Tag Archives: being

Gossamer Wings – Weekly Photo Challenge (fleeting)

Who doesn’t love watching a beautiful butterfly?  They flit and float, land on flowers to sip, lift and fly away on gossamer wings.  From brightly colored Swallowtails to sheer white Pale Beauty Moths, they are another life form that I … Continue reading

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Beach + Beagle = Fun!

How long has it been?  We kept asking one another as we drove over the Lewis and Clark Bridge across the Columbia River from Longview, Washington to Rainier, Oregon, following Route 30 West to Astoria.  At least fifteen years we … Continue reading

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Through the Past, Darkly – Self-Portrait Weekly Photo Challenge (Background)

It was long after those halcyon nights with our Cliff House friends drinking pitcher after pitcher of beer at The Goal Post Tavern, punching quarters into the Juke Box to listen to another round of Honky Tonk Women or Jumpin’ … Continue reading

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Escape

The first summer after I started my career in education (1983) I insisted Creighton and Itake a vacation.  We spent three wonderful days in August, on Orcas Island, and bicycled San Juan  and Lopez Islands as well.  The next year … Continue reading

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Going in Circles (Weekly Photo Challenge: Patterns)

If you read my blogs you know I am a naturalist and plant devotee.  In thinking about the weekly photo challenge – patterns – my first impulse was to put together a mosaic of various forms I notice in the … Continue reading

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green on blue (weekly photo challenge: up)

Earth Day dawned cold after a cloudless night.  As the sun warmed the air and earth, I ventured out for a walk in my neighborhood with my husband Creighton, and beagle Josie.  There was one dab of a white cloud … Continue reading

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earth + sun (weekly photo challenge ~ change)

These photos were taken on the northwest shore of Orcas Island, Washington, USA.  Camera:  Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ47  No enhancements, no filters, just cropped and sized.

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on being

my hands pull out the dead shrub I pour water into a hole in the earth plant a life form birds twitter above clouds swirl the universe opens in a heartbeat stories around night fires over centuries and generations seek … Continue reading

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