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Silver Cedars – Weekly Photo Challenge (Masterpiece)

Trees are my totem.  I love to be with them, in them, around them, under them.  Here is a photo taken at Crater Lake National Park of Silver Cedars; majestic survivors, temples in their own right.

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Splash! Weekly Photo Challenge (Show Me Fresh!)

On mid July afternoons the temperature rises into the nineties at Crescent Creek in the high desert wilds of Willamette Pass, Oregon.  To refresh ourselves, my sister and I would sit on this log then soak & float in the … Continue reading →

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Crescent Creek Dawn = Weekly Photo Challenge (The Golden Hour)

Crescent Creek flows into Crescent Lake which is 5000 ft. above sea level at the summit of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon, USA.  This photo was taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMCfZ47 camera using the indoor sports setting.  It captures … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Companionable

He still asks me why I waited for him that first date when he was twenty minutes late.  I sat in the lobby of the all-female dorm, sure he would show.  At eighteen, I’d never been stood up in my … Continue reading →

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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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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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