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1998,
March 3 After hearing that the mammoth Russian Antonov AH-124-100 (formerly the AN-124-100) was parked at the nearby Charlotte airport, Greg Whitcomb and I took a long lunch and went over to have a look. This is said to be the world's largest airplane (as of 1998)... Photo-Journal... |
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1998, April 17 Baby Will and Sister Jan... in Raleigh, North Carolina. The camera flash(s) created a silhouette of Mother as she also was snapping a photo... and 2-day old Baby Will seemed to be waving at the cameras! Photo-Journal... |
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1998,
May 24 The Bixby Bridge... Big Sur, California... Photo-Journal... |
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1998,
December 10 Roslyn, Washington... Photo-Journal... |
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1998,
December 11 Seattle, Washington with Chieko... Photo-Journal... |
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1999,
March 20 The Rolling Stones at the Charlotte Coliseum... Photo-Journal... 1st shot: Michiko and Chiyo before the show. 2nd shot: Keith Richards and Bobby Keys. 3rd shot: Charlie Watts and Keith Richards... |
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1999, May 1 With Michiko and Hiroko at a cultural festival in Lexington, North Carolina... Photo-Journal... 3rd shot: Later in the day... the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra at Keppel Auditorium, on the Catawba College campus in Salisbury... |
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1999, May 15 Lunch with Hiroko in Salisbury, North Carolain. Photo-Journal... |
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1999, May 30 1st shot: Michiko and Hiroko at Pink Beds, North Carolina. 2nd shot: Hiroko and Michiko at Gatlinburg, Tennessee. 3rd shot: Michiko. Photo-Journal... |
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1999,
July 6 Myrtle Beach... crazy fish... Photo-Journal... |
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1999, July 10 To and from the Scottish Highland Games at Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina... Photo-Journal... |
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1999, July 17 and 18 With Michiko and Hiroko at Wrightsvile Beach, North Carolina... Photo-Journal... 4th shot: "The Ruins," east of Charlotte... |
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1999, July 22 Saying goodbye to Michiko at the Charlotte airport... 4th shot: My last glimpse of Michiko... Photo-Journal... |
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1999, July 26 Father & son... Will and Matt... Photo-Journal... |
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1999, July 29 Hiroko leaves for a vacation in Japan... Photo-Journal... 1st shot: At the Charlotte airport ticket counter. 2nd shot: Queen Charlotte, outside the airport. 3rd shot: The Charlotte skyline from the airport parking deck. |
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1999, July 30 John Outen's "relocating to Seattle" luncheon in Dilworth Park... slicing a Hamburger Biscuit... Photo-Journal... |
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1999,
August 7 1st shot: John's relocation to Seattle party... with his grandparents. 2nd shot: John's farewell, before setting off to Seattle. Photo-Journal... |
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1999,
August 14 1st shot: Hiroko contacting the mother ship with some kind of strange receiver... 2nd shot: Sumimasen... Photo-Journal... |
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1999,
August 20 Carolina Panthers vs. Pittsburgh Steelers at Ericsson Stadium in Charlotte... 1st shot: Bob Patterson dances a jig. 2nd shot: Kevin Greene. 3rd shot: A Carolina downpour. Photo-Journal... |
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1999,
August 22 1st shot: The man seated at the bottom of this scan is my Father. I took this photo with my trusty Sony Mavica FD91 and then did a foreground/background separation using Corel Photo-Paint 8. Father emailed the picture to the Charlotte Observer for the "Double Take" feature. 2nd shot: The original. Photo-Journal... |
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1999,
August 24 Dwight Yoakam... in Knoxville, Tennessee at the Tennessee Theatre... 3rd shot: Carina with super-picker Pete Anderson... Photo-Journal... |
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1999,
August 31 Sister Jan, Matt, and Will... moving day... Photo-Journal... 2nd shot: Will inspects a door in his new house... |
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1999,
September 25 Tom Petty with a Gibson Dove, and the Rickenbacker... Photo-Journal... |
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1999,
October 6 Chiyo's new Honda... Photo-Journal... |
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1999, October 17 NC Air National Guard 50th Anniversary AirShow at Charlotte/Douglas Airport... Photo-Journal... |
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1999, November 13, 14, and 16 San Francisco Bay Area... Photo-Journal... |
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1999, Thanksgiving 1st shot: Mother and Sister Jan... at Farmwood... Photo-Journal... 2nd shot: Tim Young and Daisy... |
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1999, November 27 Taking pictures with Akiko... in Charlotte... Photo-Journal... |
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1999, December 2 Brother Brian turns 40... Will presents a gift... at Farmwood... Photo-Journal... |
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1999, December 21 A pre-Christmas family gathering... Photo-Journal... |
