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Dominoes

2011-09-22T09:45:00.000-07:00

Melvin & I play dominoes.

Sometimes I pretend he isn't cheating.

Intrepid Explorer

2011-06-07T12:55:00.000-07:00

When Archie came home from the vet hospital on May 10th, Webby was intrigued - "How's this thing work?"

Earth Day

2011-03-27T09:20:00.000-07:00

For Earth Day, we participated in the 8:30-9:30 pm "lights out," getting by with two candles, the occasional cell phone screen or pocket flashlight.

I wandered around the house quite a bit at first, appreciating the darkness. Looking out windows. Nobody else seemed to be doing it. Not much publicity, I guess.

Jo spent most of the time sending txt or talking on phone. After I was through wandering, I did some block play & photography.

What with the camera, phones, led flashlights, & various glowing power LEDs here & there, we were far from electricity/electronics-free or totally dependent on candle light. But the candles were our primary illumination for most of the hour, it was interesting to see what we could do.

Sisters

2011-02-28T18:33:00.000-08:00

Jo & her sister, Elizabeth

Archie

2011-02-19T10:04:00.000-08:00

Seems like I haven't posted a cat picture here for a while. This is Archie at ease.

Since I got out of the hospital after leukemia treatment, he has been spending a lot more time in my lap, but here he is next to me.

I held a magnifying glass in front of my cell phone camera lens to take this picture - I was hoping for some interesting effects, but it seems like all I got was a better closeup than I would have gotten otherwise.

It's a good camera.

Archie's a good cat.

Here-abouts #8

2010-12-30T18:50:00.000-08:00

Here-abouts #7

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Here-abouts #6

2010-12-25T16:22:00.001-08:00

Closer to home: in our front yard ...

... and in our back yard.

These are stereo pairs taken with my wonderful new chrimmus present. With a little practice, they are easily viewed in 3-D by "relaxing" your eyes as if to look at infinity, then focusing on the images without re-converging your eyeballs. You should see three images, with the middle one in 3-D.

Happy holidays. May quiet & pleasant times be available when you need them.

Here-abouts #5

2010-12-23T13:24:00.000-08:00

Here-abouts #4

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Here-abouts #3

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Here-abouts #2

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Here-abouts #1

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Double Decker

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Light #8

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Light #7

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Light #6

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Light #5

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Light #4

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Light #3a

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Light #3

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Light #2

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Light #1

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Daily #30

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Daily #29

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Daily #28

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Daily #27

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Daily #26

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Daily #25

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Daily #24

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Daily #23

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Daily #22

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Daily #21

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Daily #20

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Daily #19

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Daily #18

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Daily #17

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Daily #16

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Daily #15

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Daily #14

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Daily #13

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Daily #12

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Veterans Day

2010-11-11T13:07:00.000-08:00

A short break from the Daily Thanksgiving wordless images to recognize Veterans Day, and give thanks to all the veterans out there. That deserves words.

Dick's was acknowledging its founder's heritage, and expressing thanks to veterans, by giving free hamburgers to current & former military personnel.

I drove away with tears in my eyes, and with my hamburger.

Perhaps not so much in appreciation for being appreciated, or for the free burger, as in having once again had the experience of showing my ID card and getting food in return.

There are times when I think highly of food.

Some of the most compelling of those times I have been in uniform, or at least carrying that very ID card, or one very much like it.

Thank you Dick's.

Daily #11

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Daily #10

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Daily #9

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Daily #8

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Daily #7

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Daily #6

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Daily #5

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Daily #4

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Daily #3

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Daily #2

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Daily #1

2010-11-01T19:32:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween

2010-10-31T18:10:00.000-07:00

Melvin & his campfire. I think he has forgotten about trickle-tweeping, he is so entranced with his cowboy persona.

New lights I got today at the grocery store.

A better look at Melvin's "rig." I'm not sure why he looks so stern, maybe it is part of his cowboy image.

Self portrait with my contest entry for a seasonal & math-themed reader-board. I like having a camera in my phone.

