Wonderful photo of Nate and me at the ocean...taken by Mike

my current desktop image, from another trip?

I didn't know much of the history of the Blue Moon. I do know that the Blue Moon was my favorite tavern in the 70s and 80s. I remember one night, when the three of us were there, and maybe two of my brothers? Daniel Walsh, the one with the white sailor cap in this photo, pulled a claw hammer out of his pocket and pounded in a nail that was protruding from our wooden table. Everything stopped for maybe two seconds, and people looked over to see what the noise was, and then they went back to their drinking and visiting. I miss the Blue Moon... From Wikipedia Blue Moon Tavern The Blue Moon is a tavern located on the west edge of the University District, Seattle, Washington, that has been visited by many counterculture icons over the years. It opened in April 1934, soon after the repeal of Prohibition in December 1933. It is the first and oldest tavern in the U-District. It was an instant hit with students (together with the still-thriving Duchess Tavern in Ravenna); under state law, students had to trek one mile from the campus to purchase drinks.[citation needed] The Blue Moon was one of the rare bars outside of the Central District to serve African American servicemen during World War II. The tavern also provided a haven for UW professors such as Joe Butterworth who were caught up in the McCarthyist purge (Butterworth used the bar as his writing desk).[1] It had further heyday in the 1950s and 1960s. Regulars included authors Tom Robbins and Darrell Bob Houston,[2] poets Theodore Roethke, Richard Hugo, Carolyn Kizer, Stanley Kunitz, and David Wagoner, and painters Richard Gilkey and Leo Kenney. Visitors included Dylan Thomas, Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg and Mik Moore. A popular story states that sometime in the late 1960s, Tom Robbins tried to call the artist Pablo Picasso in Barcelona from a pay phone at the Blue Moon Tavern. Supposedly, Robbins got through to Picasso, but the artist refused to accept the overseas collect calling charges. The Blue Moon declined in the 1970s. Efforts to "redevelop" the property in 1989 were derailed by community activists led by Walt Crowley; however, an attempt in 1990 to gain landmark status failed. Developers spared the tavern after landmark status was denied. The Blue Moon remains one of the few surviving blue-collar landmarks in Seattle. The Blue Moon (1934) and the Duchess (1934) are the oldest taverns in the University of Washington area. In 1995, the alley to the west of the Blue Moon was named Roethke Mews in honor of Theodore Roethke, a famous poet.

This photo was in news brief on my laptop awhile back. The American flag and the red bandana reminded me of my "Dennis Hopper" painting...acrylic, painted in the early 70s. I have no idea where it is now. Hopefully someone has it hanging up in their home somewhere. It's from one of the last scenes in "Easy Rider", where Peter Fonda takes off his jacket and puts it under Hopper's head. The second photo was taken in Mike and Pat's apartment in the Fremont/Ballard area, sometime in the mid 70s. JR is on the left and I'm the one with the hat. The third photo is the original drawing I used, with little spots of different colored paint. And the last one was a Paint app thing I played with some years back. I am curious where that painting disappeared to...

taxi ride shots from 2018, in b&w

the trees and lines of Winter, and blend in the lighting of some early morning sunlight...from 2019

The passing of time is sort of scary sometimes. This was in my FB Memories this morning. Pffffft! 3 years. I could have posted it yesterday...

I posted this 6 years ago, on 17May2020 - "When I lived in Japan, hearing the sound of my copy of the English Japan Times drop through the slit in my apartment’s metal door was one of my favorite things. I’m sitting here, reading my morning newspaper, and thinking about all of the hard print newspapers dying off nowadays." I can't remember the last time I read a hard copy newspaper. Sad... ps - The city where I was living had a regulation that allowed buildings with 5 floors or less to have No elevators, so my newspaper delivery person walked up 5 flights of stairs every day. This has nothing to do with this photo. I just like the colors...

I'm not posting to FB anymore, but I still Follow some photographers. I also check my daily FB Memories photos. These Memories were from today's post, from the years 2014,18,20,22 and 23, in no particular order.

looking forward to walking along this trail in July...

