I know Christmas is over, but just one more photo of lights, and then I promise I’ll stop. My new camera, the Canon S90, is especially good in low light so I had to see what it could do handheld with holiday lights. This fired at 1/60th of a second, which is great for a night shot, even one with lights.

I truly love this candycane archway and would love to have something like it. It was very tall, and felt so cheerful and welcoming. Where do people get stuff like this?

For more photos with some ruby redness, visit Ruby Tuesday.

This was taken at the opposite time of the year, on June 22 of last year. What a difference the tilt of the earth makes! Here is a scene from Highline Gardens for your enjoyment.

Visit Watery Wednesday for more cyberwetness.

The weather has been so cold that it’s discouraging to be out of doors too much, but the sunny weather is so appreciated for us sunlight-starved Seattlites. Here’s a recent photo of my early morning window view of cacti, right where I have my coffee. The rocks (mostly heart-shaped, although you can’t see that here) including the agate one, were found digging in my garden.

For more truly fascinating view of shadows around the world, visit Hey Harriet on Shadow Shot Sunday.

Visit Weekend Reflections and Window Wednesday, too. And SOOC, while you’re at it.

And just a few more days of Photoblog Awards stuff: PLEASE IGNORE IF READ BEFORE about the 2009 Photoblog Awards. If you like my photos, please vote for this photoblog before Dec. 15 and leave a comment in the link  below. You have to register (name and password only) and then click on the word Vote in the upper left. Thanks very much! Photoblog Awards 2009.

This is from the archives, taken on a fine April day from the famous and beautiful Astoria bridge over the Columbia River.

So many photos, in just three years of digital. I think I’ll never run out of things to post. Visit Skywatch Friday for more skies around the world. Weekend Reflections always features a highly creative set of photos, and visit Scenic Sunday for more scenegasms.

I’ve tagged this Best Post of the Week. It’s a keeper.

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A few weeks ago we were in Portland and I took the shot from the window as we drove across the Willamette river on the Morrison bridge. I once met someone from Willamette University and he told me it’s pronounced to rhyme with “damn it” as in, “It’s Willamette, damn it!” So now you know, and the river is pronounced the same way.

For more photos featuring water in all its wetness, visit Watery Wednesday.

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On Friday evening I took two craft workshops. One was making handmade snowflake blockprint giftwrap, way fun, and the other was a mini Letterpress workshop. They were both so cool. Here is a photo from the letterpress class of some of the ink ready for us students to roll over the letters we had arranged (backwards, of course) in a tray, ready to image.

For more visions of cheerful yellow, visit Mellow Yellow Monday. And for more thought-provoking close ups, check out Macro Monday. If you like brilliant color, toddle over to Color Carnival, too. And aren’t the Reflections cool?

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Here I am in front of the Sahara Hotel. I like that the door handles are my initial. I know this is a goofy picture, but I like it.

For more (and probably better) reflections, visit Weekend Reflections. And SOOC will have more straight-out-of-the-camera shots. Check out Window Views for more windows and doors.

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This is kind of a strange photo, but I like it. It’s a plastic water pitcher, taken at a meeting in a room with no windows, and I really don’t know why the color is strange like that, but there it is.

For more photos of water, probably much prettier than this one, visit Watery Wednesday. It’s also a good post for Weekend Reflections.

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No trip to Las Vegas would be complete without a visit to the dancing watery fountains of the Bellagio hotel. This view of its resting state was so pretty that I thought I’d show it off for Watery Wednesday. A special note about the experience is that the strange but wonderful moisture in the air, after all that desert dryness elsewhere, is so appreciated.

For more interesting windows, visit Window and Door Views.

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I was in Las Vegas for a conference last week. What a place! The land of glitter and excess, a little strange out there in the desert, but some lovely photo opportunities nevertheless. Here is a chandelier, maybe eight or ten feet across (3 meters), reflected in the mirrors all around it. The best part is that it was just at the entrance to the monorail station. Vegas is amazing!

For more reflections, visit Weekend Reflections. And SOOC for more straight out of the camera images.