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2003,
April 27 While taking late afternoon sustenance at the Ebru Mediterranean Grill, Hiromi and I decided to drive east toward the Cascades... Photo-Journal... |
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2008, July
22 With Ai-chan... I picked up a poster listing the Pokémon characters for my Nephew Will. Young Will had created a notebook with his own drawings of the Pokémon characters - click here. I would present Young Will with the Pokémon poster upon my upcoming arrival in Charlotte... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, July 5 Open Mic... they were playing a hauntingly beautiful version of How Great Thou Art... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, July 8 After breakfast at Crossroads Cafe I encountered a bunch of dummies... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, July 13 The Wiretappers were singing a nice rendition of the old Porter Wagoner song "Someone I Used To Know"... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, July 16 Ebru Mediterranean Deli... enjoying a Falafal Plate and fresh squeezed lemonade... good lemonade... prepared by Manuel... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, July 20 Correo Aereo... folk styles from Mexico and Central America... I didn't catch the guitar/harp player's name but we had a guitar chat between sets - his knowledge was like that of a "professor of Latin American folk music"... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, July 26 I ran into those dummies again... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, July 28 1st shot: Biscuits & Gravy at Crossroads Cafe... Larry serving... 2nd shot: Homer the Geologist, formerly of Texas, my weekend breakfast buddy. Homer spent years sailing the Seven Seas working on geologic survey ships, and oh the stories he can tell - including encounters with North African pirates and having been stabbed on a dock in Mexico! Photo-Journal... |
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2012, July 30 Crossroads Cafe... German sausage melt with sauerkraut and extra pickles (sour, of course). This pickle shot was for Ward Underwood of Durham, North Carolina... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, August 1 Dripping evergreens... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, August 1 Standing around with the dummies again... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, August 3 Pearl Django, they're called... Gypsy / Django Reinhardt... nice accordion... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, August 13 Starbucks... another good find at Half Price Books - $7.00... "Guitars - Sounds, Chrome & Stars"... coffee table quality... funny how I just happened to turn right to the Gibson Dove page... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, August 16 When I walked in I thought Minnie Pearl had returned! They call themselves Pickled Okra, and the lady gave me a refrigerator magnet. And speaking of Minnie Pearl, that lady's hat still had the price tag on it... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, August 19 Larry at Crossroads Cafe threw down an interesting challenge... if I can get his soft serve machine (pictured) working for $600 or less, he'll give me free lifetime biscuits & gravy on weekends... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, August 23 Cathy Britell and William Limbach from Dusty Strings... nice autoharp... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, August 29 Ebru Mediterranean Grill... an old Faema Compact espresso machine... a classic, but unfortunately no longer in working order... Photo-Journal... |
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Day Of The Accordion, February 25, 2012 |
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2012, September 8 I observed a Pokémon tournament and it made me think of my nephew Will in Charlotte... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, September 20 The Honeyville Rascals... a ukulele trio... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, September 21 At the Barnes & Noble... "Butter My Butt and Call Me a Biscuit!" Spotting this book made me think of my Sister Jan's family in Charlotte and the fine birthday gift they sent a couple of years back... Photo-Journal... |
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Looking Back - February 5, 2010 Picking up my birthday package (from Sister Jan & family) at the Redmond Pony Express. The package arrived a little late but the contents were mysteriously doubled! Photo-Journal... |
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Looking Back - February 6, 2010 Saturday morning biscuits & coffee in Bigfoot with a new birthday tablemat on the table... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, September 22 The tile counter at Ebru Mediterranean Grill... Photo-Journal... Here's a shot of the same counter, from April of 2003, when I was with Hiromi... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, September 27 Michael Guthrie on the dulcimer singing "Shortenin' Bread"... "Mama's little baby loves shortnin', shortnin' Mama's little baby loves shortnin' bread" My Mother used to sing me this song when I was little more than a toddler. Michael's next tune was on the 6-string, a fine finger picking version of "Deep River Blues" a la Doc Watson... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, September 27 Bob the Crossroads Soundman in his "office." It occurred to me that Bob must be one of the most clapped at fellows in the Seattle area - every performer on the Crossroads stage always calls for a round of applause for Bob in recognition of the fine job he does on the soundboard night after night. Bob really shines when reinforcing acoustic instruments... Photo-Journal... |
