Forecast: Snow in Canby, Oregon

Yes, that was the forecast for overnight.  And we did get snow!  We had about 3 inches.  Canby usually gets a trace of snow each year.  Not inches.  Portland which is about 40 miles north of us gets an average of 3″ of snow per year.  It was a glorious scene early this morning and it is melting fast.  Chris and I swim early so I wasn’t able to get out an take photos until just a couple of minutes ago.  Hope you enjoy the view in my backyard this morning.  As always see larger versions below. By the way, the sun just came out so the snow should be gone by noon.

Last but definitely not least, MacKenzie shaking her head at the disbelief.

Iris’s popping up out of the snow.

Planter in my back yard with grass popping up out of the snow.

These huge trees were covered with snow early this morning, but it was melting fast.

Also for today, a friend of mine from Bryon who has a website on Redbubble sent me some fun factoids I’d like to share.  It’s for those of us who love trivia.  ENJOY.

• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. 

And ‘lollipop‘ is the longest word typed with your right hand. 

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
• Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears 
never stop growing.
• 

The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
uses every letter of the alphabet.
• The words racecar, kayak and level are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).


• There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• 

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: abstemious and facetious.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• A ‘jiffy‘ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 

• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 

• A snail can sleep for three years. 

• Almonds are a member of the peach family. 

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• Babies are born without kneecaps. 
They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
• 

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• 

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• 
If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
  
• 

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. 

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!


• Rubberbands last longer when refrigerated. 

• The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
  
• 

The cruise liner, QE 2,
moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. 


• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• 

Winston Churchill 
was born in a ladies’ room during a dance. 
Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 



Here are my enlarged photos.

Featured Member Spotlight on Redbubble

I’m thrilled to announce that I was a the Featured Member Spotlight from one of the Best of Redbubble Group on Redbubble.

Here is only part of the interview and a couple of photos that were featured.

Which form of art do you enjoy the most?
Mostly floral and macros or close-up. I don’t like to stage my photography. Most everything I photograph (flowers or otherwise) is in natural light and surroundings.

Why is art & creativity important to you?
I wouldn’t say it is important to me, however, it is a passion. I feel so comfortable with a camera in hand. I can just sit anywhere with a camera and see things I wouldn’t normally see. Photography keeps me interested and in awe of life.

Theme Tuesdays – Which Ways

Since it’s my day to volunteer at Exceed Enterprises, my time is limited on the web and working on photography.  So I thought I would make Tuesdays a theme day.    For today I decided to feature some of my which ways, meaning roads, rail tracks, steps, paths, trails.  I get the “which way” term, from a Redbubble group I called Cee’s Which Way group which showcases walkways, pathways, stairways, roadways and rail tracks.

The first two photographs are of the Astoria-Megler Bridge.  This bridge (4.1 miles across) is a continuous truss bridge that spans the mouth of the Columbia River between Astoria, Oregon and Point Ellice near Megler, Washington, in the United States. The span was the last segment of U.S. Route 101 between Olympia, Washington and Los Angeles, California. It is the longest continuous truss bridge in North America.

I was in the passenger seat taking photos all the way through.  Driving this part was like being on a roller-coaster!

What is your favorite subject to photograph, and why?

I won a challenge in one of the Redbubble groups I belong to.  And part of winning this particular challenge was an interview.  And I’d like share a couple of the questions and my answers with you.  And of course show a couple of photographs.  Please feel free to add comments and share your answers to these questions.

Do you think photos should be left as is or do you think that postprocessing can improve them?  There is no right or wrong to this question.  Both types are an art form in itself.  The individual  photographer/artist needs to do what brings them into their passion.  For me, if I spend more than 5 minutes on post-processing for me …. it’s way too long.  I usually will crop, sharpen and use vibrance.  I personally prefer the art of photography.

Me and Redubble

 

I will probably talk about Redbubble.com a lot on my blog.  It’s a an on-line community for photographers and artists.  It is a place most people initially join because they want to sell their work and Redbubble does the printing and framing of your art work.  And there are some people I’m sure who make a lot of money on Redbubble, but mostly we find a strong and encouraging environment for our passions.  I’ve gotten to know a lot of people around the world through Redbubble.