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San Diego Zoo ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Express Yourself

This challenge prompted me to review photos I took when my sisters, niece and I visited the San Diego Zoo in September, 2012. Here are a few snaps of particularly expressive birds and mammals.  

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Another Beagle Wins My Heart ~ Sunday Stills ~ Pets

On November 7, Miss Jello came to live with us from the home of a loving young owner who needed to place her right away. Two days later we hosted a family baby shower and Jello was very much into … Continue reading

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River Otter at Dawn ~Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Minimal

Another lovely scene with no photographic enhancements. Just what it looked like as I snapped the shot.  

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Nightfall ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Nighttime

This week’s photo challenge is to show nocturnal photos we like taking. No picture perfect images expected here! Quite the opposite, as light and the lack of it, is what creates the sometimes eerie, shadowy, dark or blurry images one … Continue reading

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Josie & Squeakie ~ Sunday Stills ~ Face Time

This week’s Sunday Stills challenge is all about faces.

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Crow Shadow Dance ~ Sunday Stills ~ Lookin’ Through Windows

During the wet days of early summer, a resident Crow came to drink from the rain gutter outside the window where I sit to write and read in the mornings. The off-white color block in the photos, is a solar … Continue reading

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High Cascades ~ Wide Open Spaces in Black and White ~ Sunday Stills

In the mid to late 1960’s my father, mother, brother, and family friends took our horses to the high Cascade Mountains in Washington, to hunt deer. Someone in the party snapped this photograph, looking down across a valley. The horses … Continue reading

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Baby Ducks ~ Spring ~ Weekly Photo Challenge

When I was a kid in Wenatchee, Washington, as soon as the weather permitted, Mom and Dad would break out the fishing gear.  With the boat secured on top, we’d all scramble into the pickup and head to the nearest … Continue reading

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Josie + Snow = Fun ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Threes

Yesterday a few flakes whirled through the air.  TV and radio weather newscasts warned us to prepare for several days of heavy snow ~ soon. By the time Creighton returned from gathering supplies, all the school districts in the greater … Continue reading

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First Date ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Treasure

In October, 1967, I was a freshman at the University of Washington.  Mutual friends introduced Creighton to me ~ we clicked.  On our first date he took me to the Farrells Ice Cream parlor in Bellevue.  This fragile plastic giraffe … Continue reading

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