When I cut back on my photo walks in September, I started carving again. The first two shots are details from when I started this piece, which is 10" in diameter. One of my favorite parts of this process is watching the grains and colors come out when I rub in the oil. I'll upload more photos after I do that. My name, Reinholz, means Clean Wood in German. The "kanji" (Japanese writing using Chinese characters) for Reinholz would be 清森 (清 means clean/pure, and 森 means wood/forest). My hanko (my name stamp in Japanese), would be pronounced "kiyo-mori".

This is the Christmas tree in Bothell, from an evening walk on 23Nov21. They have the "Christmas Tree of Hope" over in the Fuente Osmena circle park near where we are now. It's over 120 feet tall, and it's different every year. I'll walk over and take some photos soon. My plan was to get some photos then, but Typhoon Odette destroyed it several weeks later, on 22Dec21.

We're unpacking and organizing after being away for 18 months or so. I found some masks and a face shields in an end table, and I thought back to the last time we were here. It was the tail end of Covid (2021-2022), and we decided to fly out of LA so we could fly into Cebu on a direct flight. This way we bypassed Manila. Our Quarantine here was only 5 days, and Manila would have been longer. Then we would have had another flight to Cebu after that. The flight from LA to Cebu was 15 hours(!), but there were a lot of empty seats. Inday and I could pick an empty row and stretch out for a nap.

I like shopping in foreign countries. The Chuckie chocolate milk was a must buy 😋

21Nov23 - That was fast, our first week back in Cebu! I'm going to start posting again in FB I think, but my blog (crlazlomeanderings2.blogspot.com) will be my main Sharing/Journal page. I want to start taking photos again as well. One of the issues behind stopping was the need for change in subject matter. I was posting a lot in crlazlo meanderings 2.1 all along anyway because I always did a preliminary post/view there before I shared it on FB. Busy day scheduled today: pay some bills at the bank and Club Ultima, check out the Gym at Club Ultima, do some grocery shopping. A few first impressions of Cebu: 1. the motorcycle riders weaving in and out of traffic (they must know the exact spans of their handlebars- it's fascinating watching them go between cars when we come up to a stoplight...) 2. I Love the taxis here! A buck or two US, and you can go anywhere in our city area. Nate and Airi are going to be amazed when they get here at the end of December. Taxis in Japan cost an arm and a leg!

from my FB Memories folder #2

from my FB Memories folder...

7Sep2020

6Sep2017

August walks, in black and white - Pt 2

August walks, in black and white - Pt 1

I have to charge my camera batteries! My recent photos, shot with an iPhone, are sort of hit and miss. I enjoy the editing part of photography a lot, and I'm thinking cell phone cameras give me less to play with. I think the golden bronze colors of the early morning sun just confused my phone's camera. I didn't include any of them here, but a few of the shots reminded me of the old postcards you would find at small stores and gas stations during road trips. Another thing I want to do is take some photos with my telephoto lens again.

My walk this morning was with a 56F temp, not cold like the 28F temp I had a few mornings this past Winter, but cool. Very different from my walks coming up after our return to Cebu in November. Instead of the quiet and less people here, there will be more sounds, more color, and more smiling faces. The subject matter of my photos will change. I liked the clouds this morning, and the sun was slowly coloring the trees as my walk was ending, similar to these photos I took last Sunday.

My walk this morning was with a 56F temp, not cold like the 28F temp I had a few mornings this past Winter, but cool. Very different from my walks coming up after our return to Cebu in November. Instead of the quiet and less people here, there will be more sounds, more color, and more smiling faces. The subject matter of my photos will change. I liked the clouds this morning, and the sun was slowly coloring the trees as my walk was ending. These shots were taken with my cell phone.

Closing out August, and the leaves are mostly green and orange hues. In a month or so, we'll begin seeing some bright reds and yellows...

This was the field in Walla Walla (Eastern Washington) where Andrea and Ray got married in 2016...