Happy Halloween!

Beach

2010-10-21T16:27:00.001-07:00

I like the beach.

Archie

2010-10-08T17:54:00.001-07:00

"Chicken in a Basket"

By Request

2010-08-11T16:55:00.000-07:00

Webby at Ease

The cat next door

Webby at ease

Archie at rest

Discovery Park

2010-06-04T17:59:00.000-07:00

There is something about the view toward Elliott Bay from West Point that appeals to me.

And of course, from the other side of West Point, one admires our "regular beach" from an alternate viewpoint.

I suppose that in both cases, it is viewing from unconventional directions.

Ravenna Park

2010-05-25T17:02:00.000-07:00

I took my lunch to the Ravenna Park parking lot near where my mother lived as a teenager. I have pictures somewhere that I took there in 1968.

After eating I was ready to drive away but made myself get out of the car.

After walking over to the edge of the ravine I was ready to leave but made myself take a picture.

Then I made myself walk down into the ravine & take more pictures.

It was probably good for me. Cope list stuff.

The squirrel was for Chris.

I could have just come back home & taken more pictures of doorknobs, like this one from this morning.

Stuffing

2010-05-14T07:52:00.001-07:00

We have a stuffed cloth tube from Mud Bay that Webster & Archie just love to"kick the stuffing out of."

Webster also likes to lie on it.

Archie likes to chew on the end.

It takes most of the pass-it-down-the-pecking-order grief.

Archie

2010-05-13T16:21:00.000-07:00

Equal time for Archie.

Webby

2010-05-09T17:09:00.001-07:00

Webby seems a little out of sorts sitting in the front window, looking out at me being outside while he's stuck inside. A little later he made two escape attempts out the back door, but didn't get far.

Yesterday, I caught him snoozing on the back of the couch while I was experimenting with vignetting (the dark corners - not very satisfactory).

I'll try to catch Archie soon, to complete this kitty-update.

Morning

2010-05-09T07:24:00.000-07:00

Mebbe a little blurry this morning, but I'm still a little bleary.

Moon & measure

2010-05-07T08:05:00.000-07:00

Muddle morning

More morning

Three Windows

2010-05-06T07:44:00.001-07:00

I seem to be continuing my daily early morning photography, even though I haven't always posted.

This mornings is in Three Things Two things, which is where I will try to post daily for now.

I missed posting yesterday, but a picture is above - I also took another basic backyard shot, which I have been doing every morning.

I may occasionally post an early morning effort to foograf, which is supposed to be for my (more general? higher end? more serious?) photography.

Woodland Park

2010-05-03T16:33:00.000-07:00

[pictures taken yesterday, May 2, 2010]

Pictures

2010-04-28T08:29:00.000-07:00

When I posted yesterday about morning photography, I didn't have in mind quite as early as 2:00 am, which is approximately when I took the above picture.

But there I was wandering the house in the wee hours, and gazing out the back window, I wondered why the sky was so light & realized it was a full moon, and looked around for it.

Worth a picture.

I converted to black & white since as light as the sky seemed for that time of night, it still looked black to the camera, and sensor noise made the camera image look like a field of red, blue, and green dots, rather than the gray my eyes saw. We lost the pale flaxen yellow of the actual moonlight, but I still like the image.

For a more "morning" morning picture, I did the below after the sun came up.

In foograf yesterday, I posted about some experiments with the "plastic camera" look, and below is another experiment in that vein, this time with plastic wrap over the camera lens.

Mornings

2010-04-27T10:40:00.000-07:00

Browsing the photography shelves at a bookstore yesterday, my eye was caught by a small book titled A Year of Mornings.

I imagined a years worth of views out the same window - all at dawn or at the same time or random or something.

I was quite wrong but the book still seemed intriguing, so i have it coming from the library for a more leisurely look.

So this morning I took an early picture out the back [above] and I will see if I might be able to take a picture every morning for however long.

Maybe out the back. I've taken many shots out the back of snow or flowers or whatever, and have enjoyed the contrasts.

