Lindy Low LeCoq

~ Wordless Wednesday ~ Beach Sights ~

Posted on January 27, 2021 by Lindy Le Coq

Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate onward. Mask-up and stay safe.🐾

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 131: Emotions ~

Posted on January 24, 2021 by Lindy Le Coq

Once again, I find myself posting to the challenge of over a week ago, even though the photos were selected and waiting for me. Being secretary of the Board of Directors for our Condominium Association, my week has been filled with preparation, meeting and today, finishing up the meeting minutes. Still, I want to add my offering to Patti’s fun subject!

Complete concentration at thirty feet up.

Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate onward. Mask-up and stay safe.🐾

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #131-Emotions

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~ Wordless Wednesday ~ Upon Reflection ~

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Lindy Le Coq

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #130: It’s A Small World ~

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Lindy Le Coq

My offerings today are close-ups captured

with either my Panasonic Lumix or iPhone.

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Lens-Artists Challenge #130: It’s a Small World

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~ Sore Loser ~

Posted on January 14, 2021 by Lindy Le Coq

There is something in me longing to no longer feel compelled to express my dismay and disgust with the current US President. I have held it in four years. Soon, it will fade. Not soon enough, but soon.

©Lindy Low Le Coq - 1/14/2020 ~ Sore Loser
 

 “…a sore loser never goes down well in the history books.” Neil Katyal
 

 We have been patient
 we waited our turn during
 four years of fractious rule 
 until the 2020 presidential election.
 

 We stayed patient,
 waited hours in lines
 to cast our votes 
 to end his tenure.
 

 We knew he would tantrum
 kick up a fuss, blame others 
 and lie when he lost. 
 We knew he would not go easy.
 

 We knew he pandered to the
 base - his amalgamation of worshipers;
 white supremacists, rogue evangelicals,
 conspiracy theorists - consumers of his lies.
 

 We were warned by his threats,
 his behavior, by his very nature,
 this man who claimed to always win
 would be a damn sore loser. 
 

 We could foretell his messy end from
 daily disasters he created the past four years.
 It comes as no surprise his followers obeyed
 orders to deny, disguise and desecrate. 
 

 We have been patient,
 we have waited for this moment
 when a person true to the rule of law
 will become our next president.
 

 The lie machine will hang around 
 believers will stay by his side
 as he licks his wounded ego.
 He/they will not go away.

 We can chose to ignore him, 
 to withhold attention that excites
 fantasies which will swirl within him
 until the day he dies.

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~ Wordless Wednesday ~

Posted on January 14, 2021 by Lindy Le Coq

Adult Bald Eagle *Haliaeetus leucocephalus*

Semipalmated Plover *Charadrius semipalmatus*

I believe this is a Northern Harrier *Circus hudsonius* (Juvenile males have pale greenish-yellow eyes/Cornell)

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~ I Pledge Allegiance ~

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Lindy Le Coq

For the past three years I have made every effort to express my social opinions in other arenas, as I know not all my followers see things as I do. However, after the events at my nation’s capital January 6, 2021, I am compelled to offer my poetic take. Those who do not like political opinions – you have been duly warned!

Once again, history swirls in the winds of today, 
as a mob of white supremacists 
feeding on the ego of their Svengali, 
churned by his propaganda 
invade the United States Congress: 
     violate her decorum 
     defile decency 
     disgrace their country.

Once again, I watch as untethered terrorists
clothed in ragged flags of the confederacy,
wrapped in the name of a mobster feigning to be president,
ostensibly in the name of personal freedom,
breach the bounds of propriety:
     trample our constitution
     vow loyalty to one man - their absolute ruler -
     "Fight for Trump! We love Trump!"

Once again, I am appalled and sickened as this demagogue
wheedles, flatters and beguiles his followers;
"We will never give up. We will never concede."
"You're stronger, you're smarter...you're the real people."
"Today is not the end. It's just the beginning."
     "...we're going to walk down to the capital...
     and I'll be there with you...
     to cheer on our brave senators...to take back our country."

Once again, witnessing social madness unfurl on a flat screen,
I affirm to myself - this is not my America - 
not the United States of America I grew up pledging allegiance to.
As chaos at the Capital is contained and order restored,
as leaders press to finish the business of our nation tonight,
     I pray we can contain the madman
     at the helm for yet another thirteen days
     I pray we will restore order and decency to our nation.

©Lindy Low Le Coq, January 6, 2021

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~ Wordless Wednesday ~ Beach Walk ~

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Lindy Le Coq

Adult Western Gull and 1st. winter Western Gull, *Larus occidentalis*

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #129: Favorite images from 2020 ~

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Lindy Le Coq

In mid-March, Creighton, Jello and I were enjoying time at our condominium at the Breakers in Long Beach, when Washington Governor Inslee, issued a stay in place decree. We compared the coronavirus case-count/death-count for Clark County (145/8) and Pacific County (0/0) and decided to stay right where we were.

While the weeks and months spun out, we felt blessed to be in this beautiful wide open expanse of marshes, dunes and beach. Winter faded to spring, bringing a wide array of migrating and nesting birds to the area.

Walking to the beach and along the shorelines every day, I had many opportunities to photograph resident Bald Eagles. On rainy days I only had my iPhone camera, yet even with it I was able to get shots I liked.

On Memorial Day weekend, Pacific County was approved to open at phase two, and we headed back to Vancouver for the summer. In September, we returned to the Peninsula for extended stays and continue to do so to the present.