Boxcars and Graffiti another favorite

Chrome and Grills - from one of the Car Shows they have every Summer in the US

This is a shot straight out from our window yesterday, showing the new BDO bank building at sunset. I'll get a pan video one evening showing the hotel on one side of us with it's animated colored lights and the BDO bldg. The bent pole to the left is on top of the Metrobank next door. It was bent over by Typhoon Odette, and it will remain that way forever, just like the "Ghost Building" on the back right. They ran out of money, or they didn't check the land restrictions whatever...

Island Hopping

from a post 12 years ago: "I think, after another 7 or 8 years?, I'll be done with all of these upgrades, all of these tecnological advances. I might be there already. I remember my first big upgrade, the Apple IIe. It might have been "the enhanced Apple IIe in 1985, which had 128k RAM". Wow! 128k!" I'm just kicking at these technological hurdles nowadays...knock'em over or push them aside. I can't figure them out anyway. Haha. But I have been dipping my toes into AI lately. We'll see...

I walked by this Osprey (Fish Hawk) nest in Tukwila often. This shot is from 2015. Actually, most of my shots, like this one, were from the other side of the river. A pair would nest there every year, and I could watch their trips bringing in more nesting material when they returned from their time away. In a short while a baby chick would appear, peeking it's little head over the edge of the nest. Then came the standing up and flapping of wings, over and over again. Getting ready. And then one day all three would be gone for another year...

"YOU CAN BE OUR SERVANT" I found this Memory post in FB today: "We picked up the twins from school last Wednesday. After they came out of their classrooms, we followed them and their kindergarten friends to a small wooded area just off the school playground. There were a few other Grandparents with us. The girls were busy playing their pretend whatever games when I walked over to pick the twins' backpacks up off the ground. On the way back to sit down, one 6 yo looked up at me and and said "You can be our Servant"...

from 30Apr2020, 6 years ago: Just like when we lived in the south end those 23 years, and I walked the same paths over and over again. When you're ouside, every day is different. The lighting, the clouds, the colors of the leaves, the wildlife, everything, even here, in this Urban environment. I love the sound of the camera shutter, and I like how my walks often slide into a kind of theme of the day. Two days ago, it was overcast in Tukwila WA, and I found myself looking at the riverside reflections along the trail:

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I listen to audiobooks when I carve wood or edit photos. I've been focused on historical Biographies lately. They've followed some books about 1776 America and the Revolution, the Civil War and Korea. My favorite Presidents bio so far is John Adams. That's because his wife, Abigail Adams, was a prolific letter writer just like her husband, and there was so much material the author could draw upon. I followed John Adams with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. I just started Benjamin Franklin. Not a President, but so far, this might be my new favorite.

I'm thinking about deleting some of my first "slideshow" attempts posted here. They're slowing down the loading of my blog.

I've been having an epiphany in slow motion these past 5 months or so... trying to find some combination of my computer photography work and my wood-carving. My bad eye, the right one with it's WMD, had done a number on my overall life style and my daily routines, and my good eye was working overtime. I'm now alternating between these two activities, and it seems to be helping. These photos show the wooden plate I'm working on now, and some others, in order: pieces waiting for additonal carving/sanding/oiling, some on a stairways wall, one that Inday put on the coffee table, my current Favorite one sitting on our mantle, and a close-up. The pieces are mostly acacia wood plates that are popular here in the Philippines, and the dimensions are in the 5-12" range. The wood is already dried/cured and I can just start carving. Sometimes I just let the grains and colors suggest what to cut, and sometimes I'll start carving with a specific idea in mind.

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I'm liking the Google Slides app better \

With the eye issues I've been dealing with lately, I'm thinking about doing some short slideshow videos of my old photos and sharing them here. This is test #1:

edited 30Apr2026 - this was my last FB post, from 26January... island hopping Horizons #2 - more images focusing on the lines of the horizon...

island hopping Horizons #1 - towards the end of our island hopping day, I started focusing on the lines of the horizon, and the bands of color and texture in the water, and on the islands we passed by...