Category Archives: photography

The Japanese art of folding patterned paper

A few years ago, a work associate I knew only slightly was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He was given a few months to live, but survived almost a year. During that time, I followed a Caring Bridge blog documenting his illness, treatment and family life. One of the ways his loved ones coped wasContinue reading “The Japanese art of folding patterned paper”

Last year’s tulips

I try not to be like everyone else, but it’s April and this week’s Photo Challenge is Color. What’s a girl to do?   I intended to hit the tulip fields today and take close-ups of individual tulips in different colors, then run them in a circle gallery like the above. But it’s so cold andContinue reading “Last year’s tulips”

Iconic Northwest Rain

Al Roker’s voice rings in my head. Wet weather in the Pacific Northwest. What else is new? This week’s writing challenge felt like a photo challenge as well: Write about something iconic. I mulled over this assignment, asking myself, What is iconic to me? How to capture it visually? What to write about it? InspirationContinue reading “Iconic Northwest Rain”

From the Leo Archives #WordlessWednesday (Who am I kidding?)

Last night when I got home from Zumba, Leo followed me around the house (like he usually does). The sensation of his soft warm face nuzzling against my legs brought me such joy I cannot tell you. I knelt down, wrapped my arms around him (like I do about 37 times a day), smothered hisContinue reading “From the Leo Archives #WordlessWednesday (Who am I kidding?)”

Leo’s metaphoric ladder of success

Weekly Photo Challenge: Forward Leo would love to climb this ladder, but I doubt he ever will. He doesn’t seem to understand the nuances of his hind legs. Not that he’s disabled in any way. He can run and jump just fine. He is capable of jumping or climbing on the furniture, but half theContinue reading “Leo’s metaphoric ladder of success”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Kiss

One of these weeks, I’m going to take a picture especially for the Weekly Photo Challenge. But for each of the three weeks I’ve participated, I’ve already had the perfect picture: When I first took this picture (in November 2008, according to the metadata), I asked my mom if she thought it was too intimateContinue reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Kiss”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique

At my friend Jolene’s suggestion, here’s my contribution to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Last night I revised the prologue to my memoir to include a description of this photo of Isis. Maybe it’s not unique under the larger category of dogs running on beaches, but as I wrote about the photo, I tried to findContinue reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique”