It’s been far too long since I’ve gone out hiking in the morning. I shot this picture in October 2016 along one of my favorite local trails — but I had to think for a few minutes before I remembered the approximate location. The appearance of these smaller paths is constantly evolving as the underbrush grows and some of the […]
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Wildlife. Any kind of wildlife works in this challenge from apes to zebras. Your animals can be found in their natural habitat, wild life preserves, or zoos. If you are not around live animals you can photograph them from museum displays or find statues or carvings you can photograph.
Today when I left my house to go walk the dogs, I managed to leave behind both my mobile phone and my Fitbit. Luckily, I did have my camera with me — because the only way I could tell the time was to take a picture and then check the image display. These are not the most fascinating photographs I’ve […]
This week I’m returning to Memory Monday with a small collection of slides from 1958 that my mom recently found. The images are from a camping trip my family took (before I was born) up through Northern California, Oregon, and Washington. I’ll start with the pictures from Deception Pass State Park, located on the north point of Whidbey Island in […]
There are as few as 4000 snow leopards in the wild, and their numbers are declining due to habitat loss, poaching and the impact of climate change — World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
It’s been pretty cold around here these past few days, especially in the mornings and evenings, dipping down into the area of frost and freeze warnings. The days have been mostly sunny and sometimes downright warm, enough to give courage to a few hardy and hopeful spring flowers.
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of February 21, 2018. For this week’s photo challenge, try your hand at a different type of portrait… Explore the use of anonymity to express both that which is common to all of us and the uniqueness that stands out even when the most obvious parts of us are hidden. Just as […]
In the midst of some unsettled weather yesterday afternoon, we had a cold rainstorm (in which I got drenched walking home from work!) and even a little bit of snow. Snow isn’t completely unheard of at this elevation (240 ft/73 m above sea level) but it’s certainly a rare event. In fact, at first I thought it was merely hail; […]