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1999 December 22 Alan Christian at the Bayou Kitchen in Charlotte... Photo-Journal... |
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1999,
December 27 Folsom Prison in California... Photo-Journal... |
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1999,
December 28 Virginia City, Nevada... Photo-Journal... |
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1999,
December 31 Chieko, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains between Nevada and California... Photo-Journal... |
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2000,
January 1 Santa Cruz, California... "To Honor Surfing"... Photo-Journal... |
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2000,
January 2 Monterey, California... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, February 19 Smithers... Sister Jan, Matt and Will's new doggie. At Farmwood... Will and Smithers working in the back yard... Photo-Journal... |
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2000,
March 31 in Winston-Salem with Brodie... and Christie and Gary... Photo-Journal... |
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2000,
April 1 in Durham with Carina... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, April 8 Hoover Dam... Nevada/Arizona... 3rd shot: On the road to laughlin, Nevada. Photo-Journal... |
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2000, April 9 Donkey bandits... in the Arizona desert on Route 66, between Oatman and Lake Havasu... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, April 10 Chieko... at Hoover Dam... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, April 11 Las Vegas... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, April 15 Will at two... at Hamilton Manor... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, April 16 With Hiroko at the Spencer Train Yard, Spencer, North Carolina... Photo-Journal... |
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2000,
April 30 At the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC... 1st shot: Yuki. 3rd shot: Chiyo and Yuki. Photo-Journal... |
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1st shot: Father
poured on the special house hot sauce and then shouted "yee-haw!"...
then he went for that water glass! 2nd shot: Father was aglow from the hot sauce for a full 10 minutes! |
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Feliz
cumpleaños! 3rd shot: Matt's ear set aglow by the setting sun... or was it the hot sauce? |
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Father's birthday celebration (a day early)
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Charlotte...
Photo-Journal... The house mariachi band was excellent! Father called out for the old Ranchera song "Cielito Linda" and the band was happy to oblige. Father then requested "Malagueña" and the guitar player sat down at our table and delighted us with a rendition that would have made Roy Clark proud! |
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2000, May 14 Brother Brian's harley-Davidson Softail Custon... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, May 20 A Pro Second Admendment demonstration outside the Charlotte Convention Center where the NRA national convention was taking place. Notice the nut from the "objective" Charlotte Observer crew covering the event holding his nose (in protest) of the demonstration. Unbiased reporting is something that one does not get from the Charlotte Observer. Photo-Journal... |
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2000, June 17 My prefered lane at the Simmons YMCA in east Charlotte... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, June 17 Dinner with Chiyo... slicing a block of tofu... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, July 28 - Day 1 Charlotte in the rearview... as I began my cross-country relocation drive from Charlotte to Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, July 28 - Day 1 1st shot: Westward into the North Carolina mountains. 2nd shot: The green grass of Kuntucky. 3rd shot: Cincinnati, Ohio. 4th shot: Indiana. Photo-Journal... |
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2000, July 29 - Day 2 1st shot: Indiana. 2nd shot: Chicago. 3rd shot: I stopped here, east of Madison, Wisconsin as the trip odometer hit 1000 miles... 4th shot: Wisconsin. Photo-Journal... |
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2000, July 30 - Day 3 1st shot: St. Paul. 2nd shot: Minnesota. 3rd shot: Continental Divide. 4th shot: The Lewis & Clark Trail. Photo-Journal... |
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2000, July 31 - Day 4 1st shot: Mandan, North Dakota. 2nd shot: At Lewis & Clark's Fort Mandan, north of Bismark, North Dakota. I was re-reading parts of the Lewis & Clark Journals along the way... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, July 31 - Day 4 Just before saying goodbye to the folks back in Charlotte, beloved Mother handed me a box of Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop-tarts (knowing well my fondness for said product). I declared that I would enjoy the last one as I crossed the distant Montana border, causing Father to snicker and predict that the last one would be gone before I crossed the county line! I took that as a challenge and this shot was proff that I did in fact save the last Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop-tart for the Montana border! Photo-Journal... |
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2000, July 31 - Day 4 Pompey's Pillar... Montana... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, August 1 - Day 5 1st shot: Billings, Montana. 2nd shot: Three Forks, Montana. 3rd shot: The Continental Divide... Montana. 4th shot: Chieko... east of Butte.... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, August 2 - Day 6 1st shot: Chieko at the Clark Fork River in Montana. 2nd shot: Entering Idaho. 3rd shot: First sign of Seattle... Eastern Wasington. 4th shot: Chieko at the Columbia River. Photo-Journal... |
