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  • B&W photo challenge, day 5

    B&W photo challenge, day 5

    In the same parking lot as my morning Starbucks is a Costco. Usually, it’s my nose that notices Costco first. At daybreak, they often bake something delightful. Mmm… One morning as I was riding by, I glanced and saw four long lines of shopping carts. My first attempt to take a picture bombed, so I…

  • B&W photo challenge, day 4

    B&W photo challenge, day 4

    I am, shall we say, a regular at Starbucks. I leave home a little early so I can pause on the way to work and enjoy my drink there. When the weather is nice, I’ll sip my drink outside, under the umbrellas, watching everyone else scurry in and out. Sitting outside one day, I glanced…

  • B&W photo challenge, day 3

    B&W photo challenge, day 3

    I have a swell commute. I ride my bike, rain or shine, about four and a half miles to work. At the end of the day, I ride back home. My commute could be a mile shorter each way, but that would have me biking on a narrower, curvier road where the traffic tends to…

  • B&W photo challenge, day 2

    B&W photo challenge, day 2

    Last year in late December, we headed up the Gorge to Walla Walla and Dixie for a memorial service. I stopped at Mayer State Park to take another picture where I’d taken a couple previously. “We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long…

  • B&W photo challenge, day 1

    B&W photo challenge, day 1

    Facebook friend Steve named me earlier today in his B&W Photo Challenge. I reviewed the pictures I’ve posted here over the past couple of years and selected the photos above. I’ll choose my five pictures from among them. A few of these pictures will need desaturated to be B&W. As Steve wondered aloud whether I’d…