We do want to escape fear. We want to escape to somewhere else. No more deaths of innocents, any innocents. Escape, but send the message first: don’t let people die of thirst, do not, do not. Please, do not.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: escapism.
Our hike two days ago was not up the scree slope, but seemed built of scree.
Here is the down view.
Going up to our right was the slope.
To our left was the view.
The little side trails led to the waterfalls.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: scree.
Leaves on an Oregon hike.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Beautiful trees changing in the fall.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
My yard and garden have wonderful fall leaf colors.
For Ceeβs Flower of the Day: https://ceenphotography.com/2023/10/12/fotd-october-13-cinceria-daisy/.
I took these at the Port party last month, with the band playing on a stage beneath nested cranes and a full moon.
Earlier, in the light.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: port.
The lovely magnolia in my yard is getting ready for winter.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
I have two trees: a Wolf River and a Gravenstein. I picked the Gravensteins over a month ago, but the Wolfe Rivers like to stay on the tree longer. I will pick a bunch today. They are lovely and wonderful pie apples. Picking is not quite overdue!
Meanwhile, my magnolia has damage this morning.
Human? No, I don’t think so.
That spike or the 3 prong in the neighborhood, sharpening their antlers. I have watched them other places in town. It feels safer from a car. I think I need some protection for the magnolia.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: overdue.
We are having wet cool cloudy dark days and then bright blue sunny but still fairly cool days. I took this on a beach walk last week at the top of the stairs at Fort Worden. Gorgeous!
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
The Great Port Townsend Bay Kinetic Sculpture Race has some serious designers. I don’t know if they use a forge, but the sculptures have to go in the 52 degree water and come out a few blocks away. They have to move in the water, not just float. They have to have functional brakes, since they go over a significant hill and they are human powered. They have to get through the mudbog somehow.
Some go for power and some try to go light. This one looked the lightest this year.
Many have been in more than one race and the racers and their support teams are happy to lift the hood and explain.
The two bundles under the hood are lifejackets and floats for the water course. They have to carry all the parts on the sculpture. Each team can have support personnel. Our local school kids’ STEM groups had a Maker’s Fair near the water course. We have a group that has made an underwater robot to fish out lost crab pots. If the pot’s line is lost, crabs and other creatures can be trapped inside to die. The robot helps to fish out the trash that traps creatures.
Wikipedia lists ten locations for Kinetic Sculpture Races. Ours has been going for 35 years. Will someone forge a new vehicle that we start using daily? I hope so.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: forge.
BLIND WILDERNESS
in front of the garden gate - JezzieG
Discover and re-discover Mexicoβs cuisine, culture and history through the recipes, backyard stories and other interesting findings of an expatriate in Canada
Or not, depending on my mood
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain!
An onion has many layers. So have I!
Exploring the great outdoors one step at a time
Some of the creative paths that escaped from my brain!
Books, reading and more ... with an Australian focus ... written on Ngunnawal Country
Engaging in some lyrical athletics whilst painting pictures with words and pounding the pavement. I run; blog; write poetry; chase after my kids & drink coffee.
spirituality / art / ethics
Coast-to-coast US bike tour
Generative AI
Climbing, Outdoors, Life!
imperfect pictures
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NEW FLOWERY JOURNEYS
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From the Existential to the Mundane - From Poetry to Prose
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