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2000, August 3 - Day 7 1st shot: Eastern Washington. 2nd shot: Roslyn, Washington. 3rd shot: I-90 Floating Bridge over Lake Washington. 4th shot: Seattle... Pike Place Market. Photo-Journal... |
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2000, August 5 - Viewing Seattle 1st shot: The Space Needle. 2nd shot: From the Space Needle. 3rd shot: The waterfront and Mount Rainier. 4th shot: Seattle from West Seattle. Photo-Journal... |
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2000, September 15 John and Jeannie at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle, enjoying The Derailers... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, October 28 Dartford Station, on the eastern edge of London... a chance meeting happened there back around 1960, or so the story goes... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, November 16 Orlando... Disney World fireworks... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, November 24 Seaside, Oregon... Photo-Journal... |
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2000, December 8 Prague, Czeck Republic... Antonin Dvorak and Prague Castle... Photo-Journal... |
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2000,
December 31 On the ferry between downtown Seattle and Bainbridge Island, on my way to British Columbia, Canada... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, January 3 Vancouver, British Columbia... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, January 15 1st shot: Snoqualmie Falls, a few miles east of Bellevue, WA. 2nd shot: Roslyn, WA...The Roslyn Cafe. 3rd shot: Roslyn, WA... The Brick, where I celebrated my birthday. Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
February 22 Charleston, South Carolina... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
March 4 At the Stadium Exhibition Center in downtown Seattle... Photo-Journal... * My interest in RV's did not start here - that interest goes back many years... but this show (along with the cross-country drive from Charlotte to Seattle during the summer of 2000) did mark the beginning of what became my three year "RV search period." The Bigfoot emerged as the top candidate early on... |
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2001, March Hat 'n' Boots... in south Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, March The old Wilburton Train Trestle in Bellevue. I always think of "The Bridge On The River Kwai" when I pass by... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, April 21 New boots, lemonade, and the Freemont Troll... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, April 22 A busker on the waterfront... at Seattle's Pike Place Market... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, April 28 Bruce Lee's grave... in Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, May 3 Construction crane at the Lincoln Square constructon site in downtown Bellevue... across the street from Bellevue Square Mall... from the Hyatt... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, May 5 The Doc and Merle Watson Highway, near Deep Gap, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, May 5 The Linn Cove Viaduct on the Blue Ridge Parkway, just below the summit of Grandfather Mountain, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. This may be the most beautiful stretch of road in America. Photo-Journal... |
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2001, May 12 Under the Tacoma Narrows Bridge where debris from the 1940 "oscillation" collaspe can still be seen... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, May 13 West Seattle... Alki Beach... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, May 19 Seattle, WA... The Fisherman's Terminal and Shilshole Bay Marina... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
May 20 Atop Newport Hill in Bellevue... my trusty Explorer... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, May 27 On the Snoqualmie River at North Bend on the western edge of the Cascade Range, about 20 miles east of Seattle/Bellevue.... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
May 28 Seattle... NorthWest FolkLife Festival... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
May 28 Memorial Day in Seattle's ChinaTown... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
June 2 A salmon slide at the Ballard Locks... in Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
June 3 Kelsey Creek Farm in Bellevue... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, July 3 Brian Hofeldt of The Derailers... at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
July 4 As I rambled about I came to the Washelli Veterans Memorial Cemetery on Aurora Ave. in Seattle. A stunning sight. Thousands of white marble markers in a sea of green grass, against a blue sky. Some of the markers date from the Civil War. I tried to imagine all the lives represented before me, and I pondered the nature of their sacrifices... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
July 7 Now that's a rig! At Marymoor Park, Lake Sammamish, in Redmond... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
