Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: Long Beach

  • Carnival Graveyard

    Carnival Graveyard

    It seems I am on a Long Beach, WA kick, so let’s keep going with it, shall we? Here is a pinhole image taken on Halloween of last year. We stumbled on some old, broken down, carnival rides on the edge of town.   ———————————- Geeky Bits: Camera: Terrapin Bijou Film: Ektar 100 Exposure time: 5…

  • Ahoy Mateys

    Ahoy Mateys

    On March 1st I am going to start another “100 days” blogging project. I have some really fun things planned for the next few months so I thought this would be a good time to do this project. In anticipation, I updated my blog template. It’s been a couple of years and I decided it…

  • Kittehs

    Kittehs

      We visited Marsh’s Free Museum (Long Beach, WA)  around the end of October last year and I had my Olympus Om1n with me so I snapped some shots of the silly trinkets they sell there to tourists. Here is one of them. I was told by a couple of people that this photo is creepy. Which…

  • On sunsets at the ocean.

    I witnessed the most amazing sunset Saturday evening. It had been raining hard all day. It was dark and dreary and depressing.  So when I looked outside and saw this view I had to go outside and experience the splendor. It was raining though. A light sprinkling as I watched the sun make its glorious…

  • Cape Disappointment

    Stoked! Raf and I will be going to Cape Disappointment (on the Washington coast) next week while i will be on vacation. I think I might see if we can stay a night in Long Beach, as well. I have fond memories of Long Beach. We stayed there when I was a kid. I remember visiting  Marsh’s Free…