
Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate uncharted waters.🐾

Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate uncharted waters.🐾
The past few days have been stormy here in Long Beach, Washington USA. Sometimes the cloud formations are stunning, and especially so when the sun peeks through. For this week’s challenge, I offer a series of Silver Linings – signs of hope, as cases of coronavirus continue to rise and we anticipate a leadership change in my country.

“There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
Leonard Cohen

“Once you have been in the dark, you learn to appreciate everything that shines.”
Zachary K. Douglas

“We are the silver lining in any and every dark cloud we could ever find. There is no need to go looking for the light when you bring it with you.”
Tyler Knott Gregson

“Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.”
Maurice Setter

Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate uncharted waters.🐾
Thank you Anvica, for this opportunity to feature the beauty of nature all around us!
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #122: The Sun will come out Tomorrow



Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate uncharted waters.🐾
For this week’s challenge I took an extended look back through my archives. Although one photo is a repeat, my goal was to provide fresh images.

On our drive to Long Beach we cross over the John Day River at a point where there is a small community of boat houses, which became the subject of an afternoon photo adventure.

When it’s not shrouded in fog, North Head Lighthouse is visible from the beach where Jello and I walk. The mist was just burning off when I took this shot.

The view out to the Pacific Ocean from inside the North Head Lighthouse is one of my favorites.

This Escargot captured my attention as it glided across a pathway. Both foreground and background are blurred, keeping our attention on the snail with its lovely crown.

You can barely see her, but that little black figure at the top of the path is Jello!

I’ll finish with this striking photo of a mature Bald Eagle letting me know to keep my distance!
Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate uncharted waters.🐾




Walking through wind and rain this morning of November 3, 2020, I send prayers of thanksgiving to my fellow citizens;
you who stand in long lines
masked and socially distanced
wending your way to the voting booth.
Thank you for caring,
thank you for your courage, your tenacity
your belief that your vote and voice matter.
Quietly, as I gaze upon a stormy Pacific Ocean, from my heart across our vast country, I send blessings twined with an appeal;
that we accept outcomes rendered
from a full count of our votes,
and be guided toward
a renaissance of healing.







blue-moon sets at sunrise
all saints lower to skyline
dip under ocean
all souls rise once more
into a brilliant new day
Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate uncharted waters.🐾






Lens-Artists Challenge #120 – What A Treat!



Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate uncharted waters.🐾