July 8 Seattle sunset as seen from Cougar Mountain... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, August 2 After my luncheon at Virginia City, heading back to Reno, I pulled over to admire these horses silhouetted against the brilliant blue Nevada sky. As I put my eye to the camera I heard the distinct "report" of a rattle snake... very close. I lowered the camera and spotted a big rattler coiled and bobbing about 10 feet away. I slowly brought the camera back to my eye and tried to center on the snake, but it was gone. At that moment I did not know where the rattler had slithered off to, so I turned and high-stepped back to the car! I regret not getting a shot of that guy... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, August 11 Port Townsend, Washington... On the bluff above Port Townsend I came across this beautiful sight. The sun was beginning to sink low in the sky and the light was perfect against the red of the arbutus (Arbutus memzieii, aka "madrona") tree and the deep blue of Puget Sound. The digital camera couldn't quite pick it up, but snow-capped Mount Baker was visible in the distance, on the mainland side of the Sound. I stayed around for a half hour watching this man work, and I drove away inspired... Photo-Journal... |
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Dwight Yoakam at Benaroya Hall in Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, August 19 Tea With Atsuko... Seattle waterfront, Mount Rainier, and Lake Sammamish... Photo-Journal... |
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Near Mount Si, east of Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, August 30 1st shot: On the eastern edge of the Cascades, facing north. 2nd and 3rd shot: In the Yakima Canyon. Photo-Journal... |
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2001, September 1 Port Angeles, WA... The Racoon welcoming committee... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, September 2 From Victoria we drove 20 miles north into the British Columbia countryside, toward Sydney. We took a side road to the serene Island View Beach... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, September 15 Bellevue Sunset... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
September 20 John's bachlour party... John's grandfather had a big time! Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
September 21 Between John's wedding rehersal and the rehersal dinner... L-R: Jeannie's father, Jeannie, Jeannie's mother, and John... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, September 22 As John and Jeannie were becoming husband and wife, a jet was passing in front of the twilight moon... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
October 5 Seattle silhouetted against the Olympic Mountains... from Redmond... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, October 7 Gasworks Park on Seattle's Lake Union... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, October 21 The exquisite arbutus (Arbutus memzieii, aka "madrona") tree, at Magnolia Park in Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
November 10 The jagged Cascades, east of Monroe, WA... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
November 21 With Chieko atop Cougar Mountain... near Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
November 24 Facing east from Seattle with the Cascade Mountains in the background... 1st shot: Bellevue. 2nd shot: The 520 Floating Bridge and Kirkland. Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
November 30 Mamasan's, in downtown Bellevue... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, December 8 Crossing the Elwha River Gorge... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
December 9 From east of the La Grande Dam near SR-706... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
December 9 On SR-706... Recycled Spirits Of Iron... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
December 16 The Mount Rainier Scenic Railway... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, December 21 Crossroads, down the way from my Bellevue lodge... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
December 21 Mamasan's... in downtown Bellevue... Photo-Journal... 2nd shot: Mamasan and Yamada Sensei. 3rd shot: Beautiful Saori. 4th shot: Charming Atsuko. |
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2001,
December 22 Looking across Lake Washington toward Seattle's University District and the Olympic Mountains, as seen from Kirkland on a clear morning... Photo-Journal... |
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2001,
December 22 Around the base of Mount Rainier, between Ashford and the National Park... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, December 22 Sunset over Adler Lake, near Mount Rainier... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, December 26 On a Christmas trip to NC... Pete and Christie at the Bayou Kitchen in Charlotte... Photo-Journal... |
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2001, December 29 On a Christmas trip to NC... Christie and Broadie, in Winston-Salem... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, January 1 On a Christmas trip to NC... Photo-Journal... Traditional New Year's Day "good luck" dinner with Mother and Father... black-eyed peas, cabbage, cornbread, rice, chow-chow... and Mother's Banana Pudding... the best in all the land! |
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2002, January 2 On a Christmas trip to NC... with Yuki (visiting from Japan) at the Bayou Kitchen... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, January 4 On a Christmas trip to NC... Mother's 68th birthday... and Lebo's, where I purchased a handsome Stetson the week before... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, January 5 On a Christmas trip to NC... having been dropped off at the Charlotte airport for the flight back to Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, January 5 Having returned to Bellevue from from North Carolina... at Mamasan's... Atsuko... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, January 15 My birthday at Todai, in Redmond... John and Jeannie... Jeannie thought she saw her sushi wiggle! Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
