Classic Car shows: headlights

The photos are from my FB Memories folder this morning. Two other memories surfaced when I was riding my bike the other day: riding along canals with carp swimming in them when I lived in Japan, and arriving at work with icicles in my beard when I lived in in Boulder Colorado...

trying my hand at Haiku, at a Classic Car Show - - walking with Mommy - pretty colors shiny cars - little girl thinking

I have to figure out how to format this for 5-7-5 haiku

I posted this photo 4 years ago on this date, 11Jul2019. The bare tree branches tell me that it was a crisp, sunny, Winter morning. It was near our house in Tukwila, where both a small bridge and the Light Rail cross over the Green River. I miss the many walking places in the south end, but I'm a Bothellite now. Our walking/bike riding options up here have made the transition easy...

There's a dense, forested area going up the hill behind our apartment complex. I decided to go exploring the other day, just like when I was a kid. When I was in elementary school, there was a lot at the end of our block we called "the woods". These are some shots of some "woods" I took the other day, as seen through my 77yo eye(s)...

Classic Car shows: wonderful paint jobs, colors and lines

more leaves...silhouettes

I saw Jesse, the Maintenance Guy for our apartment complex, coming around the corner at the far end of the main road. His little golf cart came to a stop, and then it slowly started moving towards me. The man standing under the medium sized tree, looking up into it's branches, was me, with my camera. Jesse did a U Turn, and resumed whatever he was doing...

These shots are from last year's car show here in Bothell. I was focusing on reflections a lot...

Greenwood Car Show 2023 #4 - Tailfins "Tail fins started to appear on American cars in the late 1940s, and while many cars eventually adopted them, most experts credit Cadillac for introducing fins to the public. Although the fins served no practical purpose, they instantly connected Cadillac's luxury brand to the technological wonders that were capturing Americans' popular imagination at the time: rockets and jet airplanes." Most of my photos are of cars from the 60s.

There was a short feature on Bothell's 4th of July parade happening tomorrow when I read the paper this morning. You can see below why I don't take videos. Oh well. I filmed it around 6am this morning when I took my morning walk. I'll try to attach it to this post.

Our extended family used to go to Seaside Oregon every year on the weekend thay had their annual car show. Fun times walking along the beach, exploring the small galleries in town, and cheering for the Classic Cars and Hot Rods parade on Sunday. We celebrated our folks 60th Wedding Anniversary there in 2004. I thought about this memory when I walked by all the empty chairs people have lined up along Bothell Way this morning, all ready for our 4th of July parade tomorrow.

Greenwood Car Show 2023 #3 Interiors #1 I still have a bunch of photos from this show to share, but I have another car show in two days. There's a much smaller show here in Bothell every 4th of July. Yes!

Now that the weather is nicer, we've been going to the park with the twins more often.

These two photos of my "boxes" were in my FB Memories this morning. The fat one with marine plywood was around 8"? in diameter. I was on a photo shoot down by the Mukilteo Ferry, and after I returned home, I remembered we left this piece on the rock down at the beach. Yikes! It was still there when I returned. The taller "Walking Box" made out of walnut was around 16-18" tall, and I remember tipping it while sanding and the little "beak" drawer came out and cracked. Two pieces. Again, Yikes! But being a hardwood like walnut, it was a clean break. I applied some good wood glue etc and it was good to go. I also drilled a little hole and put in a small dowel in upper inside cavity, so it wouldn't fall out if you tipped it like that. You could raise the front of the drawer a little if you wanted to remove it.

I like checking out the winnings of golfers in the Sports section after each tournament. Deep pocket sponsors. Today I read that the NBA Raptors' Fred VanVleet, moving to Houston, will make about $525,000 per game over the next three seasons. Not bad. I was debating with myself his morning. Should I buy the larger box of OFC's generic Guatemalan Dark coffee pods for my Keurig :)