On the Whitman College Campus in Walla Walla, Washington:
"Carnival, 1997, Jim Dine. An internationally known artist with roots in the Pop Art of the 1960s, Dine used a chain saw to form Carnival from a single tree, then cast it in bronze at the Walla Walla Foundry."

I really liked the metallic echo sound when I knocked on it...

Mike, making a point in front of a big tree...

a few more wedding day (June 25th) photos...

brother John, with daughters Brittany and Erin...

building tree shadows...

cyclone fence...

Trees are alive, and this old tree is my favorite! He's located just behind the Seattle Sounders practice facilities here in Tukwila.

These photos are from a post I made in April of 2015. I didn't take photos today when I walked along the Green River. There's a pair of Osprey (Fish Hawks) that nest across the river from BECU every year, and this year they had three babies. The youngsters are now flexing their wings and flying out from the nest in these wide loops over the river. Very cool...

It's blackberry-picking time again!
Made me think of Richard Brautigan's "Blackberry Motorist":

Just like my annual routine of watching "The Seven Samurai", sort of anyway, every once in awhile I need to read Richard Brautigan. This is a found poem in a book by Richard Brautigan:

"By accident, you put
Your money in my
Machine (#4)
By accident, I put
My money in another
Machine (#6)
On purpose, I put
Your clothes in the
Empty machine full
Of water and no   
Clothes

It was lonely.

When my brother John and I were visiting Mom yesterday, I pulled out my camera to take some nice shadow photos. Mom asked JR "what's he doing?" "He's taking a picture of a chair." "What!?" "Yeh, right? An empty chair?" :)

looking out the kitchen window yesterday, when I was washing dishes...

the park behind the Seatac Community Center, during an early morning walk last April...

Playing around with Google Earth...our condo is in the left tall building center, with the light blue vertical line...

We went for a walk in downtown Walla Walla during our extended weekend in June for Andrea and Ray's wedding. These photos are called "pausing, and looking down into the water..."

I met Pat in Bothell this morning, at the half way point in his 11? mile (one way) daily commute to work (Edmonds to the Sand Point area NE of U Wash), and we bicycled together along the Burke Gilman Trail to his job near Magnuson Park. My RT ended up being 10.6 miles. So pretty! Lots of trees along the trail, this being the "Evergreen State", and it was fun looking at all of the nice houses along the Lake Washington. I'm posting the mapmyride map, and also a Google Earth image showing the trail with those houses. Nice ride. Going to and from our rendezvous was interesting, and I'll save some comments about automobile commuters and our Seattle traffic for another post.