downtown Bellevue buildings photo walk #2

I often look at the "layers" in my photos when I'm framing a shot, how the near and distant objects interact with each other. That's what I like about reflections, glass, shadows and lines...

I got out for a downtown buildings photo walk the other day, in Bellevue WA. The reflections of construction cranes in the building across from the bus stop, and missing my bus, told me to pull out the camera. One crane was a little more hands on...

We walked the South Trail at St Edwards yesterday morning. Starting our walk before 9:30, it was very fresh, and the colors caused by the sun filtering through the trees was my favorite part.

Tambuli Resort #3: I wandered around the open lobby areas when our group was checking in.

6 years ago today, 22Jul2016...Time flies. The Alpine Wilderness area is beautiful, but the hiking was difficult at times, mostly due to the rocky and tree root trail conditions; weather and water runoff stuff I guess. I remember wondering how many sprained ankles have happened here? At the same time, I loved the challenge. Sitting at our campsite at Trout Lake after we came back down from Copper Lake was wonderful. The next to last photo is where the trail was large boulders that crossed a creek leading out to Copper Lake.

I love Cebu, but it's nice walking here again. Missing out (not!) on the gray, drizzly NW winter weather is a factor. Whether it's the early morning or the late afternoon, the low angle of the sun gives us some nice colors and wonderful shadows. This was yesterday afternoon when we did a zig zag route through the business area, and then a loop walk on the Sammamish River Trail. 

This photo was taken by my brother Pat, of "Easy Does It", from when I lived on Lopez Island. Karin, the "Goat Lady", lived in a small cabin in the woods behind me, and I let her keep her goats in a small fenced-in pasture I had in exchange for goats milk. "Easy Does It" was the Head goat, and you always had to lock him in to a feeding thing before the other goats because he would be butting them and getting in your way if you didn't let him eat first!

The last I heard about Karin, a few years after I left Lopez, was that she was riding a horse in Canada, headed North...

This photo is from the hike post I made a few days ago, from either Trout Lake or Copper Lake, up in the Cascades. It was in my FB Memories folder this morning.

One of my last hikes was 6 years ago with my brother Mike, up to the Trout and Copper Lakes in the Cascades. Hard work, but rewarding. I climbed another mountain on our way back home the next day: the 'Big Chief' breakfast at the Mountain View Diner? In Gold Bar. Biscuits, Sausage, Eggs, etc, smothered in country gravy.

We got out to St Edwards Park in Kenmore yesterday morning, and we walked the North Trail down to the beach. From there, we walked back up to "the Lodge" on the Seminary Trail. St Edwards is still a State Park, but the St Edwards Seminary was sold and it reopened awhile back as "The Lodge at St Edward Park". I just peeked at their reservations, and rooms are between $271 and $421 a night, a little out of our price range...

We visited the Solea Resort on Mactan Island before we went to Tambuli at the end of May. Tambuli is still my favorite, but I did like the grove of coconut/palm trees out by Solea's beachfront area. Still not sure of the difference, but Google tells me that "Coconut trees are a type of palm trees that have many similarities, but not all palm trees produce coconuts. The main difference is in the leaves. Palm trees have fan-shaped leaves while coconut trees have wide leaves. In addition, coconut trees produce coconuts while palm trees produce palm oil." So, what are these?