birds gather on wires dark clouds gather in the sky I gather my belongings and seek shelter from the storm
Daily Post weekly photo challenge: Gathering
Gathering Storm
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B&W: B and W
Bird on a Wire
Budding Branches with Winged Warbler
Bent Buoyant Bystander Watching Waning Water
You can see the Blue Heron in blue at my prior post about Portland, Oregon’s “Blue Heron Day.”
Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge (CB&W) topic this week is “Starts with the Letters B or W.”
Four Diagonals & Two Thankfuls
This week Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge focuses on diagonal lines, with extra credit for a couple of photos illustrating things for which we are thankful.
Here are my diagonals:
First up, these clever weeds who had the wherewithal to grow in rows.
A tree splintered in a windstorm.
These branches reaching toward one another remind me of Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” frescoe. They also remind me of the rose hip jelly my granny used to make.
A caterpillar makes his escape across a railroad tie.
And my two “thankfuls:”
I am thankful that nature hasn’t given up on us. And thankful that there are numerous people and organizations working to preserve nature and repair the damage we’ve done to this planet.
I am thankful that humanity hasn’t given up on itself, and that there are multitudes of kind, caring people despite what we might see to the contrary in our newsfeeds.
Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge: Week #8 Diagonal Lines
B&W: Ghosts of Battery Russell
Unrest amidst these recent ruins,
abandoned shells of concrete rooms;
gray walls, gray clouds, gray misted woods,
dampened air of palpable gloom.
Who walks along these musty halls?
Whose shadows flit across the walls?
A voice from sometime far away…
whose name is it he softly calls?
Whispered tales of haunting ghosts:
a soldier loathe to leave his post,
a submariner from World War Two
who shelled this battery from off the coast.
Strange sightings, chills, and eerie sounds.
Some say a night watchman guards the grounds,
an infantryman from the Civil War,
lantern swinging as he makes his rounds.
Whoever within these walls abide,
be they visiting spirits from the other side,
or mere figments of imaginative minds,
I leave it for you to weigh and decide.
Battery Russell is located in Fort Stevens State Park on the Oregon Coast. For more information about the history of the fort, please visit the Friends of Old Fort Stevens website.
B&W: Patterns
patterns underfoot functional and beautiful balance sole and soul
On the Horizon
horizontal lines life sliced in tidy layers imposing order
Multiple horizons
Multiple horizons
Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge: Week #6 Horizontal Lines and Horizon
WPC: Pet Victory
The theme for this week’s Daily Post photo challenge is Victory. Victories come in so many shapes and sizes, we probably experience them in one form or another on a daily basis.
Some examples of victories:
Getting your human trained to carry you wherever you go.
Finally achieving that yoga pose you’ve been working on.
Succeeding in laying that Grade AA extra large egg.
Acing puppy kindergarten.
Mastering the piano.
And the real biggie… being rescued and finding your forever home.
“Ornate” 1880s Style
When I saw that this week’s Daily Post photo challenge was on the theme “ornate,” the first thing that came to mind was the Captain George Flavel House in Astoria, OR. Built in 1885, the home is now a museum.
I visited recently and took some photos, but I wish I had taken many more. Good excuse to go back.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Ornate
Leading Lines
leading lines entice compositional pathways eyes cannot resist
Photo Gallery. (On blog site: click on any photo to see full size in slideshow format.)
In response to Cee’s Compose Yourself photo lesson on leading lines.
Haiku Fifteen ~ On the Rise
caution when climbing don’t rise above the top rung you could lose your way
