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.

Category: Photography

This might also be what this blog is mostly about.

  • Summer is fading away and it makes me a little sad.

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree

    Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree

    When the rain and clouds descend, oh, around mid November, I will will look at this photo and remember the carefree days of summertime on the Mountain.

  • Bagby Hot Springs

    About a month ago Raf and I took a drive up to Bagby Hot Springs. It was awesome, in the truest definition of the word. The drive up there was absolutely beautiful. The road meanders along the Clackamas River and up, deep, into the Mount Hood Wilderness.  Eventually phone service is cut off completely and…

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: One shot, two ways

    I am a bit late to this week’s WordPress photo challenge. I wanted to use entirely new photos and I wanted to use film. This isn’t my best work and it isn’t the most creative thing I’ve done but hey. What can you do. I do like that that the longer photo reveals the person…

  • A carnival is setting up outside my window

    A carnival is setting up outside my window on a hot summer day. The purple, blue, orange, red flag that entice people to buy elephant ears flap gently in the wind and are beautifully back-dropped by the blue sky. The road is blocked off. they have taken over the empty lot next door  and the…