Maybe they will be whatever i feel like.

Maybe one of each.

I think the primary benefit for me will be to have gotten the camera out and taken a picture, instead of letting the camera loiter in its bag day after day.

Maybe the benefit will be opening my eyes a little more, seeing a little differently.

Every morning.

Yard

2010-04-07T07:38:00.000-07:00

The back yard of the house where Jo and her five siblings grew up.

An alternate view is on Facebook.

Today is our 26th Anniversary - Happy Anniversary, my Love.

Pirate Duck

2010-04-01T18:55:00.000-07:00

We often see ducks at the beach but rarely one quite as charming as this pirate.

The pirates friend (or owner?) obviously thought so as well.

I really should have told her about Melvin & given her the address of this blog so she could check out his adventures.

Maybe then I could have seen more of the pirate duck's adventures as well.

House

2010-03-31T17:30:00.000-07:00

Sharing

2010-03-30T10:50:00.000-07:00

About a year and a half ago, when the construction work started next door, I set this place up for Webby so he could keep an eye on the activity (with the blinds opened a bit) & snooze when things were boring.

It turned into, and has remained, Webby's routine morning spot.

Until a week or three ago, Archie left it alone. Butt hen I started occasionally finding him there instead of Webby.

I didn't know if Archie was displacing Webby or simply taking advantage of a vacancy.

Then the other day I found this scene - apparently some kind of truce (disgruntled?).

No recurrence since, that I know of, but I'm keeping my eye out.

Airplane

2010-03-16T15:51:00.000-07:00

Melvin was running around making airplane noises with his "arms" held out like wings.

Jo suggested paper airplanes.

I've hesitated to show him how to make them because I assumed that every piece of paper would get turned inot paper airplanes.

But I thought I would risk making one out of his sight & then giving it to him.

After I made a couple of demonstration flights and give it to him, he his simply stood there & quivered.

I think he is afraid of losing it.

Beach

2010-03-06T17:40:00.001-08:00

We went to the beach yesterday.

Who'd expect turtles out on a chilly day in early March?

But they respond to the sunlight, not the temperature.

This slide was a surprise as well.

I see the new railroad signal towers often when I am driving, but not the slide.

This guy drifted on over while I was taking pictures of the slide.

For some reason, he was all alone in the sky.

I liked the colors of this boat & its sail.

There were lots of brant - many more in another picture, but as specks. These few were up close & personal.

I liked how they were drifting along with just anough water to keep from hitting bottom between the waves.

We had good beach.

Lunch with Mom

2010-02-10T14:16:00.001-08:00

Yesterday Jo & I took my mom to lunch in Richmond Beach. It was a day of bright sunshine & blue skies, and we enjoyed the flowers coming along in people's yards, and made a brief tour down along the beach.

Todays' picture is not as pretty, but I didn't take any pictures yesterday. In some ways I prefer it - and not just because of the ship, which wasn't there yesterday.

No trains yesterday either.

Discovery Park

2010-02-06T13:38:00.000-08:00

If you aren't from these parts you might have to look a little to find the top of Mount Rainier in the above picture.

The Bainbridge ferry is more obvious, but my actual subject yesterday was the virga.

It was a good walk.

Innis Arden

2010-02-04T16:55:00.000-08:00

I wandered out to Richmond Beach today, scouting for a possible outing for my mother. Unfortunately, neither the place we had in mind for lunch nor another destination are open Mondays.

Oh well.

Coming back through Innis Arden, I was delighted with the above view of a ferry boat between houses. The dark reflection of the distant hillsides is not an everyday occurrence.

Earlier, I had been attracted to the trio of cormorants (at right) riding a log quite a ways off shore.

So I had a nice outing & picked up some library books, even if our ideas for Monday will need reconfiguring.

Picnic Point

2010-02-03T16:53:00.001-08:00

Yesterday I was wandering further afield than usual & ended up at Picnic Point. From the footbridge over the railroad tracks, you can see an old beached ship hull.

