What's next: Views beneath the surface
On Friday September 13th we had an early dinner, heated-up homemade pizza Yvonne had made the night before, and ran for the #40 bus picking up passengers on 24th Ave, across the street. After a 35-minute ride we got off at 3rd and Union, downtown, walked south and then uphill on Seneca, across I-5 and … Read more Marilynne Robinson at Town Hall
We’d heard about Fremont’s annual nude bicycle parade years ago and hadn’t seen it so when Allison and Ted offered to guide us to a good viewing spot on Leary Way we signed up. Like Ballard, Fremont is on the Lake Washington Ship Canal, but further east and with a different character. Though huge condo … Read more Fremont’s Solstice and Nude Bicycle Parade
We were in Eugene, Oregon, staying at Armitage Park (Lane County), heading south at the beginning of our 2018 spring road trip. Julie and Chuck would meet us at the campground, we’d have some wine and snacks in Further, then dinner out, ending up at Shedd Jaqua Concert Hall to see Jay Ungar and Molly … Read more Jay Ungar and Molly Mason in Eugene
Yvonne enthusiastically recommended the book to me, knowing that I’d like it. She had picked about ten books included on a New York Times 50 best memoirs list I’d forwarded to her when I’d seen it, knowing that good memoirs are her best reading. As usual she was right. Though we’d seen and loved Ang … Read more The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony by Rick Moody
Thursday 2010 10 21 Dawn light gathered to reveal – not much of anything. Overnight fog had crept north from the Straight of Juan de Fuca through Cattle Pass and into San Juan Channel, between Lopez and San Juan Islands. Orcas wasn’t visible, nor Bell Island; morning with a 100′ depth of field. No matter; … Read more Foggy Dawn
In mid-April 2017 we were in Taos, at the Taos Inn, with friends, on our way to Chimayo, New Mexico, for our annual gathering. We like the Taos Inn but usually stay at the historic Mabel Dodge Luhan House but this night they were full. After dinner at Orlando’s, great Mexican food at the north … Read more St. Cinders plays Vagabond Dreams and We Think of Baby Gramps
Issue: You have tens of thousands of digitized photos that you almost never look at. You have paper albums you rarely take off the shelf. You have a family website that add to but don’t review. You have some prints on the wall but they represent a tiny fraction of the photos you like but … Read more Pictures of Boats; Pictures of People
In early August 2006, after spending two nights in Edinburgh, the eight of us piled into two rental cars and headed west, trying to stay on the left side of the road, through Glasgow, north to Loch Lamond, and on to Inverary Castle, the seat of Clan Campbell and home of Torquhil Campbell, the Duke … Read more Ancient Kilmartin Glen
The eastern Colorado plains is a series of huge stationary swells moving west toward the Front Range, up and down, up and down. Where the swells meet the Rockies, they bunch up into shorter, steeper waves. In Colorado Springs the rock waves break into pieces against the mass of Pike Peak, sandstone exposed and standing … Read more Red Rock Canyon: Landfill to Park
Eleven-acre Yellow Island lies south of Spring Point on southwest Orcas Island and west of Crane Island. In 1979 The Nature Conservancy acquired the island and administers it as a kind of laboratory to study the invasion of grassland by woody plants and how to resist or reverse it. So, for instance, the group does … Read more May Flowers on Yellow Island