PhotoHunt--Theme: Warm

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It's time to start the first training walks for the Breast Cancer 3-Day I will be doing in November this year. I checked on the 3-Day site for any local walkers who are sharing their information and contacted someone from my own small town. When she e-mailed me back I discovered that it was my oldest daughter's best friend from high school.

We met up this morning to walk the pathway between our town and the next. She had left her car at our endpoint and come back with her husband to meet me to start.

A warm cup of cocoa was a very welcome end to the walk, since it was definitely NOT warm outside this morning.

It was also kind of a warm feeling to know that your grown children and their friends have turned out so well.

And when we returned, she automatically after twenty years started to turn toward my house to drop me off. I had to remind her that my car was parked a block the other direction from the exit.

Maybe that was warm memories.

I have warm memories of my past walks and the friends and family who have supported the effort. Click here for my 3-Day donation site, or here for more information about the event..

Mountain Skies

From our Saturday hike

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ABC Wednesday--E is for...

My E is in the photo below. Can you see them? There are two.

This photo was taken while on a small boat cruise of Lake Periyar in the Periyar Tiger Preserve National Park in Kerala, India. And no, we never did see any tigers. They apparently don't hang out near the lake, and fortunately they don't hang out near the hotel like the monkeys do. We did see wild boar, lots of cormorants and other birds.

But what else would you find in a national park in India?

Elephants, of course.

No, this elephant was not at the national park, but at Kodiacanal Park in the hills of Tamil Nadu. It was quite a bit easier to get a picture of, as was this elephant slide at another park near a dam in Tamil Nadu. Sorry, I don't remember the name of the dam.

So did you see the elephants in the first picture? No? I didn't think so. But they are there. Those two dots on the top of the ridge.
Someday I will figure out how to get my video shots of these elephants, and of the temple elephant giving me a "blessing" off the 8mm tape and onto the computer. They are much better.

In the meantime, you will find many other Es by visiting the ABC Wednesday Linky site. And stop by to pay the ABC sponsor Denise a visit, too.

By the way, these photos are old files and will not enlarge any bigger with any clarity no matter what I do.

Odd Shots Monday--Here's Looking at you

(I've been asked for Mr. Linky. I have inserted Mr. Linky. The last time I did there was a problem with it, so please, leave both a link and a comment. That way, If I should have to remove the Mr. Linky, anyone looking for an odd shot will be able to find you.)

I think I used that title before. But this time, it's looking at you if you happen to be playing in the snow at Mt. Rainier. The webcam in the upper left pane of that window faces north, giving this view in real time.

Shots shown earlier in the Monochrome post were taken from either inside or just outside this window, so if taking a picture of the webcam is not odd enough for you, the combination seems so to me.

Color removed.

Aileni indulges his Monochrome Mania at this dedicated site, and lets the rest of us play along.


I actually removed color from only three of these, and if I hadn't told you that you would probably not have noticed the tiny bit of color in the one I left. Do you even seen it?

The primary color removed? the blue of the sky. And here I have been, moaning over our gray skies lately!
Removing the color gives an opportunity to look at other aspects of photography--such as composition. The same view above and below--which do you prefer?

In quilting we sometimes find a way to absent ourselves from the colors to see the values and how they contrast. It works in black and white photography as well.

These photos will relate to the Odd Shot post which follows later.

So, did you see the color?

Here they come...

...and there they go.
Paradise Valley Road--yesterday.

Sunday's Psalm--Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time

R. I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble , and you fill me with the joy of salvation.

Blessed is he whose fault is take away,
whose sin is covered.
Blessed the man to whom the LORD imputes not guilt,
in whose spirit there is no guile.

I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble , and you fill me with the joy of salvation.

Then I acknowledge my sin to you,

my guilt I covered not.

I said, "I confess my faults to the LORD,"

and you took away the guilt of my sin.

I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble , and you fill me with the joy of salvation.

Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you just;

exult, all you upright of heart.

I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble , and you fill me with the joy of salvation.

Psalm 32:1-2, 5, 11

-snow in the local park

-geese in the Columbia River Gorge

-Yakima Arboretum in the fall

-sculpture garden, Maryhill Museum

-sunrise, Alaska's Inside Passage

PhotoHunt-Theme: Nautical

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Reprieve

When we set about getting our DTV connections working, we had seen notices on local stations that they were switching next week despite the postponement of the deadline. Our good news is that the one station which we are not getting yet is keeping their analog signal till June. So we now have till June to get this station figured out. We think that pushing the antenna higher might do the trick. I wonder if we can test that without investing in another pole.

I hope things are working for others who are having problems with this.

Sky memories

These are old skies. (This one is Mt. Rainier.)

I'm not flying around today--haven't since June.
(I am pretty sure this is Mt. Adams with Mt. St. Helens in the distance.)

Hope to again one day.

In the meantime, our skies are gray. I'm going to have to get out to get something interesting to take pictures of.

Skywatch is here.