Later, just north of Edmonds, I saw my first Brant of the season. Dozens spread out along the beach a little further up, and these two inspecting me more closely.

Day trip - Everett

2010-01-23T22:13:00.000-08:00

Spencer Island, Yesterday.

Howarth Park.

Lewis & Clark

2010-01-20T19:07:00.000-08:00

It is a common characteristic of Aspies that we tend toward Intense Interests, Perseverations even. For some it is a lifelong dominant interest, which for me would be railroads, though that has only episodically been as dominant as some Aspies' Intense Interests. I am more inclined to Serial Intense Interests - including periodic returns to railroads.

Somehow over the last week or so, my Intense Interest has become the Lewis & Clark Expedition, especially the nature studies. I've read four books in hardly more days, am well into a fifth, and have made reasonable progress in another (left) in amongst.

Admittedly, two have been for younger readers, on plants and animals encountered by the expedition, but the others are for adult readers, and represent accomplishments for me. I often have trouble sticking it through adult nonfiction, even when I love the books.

The Lewis & Clark Expedition is not a new interest, except in this intensity, and I came to it when browsing a nature book shelf at the library and finding the above-mentioned plant book. As passive-to-negligible as my interest in gardening, I have had a recurring interest in wildflowers and weeds.

My favorite of all the general books I have looked at so far, top image, is one I borrowed from Eliza. I came across it in a bookstore several years ago and thought it was wonderful and would be a good gift for her. I hope she has enjoyed it too. It was the second Lewis & Clark book I read (at least recently).

The wonderful Green World book (above left) is the one I am reading in bits and chunks, and it is suitable for reading that way, and whether or not I actually read it cover to cover, I expect to return to my own copy repeatedly in the future.

I am saving Stephen Ambrose's highly regarded Undaunted Courage (right) for later. ;)

2009-12-10T15:35:00.000-08:00

Sometimes I get help with a Block Play post.

Webster

2009-11-05T19:25:00.000-08:00

When I am working on a Block Play post, I am always happy to include a cat or two, when the opportunity arises. Yesterday one arose.

Webster doesn't seem as happy with Roy Toy as I am.

89

2009-11-04T17:03:00.001-08:00

November 2nd was my mother's 89th birthday. My sister, Jo, and I took her to lunch at Luisas.

Mom had Camerones Mexicanos, Kathy had Chili Verde, Jo had Chili Relleno, and I had Mole.

On the way I stopped for a short walk on the beach at Golden Gardens. Not often you see a ship bow on from there, especially with the Point Wells fuel facility in the background.

Happy Halloween

2009-10-31T10:28:00.001-07:00

Our fairy forests of fancy toadstools keep coming along. The garden where we have enjoyed a few more each year for several years has taken another big jump.

The larger batch, the other side of the porch, is undoubtedly boosted by the construction next door with its removal of the large laurel hedge and scattering of wood debris. I think there have been one or two over there the last few years, but nothing like this.

Compare that to last week. And note that the open caps are five to nine inches across!

Fun stuff.

Happy Halloween.

Toadstools

2009-10-22T12:54:00.000-07:00

We seem to have a nice crop of toadstools coming along for Halloween.

Eyeball - The Sequel

2009-10-20T14:44:00.000-07:00

Eyeball number two has been modified.

I am handling it well, having been through this before.

There is a purple L on my forehead which I will leave on to help me remember which eye drops go in which eyeball. Four more weeks of eye drops. Two weeks of both eyes.

It almost makes me wish I had more eyeballs so we could keep doing this every two weeks every two weeks every two weeks ...

9 10 11

2009-10-11T12:20:00.000-07:00

I really wanted to do a '9 10 11' post.

How about this morning's early sunlight on the front yard hemlocks' "squaw wood"?

There probably should be a modern replacement term for that, but I couldn't find one with a quick google.

The stuff more than the name, so I'm amenable to changing - as long as there as at least some sense of woodsiness.

I am enjoying the enhanced detail with my post-surgery eye: not just less fog & more resolution, but more shadow detail & enhanced colors.

Pretty impressive - 'this one goes to eleven.'

