"After decades underground, over 1/2 mile of Horse Creek is being daylighted through a new mixed-use urban neighborhood, as part of city of Bothell’s Downtown Revitalization Plan" - 2016. One of my many new walks in Bothell is the Horse Creek. It's bordered with black metal fencing, and it makes me think of a Zoo, but with plants and foliage inside. Going from the Bothell Library across the street from us, it meanders the half mile or so up to the McMenamins Anderson School Hotel, also very cool.
I've been taking photos of the creek during my walks to the grocery store.

back into my Kirkland walk folder...

post from 4 years ago: on Seattle's Light Rail, Westlake Station...

4 (2..?) ------> 74
Pfffffffffft....

more shots from my recent Kirkland walk...

If this place existed, and I knew about it when Nate was a toddler, it would have been one of our regular stops. One of my discoveries while walking around Kirkland the other day. I still have "Train Simulator" on my old computer I think, but I was too cheap back then to invest in the real world like controls shown here...

I wandered around downtown Kirkland for the first time yesterday. I did an hour long walk and photo shoot after I dropped off my cell phone to get the screen replaced. A few shots...

You bike or walk over the bridge (photo I posted earlier) and go down the Sammamish Trail, an early morning sun rewards you with all kinds of lines and colors and textures in the trees. I love trees!

pedestrian bridge, crossing the Sammamish River in Bothell...

This photo pretty much captures the mood when we brothers get together to watch UW Football at John's house. JR being all excited and yelling, Mike being Mike :), good food, and Teresa trying to ignore us. Every once in awhile, I would turn my camera and take a shadow picture...

My list of "why I like living in Bothell" is growing. I feel safe again on my early morning walks, not like when I lived in Japan, but better than when I was walking in Tukwila and the South End. I'm still carrying a small pepper spray thing with me out of habit, something I started doing after a scary incident with a homeless guy alongside the Green River Trail last year. This frazzled guy with crazy eyes emerged from the bushes along the river, and when he saw my camera, he threatened to attack me. He said I was taking pictures of him. We "discussed" the situation for what seemed like forever, probably less than 5 minutes, and he had some jerky charge like moves. I started walking again, and he followed me for a bit, and then went on past me. I remember thinking "the only weapon I have is my camera", and "I don't want to break my camera!!"  

These are the only photos I took this morning - the first one was looking out the front windshield of the our car when I dropped off my Better Half at work, and the second one is the sidewalk across the street from where we live. A drizzly NW Fall morning.

Being an early riser, I've always been more of a SunRises person. A few days ago I went up on the Deck to catch a SunSet, and I was rewarded.

I do miss my walks and rides in the South end, but this is nice too: the Burke Gilman Trail...

I went on a short Fall bike ride with Gary Benson this morning, S/SW along the Burke Gilman Trail from Bothell to the Lake Forest Park Town Center. We went into the Honey Bear Bakery there and had some "Meat Cups", sort of a combination chili/soup, with some little round slices of baked bread on the side, only $5.25 each. Yummy, and the perfect break food in the middle of our bike ride. I liked the Bike bike rack...

Unlike Dad, I do NOT have a Green Thumb. I did have a small victory with this sunflower though, from our roof-top Pea Patch. This shot was from sometime in September?