June 2014
  
 
june_2014_001.jpg (989393 bytes) Sunday, June 1, Redmond, WA
In the Houston room... neither grouchy nor grumpy...
 
 
Sunday, June 8, Factoria, WA
With Hong Hoa and Geneva... after Dim Sum at Top Gun we strolled over to Starbucks...
 
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june_2014_006.JPG (574674 bytes) Blame for this shot falls squarely upon Geneva the young photographer...
 
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Tuesday, June 10, Lakewood, WA
At the Kyoto with my friend Michiko Iwaya... Michiko was visiting from LA...
 
 
Saturday, June 14, Renton, WA
With Hong and Geneva... all of these are Hong's snaps...
 
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Geneva painted a masterpiece for me!
 
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Then, Geneva demonstrated her archery skills with her new bow & arrow...
 
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Geneva snapped this shot, highlighting three of her skills: painting, archery, and photography!
 
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After dinner at Renton Landing... keeping warm on a cool June evening. Geneva always tries to blow that fire out! Later, we watched Frozen again...
 
 
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Tuesday, June 17 and Thursday, June 19
Outside and in...
 
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Friday, June 20, Factoria, WA
Dinner with Hong and Geneva at Thai Ginger, followed by a stroll to the cinema for "How To Train Your Dragon 2." Back at Thai Ginger my efforts to capture this view of the purple T-Mobile buildings in Sony "panorama" mode were thwarted by low light...
 
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Sunday, June 22, Bellevue, WA
At IHOP... Biscuits & Gravy... now, if I said that I didn't put a smidgen of Butter Pecan syrup beside those biscuits, I'd be less than truthful...
 
 
Tuesday, June 24, Renton, WA
With Hong and Geneva at Coulon Park... Lake Washington...
 
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I had a late lunch at Fry's Electronics, where I've been fond of the Club Sandwich for years now. I can't explain it, but the Americanos I order at Fry's are consistently among the best...
 
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At Coulon Park... getting set for a little cruise along the edge of Lake Washington...
 
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We walked out on a little pier and talked to a fisherman, and within a couple of minutes he caught a 2 Lb bass!
 
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The massive Renton Boeing facility can be seen at the south end of Lake Washington...
 
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Mount Rainier to the southeast...
 
We peddled on, encountering hungry ducks at the south end of the park. Hong and Geneva held them off with loaf bread...
 
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Facing northwest, toward Seattle... Hong and sunset...
 
 
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Wednesday, June 25, Bellevue, WA
134th Ave NE and NE 8th St, between downtown Bellevue and Crossroads. I've been driving within a couple of hundred feet of this site for years but never noticed it until this day...