Leya has invited us to show our favorite hideaway this week. As it happens, I have two special places to relax, write, read and think. When we’re home in Vancouver during the summertime, my hideaway is under a bower near the pond/waterfall feature in our back yard. The first photo below, features sunlight filtered through a sprinkler that is refreshing the garden and pond.
When we’re at Long Beach, Jello and I share the big barrel chair in the corner, where I can see out the picture window and sliding glass patio door. With my laptop nearby, and a candle warmer to keep my café au lait warm, I snuggle into the chair, often with Jello tucked in beside me. We are replacing the chair with a new, equally accommodating one soon. Jello can hardly wait!
Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate uncharted waters.🐾
I’ve loved animals all my life, and though my childhood dream of being a Veterinarian didn’t materialize, I did turn into a pretty good dog-whisperer.
Jello is the fifth Beagle we’ve welcomed into our family. She was four when we were blessed to become her forever home. This Christmas she will turn 10. What a lot of fun she continues to be!
Are we there yet?I smell a deer!I can see you, but you can’t see me Mr. Squirrel.Rabbit hole.Stinky poo.I am NOT a water-dog.Eclipses make me uneasy. Bring back the sun!I’m outta here!It’s hot, and I gotta pee.
Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate uncharted waters.🐾
It was overcast and gray when Jello and I took our morning walk the other day at Long Beach, Washington. Looking back at the berm where we leave the Discovery Trail and enter the beach, a rugged cross marks the place.
Leaving the Discovery Trail, a metal salmon sculpture provides a handsome bike rack.
A few Sanderling, crow and gulls worked the shoreline this morning.
It was a very low tide which left wonderful designs in the sand. I especially liked how this Razor Clam shell influenced the water flow and sand formation as the tide receded.
When I come upon “found object art” like this, I’m pretty sure some creative spirit has engineered it!
On this morning, tracks were as close as I came to seeing the Black-tail Mule Deer that live on the peninsula.
Earlier in the week these dune grasses were filled with flocks of Cowbirds migrating through.
Western Asters (Aster ascendens) bloom all summer into fall, creating lovely visual highlights of lavender across the meadow.
Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate uncharted waters.🐾
Sometimes when the sun comes up, light reflecting on raindrops in clouds creates elusive rainbows. If you look closely you will find one in this photograph.
I love the simple, yet elegant vertical symmetry in the stained glass window detailing of this church.
Long Beach at low tide, looking south toward North Head.
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Horizontal Symmetry
Fishing on Odell Lake, this view of trees and their wavy reflections mesmerized me.
Though not a “mirror image” the top and bottom of this closeup of frosty dune-sand is compelling.
Two male Mallards are resting side-by-side with their beaks tucked under their wings, facing in opposite directions and centered in the shot. My best example of both vertical and horizontal symmetry in one image.
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Radial Symmetry
Radial symmetry is all about lines diverging from a common center.
Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate uncharted waters.🐾
Walking With Eagles is a collection of original poems and photographs by Lindy Low Le Coq. A lifelong naturalist, amateur photographer and bird enthusiast, Lindy’s verse, composition and photographs open a window into the essence of her subjects. Her poems and photography reflect the rich natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest.
Bald Eagles mature over the course of five years. Walking With Eagles invites the reader to take a poetic and visual tour of this odyssey.
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Lindy Low LeCoq 