Happy Halloween! I swung by our Puyallup branch earlier in the week and did a double take when I saw this table decoration. Just before I came into the office there were dozens of crows flying around the parking lot. For a second, I thought this one got in! Enjoy the day!
10/31/2012
Camera+ I bought the Camera+ app for my iPhone 4s about a month ago. It’s quickly become one of my most important camera tools. My blog content is mostly about location and rarely planned. It’s usually a dance between what I stumble upon and how quickly I can respond. With this impromptu out and
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10/30/2012
The one constant in life is change. Like the old saying goes, “the one constant we have in life is change.” Old Anonymous Unknown was pretty smart, I say. Someday’s the passage of time is a joy because we’re closer to what we desire, yet other days it appears relentless, a marathon, and we dread
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10/27/2012
The Cedar River starts high in the Cascade Mountains near Yakima Pass. It’s pristine snow pack waters are stored in Chester Morris Lake above Landsburg and continues down the western slopes to Maple Valley then heads northwest several miles through downtown Renton into the southern end of Lake Wa
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10/23/2012
What's a Halloween without a Jack O Lantern! This one was sculpted from soldered tin sheets. I discovered it at the Puyallup Fair back in September of 2010. Later, I couldn't resist and had to play with it and turn the photo into a digital painting. Yesterday and today were such typical Pacific N
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10/22/2012
Not Exactly, a rag... I went through an old box of music yesterday and came across a notebook of piano miniatures I wrote. There's 16 pieces written between 1977 and 1978. At the time I was splitting my time between Renton and Spokane. I loved my time in Spokane at Gonzaga University. I discovere
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10/21/2012
One of the more controversial buildings in Seattle is the EMP. The Experience Music Project was inspired and commissioned by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen. This unusual building designed by architect Frank O. Gehry will bend your eyes away from any common understanding of structure, especially t
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10/20/2012
I’m headed downtown Thursday morning for a sales meeting. The weather’s turned, it’s autumn no doubt, yet this morning is beautiful and I’m hoping for some good photo opportunities. Traffic is heavy, but I’m enjoying the ride now that I don’t have to commute everyday. Down Denny Way over Intersta
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10/19/2012
It kind of blows my mind it’s been 50 years since the Century 21 World’s Fair in Seattle. This Sunday, October 21st will be the closing day ceremonies of the 6 month celebration, The Next 50. I’ve blogged about Century 21 in the past, the legacy of its architecture, and it’s looking into a futur
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10/17/2012
I was at the Seattle Center the other day with my good friend Dave. We enjoyed a beautiful afternoon conversing about life, the universe, and pretty much everything under the sky. My mind's been all over the map lately and I choose to blame it on the unseasonably good weather and not anything or
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10/14/2012
