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

Minto tall trees
Minto-Brown Island Park, Salem, Oregon

Sometimes your point of view makes all the difference.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Look Up

Posted in Pacific Northwest, Photo Challenge, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Curve

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The visual balance, symmetry and rhythm at this spot created a perfect moment on one morning’s walk.

Taken at the Historic Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River, Oregon.

Photo Challenge – Curve

Posted in Pacific Northwest, Photo Challenge, Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Numbers

Numbers are all around us at home and on the street, in airports and supermarkets, on signs and on our clothes. I can’t wait to see your take on this week’s challenge — what will your numbers show? ~Ben Huberman, The Daily Post

Burgerville

The promise of a sumptuous salad replete with local Oregon blue cheese.  Of sweet potato fries.  Of just the best fast food ever.  And it was. Burgerville.

Taken during the 2015 Columbia Gorge Fiber Festival.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Numbers

 

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 Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Photo Challenge, photography, Salem Oregon, Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Abstract

Here’s my contribution to this week’s photo challenge, Abstract. Taken in downtown Salem.

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The challenge:

This week, turn the concrete and familiar into something new and mysterious.

~ Ben Huberman, The Daily Post

 

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