I’m not sure what the sky was doing that night, but we were all looking up!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Look Up
Weekly Photo Challenge: Look Up II
Tag: Oregon
Weekly Photo Challenge: Look Up
Sometimes your point of view makes all the difference.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Look Up
Weekly Photo Challenge: Opposites
The challenge:
This week, make two opposing elements come together (or clash in dissonance) in one photo….show how opposites can tell a story about people, places, or objects. Ben Huberman ~ The Daily Post
Here is my entry for this week’s photo challenge. The smooth plane of water is the perfect foil for the highly textured flower, and the colors, nearly opposite, complete the contrast.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Partners II
A pair of wild iris on the 804 trail in Yachats, Oregon.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Partners
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
Willamette Valley Tee – Finished!
I’m doing a happy dance because I recently finished up the Willamette Valley Tee. After many months of design, redesign, knitting, ripping out and knitting again, it was a huge relief to have finished this sweater design! Whew! See postscripts at the bottom of this page for details about sizes, availability, and test-knitting.
We had a great time at the photo shoot. The countryside was breathtaking, and it was a sparklingly beautiful day. You can see the expanse of the Willamette Valley, the inspiration for the colors in this tee, in some of these photos.
It’s great to now have space freed up in my brain for new designs. I’ve just finished designing a little spa cloth for the upcoming mini summer spa swap in my Ravelry group. Come check out the group here. We will be having swap sign-ups soon!
I’ll leave you with some of the photos from the photo shoot. Thanks for taking the time to stop by!
Many thanks to Marianne for modeling the sweater and to her sister and family for allowing us to traipse all over their beautiful property. And for sending me home with homemade sushi! It is a gift to know such generous people!
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P.S. If you are interested in making this sweater, it is currently being tech edited and tested, and I anticipate that the pattern will be released in late summer or early fall. It is available in sizes 35, 38, and 41.
P.P.S. I am always on the lookout for good pattern testers. We’ve just started the test for this sweater, here, in my Ravelry group. If you’re interested, let me know. Thanks!!!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Spare
Spare:
(adjective) Additional to what is required for ordinary use.
(adjective) Elegantly simple.
(verb) To refrain from harming.
For this week’s photo challenge, I’m going with the second definition, elegantly simple. This is an outside sculpture at The Old Mill Center in Bend, Oregon. The scope, the shape, and the scale make this a stunning work.
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
Remarkable sky, Sunday night.
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.
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