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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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Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above – Whirling Vortex

It was our first day in San Diego.  My older sister, Diana, and I were visiting our younger sister, Lori.  We arrived in the early morning.  Knowing we would be tired but eager to see the sights, Lori suggested we … 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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green + light (weekly photo challenge: color)

White has no hue; it is the color we see when we look at light which contains all the wavelengths of the visible spectrum, at full brightness and without absorption.  Substances appear white because their surfaces reflect back most of … Continue reading

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