#WordlessWednesday: Salt and Sky


Part of Wordless Wednesday, where a picture tells the story.

2024 in Review


As I mentioned in a previous post, 2024 will go down as the year of least travels. As of today – December 31, 2024 – there are less than 1,200 photos in my Lightroom library taken in 2024. That’s a over 50% in reduction from 2023, so that should tell you something.

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Silent Sunday: Saddest Snowman Ever Lived


CFFC: Colorful Buildings


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Silent Sunday: Festive Red


Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #329 – Last Chance


Happy Sunday! This week, for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #329, marks the final Lens-Artists Challenge of 2024, thus it’s the last chance to showcase any photos that didn’t make it into the photo challenges of 2024.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #328 – Winter


Happy Sunday! This week, for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #328, John from Journey with Johnbo reminds us that we are approaching midwinter and that winter will be staying for the next few months.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #327 – 5 Elements


This week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge’s theme – 5 elements – hosted by Sofia at Photographia, had me a little stumped, which was why I put it off (that and procrastination got the better of me) until Monday. The 5 Elements are consisted of Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Metal/wood, hopefully I will represent them well in my post.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #326 – This Made Me Smile


Happy Sunday! What makes me smile? I guess we’ll find out as Ann-Christine from Leya hosts this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #326 with this exact theme.

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#SundayStills: Monthly Color Challenge – #Brown Trees


A photo of a fallen tree trunk covered in snow taken at Bryce Canyon National Park in December 2023

Like it or not, I will always look back on that trip because so far, that trip is ranked at the top of my best trip list. This picture is a picture of a fallen tree trunk at Bryce Canyon. In the snow, it looked like something else, like a sleeping beast in the snow. Nature has its weird ways of creating art, doesn’t it?

Another one from the trip.

There seem to be quite a bit of brown landscapes. I’m pretty sure it’s just the time of year for that color to surface as the days are at its shortest and the nights are at its longest.

Surprisingly, by the time I made it to northern Arizona, I found out I get 30 minutes of daylight than I do at home. Funny how much of a difference 6 degrees of latitude can make.

Anyway, this is just a tree, somewhere along highway 95 in southeastern Utah, surviving, I guess, beside a nearly dried up river. I feel like many of us are in similar situations – just surviving, trying to get by day to day.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #325 – Gratitude


Happy Sunday! As Thanksgiving will be here in the U.S. in a little over a week, Tina is challenging us to show some photos of Gratitude for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #235.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #324 – In the Details


Happy Sunday! I can tell this week’s theme for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge is going to be a fun one as Patti is challenging us to show some details in our photos.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #323 – Silence


Happy Sunday! Egidio from Through Brazilian Eyes is leading this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge with the theme of Silence.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #322 – There’s a crack in everything


Happy Sunday! What a fun theme Ritva has presented us this week with Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #322 – There’s a crack in everything!

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#SundayStills: Monthly Color Challenge – #Black and Black and White


I saw this view from my backyard and just knew I must grab the camera for a quick picture. This was taken exactly a week ago on the night before a cold front would arrive and the make the temperature dip 20 degrees Fahrenheit – from 80 degrees to 60.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #320- Looking Back


Happy Sunday! Sofia from Photographias is hosting this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge with a nostalgic theme – Looking Back.

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CMMC: October Color – Fern Green


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CFFC: Fairly Modern Homes and Apartments #WordlessWednesday


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#SundayStills: 3 #Trees 3 Stories


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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #319 – Setting the Mood


Happy Sunday! Ann-Christine is the lovely hostess for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and the theme for #319 is Setting the Mood.

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CFFC: Old Buildings – Barns, Sheds, Houses #WordlessWednesday


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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #318 – Finding Beauty in Unexpected Places


Happy Sunday! Patti leads this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge with a challenge to find beauty to unexpected places.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #317 – Walking the Neighborhood


Tina from Travels and Trifles leads this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge with the theme of Walking the Neighborhood.

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