27Jun2025 - This is turning into a journal/journey-down-memory-lane thing. I'm looking through my old photo albums, and at the same time, other memories and thoughts are popping up in my mind. This is what old(er) people do, yes? 9May2025 - I decided to leave FB, and just share my photos etc here. Thank you to the special people who check in here...(7Dec2022 - crlazlo meanderings 2 is now 2.1 - I will continue to use it as a preview/workspace for my FB posts, but I will also start organizing the many photos from my retirement years, and also start a journal/memories thing. That's the plan anyway.)

Monday, July 7, 2025

more Boracay E-Trike photos - I loved taking photos when we rode the E-Trikes on Boracay. The last photo is blurry, but I like the green colors, and the open air barber shop

Sunday, July 6, 2025

"Lakeside de Jardin" Craftsperson #3 - This person is my kind of people...working with one's hands, creating something special...it's like the gardens are his canvas, and he/she's "painting". At the same time, he's creating beautiful places for garden viewers to stop, rest, look around. The round centerpiece here, before it became his workbench space, looks like it must have been wonderful to just look at. I also like the close up shots showing the broken glass, pottery, shells, etc materials used for the mosaics. ps - I also like how, since this is a work area and not a place that most Lakeside Gardens patrons see, the natural foliage has been allowed to poke on through in search of sunlight :)

Saturday, July 5, 2025

some piles of glass fragments in a railroad locomotive parking area, Renton, WA - 6Jul2016 In the first shot, if you look close, there's a little mini-me silhouetted in a piece of glass in the center...I didn't see this until I was editing my photos
Uncle Nate and Airi, drawn by Claire B...

Friday, July 4, 2025

I am looking forward to walking some familiar trails like this next month, but I like where we are now. These short photo essays that pop up in my Memories feeds, or I come across in my photo albums...they are nice. It's sort of like when I'm editing photos after a walk or excursion - I get to experience them again. 5Jul2021, 4 years ago "I Needed to get out and go on a photo walk yesterday morning, so I walked across the street to what I call my Dead End walk. The path goes w/sw along the river and around the bend beyond the Landing Park, where you reach a sign that says "Private Property". A Condo complex resides there. I have a few photos here, some looking through the trees, of the other side of the river. Most people walk through the Landing Park and cross over a new foot and bike bridge at the East end. From there, you can walk the Sammamish River Trail out E/SE towards Woodinville..., or turn Right and follow the trail to where it merges with the Burke-Gilman Trail, etc, etc. One of my favorite bike rides is the B-Gilman down along Lake Washington and UW. Did you know that New York has more rainfall than Seattle? I will take our months of days like what we have right now. It's an easy trade off for those gray days in Winter. They're not All gray. One of my all time favorite times to walk, and shoot photos, is on a cool, crisp, sunny, Winter morning..."

Thursday, July 3, 2025

I chanced upon the Lakeview gardens craftsperson's work area when I passed through this stone archway. Joy...

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

I decided that I should share some photos of Lakeview's actual gardens. They Are nice! When I was asking the person at the Entry booth about the garden's history, she didn't really know much. She did say that I should climb the steps just around the path corner because it gives you a nice view of the plants and flowers from higher up. And, that I did, up, and back down.
from a bicycle ride along the Springbrook Trail in Renton, WA 6 years ago, on 3Jul2019

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

I just found this in my "Nostalgia Bag", from when my niece Shawna was a little girl. That girl could see into the future...

Monday, June 30, 2025

I'm getting my memories of Boracay all mixed up in terms of the many beaches around the island. They're ALL beautiful! I know this is Puka Beach because of the sign they had by the tents for island hopping... sign-ups. What I liked most about Puka Beach were the bands of blue colors in the water, starting at the sandy beach and going all they way to the horizon.

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Last year around this time, Inday joined me on an excursion to Bellevue. We hopped on an Express bus from Bothell to Bellevue, and then we took the new LRT link to the Redmond (Microsoft) Technology Campus. Like me on my last visit, Inday liked the box like office/meeting room extensions in some of the buildings. It was interesting watching the work happening on one of the new buildings. Back in Bellevue, we then went to Bellevue Square for a walk around, and a little shopping, before heading back to Bothell. On our walk home from the Bothell bus stop, we stopped by the "Ambakity" Mexican food truck not far from our place and got one of their giant Burritos. "Ambakity is an ancient Mayan or Purepecha word for bueno, meaning good", and good it is! We didn't have to make dinner that night.

Saturday, June 28, 2025

These images (Sesshu 1420 – 1506) popped up in my FB Memories last year. When I worked at an English Language School in Ube City Japan, my boss took us to a temple or garden that was associated with the Japanese painter Sesshu. He was inspired by Chinese landscapes, but "Sesshū's work holds a distinctively Japanese style". I remember being surprised and impressed because Sesshu was one of my favorite Japanese ink landscape painters. I checked on Wikipedia, and I read "Sesshū worked under Shūbun for 20 years before leaving Kyoto for a small provincial zen temple in western Japan."

Friday, June 27, 2025

All of my brothers are creative. This is a photo collage my brother Mike put together from photos he took of my kitchen on Lopez Island. Note, the wood burning stove. Sometime back in the late 70s??
27Jun2025 - This is turning into a journal/journey-down-memory-lane thing. I'm looking through my old photo albums, and at the same time, other memories and thoughts are popping up in my mind. This is what old(er) people do, yes?

Thursday, June 26, 2025

I just came across this photo in my Albums, from 2015. This is one reason I'm uncomfortable with taking "people" photos. I remember being aware of this person in my peripheral vision, but I didn't see his focus until I was editing later. It was during one of my photo walks out at the Seatac Airport, and I was looking at the lines and glass and shadows. When I zoomed in whie I was editing, there were small white dots on his glasses. He was staring back at me.