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~ Wordless Wednesday ~ Downy Fledgling ~

Posted on June 24, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

Mama Downy Woodpecker left – female fledge right

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Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate uncharted waters.

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #101: One Single Flower ~

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

Our host this week, Cee Nuner, is a master photographer with flowers one of her specialties. As a lover of gardens and flowers this challenge took me into my archives as there are few blossoms in my soggy gardens right now!

Cala Lily, Oriental Lily, Balloon Flower, Daffodil in snow and Wake Robin. Looking into the blossom, sideways shots, and facing down.

Hellebores (Lenten Roses) face forward, and face down.

Cala Lily and Tulip in lovely yellow tones.

Thank you Cee for your many wonderful challenges over the years!

Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate uncharted waters.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #101 – One Single Flower

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~ Wordless Wednesday ~

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #100: The Long and Winding Road ~

Posted on June 12, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

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While at the University of Washington in 1970, my husband and I joined the student protest that closed I-5, on May 5. Along with several friends, we were there to object to the illegal and inhumane war our country was waging on Vietnam and Cambodia.

Photographer – Paul Thomas – Seattle Post-Intelligencer

On January 21, 2017, with two girlfriends, I attended the Women’s March in Portland, Oregon. From his first appearance as a candidate to this very moment, Mr. Trump has made it clear he is not qualified to be President of the United States.

In the ensuing years, often I have said, “things will change in the USA, when young people are angry enough to march in the streets.” Now it is happening, and I salute those who put their feet where their heart and head are.

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We no longer accept going in circles as leadership.

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We’re sick and tired of being tangled by lame old reasons why not justice for all?

The old is unravelling, and we find ourselves on a path to a changing future.

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Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate uncharted waters.

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Thank you Tina for another soul-stretching photography challenge!

Lens-Artists Challenge #100 – The Long and Winding Road

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #99: Old and New ~

Posted on June 5, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

The challenge from Amy this week is to show both old and new in our photography.

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A hand-forged metal wagon wheel leans against a contemporary building.

Circa 1850, Chinese water bucket hosts a living plant.

Version 2 A hand carved Carousel goat (circa 1915), at the Albany, OR Carousel Museum. In the background, the painting workshop with a nearly finished (also hand carved) dragon on the left.

Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate uncharted waters.

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Sending blessings to Amy, Tina, Leya and Patti. Thank you.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge#99: Old and New

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~ American Apartheid ~ A Poem ~

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

American Apartheid–Lindy Le Coq – June 3, 2020

Four hundred years of suppression,

black men and women raped and murdered

for being.

Jim Crow still alive in

red-lined housing,

unfunded schools,

three strikes – you’re out,

stop & frisk,

skewed criminal justice system,

toxic waste dump next door,

contaminated drinking water,

low wage jobs – essential work –

(considered beneath the swollen, unearned ‘dignity’ of white folk),

and Novel corona virus, a

pestilence inflicted by an

incompetent, white supremacist president,

and a Republican Party united to resist the

fundamental rights of life, liberty and justice for all.

With the brutal police murder of George Floyd,

the web of Jim Crow unravels.

Citizens of all generations and skin tones,

no longer willing to sit by silently weeping,

instead take to the streets,

march peacefully in solidarity

to weave new cloth from the tattered fabric of our nation,

to eschew white supremacy,

…in order to form a more perfect union….

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~ Wordless Wednesday ~

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

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(All photos taken with iPhone)

Wishing everyone safe harbor as we navigate uncharted waters.

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~ Report From the Edge of a Continent ~Bellyache ~

Posted on May 27, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

From fathomless depths,

after months in her belly,

heaps of human generated trash

roil in turbulent ocean.

New moon at high tide

elicits extensive purge;

Pacific Ocean vomits

our garbage over her shoreline.

Goose barnacles, Pollicipes polymerus

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~ Wordless Wednesday ~

Posted on May 27, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

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Wishing everyone safe harbor as we navigate uncharted waters.

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #98: Delicate Colors ~

Posted on May 26, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

When the ocean roils with waves and wind, it leaves traces on the shore in a symphony of foam.

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The etherial hues of sea foam are a delight to behold.

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Light suffused through mist and spray creates a lovely blue filter on the jetty at North Head Lighthouse.

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Morning fog catches sunlight softening the dunes at Long Beach, WA.

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Survival in the wild requires blending in with the environment. A Mallard hen and her chicks are so subtly colored, they disappear into the grasses and ponds.

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