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Lens-Artists Challenge #95: All Wet

This week’s Lens-Artists Challenge features the theme of All Wet, and from our home in Knoxville (where we are still sheltering in place), a spring rain brought just what we needed for the challenge: gentle drops on tender new blossoms — all in our neighborhood. “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon […]

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Travel theme: Flowers in the Rain

We didn’t have to travel far to accept the challenge posed on Ailsa’s blog, Where’s My Backpack. In fact, it was a treat to combine our usual morning walk with this week’s rain theme and a reason to stop and look closely at flowers along the way. From Southern magnolias in all their splendor . . […]

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Travel theme: Blossom

Sometimes, photographic opportunities are as close as our own backyard! For this week’s Travel theme: Blossom from Ailsa who writes Where’s My Backpack, we’re sharing some of the white blossoms we’ve enjoyed this spring — by traveling right here at home! Blooming behind the screened porch, early April: White Star White Magnolia From the tree […]

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Travel theme: Close-up

Several things converged this week in the blogosphere. First, Ailsa of Where’s My Backpack? posted her theme for this week — Travel theme: Close-up. Then, while scrolling through the blogs I read, I spied enviable close-ups on All Kinds Of Everything and Northwest Frame of Mind where the shots were taken with an iPhone! So, as I was “traveling” in […]