9-10-11

Woof.

Eyeball Day 2

2009-10-07T21:44:00.000-07:00

I took my patch off this morning, and could see out of both eyes. :)

Surprisingly enough, I don't look like I've been poked in the eye with a sharp stick.

Everyone I can remember seeing shortly after their cataract surgery looked bad.

Not surprising since it sorta consists of sophisticated poking by a sophisticated sharp stick.

Chris came to inspect & cheer me & took me to lunch & the beach.

We saw a turtle, and a seagull that had been given an ugly but interesting fish by a fisherman on the fishing pier.

Mug shot

2009-10-06T15:19:00.001-07:00

So ... they made a hole my eye this morning & sucked some of the innards out, folded a replacement plastic lens in half, stuck it in through the hole & unfolded it.

No big deal.

Everything seems to have gone quite well.

Obviously that lumpiness covering my right eye is interfering with my glasses sitting properly, which is making computer usage and reading hard. That is aggravated by having the covered eye chipping in with a noisy grayness instead of just signing off for a while.

So I am playing with Wedgits.

Eliza brought me lunch, which we ate out in our picnic area. Very nice Vietnamese Sandwiches.

The purple R on my forehead may take a few days to go away, sort of an homage to Stephen Crane?

The patch comes off in the morning. It is a nuisance and I will be glad to be rid of it.

For the last week I have been doing eye drops in that eye four times a day - adding a second one a couple of days ago. Five minutes apart - which is just enough time for me to often lose track so it really seems like six or seven times a day.

Each time I put a drop in I am supposed to keep my eye closed for a minute afterward. If I get distracted I sometimes forget to open my eye for a few minutes.

I keep thinking I have just forgotten to open my eye again, but it turns out to be the patch.

[sigh]

It will all be better soon.

In the meantime: Wedgits.

Melvin meets Gracie

2009-10-05T14:21:00.000-07:00

Melvin & I thought we'd have some quality time at the beach with a little construction.

But then Gracie arrived and took an overly strong interest in Melvin. I didn't even know I had this picture until I uploaded from my camera.

After a few minutes encouragement by dog-walker - not owner so less in control - and myself, we recovered poor melvin from Gracie.

I think Melvin is holding on here to keep from falling over - he seems to have lost interest in building and still hasn't asked where his hat went.

When I got up to 85th I saw Gracie & person jogging east so i caught them on the corner by our house & got a couple of pictures. She was still glad I wasn't mad, and was happy to pose with Gracie.

Melvin spent some time out on the front porch drying out. When I brought him in he was mostly dry but perhaps permanently bedraggled. Good thing he's the stunt double, though I do think this was more than he signed on for.

Heather Lake

2009-09-30T15:02:00.000-07:00

Last Thursday Chris & I wanted to do some sort of outing.

I preferred to not drive if I could avoid it, and if Chris was driving here first and home after, then she didn't want too much driving in between.

We voted on doing something in the Mount Pilchuck area, along the South Fork of the Stillaguamish River - someplace I used to hike as a Boy Scout and with my family in the early 1960s. We ended up opting for Heather Lake.

This cirque lake lies on the slopes of Mount Pilchuck at about 2400 feet elevation. The trail there lists at 2 miles and 1000 feet elevation gain - which represented a greater challenge than I had tackled since my diabetes and various foot problems.

For evaluating some available alternatives, we used my my earlier edition of Best Hikes With Kids: Western Washington. which does a good job of providing information appropriate to my physical limitations & mental needs.

It turned out that Schmoo (who has mobility issues) had the most problems, though my hiking shoes were discovered to be coming apart when I changed out of them back at the trailhead.

The woods were wonderful, the variety of fungi intriguing, and the views of the lake and the mountains in the mist delightful. Note the last patches of year-round snow on the far side of the lake in the top image.

I hope to be doing more of this soon - in my new ankle-high boots.

Having actually gotten out on a trail should help me better enjoy my trail guides.

Fun stuff.

