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?

I must have hundreds of "shadow self portrait" shots from my past decade of photo walks. These are a few recent ones from my walk along the Horse Creek here in Bothell. I call these "Who is that guy? Always following me!"

looking back at my Arboretum walk on 27Oct, the early morning sun and cold weather gave us some amazing colors, and the Totem Pole was cool...

I found this old photo of Dad and 2?yo Nate this morning:

another bit of nostalgia I found: a photo collage Mike made of my kitchen up on Lopez Island, in the early 80s...the main sources of heat were the wood burning stove in the kitchen and the fireplace in the living room

Shelton View Forest, Bothell

This first photo popped up in my "Your Memories on Facebook" feed this morning, from 4 years ago. I think it was at the Airport Light Rail Station. Ironically, I was going to share a few of my self portrait Reflection shots today, so... These are from July.

I walked down the creek along 98th Ave the other morning, and I ended up taking a gazillion photos. I realized just now that I didn't know it's name. A Search brought up this short video on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OmgvvMeYhA&feature=youtu.be
Horse Creek, right next door to our new home, ending across the street from the Bothell Landing Park and the Sammamish River Trail.

up on our deck this morning...
I love a good sunrise...

walking to the park on a cool, Fall morning...the look in the last shot wasn't so much "it's cold", but "put your camera away!"

an early morning walk in the neighborhood...