This week I though I would pass on the challenge, due to my vacation trip that is making me not even check the blog much, but then I just found a perfect match for the theme in Italy, at the margins of lake Como…

Ciao!

This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Trees

Photo: Look Up

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Etol Bagam

I’ve been busier than it would allow me to blog, but I miss my little internet corner, so stopping by today to post a quick picture…

Guests go back home mid next week, when I may be able to afford a little more time.
It won’t be like it was last year, though, because I’m much busier at work too, but getting some relief at home may help finding some time.

This post was written in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Look Up.

Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Two of Anything

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Etol Bagam

Two pictures of twos. One man-made, one nature-made.

Two glass sculptures at the Bridge of Glass, Tacoma, WA

Twin trees at Lakeside Park, Lake Chelan, WA

This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Couples, Twins, Two of Anything.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Reflections and Shadows

Posted on September 8, 2015 by Etol Bagam

I give you Seattle’s landmark, the Space Needle, today.

Trees reflected at the bottom of the Needle

Needle casting its shadow over the trees down below

This post was written in response to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Reflections and Shadows

Half Connected

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Etol Bagam

Half connected to the earth, half hanging loose.

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Connected.”

This picture was taken on the way to Sunrise, at the Mount Rainier National Park, in Washington

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Trees

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Etol Bagam

A tree picture taken recently on my trip to Yellowstone

This post was written in response to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Trees

Weekly Writing Challenge: Snapshots of Gold and Silver

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Etol Bagam

Straight lines. A few horizontal, most vertical. Some cutting the landscape diagonally, but always up, reaching for the sky.

They are brown or grey. Occasionally disrupted by a fighting leave, trying to hold tight in spite of the wind. But today there is no wind.

And the sky today is blue. If you look really, really far into the horizon, you can see some clouds, but otherwise, just plain blue sky.

So the sun is up. Not too high, not too warm, at this time of the year and at this latitude. Still warming, though. And when it’s up there, trying to warm us up no matter what, we all go out and try to soak most of it.

That’s when the brown and gray lines become Gold and Silver threads. Tree branches becoming precious with the happiness of soaking the warming rays of the Sun.

This post was written in response to the Weekly Writing Challenge: Snapshots

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Wheels

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Etol Bagam

Have you ever seen a tree on wheels?

This post was written in response to the Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Wheels

Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Etol Bagam

This week’s Photo Challenge there is Up.

I’m short, so I’m actually most of the time looking up anyways, but sometimes, I really need to turn my head up. And those times were the ones I decided to show here.