Today is photo prompts; It is Paint The Town/Write The Town season and both days this weekend has an event. So you get to attend by proxy …
Today (at June 23), I am headed to the hidden Martha Springer Botanical Garden at Willamette University – where my first photo prompt is from …
Springer Botanical Garden
And tomorrow (Sun June 24) I am headed to the Witton’s Farm in the hills of Ankeny, South of Salem. Always get a friendly greeting there from Dexter the dog! And here’s a photo prompt from last July’s excursion …
Host Deter makes sure to welcome all the artists & poets to Witton …
And let’s offer an alternative – This is CC Willow’s photography “Ankeny Valley Gold” …
Ankeny Valley Gold – CC Willow, digital photgraphy
And let me just add a link to the new AiA’s Paint The Town page (photos are mine!) Tara Choate has been busy setting us up with this new “home” for Artists in Action.
Well – -I’m off! CC is anxious to be let loose among the flowers! And I have become the unofficial photographer of the PTT/WTT events.
I identify myself as a Pacific Northwest poet. I have been writing poetry since 1976- and yes - I have been using the pen-name Ariel all this time! I can often be found writing in the Willamette Valley, in Pacific forests or along the Coastlines on Oregon.
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Ariel, Pacific NW poet 
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