Posted in Nature, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Pacific Northwest, photography, The Coast, Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Details

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Sea Kelp & Sea Foam

There is so much color, light, and reflection to be seen in a close-up view of sea kelp, ocean bubbles, and sand.  I never tire of the ever-changing ocean landscape, and up close I find it even more intriguing.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Details

Posted in Cannon Beach, Nature, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Pacific Northwest, Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Look Up II

Cannon Beach, Oregon
Cannon Beach, Oregon

I’m not sure what the sky was doing that night, but we were all looking up!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Look Up


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Today is my one-year anniversary on WordPress
Posted in Nature, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Salem Oregon, Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Look Up

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Minto-Brown Island Park, Salem, Oregon

Sometimes your point of view makes all the difference.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Look Up

Posted in Nature, Oregon, photography, Salem Oregon, Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday: Evening Sky

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.   ~Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

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Remarkable sky, Sunday night.

 

Posted in Nature, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Pacific Northwest, photography, Salishan, Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Jubilant

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Wild daisies, with open, trusting faces, dance freely in coastal breezes – jubilant.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Jubilant

Posted in Nature, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Photo Challenge, Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Earth

Here’s my contribution to this week’s photo challenge, Earth. It’s a bit of a macro view…I find it interesting to see all of the things that “earth” comprises.

Earth
Taken in Sisters, Oregon

Photo Challenge – Earth

Posted in Nature, Oregon, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Abstract II

Abstraction II

I love how the play of color, reflection, light and shadow create an abstract image. Taken at the Salmon River in Oregon.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Abstract

Posted in Nature, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, photography, Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday: Hood River

A brief Wordless Wednesday this week, thinking of one of my favorite places – full of outdoorsy adventure, awesome weather (dreaming of the summer heat at the moment), gracious residents, and a terrific yarn shop – Hood River.

Moss on Rock

Bison

Ducks

Sunlight Hood River