January 25 Over the Golden Gate... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
January 25 In San Jose... twisted ankle and an eucalyptus tree at Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve in Los Altos... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, January 27 Shots 1 & 2: Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve in Los Altos, California. Shots 3 & 4: Wilder Ranch State Park. Photo-Journal... |
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2002, March 30 The Summit at Snoqualmie. This photo has an interesting quality - a gestalt shift. Is the view upward or downward? Photo-Journal... |
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2002, March 30 Stevens Pass... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, April 13 Bellevue Community College... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
April 15 Construction crane at the Lincoln Square constructon site in downtown Bellevue... across the street from Bellevue Square Mall... from the Hyatt... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, April 23 Japanese 101 at Bellevue Community College... Nihongo no kurasu 101, Shiromaru-sensei... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, April 27 Shot 1: Late afternoon Nihongo study with my classmate Steve-san at Starbucks in downtown Bellevue. Photo-Journal... Shot 2: Mamasan's from Sushi Land. Shot 3: Sushiland. Shot 4: From Sushi Land in Bellevue, distant Seattle. |
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2002,
May 1 Facing west toward Seattle from a block north of my Bellevue lodge... near the edge of the Microsoft campus... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, May 5 1st shot: Puget Sound from around Pike Place Market. 2nd shot: The West Seattle Bridge. 3rd shot: Alki Beach at West Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, May 30 Microsoft Building 16... A Little Bit of Asia at lunchtime... Chinese watercolors by Hong Duan Yang... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, May 31 Demonstrating recently acquired Japanese katakana skills... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, June 2 Larson Lake Blueberry Farm in Bellevue. My Mother liked this shot and used it as the desktop background on her PC for a long time... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
June 7 Lake Tahoe... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
June 8 Lunch on Donner Pass, overlooking Donner Lake... thinking of the many overland emigrants who would have looked back at this view with a feeling of supreme accomplishment... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
June 8 At the Ponderosa Ranch... you walk in the door and there hangs Hoss' and Little Joe's hats and vests. Yes, "Bonanza" was a TV show, but I grew up with it; and being here was like walking back into a former world, both real and fantasy. Ben Cartright contributed greatly to my view of what a real man is... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
June 8 At the Ponderosa Ranch... markers for Ben, Little Joe, Hoss, and Hop Sing... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, June 10 Alder Valley, California, site of the Donner Party Camp of 1846/47... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
June 15 The last photo with the Sony Mavica FD-91 camera was of my friend Emi, atop Seattle's Queen Anne Hill... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, July 24 My parents visit Seattle... arrival at Sea-Tac... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, July 25 My parents visit Seattle... Queen Anne Hill... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, July 26 My parents visit Seattle... at the Columbia River in Washington State... near the Vantage Crossing... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
July 28 My parents visit Seattle... pulling out of Victoria, BC (taken with Mother's Minolta), and atop Hurricane Ridge in Washington State... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
July 28 My parents visit Seattle... on the Olympic Peninsula (taken with Mother's Minolta)... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
July 28 My parents visit Seattle... Ruby Beach... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, August 25 Atop Cougar Mountain with Emi... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, October 5 Dixie's BBQ in Bellevue, WA. This is "The Man." A simmering pot, bubbling... an evil concoction... Radiation from the pot made focusing the camera lens nearly impossible... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
October 7 Emi-chan at I Love Sushi on Seattle's Lake Union... The sushi chef carved a butterfly out of a carrot for Emi... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
October 12 With John at Bellevue Square Mall... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
October 19 Mushrooms from an early morning walk in Bellevue... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
October 21 The entrance to my Bellevue lodge... behind the mushrooms... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
October 27 Trimming beans with Yong Hong Wang, proprietor of the Wild Pepper Chinese Restaurant in Redmond... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, November 10 1st shot: Along the Skykomish River... 2nd shot: Deception Falls, off the Old Cascade Highway (SR 2) near Stevens Pass... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, November 15 At the Panama Hotel Tea House in the old Nihonmachi (JapanTown) section of Seattle's Chinatown... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, November 28 Danny Woo Community Garden in Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, November 28 1st shot: The Smith Tower in Seattle... Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains in the background. 2nd shot: Sunset Hill in the Ballard section of Seattle. Photo-Journal... |
