, outdoors, pacific northwest, Photographs, plants, Poetry, weekly photo challenge, Writing
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Forty Acres ~ Sunday Stills ~ Agriculture
When I was fourteen, my Dad and Mom bought a farmhouse and all the outbuildings of a once-working, family dairy farm, on forty acres just three miles south of Pullman, Washington. The work, land, people, and history remain part of … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, art, family, father, landscape, nature, outdoors, photography, postaday, storytelling, Sunday Stills
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1970 Vietnam War Protest ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Accomplishment
As this week of highlighting “accomplishment” comes to a close, I feel compelled to talk about my participation in student protests against the war in Vietnam. It was a time of passion on college campuses, and a defining moment for … Continue reading
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Tagged analysis, being, old friendships, photography, postaday, storytelling, weekly photo challenge
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Josie + Snow = Fun ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Threes
Yesterday a few flakes whirled through the air. TV and radio weather newscasts warned us to prepare for several days of heavy snow ~ soon. By the time Creighton returned from gathering supplies, all the school districts in the greater … Continue reading
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Repurposed Poems ~ Hope Wish Belief Want
Hope forever flutters like a baby bird featherless – naked will it fly on fledgling wings or fall, a soft sack of tiny broken bones – bereft. Wish is hope suspended a floating feather drifting ever closer then sailing away … Continue reading