No fire

2009-08-25T18:17:00.000-07:00

The first siren could have been an ambulance.

The second siren was obviously a fire truck and stopped nearby.

The picture above is from our front yard and shows the firetruck stopped across 85th.

When I checked the 911 web site, it showed a '4RED - 2 + 1 + 1' respnse - two engines, a ladder truck, and a batallion chief - but I only heard the two sirens & the web site showed the incident as closed within a few minutes - soooooooooooooooo apparently no fire - or the first folks there put it out with a hand held fire extinguisher.

The truck in the picture is probably standing by to run hose from the fire hydrant if needed.

Woof.

Melvin was very excited.

King Melvin

2009-08-07T11:57:00.000-07:00

Turkles

2009-06-22T16:59:00.000-07:00

I like turkles.

Carkeek

2009-06-17T16:15:00.001-07:00

On my way back from Richmond Beach yesterday, I stopped at Carkeek Park for a little woods walking & peering into the creek.

Note the springboard notches in the stump.

Firetruck

2009-06-05T16:33:00.000-07:00

We had a firetruck in front of our house (not an emergency).

Melvin was entranced.

He says he really really really needs a firefighter hat.

Mothers Day

2009-05-13T19:11:00.000-07:00

I took mom for a bit of a Mothers Day outing.

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We went East on i-90 to High Point (a bit past Issaquah) where we diverted to side roads via Preston, Fall City, Snoqualmie Falls, Three Forks Park, to North Bend. She particularly enjoyed the tree lined roads, the views of rivers and hills, and Mount Si - she was very impressed that Eliza and another young woman had climbed Little Si a few days before without male assistance or escort.

At North Bend we went to the recently remodeled Taco Time (it was closed for remodeling at the time of our last outing). She had a Fish Taco and some Mexi-Fries, dipping the latter in ranch dressing & salsa. She thought it was all wonderful, including the view of Rattlesnake Ridge.

From there we drove to the Cedar River Watershed Education Center, where the level boardwalks and paved walkways were an easy walk with great views of Rattlesnake Lake and the Rattlesnake Ledges.

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Leaving the Watershed, we went down and drove around the Riverrbend neighborhood, got back on I-90 to Hwy 18 for some alternate woodland scenery, to the Hobart-Issaquah Road for some more rural scenery, back on I-90 to Seattle, past the Sound Transit Light Rail facility with its fleet of parked light rail vehicles (streetcars), wandered through some backstreets of old industrial seattle, and back to Merrill.

Long day for me, and I still had to drive home. Maybe in another day or two I will have recovered.

:)

Dryside

2009-05-08T21:48:00.000-07:00

A daytrip to the dry side of the mountains is a good therapeutic activity, as much as I enjoy the wet side. [Image: Nunnally Lake]

It is especially nice this time of year when so many flowers are in bloom, and the temperatures are not yet outrageous. [Image: Woolypod Milk-Vetch?]

I took a lot of pictures yesterday, some of signs to keep , many of flowers to identify later, many of birds, since what makes a good photo is frequently hit or miss. [Image: Nunnally Lake, Schmmozer]

Stilts near the intersection of Dodson Road and Frenchman Hills Road below was a lucky catch - note how the bird on the left has his head upside down, presumably to help swallow.

I am learning: getting out a book and trying to puzzle something out can be too much mental transition during a trip. Autism Spectrum Disorders often make transitions difficult and tiring. Rather than making yesterday even more draining, I took pictures of things I wanted to identify. In the next few days, I will go through books to identify the flowers from my pictures, one or a few at a time, then maybe come back here with another post of flower pictures. [Image: Wild Blue Flax?]

I thought this was going to be easy to identify ...

Cherry Blossoms

2009-05-05T20:45:00.001-07:00

In Sunday morning's early light, I caught the cherry tree in full bloom, the apple tree coming along nicely. I held off posting to see if the apple might not catch up a bit more.

Last night's storm spoiled that, and this morning our yard looked snowed upon with pinkish snow.

But this evening's light encouraged another picture (below).

Fun to compare these to March and December.