This gull is not as cheeky as the parrot(s) in Michelle Weber’s original WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Cheeky post, but it still has its own measure of attitude. At the very least, this gull makes me smile.
Category: Photo Challenge
Weekly Photo Challenge: Repurpose
This week’s theme made clear to me why this piece of art holds such charm for me. Seen at Scappoose Bagel.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Repurpose
Weekly Photo Challenge: Graceful II
Ornamental grasses strike me as elegant and graceful: swaying mildly in breezes, never clunky; softening hard edges through gentle curves of stem and plume.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Graceful
Taken at The Dalles Readiness Center.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Graceful
This challenge was a bit difficult for me – only because it was hard to narrow it down. Ben, in his WordPress post, says this about gracefulness: “Gracefulness is a tricky quality — it manifests itself as an effortless, subtle harmony between a subject and its environment.”
I often find this harmony at the beach…in the motion of the waves, for instance, or in the architecture of one of the many bridges or in one of Oregon’s beautiful lighthouses. Finally, though, I settled on this walkway, outside Newport’s Visual Arts Center. Until I read Ben’s post, I didn’t realize that one reason this spot appeals to me is the effortless harmony between the lampposts and the walkway: they are part and parcel of it. 
The rhythm, repetition, and scale of the lampposts, as well as the material from which they are made, fit in perfectly with their location near the ocean, with its own rhythm, repetition, and scale. I want to go back.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Graceful
Weekly Photo Challenge: Ambience
Ambience is the atmosphere of one’s surrounding environment….Things like light, temperature, smell, sound, and sometimes taste, all work together to create ambience. ~The Daily Post, Jeff Golenski
The grounds at this restaurant create exceptional ambience. Yes, there is warmth and light, but the ocean right at its edge provided instant ambience for me.
Color Your World – Orange
This is my entry for Jennifer Nichole Wells’s Color Your World – Orange Challenge. This is my first entry in her series of challenges.
On a trip to Ashland, Oregon, last summer, I seemed to see orange everywhere.
I do love orange; it’s such a happy pop of color!
Have a wonderful weekend!
xoxo
Carol
Weekly Photo Challenge: Curve
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.
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
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
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.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Abstract III
After finishing a sweater last night, I gave it a good long soak to relax the fibers. So thrilled to have it done! And it fit so well with the theme of the weekly challenge that I had to share it: Abstract 3.
knit equals joy 