transitions...

 

I'm watching you...

 some old photos from my box-making days in the 70s?

Forgive me my body. It's 7:50am and I'm sitting in a McDonalds, eating an egg McMuffin thing with my coffee. Actually, it's an "Egg White Delight", which is a little better I guess? Some fruit when I get home. Getting up as early as I do sometimes, when I leave for my walk later like I did today, I forget that I had very little to eat. I had 2 slices of toast and a cup of coffee around 4:30 this morning. I'll post my Walk later, which included a 3 mile walk over to the Rainier Beach LRT station on MLK Way, and an LRT ride back to the Tukwila Station close to this McDonalds. Next is a 25 minute walk back down to our house, and then another 10 minute walk to where I parked the car by the Green River.
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I made a pit stop at home, and I decided to ride my bike back to the car. This is my version of a Triathlon I guess, a Walk-LRT ride (2 bucks for an "old person" Day Pass)-Walk-Bike Ride.
Life is good.

A few photos from along Martin Luther King Way:

Broken glass; piles of broken glass along some train tracks in Renton. I have to Google how they use this stuff.

Although I'm excited about getting back into my wood working, I'm also happy that my picture taking has returned. I walked north through Georgetown this morning, over the train tracks along Airport Way, West to 4th Ave and back south over the tracks again and back into GTown. A nice walk, a little over 4 miles.

Two shots from this morning:

My walk yesterday morning and my bike ride today were both exercises in nostalgia. Yesterday I walked up "the Ave" (University Avenue) and back down thru the UW campus. Today I rode my bike along the waterfront to Century Link Field, up through Chinatown, back up to Pike Place Market and the Myrtle Edwards Park.

 I didn't take out my camera until I got to 4th and Main near Chinatown 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, and I think 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.

There was this little park in downtown Walla Walla with an old building on a building facade. Wonderful lines, shadows and textures...

I'm back!
It's been 4 and half months since I posted here, the reasons being that I temporarily burned out on my photography, we had a bout of influenza (I'm never sick; sort of a sneak attack), Andrea's wedding (see below), etc...
I'll be moving on to crlazlo meanderings 3 in the not-too-distant future.

We're waiting on the Wedding Photographer's photo album, but here are some photos by family members in a short slideshow. Click on the link below:
Andrea and Ray's Wedding

Being an outdoor wedding (it was a beautiful day!), we had a portable "top of the line" restroom thing. It's the white building upper right in this photo:

Very cool, with some nice touches. This was inside the Men's side, opposite the sink.

We had some Andrea and Ray as-kids-photos on the outside of the trailer:

One of the things Andrea asked me was would I be interested in making a Ring box for the wedding. It was a wonderful request because it's been over 30 years since my "box-making" days, and my love of wood and box making has been rekindled. My tools were limited this time around, but it felt sooo good to be working again! Andrea chose to use the Walnut-Curly Maple box in the foreground:

sidewalk...