While in Seattle in August we had a lovely seafood lunch near a working fisherman's harbor. After lunch we strolled the docks a bit and looked at the boats many of which seemed to hail from unpronounceable locations in Alaska. I vastly prefer these working boats to the pretty ornaments you see on Lake Michigan, all loud noise and massive wake.
I couldn't figure out the purpose of this vehicle. It looks like it could have landed tanks on D-Day. Any thoughts?
From me and a creepy rock.
Seen near Cape Alava, Washington this summer. Alas, I was backpacking and it was too heavy to carry home. Plus it had lodgers.
Didn't you just hate those essays? Since I haven't posted since July the topic seemed a place to start anyhow. I got back to sorting through photos from the entire year of 2012. It seems my focus has been elsewhere than on blogging and photography. It is hard to explain. Sometimes these things happen.
I wonder if in part I should blame Facebook. It seems as if some of my blogger friends gave up blogging for Facebook and that the blog movement has lost some of its momentum. I feel a sense of loss for that because although FB gives me a place to stay in touch with distant friends and family, blogging is a place where I can express myself anonymously without worrying about what those same people will say or think. I do like FB for the Scrabble though. I claim it will keep my brain young but the recent scientific data shows that exercise is more important than thought for staving off the decays of age.
At any rate, I am hereby posting a few shots from my summer vacation which included a brief trip to London and Edinburgh. Hopefully if I keep at it there will be more to follow.
Long time no see. I have had a few adventures I ought to post about but today's post is in honor of the holiday. Today is the U.S. Independence Day for my non-American friends. Celebrating usually involves fireworks and picnics but at 98 degrees who wants to be outside? It seems as if the whole country is having a heat wave. I find this a little frightening. Will most summers be like this from now on? I keep thinking of buying property in northern Canada (LOL).
Instead of picnicking we will have friends and family over and eat barbecued food but alas even the eating (although not the barbecue) will be outside. We'll enjoy it nonetheless. Another sign of the times is Chicago no longer holds its big downtown fireworks festival. I think the crowd control got too big to manage. Yet another loss. There is a lesser show at Navy Pier on Lake Michigan but it just isn't the same without the picnic by the band shell and the 1812 Overture being timed to the fireworks.
Happy Holiday to all you locals and Happy Hump Day (Wednesday) if today is just another ordinary work day.
Sarala.
BTW here is what is on the back of the cards:
July 4 card-postmarked in 1910's and addressed to Miss Eva Brawn
Danville R-3-Bot(x?) 54 Ala,
"Hello Eva how are you I got home all OK and hope you are well by this time I done been plowing my cotton this morning. I gess I will sing at Johnsons chapple Sunday I recieved your card all OK by by"
(punctuation and spelling maintained)
George Washington card: postmarked Carroll Ohio, Feb 23 1910 to Mrs Mary Barger, Piketon, Pike Co. Ohio.
"Hello Mrs. Barger. I got here all right and am feeling first straight and hope you are all well. Tell Lizzie Hello. Mrs. Harris"
One quote I liked was from Albert Einstein: “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” I included with each quote a "Moo card" with one of my photos or in the case of the Einstein quote a number of stamped question marks. The cover was actually from collaged scrap paper and the book was bound with raffia and a sea shell added. I dropped the books in two different sites--at an exchange program at the local art center and at a free book exchange drop box near my house. I wonder who finds them and if they are appreciated. Maybe, maybe not. I guess it is beside the point.
