Greenwood Car Show 2023 #3

I got out my old Schwinn bicycle the other day and went on my first bicycle ride in over a year. As usual, after a long break from riding, it felt Really good! I rode a meandering 5 miles in the time that One of my morning walks would take, and I covered the distance of three of those routes. Joy...

Greenwood Car Show 2023 #2 What do I like about these Classic Car shows? Number one I guess is Nostalgia. I'm a Boomer baby, the music in "American Graffiti" was our music, and my favorite cars during that time were a 1950 DeSoto and a '54 Chevy. I remember looking at my Chevy one day and thinking "wow, look at all that chrome! It's all mine!" :)

The Greenwood Car Show on Saturday was humongous! I got there at 9am, and there were around a million people there already. I had to park quite far from where the 7 or so city blocks of Classic cars were lined up. I never saw the stoner movie "Dude, Where's My Car?", but those words popped into my head when I returned to my car. It was a very meandering search. I could probably apply for a Cartographer whatever job in the Greenwood/Phinney Ridge area now :) ps - I took over 200 photos in, around and between other car show viewers... The steering wheel knobs "have also been called 'suicide knobs'. This negative connotation caused people to assume they were illegal. In fact, steering wheel knobs are sometimes prescribed to people with applicable disabilities to assist them in driving." I loved the suicide knob in my DeSotos and the 54 Chevy.

A few more bros walk shots from the other day. I’m not much of a people picture taker, so it was fun having these sort-of-willing subjects. John was explaining "here’s what we’re gonna do", and Mike teling them "no, this is what we’re gonna do..." A small group of old Chevy lovers were parked in the small parking lot by Wayne Park. This was a 53 Chevrolet. I had 54 Chevy in high school: white, with red fender strips and baby moon hubcaps. I’m excited because I’m going to the Greenwood car show tomorrow morning.

Heaven - walking along the river on a clear, sunlit, blue sky morning. Give me this during the nicer weather months, and Cebu during the 4-6 months of our NW Winter, joy... I especially liked the low angle of the sunlight at 7:30am this morning, and how it filtered through the trees. ps - Covid delayed our snow-birding a few years...

walking on both sides of the river, in black and white...

I went on a long walk with my 3 brothers yesterday morning. Very nice! The youngest is John, who is 63 or 64. Pat and Mike are older but they always remind me that I'm Really old! I get no respect :) We had breakfast outside at the Alexa's restaurant here in Bothell after our walk. In the photo where they're facing the camera, from left to right: John, Pat and Mike.

When I was walking back home yesterday morning, I stopped in front of the grocery store's flower display.

There are some days when I like my FB Memories a lot! These are posts from 3, 4, 6 and 8 years ago. The one with my brother Pat and his amazing bicycle helmet mirror was with a sculpture near the Fremont Bridge. The blue fence post was in Georgetown, and the pile of crushed glass was near some railroad tracks in Tukwila, where it "can be used as an aggregate supplement along with recycled concrete as a capping layer in the railway track formation".

Shadow self portraits #2