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2002, November 30 Foggy Queen Anne Hill in Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, December 10 Segway inventor Dean Kamen (1st shot, blue shirt) and crew visited Microsoft... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, December 12 Microsoft Christmas Party at the EMP in Seattle... an all-star band formed for this event featuring Edgar Winter on keyboard & sax, the Tower Of Power horn section, guitarist Kenny Lee Lewis from the Steve Miller band, Lee Sklar on bass, and an old Doobie Brother... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
December 14 With my Father and Pete Davis at Gus' Sir Beef before a Doc Watson show in Charlotte, and at the Neighborhood Theatre for the show... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, December 15 Visiting with Tom & Karen at their bungalow in the Elizabeth neighborhood... Tom's feral cats peered through the kitchen window... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
December 16 Father picked a little early morning mandolin in his office... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
December 17 With my parents at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
December 18 1st shot: The front porch of the May-Ledetter House in Jonesborough, Tennessee. 2nd shot: At the Opryland Hotel in Nashville... Gibson Pure... amen! Photo-Journal... |
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2002, December 19 At The Grand Ole Opry, in Nashville, Tennessee... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, December 19 1st shot: In Nashville... Ryman Auditorium, country music's most sacred spot. 2nd shot: The infamous alley behind the Ryman and the back door to Tootsie's Orchid Lounge. Photo-Journal... |
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2002, December 19 At Ghurn Guitars in Nashville, Tennessee. I came close to buying this Gibson Hummingbird... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, December 19 Meriwether Lewis' grave... on the Nachez Trace about 60 miles south of Nashville, near the site of the old Grinder's roadside inn... where, in the early morning hours of October 11, 1809, Captain Lewis' long and glorious trail reached its end... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
December 20 The Blue Willow Inn, Social Circle, Georgia... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
December 21 Dog on a frosty north Georgia field... near Culberson, North Carolina... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
December 21 In Culberson, North Carolina at the grave of David Thompson, the first of my ancestors to come to America from Scotland... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
December 21 At Cousin Michael's home in Blairsville, Georgia. Michael has in his possession a compass used by David Thompson on the Trail Of Tears, in 1838... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
December 21 1st shot: My Father's boyhood church, "The Line," so named because it stands on the North Carolina / Georgia state line... and the Thompson graveyard... 2nd shot: The church and graveyard are situated on a hill with a commanding westward view of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Standing at this spot I feel as close to my heritage as I can get... Photo-Journal... |
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2002,
December 21 From this spot at "The Line" can be seen my grandfather's grave (the closest maker), the church he sang in, the road he traveled on, and across the way, the point of his birth... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, December 22 At Farmwood... young Will blows a dandelion... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, December 24 Christmas Eve at Farmwood... in the 3rd shot Father is holding his new Willie Nelson Red Headed Stranger CD (with bonus tracks)... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, December 25 Christmas Day at Hamilton Manor... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, December 27 At Carina's home in Durham... Tugger and you-know-who... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, December 28 Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, December 28 At Winston-Salem, in Old Salem, with Christie and Gary, at the Salem Tavern... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, December 29 At the Bayou Kitchen in Charlotte... Tom Billotto and Bill Noonan & Gigi on the wall, and a fine plate of nachos... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, December 30 Mother... at Hamilton Manor with Smiters... Photo-Journal... |
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2002, December 31 Walking in Charlotte's Fourth Ward neighborhood... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, January 1 A rainy New Year's Day morning and a walk around the Charlotte SuperSpeedway... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, January 2 1st shot: The house where my Mother was born, in Gaffney, South Carolina. 2nd shot: The Peachoid, along I-85 in Gaffney... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, January 2 On the outskirts of Charlotte, visiting with Bill Noonan and Gigi, and the beautiful Lakota. Gigi's rendering of Lakota!... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, January 3 In a Charlotte bike shop with Brother-n-law Matt... Photo-Journal... |
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2003,
January 4 1st shot: At Farmwood... My invitation to Hiroko's wedding. Photo-Journal... 2nd shot: In Salisbury... Hiroko walking down the isle with Eric... |
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2003,
