I'm 3/4 through Project 365 and it seemed like a good time to post some of my favorite pictures over the last three months.
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I'm 3/4 through Project 365 and it seemed like a good time to post some of my favorite pictures over the last three months.
We're past the half-way point in Project 365, so it's time for an update. The pictures below range from late September through the end of 2009.
We're coming up on a quarter of the way through Project 365, and I thought it would be a good time to post some more pictures I found interesting.
It's hard to believe we've already been here almost a week, but so we have. We've hit multiple 100+ days, and will be more than happy with the 20°F drop in temperature when we get back to Seattle.
Even though I haven't posted about Project 365 in a while, it's still going on. I haven't been able to completely fill the past several weeks due to either Kellen or Tynor (or both) not being available to upload photos, but hopefully I'll be able to back-fill either later this month or early September.
All of our Project 365 pictures for the first partial week and the first full week are posted. We're still working out a good way for Tynor to send his pictures to me, which is why there aren't any week 2 photos for him yet.
Kellen decided he wanted to document his 20th year by doing a Project 365, where he will take one picture each day and post all of them online. I asked what he thought about Tynor and me doing it along with him, and he said it would be great. So we can look at all of our pictures side-by-side, I've also set up a Fujimoto Project 365 page, optimistically labeling it as 2009-2010; I figured we may do it again sometime in the future.
Being July 4th, I thought it would be appropriate to post a photo of fireworks. This was taken in 2003 at Gas Works Park in Seattle. You can just make out some of the original gas works machinery at the lower left, and just some of the tens of thousands of people in the park on at the lower right.
Many people asked "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?" when the holder of the most impressive sports record (56 game hitting streak) died in 1999. Many will be citing Paul Simon this week about how Eastman Kodak will "take my Kodachrome away" after the company announced that it will retire the venerable slide film of my youth.
As I was walking up to this cat boarding building I saw a cat walking around the corner, which struck me as humorous. My first thought was either the cat had escaped or was looking for a place to stay. Or perhaps this is that particular cat's accommodations?
A couple years ago we had some flagstone installed for paths in our front yard. That fall we planted groundcover, each smaller than the size of a quarter and about a foot apart. We weren't sure how well they'd do, but it was a relatively small investment.
Seems we normally get one pretty good snowstorm every winter, with perhaps a second one. Some years we've gotten no snow. This year, however, has been truly different, with at least a couple times when we've had several inches on the ground, a couple other times when we've had an inch or so, and a couple others where the ground was at least white. The weather is warm enough now that even if it does snow, it doesn't hang around very long.
The greater Seattle area will be getting light rail service starting later this year going between downtown and SeaTac airport. An extension was approved to extend service north to UW, and that project starts this year with completion targeted for 2016. Sound Transit held a ceremonial groundbreaking ceremony yesterday near Husky Stadium where the UW station will be. Of course, they didn't really dig into the ground...
This picture was snapped quickly with my cell phone, which is why the quality isn't great. The house is on the way when walking between work and home. If you look closely you can make out that it's a car pulling into a garage. What's different about that? The garage is only about 15 feet deep, so the car needs to parallel parking into it. When the door is closed it looks like a normal two-car garage.
We don't get snow too often in Seattle, but it looks really pretty when we do. I suppose that's true almost anywhere, but it doesn't reduce our appreciation for the white stuff. It's not unusual for us to accumulate a few inches once or twice a year, but some years we don't get any and others we get a lot. We'll see how this year pans out - we apparently missed getting snow a couple days ago because of a low pressure system which ended up going to the north instead of through Seattle.
When we lived in Sunnyvale, CA we were not very far from the Wolfe Road exit off I-280. We noticed there was a big ado on Wolfe so we put Kellen (about 1 year old at the time) into the backpack, grabbed cameras, and went to be typical gawkers. At first it was hard to tell what was going on with the traffic pattern, but then we saw the tail of an airplane.
Every time we drive to Spokane we go by the Wild Horses Monument near Vantage, WA (where I-90 crosses the Columbia River). One year I decided to hike up to take a look. The time of day was just right to have a near-silhouette and the clouds were also cooperating. There are several horses in the sculpture, but as a whole the piece is actually incomplete. The artist had planned to have the horses spilling out of a bowl, like a cornucopia, but the funding still isn't available.
We met up with Melody's cousin and his family on our trip to Spokane in 6/2007. This zip line is in Lincoln Park which is down the hill from Rockwood Manor (where we usually stay). I was very lucky to get so close to matching Hans' movement as he went across.
Kellen has been doing Parkour for a couple years now, and he thoroughly enjoys it. When we were in CA to celebrate my parents' 50th anniversary we were able to stay in town for the Fujimoto July 4th Picnic. While we were at the park, Kellen put some tape between the poles of a pull-up bar and was jumping between the tape and the bar, raising the tape after each attempt. I took some movies of him and split out a few frames from one of them to blend into one photo. You can see that he indeed was leaping up from the ground and cleared the red tape. The vertical supports moved quite a bit during his jump.
Earlier this year one of my aunts celebrated her 90th birthday in Las Vegas. One thing I did with my cousins is to watch the Bellagio Fountains. This performance was to the song "One" from the play "A Chorus Line", and as you can see, the fountains are choreographed to the music, although it's hard to capture that in a still image. At times the water did look like a high-kicking chorus line.