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I only met Don Nakanishi a couple times, but the first time we met (for only an hour or so) he very nearly changed the course of my entire adult life. He passed away early this week.
After several years of waiting, the new Sound Transit Link Light Rail stations by Husky Stadium and on Capitol Hill are now open. There was quite a bit of fanfare this weekend, and Melody and I went to scope things out and ride the new segments.
Seattle's King Street Station is where we usually go when we take a train trip, but until now you could only go through the main floor and the mezzanine. Just recently, the top floor has been converted to an art space, where the first exhibit is Giant Steps: Artist Residency on the Moon.
I’ve never really felt comfortable with public speaking, but I’ve done enough presentations and toasts that I've worked out how to cope with the process. They've all been small-time gigs, for sure.
I'm fortunate to not have color blindness (that I know of), but it's still interesting to know more about what it is, and once you realize that, how you can give people a workaround for certain kinds of color blindness.
This is the last day of February (and the day which made this a Project 366 rather than 365), so it's time to look back on the month's photos.
King County Metro is testing all-electric buses in the Eastside, with hopes to use them to increase transit service without increasing greenhouse emissions.
I saw an article in the Seattle Times about the UW regents voting to demolish the More Hall Annex. This decision is controversial, and the building itself is far from usual.
The first month of the year is done, and it's time to look back at the first month of photos for my Project 366. You can view them on the January page.
As we have for the past several years, Melody and I went to the annual Seattle Times 2015 Pictures of the Year presentation, which continues to be a fun event.
I just got back from Southern California where a lot of my family gathered to celebrate my Aunt Haru’s 100th birthday. It’s amazing enough for someone to reach the century mark, but even at that age, she’s still doing amazing well physically and is extremely sharp and witty.
When taking pictures, it's all too easy to focus just on the central subject and not see what's going on in the rest of the frame. I've gotten to the point where I can see a lot of things when I'm processing photos, but what that means is I see the things that I didn't notice when I was actually taking the photo.
When I take photos, a lot of thought goes into technical and artistic details, but I put at least as much work into selecting which shots to publish. Only after that's done do I edit the images themselves. That triage process will usually result in the same set of photos no matter when I do it, but my particular style at the time has a large impact over whether a particular shot gets thumbs up or thumbs down.
Melody and I took our annual trip to Southern California, but this year was a little shorter than usual. Instead of staying through New Year's Day, we came home after a few nights, since I'll be going back down in a couple weeks. We still managed to do quite a bit during our stay.
We spent New Year's Day in Seattle this year, rather than in Southern California. We mixed old traditions with new ones, but the best part was our family gathered and spent time together.
Amazon made a foray into the brick and mortar world by opening their first physical bookstore in Seattle. It's in the upscale University Village, less than a half hour away from their South Lake Union headquarters. While there seems to be quite a lot of interest around the store, there doesn't seem to be the large crowd of people you might expect.
Having been a success last year, Sweet Week Seattle returned this year. More places participated, and instead of two weekends, this time it was a whole week. We ended up with things from ten different places (we visited all but one; my cousin thoughtfully brought one when we saw her for dinner), and fortunately some of them were ones you could take home and wait to eat, otherwise that would have been a lot of sweets.
The weekend is over, and I started the new week with a new daughter-in-law and lots of fond memories I'll look back on for a long time.
The last day of our midwest trip was very leisurely. We spent the morning with the Tashimas, and we got to see the Mealys one more time before heading out. Also, I've mentioned food on this trip quite a bit, so I thought I'd include some of the pictures I took of our meals. And like usual, I have some final thoughts.
