~ Wordless Wednesday ~ Beach Critters & Birds ~

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq
Praying Mantis (Mantodea)
Maybe Thayer’s Gull (Larus thayerii)
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Cooper’s Hawk (Accipiter cooperii)
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

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

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge 117: A Photo Walk ~

Posted on October 8, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

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.🐾

Lens Artists Challenge#117: A Photo Walk

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~ Wordless Wednesday + Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge ~ Farm Animals & Pets ~

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

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~ Report from the Edge of a Continent ~ Sun+Ocean ~

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq
Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate uncharted waters.🐾

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge 116 ~ Symmetry ~

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

Vertical Symmetry

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.🐾

 
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~ Wordless Wednesday ~ American Crow ~

Posted on September 29, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

Corvus brachyrbynchos

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

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge 115 ~ Inspiration ~

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

 

Inspiration from within ~

a fire that animates spirit

to express sensations 

thoughts

emotions.

 Informed by life

 music, poetry, stories

paintings, drawings, photography, dance

motion

color 

light

trees, flowers, birds

snails, butterflies, bears


running rivers, tranquil lakes 

surging oceans

sky

sun 

moon

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

Lens-Artists Challenge #115 – Inspiration

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~ Wordless Wednesday ~ Midnight Rune Writer ~

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

Alloniscus perconvexus

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918 2020

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

Friends since high school, judi and I have fought the battles of body autonomy and reproductive rights throughout our lifetimes. Her words resonate within my hollowed-out-by-it-all sense of loss.

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And then Ruth Bader Ginsburg died.

And before anything else it was a visceral blow back to the time before our bodies were our own. To the times of relegated to, not slavery but owned just the same. To the Mrs. Doug Clark of it all, loving or not beside the point. To the not being spoken to directly of it all and with the permission of one’s father or husband of it all, to the “Of course you don’t want to do that, Dear!” of it all. To the anything for a son of it all, to the silent until spoken to of it all, to the barefoot and pregnant of it all; to the no mind of one’s own of it all.

To the not so long ago of it all.

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~ Report from the Edge of a Continent ~ Brown Pelicans Return ~

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

A colony of about 100 Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) were gathered along the shoreline when Jello and I took our morning walk, September 14, 2020. What a joy to watch them flying above the waves, swimming in the splash and swash of surf and snacking upon a pod of fry.

With a 6’6” (2 meter) wingspan these magnificent creatures had my rapt attention.

Due to the fog and my adherence to staying at a distance, the photos are muted and a bit fuzzy. Still, the energy and communal affability of the colony is perceptible.

By September, breeding adults are molting out of their bright summer colors into a white crest that stretches from their crown down the nape of their long neck. Juveniles are grey brown with white breast feathers.

Fun fact: gulls sometimes perch on a pelican’s head and steal fish right out of their mouth!

These two pairs were at the forefront of the colony, leading me to think they likely are elders of the group.

“Poetry in motion.”

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

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