~ Wordless Wednesday ~

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

“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.

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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.

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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?

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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 ~

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.

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Circa 1850, Chinese water bucket hosts a living plant.

Version 2A 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 ~

American ApartheidLindy 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 ~

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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 ~  

     From fathomless depths,

              after months in her belly,

         heaps of human generated trash

                                                 roil in turbulent ocean.

 

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   New moon at high tide

         elicits extensive purge;

                                               Pacific Ocean vomits

                                                             our garbage over her shoreline.

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Goose barnacles, Pollicipes polymerus

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~ Wordless Wednesday ~

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Wishing everyone safe harbor as we navigate uncharted waters.

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

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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High rolling clouds catch the muted pastels of sundown, casting a lavender veil over the dunes.

 

Wishing everyone safe harbor as we navigate uncharted waters.

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Thank you Leya for a chance to feature softness!

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~ Wordless Wednesday ~

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Mature Bald Eagle feeding 

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Breeding Snowy Plover

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Handsome Mallard drake and hen

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #97: Pastimes ~

When I retired, eight years ago, my colleagues would ask me, “What are you going to do with your time?” My standard answer was that I planned to focus my energy on the creative passions I’d tucked in around the edges of life all those years!

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Writing has been a passion since high school. Over these 8 years I’ve completed three short stories, which I also illustrated with original color pencil drawings.

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Birding is a shared passion in my family. With more time to do research  and a good camera to capture images, my knowledge has grown right along with my photography archives!

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Growing up, my curiosity about natural life, flora and fauna, was encouraged and rewarded. My desire to make things using found objects goes back to grade school!

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Finding a Leather Sea Star dead on the beach (the first time I’d seen one dead or alive on the peninsula), prompted me get a shadow box and create a presentation of beach finds. Clockwise from upper left; Volcano Limpet, small Dungeness crab, Western Nassa Mud Snail, and Acorn barnacles.

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The idea of making “treasure boxes” intrigued me, and I’ve fashioned two so far.

While here at The Breakers the past two months, I’ve also expressed my passion for landscape gardening. The little garden I adopted last year has flourished, and two more are coming along nicely.

But wait, there’s more! However this is quite enough to give you a look into the other pastimes I enjoy along with keeping this blog alive and fresh.

Wishing everyone safe harbor as we navigate uncharted waters.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #97- Pastimes

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