Heaven - walking along the river on a clear, sunlit, blue sky morning. Give me this during the nicer weather months, and Cebu during the 4-6 months of our NW Winter, joy... I especially liked the low angle of the sunlight at 7:30am this morning, and how it filtered through the trees. ps - Covid delayed our snow-birding a few years...

walking on both sides of the river, in black and white...

I went on a long walk with my 3 brothers yesterday morning. Very nice! The youngest is John, who is 63 or 64. Pat and Mike are older but they always remind me that I'm Really old! I get no respect :) We had breakfast outside at the Alexa's restaurant here in Bothell after our walk. In the photo where they're facing the camera, from left to right: John, Pat and Mike.

When I was walking back home yesterday morning, I stopped in front of the grocery store's flower display.

There are some days when I like my FB Memories a lot! These are posts from 3, 4, 6 and 8 years ago. The one with my brother Pat and his amazing bicycle helmet mirror was with a sculpture near the Fremont Bridge. The blue fence post was in Georgetown, and the pile of crushed glass was near some railroad tracks in Tukwila, where it "can be used as an aggregate supplement along with recycled concrete as a capping layer in the railway track formation".

Shadow self portraits #2

Addie and Claire with their 2nd cousins Jades Harms and Harmony Miller at Jade's HS Graduation Party. Congratulations Jade!

When I think about the thousands of tree photos I've taken over the years, I'm reminded of the Art student I saw at UW one Quarter back in the 70s. She was sitting at the Drumheller Fountain on campus every single day I passed by, working on some pastel? or colored pencil drawings. The water, the lighting, etc...it's different every day, every hour depending on the weather. It's the same with my "tree" photos, and I find subtle differences even when I shoot several shots of the same image. Since I like to shoot with the "Auto" setting, I'll aim at different focal points to see what changes happen from shot to shot. I do the same kind of thing when I'm editing. "What will those greens look like when I convert the image to black and white?" "What if I go further and sort of zoom in on the lines and shapes and values...?"

Talking about Selfies, this was a covid shot in my FB Memories folder this morning: "standing in front of some public art in our little downtown Bothell".

Selfies #1 I'm not a Selfie picture taker, and I get frustrated when I have to navigate around selfie takers when I'm at a special exhibition or scenic viewpoint. Oh well. I do take shadow self portraits though, and funny shots.

I usually don't go on a photo walk, come home, and edit/post them the same morning. I only got down to the pathway that fronts our apartment complex before I pulled out my camera today. Lighting, and sunshine... The green vines climbing the trees there remind me of the mossy colors we hiked by in the Olympic National Forrest long ago. I also liked the colors in the two shots with wires, one aiming across the street and the one with red leaves at the end of our parking lot.