Long-legged beauties
WPC: Anticipation
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of December 16, 2016. This week, share a photo that says anticipation. A candid shot of your niece, eager to blow out the candles on her birthday cake. A photo from the trip you’d long dreamed of. An image of something you hope to have one day, or something that was worth the […]
Not just turkeys
Have you ever heard that witty comment, “It’s hard to soar with the eagles when you’re surrounded by turkeys”? I guess you could say I felt a little bit like that on my hike the other day; everywhere I went I seemed to run into mobs of wild turkeys — and they weren’t too thrilled to see me, either. And then, […]
Memory Monday, Week 4
I’m a little bit late posting this week due to arriving home from my trip yesterday and having to do 4 loads of laundry while fighting with a sewer line blockage. I also had to run over to my mom’s and retrieve the bag I accidentally left in her car last night; it contained my wallet and ID, plus a […]
Big Love
To the Riverside Metropolitan Museum, Part 2
Inside the museum… Traditional baskets: Modern Native American art pieces: Natural history displays: Small details:
WPC: Tiny
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of November 11, 2016. In this week’s challenge, show us tiny. Capture something at a smaller scale. Create your own miniature scene. Or experiment with the tilt-shift technique — Instagram and other apps have this built-in tool. You can also interpret the theme in other ways by capturing your favorite tiny […]
Suburban Deer
As I’m sure I have said before, the American River Parkway is an amazing green space in the middle of sprawling urban and suburban development. To quote from a wonderful little book titled The Lower American River, Prehistory to Parkway: It preserves a precious open space greenbelt through a largely metropolitan area with a population of more than 1.3 million […]