Category: leisure

  • Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge: Ageless and #Evergreen

    Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge: Ageless and #Evergreen

    In keeping with inspiration from July square trees, this week, Sunday Stills focuses on the color evergreen for the monthly color challenge. You will remember I am now surrounded by evergreen trees, and I couldn’t be happier. Evergreen is considered a dark green and also the name we ascribe to most pine trees and other…

  • Sunday Stills: Under (And Over) the #Trees

    Sunday Stills: Under (And Over) the #Trees

    Welcome back to Sunday Stills! I took a weekend break over the July 4th holiday, but I managed to publish two posts between July 2 and 7…whaaatt? I do like my once a week blogging schedule, but I enjoy mixing it up a little now and then, so thanks for reading. Most of you know…

  • Writer’s Quotes Wednesday Writing Challenge: Writer’s Choice or Culture

    Writer’s Quotes Wednesday Writing Challenge: Writer’s Choice or Culture

    I took a one day break from Sunday Stills to celebrate the Independence Day holiday. My good friend Marsha is busy with her new property as they prepare to get it ready for its new AirB&B status! So I offered to return the favor to host her weekly blog feature Writers Quotes Wednesday Writing Challenge…

  • Bird Weekly: “H” is for Hummingbird and Haliaeetus Lucocephalus

    Bird Weekly: “H” is for Hummingbird and Haliaeetus Lucocephalus

    Catch your attention, did I? Since I’m not posting for Sunday Stills this weekend as we are busy with a family gathering for the Independence Day holiday, I’m sharing for Lisa’s Bird Weekly. Amazingly, to satisfy the prompt for Lisa’s Bird Weekly (birds starting with letter H), the scientific moniker of the American Bald Eagle…

  • Sunday Stills: Are You Ready for the Great #Outdoors?

    Sunday Stills: Are You Ready for the Great #Outdoors?

    As you read last week, the northern hemisphere experienced the summer solstice and people are heading for the great outdoors. According to the US National Park Service and National Today, June is Great Outdoors Month. There are still 4 days left in June to get outdoors and of course, that door is still open next…

  • Sunday Stills: A Solstice #Sunrise-Sunset

    Sunday Stills: A Solstice #Sunrise-Sunset

    Sunday, June 20th marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. What a perfect week to show off our sunrises and sunsets! But First, The Solstice! If being celestial two weeks ago wasn’t enough “geek” for you science buffs, let’s talk about the solstice. The word solstice is derived from the Latin sol (“sun”) and…

  • Sunday Stills Color Challenge: A Portland Summer in #Pink

    Sunday Stills Color Challenge: A Portland Summer in #Pink

    Welcome to the Sunday Stills Monthly Color challenge this week! June’s color is any shade of pink. “Pink is a beautiful color, because it is one of the colors that the sun makes at twilight and in the dawns.” C. JoyBell Depending on where you live geographically, you may be experiencing shades of pink all…

  • Sunday Stills: Being #Celestial

    Sunday Stills: Being #Celestial

    I’ve always been fascinated by cosmic events, the night sky and constellations, moonrises, comets, and meteor showers. Years ago I witnessed the Space EX launch that we saw in the skies over San Diego. The Northern hemisphere reached meteorological summer this week and in light of the recent full lunar eclipse, our Sunday Stills photo…

  • Sunday Stills: Favorite #Vacation Spot

    Sunday Stills: Favorite #Vacation Spot

    To wrap up the month of May at Sunday Stills, let’s share our favorite vacation spots. As more of the world gets vaccinated against Covid-19, masks are coming off and the world is opening up! Hallelujah! “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and…

  • Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge: May #Gray

    Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge: May #Gray

    Welcome to the Sunday Stills monthly color challenge! This month’s theme is gray. I chose gray, because, a) I’m running out of interesting colors, and b) I recall years of gray days during the month of May growing up in my home town of San Diego. Marine fog typically rolls in between May and July…

  • Sunday Stills: #Weathering Memories

    Sunday Stills: #Weathering Memories

    This week’s Sunday Stills theme is all about weather, which can be quite unpredictable during the spring in the Northern Hemisphere as well as the fall in the Southern Hemisphere. This week, our weather warmed up to 80 degrees on Thursday then it rained overnight! Strange even for the Pacific North West. After a cool,…

  • Sunday Stills: #Water in the Details

    Sunday Stills: #Water in the Details

    Welcome to the first Sunday in May! How did that happen? This week’s Sunday Stills theme is water. Not only will I share some images of water, I will get into the details partially inspired by this week’s Lens-Artists challenge “in the details” over at Patti’s blog. As a former Aquatics Director for a large,…

  • Sunday Stills: Celebrating #Pets and #Kids

    Sunday Stills: Celebrating #Pets and #Kids

    Monday, April 26 is National Kids and Pets Day, so let’s share our favorite images of kids and pets. Last week I hinted at some ideas to get you thinking: No kids or pets? Improvise! Images of other’s kids or grandkids will work, as well as any kinds of images of animal, bird, reptile, fish…

  • Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge: Views in #Violet

    Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge: Views in #Violet

    I’m back to hosting Sunday Stills! A huge thank-you to my friend Marsha at Always Write for taking the reins for three weeks while we moved into our new house. I certainly missed you all while away from blogging although I tried to follow some posts when possible. We are still without an internet connection…

  • Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge: Spring #Green

    Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge: Spring #Green

    Just in time to celebrate the spring equinox and last week’s “wearin’ o’ the green” for St. Patrick’s Day, this week’s Sunday Stills theme is all about the color green. Not just any green but “spring” green as seen below. Think of fresh, lively greens as dormant plants and trees open their sleepy blooms to…