January 5 Leaving Charlotte... Photo-Journal... |
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2003,
January 15 Hiromi, Mamasan, and Yamada Sensei (8th Dan)... Photo-Journal... |
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2003,
January 25 An evening with Hiromi and Ishi... Photo-Journal... |
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2003,
February 1 Hiromi at the EMP and atop the Space Needle... and ishi on Queen Anne Hill... Photo-Journal... |
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2003,
February 2 Hiromi at Peace Arch Equestrian Center in Custer, Washington, just south of the Canadian border... Photo-Journal... |
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2003,
February 2 Hiromi and Ishi at Juanita Beach, Lake Washington... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, February 9 Walking with Hiromi... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, February 22 With Hiromi and Ishi on the Microsoft Main Campus, and in the Cascades... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, February 23 Downtown Bellevue from Clyde Hill, and Hiromi at Gods and Generals, Redmond Town Center... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, March 22 At Green Lake Park in Seattle with Hiromi and Ishi. Within the park there's a place that Hiromi calls "Bunny Hill"... a rocky slope and meadow, home to a lapine colony... scores of rabbits... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, March 28 Dutch oven bread and Columbo... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, March 30 Downtown Kirkland... on the waterfront with Hiromi... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, April 5 Pike Place Market in Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, April 12 With Hiromi at Magnuson Park, on the Seattle side of Lake Washington. The 4th shot is from behind Ivar's on Lake Union... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, April 18 1st shot: With Hiromi, looking at the Bigfoots in Lake City, WA. 2nd and 3rd shots: Viewpoint Park in Bellevue. Photo-Journal... |
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2003, April 19 Hiromi and Ishi at Discovery Park at West Point in Seattle. 3rd shot: Hiromi at The Lockspot in Ballard. Photo-Journal... |
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2003, April 26 1st shot: Hiromi at Starbucks in Seattle/Greenwood. Shot's 3-4: Downtown Redmond, around Redmond Western Wear. Photo-Journal... |
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2003, April 27 Hiromi at Crossroads... at the Ebru Mediterranean Grill's beautiful tile counter... While sitting there we decided to drive down to Mount Rainier... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, April 27 Approaching Mount Rainier from the Enumclaw area... 3rd shot: Above Rainier's timber line... snow ploughs had created ice walls 10 - 20 feet deep at the sides of the road. We came to a turn-out and stopped to take a look around... and on this perfectly clear and cold night the starry sky was stunning... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, May 2 Hiromi at the Little Red Hen at Green Lake, in Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, May 3 1st shot: Hiromi in Seattle's Freemont neighborhood. 2nd shot: Bill Noonan was in town on Microsoft business and we had a little hootenanny in his room at the Redmond/Overlake Silver Cloud. Here Bill is running through a new song of his - "Now I Got A River" - as Hiromi looks on... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, May 4 Hiromi discovering the place that she would soon move into... in Seattle's University District... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, May 4 With Hiromi at the Little Red Hen... country dance lessons... Later in the evening we were joined by Bill Noonan (in town on Microsoft business). In the 3rd shot Hiromi is showing Bill her new dance steps... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, May 8 Bill Noonan giving it his all at Mamasan's... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, May 10 1st shot: Hiromi's moving day... into new quarters in the Ravenna neighborhood on the edge of Seattle's University District. 2nd and 3rd shot: Walking around Green Lake. Photo-Journal... |
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2003, May 10 Saint Edward State Park at the north end of Lake Washington... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, May 17 Hiromi... Alki Beach, at West Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2003,
June 9 Mamasan ad work... That which I photograph oft becomes my dinner... Photo-Journal... |
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2003,
June 9 Mamasan... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, June 13 Randy's visit... at Cape Kiwanda we noticed cars on the beach... so, we drove out onto the beach, which turned out to be a bad idea... Photo-Journal... |
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2003, June 13 On the Oregon coast with Randy... Photo-Journal... |
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2003,
September 28 With Hiromi atop Queen Anne Hill in Seattle... Photo-Journal... |
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2004,
February 19 1st shot: Just before driving down to Sea-Tac for a flight to North Carolina I was admiring Hiromi's impressionistic rendering of Mount Rainier. Hiromi gave me this painting a month earlier on the occasion of my birthday. The day Hiromi gave me "Mount Rainier" turned turned out to be the last time I saw her. Shots 3 & 4: Three hours after admiring Hiromi's rendering and 5 minutes into the flight out of Sea-Tac I beheld the sun rising over Mount Rainier. Thank you, Hiromi... Photo-Journal... |
