Up to the highest height.
These photos are all from the International Kite Festival in Weifang, Shandong Province, China in different years. Sadly we will miss it this year.
Let’s go Fly a Kite
Category Archives: Snapshots from a Happy Life
Spring Sunshine-Far and Near
For Wordless Wednesday.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day= merry Spring
The choice of the date for St. Patrick’s day can’t be by chance. It is all about spring.
I am ready for it.
GIFing and PNGing: My Leprechaun Project
Around in London
A few pictures from our few hours in London last summer for Son of a Beach’s Which Way Photo Challenge.
A little Black and White with the tide out
Bren, at Ryan Photography, posted a low tide picture for her Mid-week Monochrome. It got me wondering what the photo I posted for Wordless Wednesday would look like in monochrome.
Sky rivers
For Wordless Wednesday
More ladies’ slippers
I’m still fixating on the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. Although we have had a few sunny days, the temps have been worthy of a refrigerator and, combined with familial stresses, it is challenging to try and break out of my winter doldrums. Sure glad I forced myself to take that one day off from winter to wallow in spring.
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Catching the light
One of the fascinating things about texture is how it interacts with light. Locally, in winter the mosses and barks take center stage, due to the low angle of the sunlight and lack of dramatic competition. In the other seasons they are just a backdrop for the brighter foliage and flowers.
I especially like how the mosses seem to magnify light. They often seem like they are emitting it instead of catching and reflecting, sort of like the full moon.
Beam me up!
An omen?!? or just a sucker hole?
I haven’t been posting much of late. Life stuff has been dragging me down of late. This tends to result in speechlessness.
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An orchid
I don’t know the name of this one. Orchids come in an amazing variety of shapes and sizes. This was one of many at this year’s Flower and Garden Show. It opened today and I went to get a breath of spring.
