July 2012
  
 
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Monday, July 2
With Nancy at Bellevue Square Mall...

1st shot: Forever 21
2nd shot: Macy's
3rd shot: Din Tai Fung dumpling house, Lincoln Square
 
Salon_West_Wind.JPG (797524 bytes) Tuesday, July 3
The shot on the left was made for the Salon West Wind brochure (right)... another project assigned to me by Sweet Jane...		 Salon_West_Wind_Brochure.JPG (416135 bytes)
 
july_2012_04.jpg (372486 bytes) Thursday, July 5
Bellevue, WA... Crossroads Open Mic... they were playing a hauntingly beautiful version of How Great Thou Art...
 
july_2012_13.jpg (534545 bytes) Sunday, July 8
After breakfast at Crossroads I encountered a bunch of dummies...
 
Wednesday, July 11
 
july_2012_05.JPG (719502 bytes) july_2012_06.JPG (530731 bytes) july_2012_12.JPG (478722 bytes) A work team lunch was called at the Triple XXX Root Beer in Issaquah... on a Summer day that felt like a Summer day...
 
july_2012_07.JPG (879572 bytes) Joseph of Sedro-Woolley with a Root Beer Float...
 
july_2012_08.JPG (746096 bytes) july_2012_09.JPG (522313 bytes) Francisco ordered the XXX Burger without knowing what he was getting into. Chris (with straw brim), our boss , remained poised...
 
july_2012_10.JPG (814335 bytes) Members of the SYNC Test Team demonstrate synchronized burger eating...
 
july_2012_11.JPG (614425 bytes) Lorrie was all smiles...
 
Friday, July 13
july_2012_14.jpg (401176 bytes) july_2012_15.JPG (412065 bytes) Bellevue, WA... Kelsey Creek LA Fitness... I pulled into the LA Fitness parking lot and there in my usual parking place sat another Bigfoot! Bigfoot motorhomes are relatively rare and it always surprises me to spot one. These folks were down this way from Vancouver...
 
july_2012_16.jpg (596349 bytes) Bellevue Crossroads... The Wiretappers were singing a nice rendition of the old Porter Wagoner song "Someone I Used To Know"...
 
Weather Note - "Seattle now home to even less than 78 minutes of summer" - Scott Sistek's (KOMO News) Meteorology Blog, July 19, 2012
 
july_2012_17.jpg (399344 bytes) Monday, July 16
Bellevue, WA... Crossroads Ebru Mediterranean Deli... enjoying a Falafal Plate and fresh squeezed lemonade... good lemonade... prepared by Manuel...
 
july_2012_18.jpg (347258 bytes) july_2012_19.JPG (503039 bytes) july_2012_20.jpg (369102 bytes) july_2012_21.JPG (473531 bytes) Friday, July 20
Bellevue, WA... Crossroads... 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"...
 
july_2012_22.jpg (369092 bytes) Saturday, July 21
At Bai Tong in Redmond... Lynchburg Lemonade by Robert...
 
july_2012_23.jpg (384919 bytes) Monday, July 23
At the Keg Steakhouse & Bar in Kirkland with Nancy...
 
july_2012_24.jpg (360609 bytes) Wednesday, July 25
In the Microsoft Advanta cafeteria... grilled corn on the cob with a husk handle, southern style...
 
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At Crossroads... I ran into those dummies again...
 
july_2012_27.JPG (500399 bytes) july_2012_28.jpg (588845 bytes) Saturday, 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!
 
july_2012_29.jpg (1761524 bytes) Monday, July 30
Bellevue, WA, Crossroads Cafe... German sausage melt with sauerkraut and extra pickles (sour, of course). This pickle shot was for Ward Underwood of Durham, North Carolina...