Monochrome Monday - 05-04-09

Monochrome Maniacs explore black and white.







Portland's aerial tram "tracks." The Willamette River is down below.

Today's Flowers - 05-03-09: Gardenia

Well, it's spring and the flowers are bursting open everywhere I look. So here's a new weekly meme just for the flowers! Today's Flowers hosts can be found here.




Gardenia getting ready to open:



I thought I'd try this in B&W - I like it. What do you think? I'm always so surprised when something I think of as beautiful because of its color looks striking in B&W.

Shadow Shot Sunday 05-03-09

Visit other shadow shooters via Hey Harriet's site.






I was at the nursery last week at high noon -- the shadows were yummy!

Round Robin: See the Music

Our Round Robin challenge this time is to "see the music."






This was an easy one for me, as I spent last weekend at a women's music camp. It was a cowgirl theme this year, so we had lots of fun dressing up in our gear and playing great music.




Clockwise, from top left: our three organizers demonstrate on tiny harmonicas; Nan yucks it up in her 30 gallon hat; Flip plays a beautiful guitar piece; Coty on banjo; Crystal, hot fiddler; Brogan on ukulele and Nova on accordion, with the ghost of Dale Evans watching.

PhotoHunt - Walking

This week's PhotoHunt assignment: WALKING.

The Grand March promenade: