Project 365 - A photo a day

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.

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Crazy weather

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.

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Light rail groundbreaking

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...

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Parallel parking

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.

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Photo - First snow of the season

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.

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Photo - Wild Horses

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.

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Photo - Kellen and Parkour

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.

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Photo - Bellagio Fountains

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.

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