Intrusions

September 25, 2013

A couple of weeks ago we traveled around the Olympic Peninsula with friends.  They live in France, though they're not French.  We know them from Africa and have visited them in France and, on their canal boat, in the Netherlands.  They had never been to the United States.

The first day of our trip we went to Hurricane Ridge and then stayed at Sol Duc Hot Springs.  That first night we went for a walk.  We were intruding in a place of wildness, quiet, and dark.  The lights of the resort were intruding as well, presenting us with this as we crossed the river, one set of intruders enchanted by another.

Boo!

August 2, 2013

In the Children's Museum are many rooms including one on local ecology including a little pseudo-cave.  There's a hole to go it, a hole to come out of, and holes in between to laugh at your grandparents.

Art!

August 1, 2013

Today is the anniversary of my beginning this daily photo post.  I'll try to keep it up albeit, as with the past few days' posts, not necessarily posting each day a photo taken that day.  Today's photo, however, is from today's trip with the grandkids to the Children's Museum at Seattle Center.  It's a great place to take kids, huge really, and includes this room where they can create in glue and glitter, fabric, and paints.

Options

July 31, 2013

The other day we walked over the lovely pedestrian bridge connecting lower Queen Anne to Myrtle Edwards Park, and I took this photo.  It occurred to me on looking at it that it shows four different ways of moving people and things around (train, bicycle, walking, and shipping, via the grain terminal in the background) without a road, car, or truck in sight

More Simplicity

July 30, 2013

They're just lights in a coffee shop, but lovely in their simplicity.

And Still More Yum!

July 29, 2013

A hot day, ice cream, it really doesn't get any better.

Sunshine in a bottle

July 28, 2013

Sunflowers make me happy.