Thankful

Man! We have been kinda slacking in the blog department this month.


Anyway... I had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. My Mom and her friend Virginia did a Thelma and Louise and drove from MT to spend it with me. We walked every day as the weather was great, did a mass amount of shopping (I got spoiled), drank mimosas for breakfast and wine for dinner, went to the Nutcracker and had a Rummicube tournament. They left me Monday morning with a fridge full of food and actually made it back to MT without killing anyone or driving off any cliffs.

I also took some pictures on our walks that I thought I would share:

This little girl was having so much fun feeding the birds on Alki.


Rainbow in the International Fountain.


Love the purple of the EMP.


Trail in Lincoln Park.


View of ferry dock from trail in Lincoln Park.


I took more but those are the hi-lights... hope you liked.

Falling for Trees

Okay, so Fen shared... I guess it is my turn.

1.) Not technically in the graveyard but I liked the way it turned out.
2.) Children dieing young and neglected graves are sad but they make wonderful photos.
3.) I really liked these checker board walks. They made me think of Alice in Wonderland for some reason. There was quite a few but this one in need of repair really caught my eye.
4.) WAR hooh GOODGODYALL...what is it good for? Photos I guess.
5.) This is the tree I fell in love with. It is a Camperdown Elm and it's beautiful.
6.) Another tree (what can I say? I have a thing.) This one was ghost-like though and set the mood quite well.














Hope you like.

the sparrows and the nightingales

so, as we've both been promising, i am putting up my initial part of our lakeview trip. there's still one roll of film left in my camera that i need to finish off, so there might possibly be a future post containing some more pictures, but this is what i have for now. please keep in mind that the only editing on these has been sizing them down (a few of them look much much better at larger sizes, but i'm not leaving them thousands of pixels big). so, here we go!

there was a lot of gravestone statuary. all very beautiful.

something you don't tend to see or notice much: family plot cornerstones.

a russian gravestone i thought was pretty. you can see staysea in the background. :)

there really is some amazing detail on some of the stones. this particular one is a bench style with this tree on it.

i didn't notice until tonight that they'd died only a few years ago. but the two-part inscription on the base is beautiful.

the sun came out with stormy skies in the background making everything out in bold colors.
(those are fake plants, but they look quite real from afar.)

there was a lens flare on my camera when i took this. i believe i actually said "yay! lens flare!" when it happened...

staysea loving her a tree.
(this picture looks cool when the left side is set as the bottom, too.)

more dramatic statuary against the sky pictures!

a view to the east. that's lake washington in the background there. it was getting towards sunset, so, yes, the sky is pink.

here is a crow. he was one of the ones the old man was feeding.
i tried talking him into staying there so i could get a close-up. he didn't listen. :(

here's another old man we saw walking around part of the cemetery.
we thought it was a little melancholy and sad that he might be visiting old friends and family.

our theory is that the mausoleum door was bricked up to prevent a zombie uprising, or because he's a vampire.
we're not sure which it should be.

and yet more dramatic statuary. yay statuary!

so there you have it. that's my portion. it will be interesting to see staysea's take on it all when she gets her photos of the day up. undoubtedly we'll have another trip there as we quite enjoyed it and didn't see everything. we didn't stop by the lee's graves as there were a bunch of touristy types there mobbing them. stay tuned!

Boxes, Birds, Fishies and Hair

Fen and I are participating in a group art show at a Gallery this month. Fifteen other artists, Fen and I were given foot square (approximately) shadowboxes and were told to "Think inside the box"... Anyway chaos ensued and lots of adhesive later, we had the opening for said show on Thursday. Lot of comments were made about our pieces, there were a bit of people there and I took home about half a bottle of wine so all in all, not a bad night. Oh and Fen's hair was delightfully huge and fro-like that night. :) We will have to post pictures later.

But here is a picture from our photo-outing of the last blog to tide you over.