Weekly Photo Challenge: Yellow

This has been a week of learning to let go of plans. It occurred to me that this photo challenge is another opportunity to respond to that lesson. I had “planned” to create a post similar to Red, Red and More Red and A Pop of Color for the Yellow challenge. I even took some pictures for it, but I’m now realizing that the “perfect” response to the challenge is one of the first photos I took!

Submitted for Weekly Photo Challenge: Yellow

Challenge Description: This holiday season, we’re throwing you a photo challenge color curveball. Many of us around the world are ensconced in the holiday season. You may be surrounded with blue and silver if you’re celebrating Hanukkah; black, red, and green, if you’re celebrating Kwanzaa; or festooned with reds and greens if Christmas is coming to your house. With this week’s challenge, show us what yellow means to you.

Photography 101: Home

Today is the first day of Blogging University’s Photography 101 course. Our assignment is to take a photo that shows what home looks like to us and to share the image in a new post.

I have several homes and have written posts about two of them (Seabeck: A Home in the Universe for Me and A Place for Me).

I will be going to India later this month, but at this moment I am in Washington State. I moved to Seattle in 1966 to go to college and have lived in the same house since 1973. A few minutes ago I walked outside. It was dark, and it had been raining. The air was cool and fresh and I could smell the fragrance of firewood burning in nearby houses. I decided to take my first Photography 101 picture of the tree in front of my house. During the time I am in the heat of India, I will remember this moment and this home.

Written for Photography 101: Home

Wordless Wednesday

Written for Wordless Wednesday and Weekly Photo Challenge: Signs

Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art

The instructions for the Weekly Photo Challenge are:

For this week’s Photo Challenge, stimulate your creative process and imagine which of your images you would like to see gracing the cover of a book, an album, or a magazine. Would the image inspire us to take a peek through the pages, listen to the music, or buy a ticket to the show? Would it strike a chord with viewers, making them reflect on or revisit memories of places, people, and experiences.

This is the photo I picked for a book cover: Continue reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art” →

Wordless Wednesday

October Surprise

This has been a summer unlike any I have ever experienced in Seattle. I think there were around 46 days with temperatures in the 80’s. While that may be normal, or even cool, for most of the country, it is unheard of here. I think the last time this happened was in 1958. Even though we are now in the last half of October, it is still warmer than normal.

I have been using my pellet stove in the mornings but haven’t turned on the house heat yet. Squash, tomatoes and eggplant are still growing in the garden.

Look at the flower I cut this morning! The colors aren’t quite as vibrant as earlier in the year, but it is still beautiful.

This is the first post written after activating a different theme (i.e. a new format, new colors, etc.). Considering changing to a new theme was part of Blogging 201: Assignment 2

Wordless Wednesday

Weekly Photo Challenge: From Out-of-this-World

Soon after I started to drive yesterday, I noticed that there were two insects on the window to the left of me, about 8 inches from my face. They did not look like anything I had ever seen before and their presence and proximity startled me. I couldn’t tell if they were inside the car or outside. Continue reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: From Out-of-this-World” →

Wordless Wednesday

Weekly Photo Challenge: Cannabis Sign

When I saw the Weekly Photo Challenge was to take a picture of a sign, I knew exactly what picture I would take. Last week, I felt stunned when I passed a huge cannabis billboard. It was my understanding that billboards advertising alcohol and tobacco were illegal. How could a billboard advertising a recreational drug be acceptable??????? It made no sense to me. Continue reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Cannabis Sign” →