Some BW photos from earlier Cebu taxi rides...

from 3Jul2016 - "My walk yesterday morning and my bike ride today were both exercises in nostalgia. Yesterday I walked up "the Ave" (University Avenue) and thru the UW campus. Today I rode my bike along the waterfront to Century Link Field, up through Chinatown, back up to the Pike Place Market and the Myrtle Edwards Park. I didn't take out my camera until I got to 4th and Main where the "Gasperetti's Roma Cafe" once stood. Gasperetti's was owned by my Uncle Bill Gasperetti, and I worked there from age 15 1/2 up to age 19? There's a new building there now, currently under construction. I found this Postcard photo with Google just now. I remember they had them by the Cashier. That's my Uncle Bill and Aunt Marie coming out to their car. The thing that got me to pull out my camera was this group of new commemorative tiles along the sidewalk. Gordon Hirabayashi was a Japanese American Sociologist who at age 24 was imprisoned for disobeying the WWII internment order."

from 2Jul22, 4 years ago - My better half walked with me yesterday morning, the first of many Bothell walks together. Nice day. We walked our "meadow" walk, the old Wayne golf course, and we chose the trail on the other side of the river that goes along the hillside. There are some Very nice houses on East side of the bridge when you walk over. The river view shot is looking West (photos with old iPhone SE)

This is one of my favorite shots from the Greenwood Car Show 2 years ago, on 1Jul24. This little girl was taking in the car show with her family, maybe after attending a church service or something. I wonder what she was thinking...

30Jun17 These images are tar coated support posts - under a roadway going over the Green River in Tukwila WA

The temperature got up around 90 degrees on 29Jun22, when we were still living in Bothell WA. The twins came over with Mommy and Daddy to try out our swimming pool, and they were having fun with their Dad Ray (with the black hat). I looked over at the clubhouse, and I noticed some white clouds drifting in. I thought we left the blue sky and white clouds back in Cebu. Nope. Very nice afternoon in Bothell...

one of my favorite portraits of Inday, in the Pioneer Square area of Seattle, 2021

28Jun23 - 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 Seattle Waterfront walk with Inday 5 years ago, on 27Jun21 - I like Neon, even in the daytime

From 3 years ago, 27Jun23, in Bothell: After I finished my coffee, toast and computer routine this morning, I thought to myself "I don't feel like walking. We're going over to babysit the twins in a few hours anyway." I got up, and my body started to get me dressed for my walk. It was 6:10am, and I was out the door 5 minutes later.

Two photos from my FB Memories this morning: 1. sunrise image with blackberry bushes, Tukwila WA 2019, and 2. a photo of my reflection in a pond at SeaTac Park in south Seattle, taken by my brother Mike in 2016. I look like a Francis Bacon painting - "Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery."

another taxi rides photo shoot from 2022:

Found art - 7 years ago, 23Jun2017, in Seattle's Georgetown area: 1. using orange rainsuit for motorbike cover, and 2. thumbtack embellishment to garden branch trimming - look close!

I did a series of what I call "Taxi shots" over the years. This group is from a taxi ride I took in 2022. The last photo was a startled reaction with my camera shutter finger. We were at a traffic slight stop when this young girl bumped into my window to see inside, hoping to get some pesos. I remembered being surpised when I looked at the image later...and sad.

MapMyWalks I'm going to start using my MapMyWalk app again, as of this morning. Done! My app tells me that I walked 1.84 miles and I had an elevation # of 72.2 ft? ! walked/meandered for around 30-40 minutes. I like looking at these maps after my walks because I can see where I walked, and I like the different business names - eg "Hey Joe". Our home is at the #2 thingy, and the long double red line is when I came down in the elevator after I started the app. I stopped the app when I returned, before I got back on the elevator. I'm not really sure what those numbers are, but #1 is on the first part of my Loop walk. The small lassoo circle to the right of #2 is where I went to the mini mart at the hotel next door. Robinsons store didn't have any Schweppes Ginger Ale. Ooops! That's wrong. The Ginger Ale thing was from a later walk for groceries at Robinsons. The Lassoo in this map is when I sat down in the lobby downsairs after my walk return so I could Save the Walk and turn off the app. Whatever. I like my MapMyWalk App.

I shared this post from the Seatte Times in 2012 about the Indigenous Coast Salish people from this area. I took some photos of totem poles during one of our downtown walks. The first totem pole is in the park at the North end of the Pike Place Market, and the second one is further South in the Pioneer Square area. "The totem pole, also sometimes referred to as a monumental pole, is a unique, hand-carved monument created by Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast of North America to variously portray family legends and lineage, spirituality, sacred or mythological beings, and culturally important animals, people or events."