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Friday, September 28 Bryan Bowers was singing "Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies" as I walked in... with autoharp... says he's the first "living" inductee of the Autoharp Hall of Fame. I had a pleasant chat with Bryan after his set - I asked him where in Virginia he hailed from and he replied "Yorktown, where Lord Cornwallis surrounded to George Washington in October of 1871." My kind of man! I replied that I'm from 40 miles east of Kings Mountain and Cowpens where General Daniel Morgan of the Continental Army whooped Lord Cornwallis before he got to Yorktown, in January of 1781! I bought Bryan's Bristlecone Pine CD after our chat and I'm enjoying it even as I write these words... Photo-Journal... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Bowers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlL6wxdCV_A |
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2012 September 29 After my breakfast I checked on Champion... Photo-Journal... |
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2012 September 30 The first round was on me for the first person who got back to me with at least a semi-correct explanation for this shot... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, October 3 In Starbucks... looking over at the Daily Planet News Stand as it was going out of business (after a 27 year run). Not sure where I'll pickup my monthly copy of Cowboys & Indians now... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, October 6 Saturday morning Biscuits & Gravy at Crossroads Cafe... and another good find from Half Price Books - On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods (A Geological Field Guide to the Mid-Columbia Basin). 2nd shot: Pulling out of Crosroads, bound for Issaquah and the Issaquah Salmon Days festival... with The Stanley Brothers on the player and a tall mug of coffee at hand... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, October 18 Perched where the Daily Planet stood (until recently)... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, October 11 Team lunch at Crossroads to mark the fast approaching end of yet another contract... Photo-Journal... Left front to back: Xuejun, Shawn, Steve's Bento Box, Herb, and Lorrie. Right front to back: Jeff, Chris, Chris, and Jay. |
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2012, October 23 Biscuits & gravy with teammates Jay, Herb, and Joe... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, November 2 Photo-Journal... |
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2012, November 3 Cultural Crossroads Festival... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, November 4 Cultural Crossroads Festival... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, November 10 Fine Saturday morning finger pickin' guitar. As these fellows "laid the thumb in there" I thought of my old guitar pals Tom Billotto and Rick Barry... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, November 15 Three fellows from the Dusty Strings school running through the old Flatt & Scruggs instrumental "Dear Old Dixie"... Photo-Journal... |
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Having received a couple of Christmas shipments at the Redmond Pony Express from Sister Jan's family in North Carolina, I settled into a plate of biscuits & gravy in the late afternoon at Crossroads Cafe... Photo-Journal... |
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2013, February 9 Approaching... north on 156 Ave NE... and the east entrance... |
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The Ken Olendorf Tribute Band playing "Sweet Georgia Brown." Ken passed away a couple of years ago while onstage playing piano. I knew Ken from his work at Petosa Brothers Accordions in Seattle, and it was Ken who sold me my PanJet accordion back in 2007. Ken was considered by many to be the finest accordion player in the NorthWest... |
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2013, March 17 East entrance... biscuits & gravy, and Scotish fiddler Susan Burke and Dan Carollo... St. Patrick's Day... Photo-Journal... |
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2014, February 22 Bellevue, WA... at the annual Day Of the Accordion event... 1st shot: The Smilin' Scandinavians on stage, biscuits & gravy behind me on the counter! 2nd shot: The Bonnie Birch Trio w/Fortissimo... accordion and a fine Italian tenor... Having enjoyed a rendition of "Those Were The Days," I walked away with that old song on my mind... Photo-Journal... |
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2014, March 22 At Crossroads Cafe for Saturday morning biscuits & gravy. Having worked overtime for the past 28 consecutive weeks (meaning every Saturday and Sunday), this was my first plate of Saturday morning biscuits & gravy since the first of September... Photo-Journal... |
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We ran into my old friend Jazzy... |
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2014, July 9 A biscuits and gravy QC check in advance of Pete and Christie's visit next week... Photo-Journal... |
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2014, July 13 I introduced Pete to some of my friends at Crossroads... Photo-Journal... |
