



A few of my favorite pictures from the garden in years past.




A few of my favorite pictures from the garden in years past.
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A few of my favorite pictures from the 4th of July parade yesterday.
Continue reading “The Flower Hour #37: Summer Flowers” →
Happy Sunday! This week, Beth from Wandering Dawgs leads Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #404 with a fun topic – subject begins with the letter B. I hope you enjoy my gallery of all things B.
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Continue reading “The Flower Hour #36: Lilies” →
Happy Sunday! This week, it’s John’s turn to host Lens-Artists Challenge and for challenge #403, he’s decided to focus on another set of tools for photo composition – Perspective, Depth, and Scale.
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Happy Sunday! This week, for Lens-Artists Challenge #402, Sofia is revisiting the topic of Wonder, which was posed by Patti on the first-ever Lens-Artists Challenge back in 2018. I wish I was a participant of that, unfortunately, I was not. Anyway, I hope you enjoy my photos and stories for this week’s challenge.
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Happy Sunday! This week, for Lens-Artists Challenge #401, Patti is looking back at Lens-Artists Challenge #121, which focuses on the composition of the photo. I must admit I struggled a little bit with this one but I tried my best and hope you’ll enjoy.
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Happy Sunday! This week, Tina is the host of Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and she’s put a spin on this week’s topic – The Rule of Three. Hope you enjoy my gallery.
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Happy Sunday! This week, host Egidio has offered up an exercise for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The exercise/challenge to for us to linger in place for a short time and take as many pictures as possible.
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This week, in a turn of events, I am posting my entry for Lens-Artists Challenge on a Monday. Hosted by Ritva, I am picking the color brown for Lens-Artists Challenge #398.
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As I traverse up to Seattle from Los Angeles on an Amtrak train with no Wi-fi, I want to share some photos I took two days ago from the sky as I flew from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles. There was not a cloud in sight (until I got to LA) and I got these awesome views along the way. Hope you enjoy.
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Happy Sunday! This week, for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #397, host Anne from Slow Shutter Speed is looking for texture in images. Hope you enjoy my selection of photos and stories.
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