Photo a day 1-3-10

There is nothing so sweet as a good chocolate cake.

Photo a day 1-2-10

What secrets linger here!

Daily Photo - Jan 1

With the new year come new plans and new ideas. I plan to post a new photo a day - plan to - that's it - I plan to - we'll see how this goes. I'll start back with Jan 1 - and catch up, even though today is Jan 3. That will give us three photos to look at today.

There will be no theme - just photos that caught my eye - or made me happy - or made me think. I hope you enjoy this journey with me.

Sisters - Whatcom County, WA

May peace fill all the empty spaces around you
And in you, may contentment answer all your wishes.
May comfort be yours, warm and soft like a sigh.
And may the coming year
show you that every day is really a first day,
a new year.
Let abundance be your constant companion,
so that you have much to share.
May mirth be near you always,
like a lamp shining brightly
on the many paths you travel.
May your love be true.

B&W Trip to Whistler BC

Over at Springtree Road you can find so many interesting B&W photos - so stop over and pay a visit. It is fun and quite a different perspective.

I'm showing some of my photos of a trip we made a couple years ago to the resort town of Whistler BC.

A stone circle - with stone chairs, for gatherings . . .

Puffball mushrooms, growing under some grasses . . .

There were metal sculptures all along one pathway near the river

that runs through town . . .

Stars and burrs - quite intersting in B&W

One of my favorites - a crow . . .

And the river - with lovely square stones lining it . . .

Birdhouses on a pole -there were lots of birdhouses along the paths . . .

And some shelf fungus - or as we called them in Alaska,
when I was a kid, Bear Bread. We used break these off and paint
scenes on the white side, and stand them up on the side that was attached
to the tree stump, they are fan shaped and stand up very well.

Wordless Wednesday

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An old Log Cabin

Maya at SpringtreeRoad is featuring black and white photos during the month of November. Stop by and see the other wonderful black and white photos.

Let's go back in time . . .

We've driven past this old log cabin so many times . . .

It is in an area of the county that we love, and the ride is peaceful.

I can just see the people who lived here. . .

working in their garden . . .

picking apples in the fall . . .

Keeping a cow or two on the hillside pasture and of course, chickens pecking about under the trees. They would pick blackberries in the fields to can for winter and watch as the geese flew overhead in their migration to the south, and warmer days.

When it rained the people in this cabin would stay indoors . .

making quilts, with the frame raised up to the ceiling
when they needed to use the room for other purposes . . .

mending harnesses by the fire and sometimes making the trip of two miles to the nearest neighbor.

They would share dinner together, perhaps bring a loaf of fresh bread

made with their bread trough . . .

And help with quilts or spinning. It was a different life, lived in this tiny cabin with two babies running about. They worked hard during their time and never could have imagined that someday, many years later, their house would appear in a blog, on the internet - speeding around the world - their heads would spin from such ideas.

A Drive Through the Country in the Autumn

Autumn is in full swing - soon the rains will knock all the leaves off the trees and it will be cold and rainy - but for now - we can take rides and see wondrous things. The autumn colors here in NW WA rival those of more famous areas - yet just a few miles south of here it is not so colorful in the Autumn.

Big Leaf Maples in town - and when they say Big Leaf - they mean it - sometimes the leaves are bigger than a dinner plate - much bigger. It doesn't take many leaves to cover your yard.

Hillsides full of color . . .

Hillsides are aglow!

The horse had come to see if we had anything to eat - when we didn't, he turned and left.

Down by the river. . .

Some mushrooms growing on the side of a tree . . .