Blatherskite

Foolish gibberish

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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.

Year: 2012

  • Lady with a walker

    Taken in Spokane. Original version here. I like the square crop better. What is it about the square that is so appealing? I don’t really know. But I like it very much.

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Unfocused

    I played around with the Holgaroid again today. I am still trying to get the hang of it. The photos tend to come out underexposed. And I’m really not sure about that crazy vignette. I still want to play around with image transfer, though. That is the whole reason why I got it. The theme…

  • 24 hour church of Elvis

    What a beautiful, fabulous day! The sun was actually shining! After our usual weekend trail run, Raf and I decided to head into Portland. He wanted to show me the 24 Hour Church Of Elvis. It’s really kind of silly, and certainly weird. I snapped an iPhone photo of it (above). It’s probably the result…

  • There is more than one path to the mountain.

    There is more than one path to the mountain.

    Random thoughts bounce around in my head when I am running. The other day on my run I was thinking about evangelism. I decided that evangelizing is wrong. It took me awhile to reach this conclusion and it is a surprising conclusion for me. I have always been an evangelist, most of my life. Not…

  • Stairway to Peaceful Valley

    There is an odd stairway in Spokane  that takes one from Downtown to a hidden neighborhood called Peaceful Valley. Here is a photo, again, from our Spokane photo-walk. Taken with the Holga.