Showing posts with label photos. Show all posts
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Reflections of the summer's end

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Photo by Wayne Pridemore

Reflections of summer's end.

As one door closes, another opens
Hello fall, we look forward to your colorful embrace. 
-- Unknown person

Summer ends on Sunday at 5:44am September 22, 2024

But Daylight Saving Time lasts until November 3, 2024


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Poem: Urban Stream

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Stream at Twin Ponds by Vicki Westberg

Urban Stream

Combed by coho, groomed by grass
her language is microsong
high-pitched and fast.
She teases the doodlebug, dragonfly, sticks.
She flashes, splashes, sprays and spits.
She jumps and bumps, dappled and dimpled,
flirting, squirting, gurgling dribbles.

Nibbling ripples of bubbles appear,
as well as regular floods of tears.
Coyotes kiss this hide-n-seek creek
and possums cross her
while you and I sleep.

Sunbeams explode and moonbeams meander
directing airborne creatures to land there.
Her earth hard host cradles the flow
and leaves gifts of gravel
above and below.

At the end of her baptismal slide
she climbs the rain cloud
for another ride.

Vicki Westberg 2011
From her self-published book of poetry, entitled 
"Earthverse," copyright 2011


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Photo: Green Lake on a warm summer afternoon

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

 
Photo by Ron Greeley

Enjoy this peaceful photo of Green Lake in North Seattle on a warm summer afternoon.



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Richmond Beach view

Monday, June 10, 2024

 
Photo by Lee Lageschulte

A peaceful garden in Richmond Beach.


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Low tide at RB Saltwater Park

Sunday, June 9, 2024

Photos by Barbara Twaddell

Not the lowest tide of the year but close at -3.28 ft on Friday, June 7, 2024.

It was a very busy today at Saltwater Park. There were many bus loads of school children, people with their dogs, and regular beachcombers.


--Barbara Twaddell

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Poetry: Stone Stories

Sunday, June 2, 2024

Photo by Vicki K. Westberg
The mug is a family heirloom painted
by my grandmother in 1951 for
my mother whose name is on it.  "Jerri"

Stone Stories

We have thought of them as just a nuisance
Indicating poor soil perhaps, but stones in your garden
Are stories of the past, how it is they appear here
After uncountable years.

They seem to rise to your gaze and amazement.
They could tell you their stories if you could only
Decipher their tacit messages.  How do you translate
Their former fate?  That history is a mystery.

We may dig out the facts preserved in time.
Illustrated with the help of water or rain,
Their colors deepen to gentle green, gray,
Pastel pink perhaps, speckled or striped.

They seem to bloom, but while flowers are the future
Yet untold, stones are the past to unfold in reverse.
Are they pieces of that mountain shifting, ground sifting?
Now looking for contact, for freedom, they await discovery.

Gathered together they help to make a subtle bowl
For a colorful bee bath or bird fountain.
Recovering from sleep do they now feel
Your fondling eyes seeking deep?


        Vicki K. Westberg  May 22, 2024


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Just when you thought it was safe to go in the ---air

Monday, May 13, 2024

Photo by Barbara Twaddell

Mother’s Day at Richmond Beach Saltwater Park.

A shark chases a beautiful bird in the sky. 

Doo doo doo doo doo doo 

--Barbara Twaddell



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Somewhere in Shoreline: There goes the neighborhood...

Thursday, February 1, 2024

Photo by Seattle Poppy

Seattle Poppy loves to walk and regularly wanders the streets of central Shoreline where she finds and photographs interesting things.


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The persistence of life

Sunday, January 28, 2024

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

The persistence of life shown in leaves through a fence.

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Somewhere in Shoreline

Sunday, January 21, 2024

 
Photo by Seattle Poppy

True!


