Ceiling Fan

We had lunch at a Thai restaurant in Everett last weekend and this fan caught my attention.

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LaConner

Busy day running around the mainland takin' care of business. It poured down rain driving between Mt. Vernon and LaConner (wipers on full speed - don't do that too often). Then after my appointment in LaConner, the rain quit and the sky was looking beautiful with the pre-sunset light highlighting the clouds to the west. To get a better view of that, I headed over to the channel and that's where I found this wire sculpture on a gangplank. You can just make out the famous orange LaConner arch bridge through the left side of it. And if you look really closely along the shoreline you can see a Great Blue Heron.

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Cheating Death

Shannon and I took the skiff and razzed over to Lopez Island for dinner at The Islander in Fisherman Bay tonight. This was shot on the way over, looking west at San Juan Island (our home) and the late afternoon sun in our wake. On the way home after sunset we had a gorgeous flat-calm channel reflecting the evening sky. As my dad would say after we got home, "we cheated death once again!".
Good times....

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Wooden Fork

We went to James' 50th birthday party tonight (Happy Birthday James!!!) and it was a potluck and the flatware provided was wooden! Never seen anything like this before but it was pretty cool. And I didn't get any splinters.

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Glasses

I don't know why - I just liked how the light looked reflecting off the laptop with my glasses resting there. So I snapped a quick shot and here's today's photo.

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Orange Cube

OK so obviously, this is the corner on an orange colored cube, but - Is the corner pointing toward the camera or away from the camera?

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Fender Amp

My guitar amp. This may explain why that truck fender jumped out at me the other day.

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Roche Harbor Resort

Roche Harbor Resort on Memorial Day Weekend. This was shot during the Colors ceremony - their daily retiring of the colors (taking the flags down) at sunset.

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Nighttime in the Neighborhood

The view from our driveway, long after sunset.

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Gig Night

We have a lot of gigs coming up. We'll be pretty busy this Summer. There might be quite a few more guitar-themed photos on this blog because of it. Tonight we were at the Rumor Mill. Next week, we're at Herb's.

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E. 51st St. and 2nd Avenue

OK, ok, I know - this photo was not shot today, but rather several days ago. I didn't do a photo today. Why? You want excuses - I got all kinds... I was getting caught up. I was suffering Jet Lag. I had lots to do. I was tired. The inspiration never set in. Shall I keep going? (I did mow the lawn though). Anyway, this was shot on our last evening in New York, not one block from our apartment. The corner of East 51st Street and 2nd Avenue. Kind of a cool corner, because every morning when we would set out for our day's adventures, this was the intersection where it all began.

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Bethesda Terrace

We explored part of Central Park today and saw the hawk Pale Male and his nest. After that we walked over to Loeb Boathouse and Bethesda Terrace & Fountain. What a beautiful peaceful place in the middle of all that metropolis! On the way back for the night we passed St. Patrick's Cathedral on 5th Avenue and East 50th St. and I just had to peek inside. So again today, I couldn't pick just one photo.

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NYC Pizza

One of the things on my NYC to-do list is try some east-coast pizza and see what all the fuss is about. So tonight we stopped into a small italian/pizza joint and I got my chance, but I FORGOT! I was so tired and hungry I just ordered some pasta that sounded good and it wasn't until we were leaving that I thought about pizza... Oh well - there will be other opportunities. And besides, I did remember my photo.

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Port of Friday Harbor

Here's a nighttime shot of the port docks from up above at the Legion deck. I forgot my tripod - good thing they had a railing on the deck for me to set the camera on.

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Gig Night

Another gig tonight so not a whole lot of time for shooting photos. But I did get a quick shot of our stage before the show. We played at the Rumor Mill tonight. And after a bit of processing in Photoshop, here's my photo for the day.

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Cherry Blossoms

Walking home from town tonight just after sunset, we saw this cherry tree illuminated by the street lamp above it. Seems like it's still Winter, but Spring is just around the corner. Can't believe we're half-way through March already!

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Sticker Bushes

I didn't know what to call these things - but they're kinda like sticker bushes so I guess that works. With the change to daylight savings time, I saw these on the drive out to band practice for the first time tonight. Usually, I've been getting there after dark and driving past these without knowing they were there, but today I got this surprise on the driveway in the last bit of daylight.

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Glass

Whoa - late night. My first missed day of daily photos this year. But you know what? It doesn't count. Because it's not like I got up this morning at 12:01 or anything. No, I just got home from vacation and got up late. Now I'm going to bed late but I'm posting a photo before that. So really- I haven't missed a day yet. This is a light that hung over our table at a restaurant, but I turned it upside down to make it look different.

Cheating Death

Well it's all over and now it all seems like a dream. As my dad would say, "We cheated death once again", and I have to agree because I don't much like flying. After our flight and before our our shuttle to the ferry, we got a bite near the airport at the "Bent Prop Bar" and this is what their ceiling looked like.
Anyways - we're home and the place looks great. Thank you Yvette for watching our place while we were gone! It sure put us at ease knowing you were here!

The Cliff Lodge

This is my favorite spot in the building where we're staying and I've shot quite a few photos here including Sunday's photo (I think). Anyway today I did a 360 panorama with photosynth, but you have to go here to see it in all it's technological splendor: http://photosynth.net/view/c079b33a-deea-4413-a9c2-8de6aa66f7ae
I had to shoot this quick and then get away because I suffer from vertigo or agro-something... Whatever it is that gives me visions of myself vaulting over the railing.