mud puddles yesterday, wet leaves today, from 6Jan2021 -- I enjoy the changes that come with our different seasons, and I like the beauty in that chaos. These leaves were blown onto the gravel path leading down a path by our apartments, leaving the path by the complex cleared of leaves. When I looked down at the wet leaves and gravel, I found these images...

puddle reflections in a parking lot by the river...Bothell WA, 5 years ago

from 5 years ago, on 4Jan2021 -- One of my favorite times to shoot photos is on a foggy, Winter morning. I like the lines of the black and gray tree branches. Depending on how far they are from my camera lens, and how the fog is shifting, they're always changing...

They finally gave Santa his due yesterday. At xmas, he was standing over by the elevator, all alone, and without his pink guitar. Now, he has a tree, and a saxophone! All riiight! I like saxophones better anyway.

Keepers #2

Keepers #1 -- I enjoy going through my photos sometimes. "Keepers" are what I call the ones I like. These shots are: a cow looking at me in Eastern Washington State, early morning puddles on pavement, woman walking near Jackson St, chrome grill at a car show, and concrete wall with a pipe and two holes...

I did the Crown Regency "Skywalk" with my nieces the other night. My legs stopped trembling about half way through, and that's when I started to really look at Cebu City. I was happy to be the last in line because I got to just stare out and look around when they were doing the individual photo ops. I'm the tall one in the group shots :) It was sort of magical, but I'm not sure that I'll do it again. Sitting down and looking at the Fuente Osmena Park below us was one of my goals. Another goal (see hands in prayer) was to be able to stand up again.

Like so many things after Covid, and then Typhoon Odette here in Cebu (2021), the economy took a big nosedive. Club Ultima is near where we live, and only just recently they started re-opening some of their facilities. The only things that continued and more or less survived the past several years were the gym and the Prana Medispa. These photos are from Club Ultima's pool and outside deck area on the 17th floor. They re-opened it recently. I did get in the water, but it was unheated. With the warmth outside, you like it... after a little shivering. The tall white column sticking up in the last photo is the same white tower you can see in my last island hopping photo from yesterday. Another thing I plan on doing soon is the "Skywalk". That's where you walk along a ramp on the outside of, and near the top of of the Crown Regency Hotel next to Club Ultima. Whoa!

more shots from our Island Hopping earlier this month...

3 photos in my FB Memories this morning: Sagwa, the cat, in our fake xmas tree back in Tukwila, a long time ago... I started my Walking, and taking photographs, in January 2006, after I retired. A special thank you to my daughter Andrea for buying me my first SLR camera. This photo is from an early morning walk in Georgetown on Saturday, December 26, 2015, the day after xmas... We brothers would visit our Mom separately sometimes. We had set up a FB account for Mom at one point, and every once in awhile I would find a message from Mom in my Inbox. Thank you JR...

There is a short window of time in the early Winter mornings when these colors appear... deep, rich, copper gold? colors. Whatever they are, it's when the angle of the rising sun is very low, and it seems like they only last a few minutes. These shots were taken around 2017, when I was walking along the Green River Trail in Tukwila WA. The last image is of the LRT passing by on the other side of a tree line, not far from where the other shots were taken.