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Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt

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It's the last day of September and time for the final link-up to the Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt. Many thanks to Mary-Lou for hosting this fun event again! When I posted in August, I had just three items on the list to find:  #15 A broken chair/bench/stool #16 An out of season treat being enjoyed and #20 A favorite seasonal scent. I did come up with all three, and I also have a few extras to share. You can find my previous posts here and here.

The broken stool should have been one of the easiest to photograph since it was leaning against the side of our house. I walk by it repeatedly, but it almost never catches my eye.

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I had an idea for an out of season treat being enjoyed, but ended up taking a photo of the hot chili I ordered on our way up to Mt. Rainier this month. It was raining and cold. I think of chili as a winter meal, but it was much appreciated on this mid-September day.

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As I stepped off the porch at the Presbyterian Home at Chautauqua Institute in August, I was taken by the beautiful scent of this lily. I have lilies in my yard, but nothing that smells as wonderful as this did. It's beautiful as well.

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As we were traveling, I came upon several more hand-written signs (#14) which I thought I'd share:

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Both of these were outside shops in Bend, Oregon

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These were at my nephew's wedding. I got a photo of them before they were moved to the appropriate places. 

It depends on your point of view whether this is a funny bumper sticker or not, but I couldn't resist taking a photograph of it. I know the owner of the card. It's a magnetic bumper sticker so it can easily be removed if need be.

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And last, a delightful series of menus outside a restaurant in Ashland, Oregon in rainbow colors (#13)

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Needless to say, being away for three weeks means being busier than usual with meetings and appointments to say nothing of a bit of jet lag. I hadn't even uploaded my photos from the trip until tonight. There were 773 of them after deleting some from my phone. There will be many more deleted once I get to editing them. I frequently take duplicates in case one isn't quite right, so that alone will eliminate quite a few. However, you can expect a few photo-heavy posts coming soon. I designated several places as photo walks for my 2019 intention. I'll never get to 52 (my goal was one a week) but I do have more than one a week from the trip.

September Five in Five: Hoh Rain Forest

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On the fifth, I intentionally took a group of photos for this post at The Bledsoe Reserve on Bainbridge Island. My ability to connect my external hard drive to my laptop has been a pain in the neck on this trip. I'm quite annoyed that Apple decided not to include a USB port on the MacAir, and I haven't had much luck using my USB adaptor. The process of uploading photos is incredibly slow, and trying to access them with Lightroom is equally problematic. A trip to the Apple store when we return is on the books! So . . . in order to get this posted, I needed to look through my iPhone photos for photos taken within the five minute time frame. Fortunately, I found some interesting ones I took on the Olympic Peninsula at the Hoh Rain Forest. 

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I handed Tracy my phone for this one of me among the trees. It gives you a good sense of the size of the trees. There's nothing like this on the east coast!

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The moss hanging from these trees is typical of many of the forested areas where we've hiked on this trip. We saw them in the Rainier National Park as well as The Trail of Cedars in the North Cascades National Park.

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I'm linking this up with Sandie who kindly hosts this monthly meme.

Card Concept Challenge

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There's a lovely new photo inspiration at The Card Concept.

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In need of multiple thank you notes earlier this month, I pulled out some butterflies I had embossed and die cut earlier, and colored them with Copic markers. I added a thin strip of black cardstock to a premade card from Paper Source and added the butterfly to the center. 

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Then I stamped the sentiment from Papertrey Ink's "Never Enough Thanks" in black in. I love this font and wish I had other sentiments that used it.

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This is clearly a quick Clean and Simple design—right up my alley.

 

A Special Birthday for Three Challenges

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It's not often that I have a card to share for three different challenges, but tonight I do! While we're away a good friend is celebrating an very special birthday. We'll be missing the party, but we'll be toasting to his big day later in our trip.

The new challenge at Seize the Birthday is "Just a Number."  At AAA Birthday it's "Use a Stencil," and at Simon Says Wednesday Challenge it's "Stamp It." This card meets all three:

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I used two Simon Says stamp sets, "Birthday Numbers" and "Party Like a Panda" and a bit of masking to stamp the number and the balloons onto watercolor paper. It's harder to see in this photo, but after watercoloring the numbers and balloons, I used a My Favorite Things cloud stencil to add some interest to the background. It's a bit easier to see in this photo:

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Finally I die cut the panel W+9's Gift Card Layers die and adhered it to a bright green card made from PTI's New Leaf cardstock.

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It's a pretty whimsical card for a guy, but the recipient is one lighthearted, fun-loving guy, so I think he'll like it.

Linking up with:

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A Square Card for Seize the Birthday

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I have an unusual spare moment on our road trip, and an email reminder that there's still time to enter a card into the current Seize the Birthday challenge for a square card. Right before we left I had to make a number of birthday cards to send while we are away. One went in the mailbox in Cannon Beach today. 

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Once again the main image comes from Altenew's Weekend Doodles. I stamped it on watercolor paper and painted it with Altenew's 36 pan watercolors. After fussy cutting a lot of images from this set, I took advantage of a sale and bought the dies. The week before we left, however, Sarah helped me figure out how to die cut stamped and scanned images with my Cameo, so there'll be a lot less money spent on dies after this!

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I backed the wreath with a strip of ombre striped patterned paper from Papertrey Ink. stamped the sentiment (also PTI) and mounted the wreath with foam tape.

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I'm linking this card to the Seize the Birthday Challenge right here.