The Lotus, Part II

A touch of the East in Seattle's Green Lake. Do you remember the lotus I showed you from India?

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THEME DAY---GREEN pastures...

Green the pastures are, after so much spring rain.


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Berries!

Yum. Colorful and certainly good, though I didn't buy any that day.

ABC Wednesday: xanthocyanopsy

I don't know what you do, but when ABC WEDNESDAY comes around, I just go through my photos and find one that fits. Or I make it fit, like I did this one of a pair of stockings and stocking covers that I spied at the Pike Place Market. XANTHOCYANOPSY is defined as "a form of color blindness in which only yellows and blue can be perceived." So a woman suffering from XANTHOCYANOPSY would love these. Come to think of it, she would like any stockings that strike her fancy, I guess, since she'd only be able to see those two colors.

Oh, well. Like I said, I just make the photo fit. :)

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Not a truffle

Not even a glazed jelly doughnut. This is some sort of white/orange fungus, growing on a log in Hamlin Park in Seattle. Bibi is however, sniffing it with her 'truffe', the French word for both a dog's nose and a truffle!

Accessories for the fashionable biker

Rather than sneak a shot as I usually do, I asked this biker if I could photograph his fancy jewelry and tattoos.. He said, "Sure, but first you gotta listen to the stories that go with 'em." So I did, but they're too long to relate here, albeit REALLY interesting.

Sunday Bridges: shades of Monet

I used the Gimpressionist oilify tool on my GIMP photo retouching program to create this sort-of Impressionist bridge. I see now I could have upped the percentage of brushstrokes, but this was a first try!

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Reflections Weekend--I want one....

Oh, I want one, too. This is my friend Jenny and her husband Chris (discreetly on the left) and Jenny's, yes, Jenny's alone, 1959 Rambler Metropolitan.

I want one.

Do you remember Jenny and Chris from this photo?

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SKYWATCH--Enter Only....

...and never be seen again? Lots of pretty blue evening sky here in Seattle, in the real heavens and in the windows.

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You and me against the world...

I felt sorry for this mother duck. All she had with her was this one little duckling...

ABC WEDNESDAY "W" is for "Water Drops"

Splash, and I gotcha! My son-in-law, who recently purchased the same camera as I have, and I have been practicing taking photos of water drops. I'd always thought this was really hard to do, but we followed the directions in the recent edition of Petersen's Photographic fun projects and it wasn't hard at all. You can also find instructions online.

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