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Curb alert

Friday, January 19, 2024

 

Photo by Cynthia Sheridan

Curb alert! - Baby not included


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Shoreline's Blue Bridge

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Photo by Wayne Pridemore

The Blue Bridge was designed by a nationally known artist Vicki Scuri, who happens to live in Lake Forest Park. The photo is from a late night series by Shoreline resident and regular photographer for the Shoreline Area News Wayne Pridemore.

There are two Blue Bridges. This one takes the Interurban Trail across Aurora. The smaller one takes the Trail across Westminster Way.


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Here comes the sun

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

 
Photo by Mike Remarcke

Looking east on Monday morning, November 20, 2023. The Cascade range is visible behind the treetops and Lake Washington peeks out through the gap in the trees.



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Red tree white wall

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

 
Photo by Lee Lageschulte

Lee took this photo on 8th NW. A lot of interesting colors and textures.

And what is that tree, anyway? We have them all over the area - most are gold right now.

Tell me please: Editor@ShorelineAreaNews.com

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Photo: Poem Ode to an Artichoke

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Photo by Wayne Pridemore

Ode to an Artichoke
by Pablo Neruda

The artichoke
of delicate heart
erect
in its battle-dress, builds
its minimal cupola;
keeps
stark
in its scallop of
scales.



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Venus visible in Sunday's night sky

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Photo by Barbara Twaddell

Venus, so pretty and Mars just visible in the upper left corner.

--Barbara Twaddell


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Panorama

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Photo by Ron Greeley

 Here is your calm view for the day - a panoramic view from Edmonds by Ron Greeley.



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Jupiter and Venus in conjunction

Thursday, March 2, 2023

 
Photo by Barbara Twaddell

Jupiter and Venus make a cute couple, says photographer Barbara Twaddell.

According to EarthSky.org, "The conjunction is over. Venus and Jupiter passed each other on our sky’s dome at 11 UTC (6am ET) on March 2, 2023. 

"But these 2 worlds are the brightest visible in Earth’s skies. And Venus will shine brilliantly in the west after sunset – our bright “evening star – for several more months! 

"Meanwhile, Jupiter – though edging toward the sunset glare in March – is bright enough to remain visible for a few more weeks, perhaps into mid- to late March. 

"How will you know if you can still see Jupiter? Watch after sunset as the two worlds draw apart. And see how long you can track Jupiter before it drops into the sunset glare.H" 

For more sky events, visit EarthSky’s night sky guide. Chart via John Jardine Goss/ EarthSky.



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The colors of the Northwest

Monday, February 20, 2023

Photo by Jo Simmons

It was a misty morning, but our colors tend to be muted anyway. The subtleties of half a dozen shades of green. The warm browns. And the blue gray white slate color of the water shading without horizon into the sky.

This is a view of Twin Ponds. If you look in the background, the second pond is just visible over the berm.

--Diane Hettrick



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Poetry: The Bridge

Monday, February 6, 2023

Railroad Bridge photo by Danielle Roth

Poem: The Bridge

Let’s meet on the bridge.
A place to see new views,
As you walk look down
And see the raging river waters
Or a peaceful stream
Either one coming from
Its place of beginnings
To its final destination.

As you walk, look down.
There! You see the water
Bouncing over rocks,
Curling over driftwood,
Reflecting the cloudy sky
Or glistening in some sunlight.
Listen to it talking,
Intimate messages.

Now look to the sides.
Opened up to you
New views, vistas left and right.
Look up and feel the air
Lift and fluff your hair.
The clouds are always changing
The waters come and go
And we’re freshened by the flow.

No matter the weather
We are strong together.
Whether tranquil streams
Or troubled surges,
The bridge is a bond
And a freedom to understand.
Take my hand and
Meet me in the middle.

Vicki Westberg, Jan. 17, 2023

Correction: Photo is by Danielle Roth
Addition: The photo was taken at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim WA which is on the Olympic Discovery Trail and now maintained by the Dungeness River Nature Center. It spans the Dungeness River in Sequim.

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