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2004,
August 9 Strawberry Hill... Sister Jan observes Will's phone call. This is one of those priceless shots... Photo-Journal... |
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2004,
September 10 Michelle Malkin at the Borders Bookstore in Puyallup, WA. I read Michelle Malkin's blog nearly every day and I can't think of a time that I've disagreed with her.... Photo-Journal... www.MichelleMalkin.com... |
2005, April 14 - The Grand Canyon
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2005, June 22 On the way to the Leavenworth Acordion Festival... The Rocky Reach dam on the Columbia River just north of Wenatchee, WA. Note the elaborate salmon bypass pipe over and around the dam... Photo-Journal... |
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2005, June 24 Leavenworth, WA... at the Leavenworth Acordion Festival... Photo-Journal... |
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2007, March
13 Lubbock, Texas, Buddy Holly, and my Gibson Dove. In the movie Open Range, "Boss" Spearman (Robert Duvall) says to Charlie Postlewait (Kevin Costner) "I like a pistol with some heft." Me to. I also like acoustic guitars with heft, like the Gibson J-200 that Buddy played and the Gibson Dove that I'm now so proud of. My fondness for hefty acoustics, especially those with a little color, was formed by cowboy guitars, Hummingbirds, and the look and sound of Buddy Holly's J-200. I played "Well All Right" and "Words of Love" at this fine place... Photo-Journal... |
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2010, February 8 Bill Noonan was in town on Microsoft business and we caught up on a little pickin' in Bigfoot before repairing to our dinner at Daman's in Redmond... Photo-Journal... |
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2010, April 18 Between the Bellevue Trailer Inns RV Park and the Outback, as we walked to dinner after finishing Suteki Da Ne... Photo-Journal... |
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2010, June 27 Ai and the Four Ladies in Bigfoot... Ayumi, Maki, Yukari, Ai, and Saki... Photo-Journal... |
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2010,
August 14 At Edmonds, WA... the Taste of Edmonds festival with Chunhee... a busy bee... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, September 18 Bellevue, WA... with Nancy the Birthday Girl at the Microsoft Store in Bellevue Square Mall... and thereabouts... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, 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, October 9 Another jaunt over to Ellensburg... a wind farm along the way, in the vicinity of Elk Heights Road... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, October 21 Bellevue, WA... at Microsoft Advanta... hail, a strong cold wind, then a double rainbow... Photo-Journal... |
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2012, November 10 Redmond, WA... Saturday evening at Bai Tong... Kay Kay, Sweet Jane, and Bigfoot... Sweet Jane's (late) birthday celebration... Photo-Journal... |
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2013, January 6 Bellevue, WA... Chenphen's reflection... Photo-Journal... |
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2013, January 13 Federal Way, WA... Mamasan and Michiko... Photo-Journal... |
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2013, February 1 Kirkland, WA... The Mozilla Firefox Mobile OS test team... I presided as Sr. Lead... Photo-Journal... |
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2013, February 10 Cirque du Soleil with Nancy... Photo-Journal... |
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2013, April 21 Bellevue, WA... The downtown Bellevue Transit Center... Photo-Journal... |
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2013, May 6 Bellevue WA... Whilst standing at my Eastgate bus stop on this morning I observed a pupal metamorphis... a caterpillar cocoon... butterflies in the making. Springtime in full force... Photo-Journal... |
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2013, May 8 Bellevue, WA... Dandelions... on my short morning walk to the bus stop... Photo-Journal... |
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2013, May 29 10 miles west of Ellensburg, WA, off Elk Heights Road... with Chenphen and Tequila... Photo-Journal... |
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Friday, July 26, 2013, Bellevue, WA Bikini shopping with Nancy at Bellevue Square. Oh the things I must endure... Photo-Journal... |
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2013, September 18 Redmond, WA... A late afternoon sunbreak lights the hallway outside my work area in Studio-A... Photo-Journal... |
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2013, October 29 Redmond, WA... Steve's walk in the West Campus woods... Photo-Journal... |
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2013, December 27 Bellevue, WA... Captain Phil at Crossroads Starbucks... Photo-Journal... |
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2014, September 1 Alki Beach, WA... Hong's peaceful cruise along Elliot Bay and Geneva's first moments with her birthday guitar... a Washburn "Rover"... Photo-Journal... |
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2014,
September 17 Seattle, WA... The Seattle Great Wheel... Photo-Journal... |
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2014,
September 21 Puyallup, WA... The Washington State Fair with Hong and Geneva... Geneva on the Bungee Trampoline... Photo-Journal... |
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2014,
October 3 SeaTac, WA... dropping a friend off at the airport and then lingering for shots of Mount Rainier and the twilight... Photo-Journal... |
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