One of these things...

...is not like the other.

Just cruisin' after church

Sunday morning

West(ish) Seattle

2008

Rain Rain...

...go away and bring me back my Seattle sunshine

really not that long ago.

taken same day as "Your Are Beautiful"

Seattle winter sunshine

January 2008

HAM Saturday

At 7:00 am on a Saturday morning,

HAM is appropriate.

Saturday, Feb 2

LSAT Administration

Seattle

2008

(just in time at that!)

Just blend in...

Albuquerque to El Paso via I -25 & I-10

That cool desert oasis roadstop

Fall recruiting

October 2006

Urban Art

Downtown

San Antonio, TX

On the way to the Alamo

fall SWAPLA recruiting, 2007

Are You...

...up against a rock and a hard place?

River Rocks

Mt. Rainier, Washington

2007

Ahhh...beautiful day...

...to bad this isn't today.

Mt. Rainier

Sometime last year

Three cameras in tow

Where are the chipper squirrels at?

Washington, 2007

Snow Day?

Well...from 2006...I miss that sled...

Not so eastern Eastern, Washington

Snow play day

2006

It is so cold...

...I just might have to get my Eagle Scout to start a fire up in here.

Washington coast

Misty, foggy, almost Labor Day weekend

2007

In the dark...

...sometimes you wonder if someone might jump out some back alleyway and take a shot.

NYC

Times Square

NYC Forum recruiting, 2007

25 days later

Philly and the MBA boys and Sunjay and that beautiful girl and that quirky guy and that no-show New Yorker and those fireworks and that spill are all but a distant memory.  Thank goodness I had a camera.

New Years Eve, 2007 going into 2008

Philadelphia, PA

Before shots

With Open Arms...

...I was welcomed into Indiana.

College campus in the midwest

MAPLA recruiting

Fall 2007

But how...

...will she ever grow up to be the great big pumpkin queen if you don't protect her now?

Another year, another pumpkin

Washington, 2007

Fall harvest

But because you are...

I changed my mind. Today, was indeed beautiful. But last week, I walked out of my office and up to the stop light to hit the button to cross the street. pasted to the light post was this sign.

And yes, I think you are.

Seattle lightpost

January, 2008

Never Forget

LBJ might have been president.

But the office didn't create the change.

The people did.

The people lead by one great man among many.

National Civil Rights Museum

& MLK Jr. Memorial

The room

September, 2006

Bored out my gourd

so thought I'd dig up a gourd photo.

Autumn harvest gourds,

Washington state

2007

Spring Will Come

Even on days like today, remember:

Partially gray day today.

But photo from a bright Easter Day

Easter, 2007

LaConner, WA

That Little Boat

So he loves me. Loves me lots. And this is what he wants

Duck Dodge Races

Seattle, WA

August 2007

Okay | Again

Yeah...false start eh (smile).

But guess where I'm going back to?

Alas, I don't think I'll get to go to the scene of the crime.

But being in the general area will certainly do!

San Francisco,

Fisherman's Wharf

October, 2007

Nuts & Bolts...

...or is it bolts and nuts? In any event, gotta get back to the nuts and bolts basics of it all. Picture blog needs pictures. I just uploaded about a bazillion of them to my laptop, so let's see how many days straight I can go uploading at least one a day.

Top of the Ithaca Parking Garage

Ithaca, NY

fall, 2007

Waxing politico

Or something like that...

Hampton Inn

Probably in Indiana somewhere

on the road

last fall

I loved him then. Love him more now.

Sometimes...

curling up with a cup of tea would be a good end to a soggy Seattle day.

retake on an old original for Overlooked

Here's to 2008

and to better blogging habits.

Hey Amazing Race...

...give us a call already!

Like you know you want us. Sob. Anyhow...I love finding pictures of random people (ie, the folks running the Amazing Race auditions in Lake[hood]wood, WA. November, 2007

For half of forever

That feels like how long it has been. But hmmm...I've taken and had taken pictures from forever ago. So should I get caught up? Start from scratch? Just post whatever? How about some more homage to my fave season...fall...oh how gone it is...but spring is coming...I know it is.

Anyhow, from this past fall.

Not quite big enough

Lurking in the shadows:

Do NOT!

Shoot down the birdies.

Woodland Park Zoo, fall 2007

If only...

...blogger would let me upload a photo, I could update this blog. And you could see that yep...it is still there.

Getting a bit rocky in here

And of course she said yes!

This Comb's for You

So you remember what my hair looked like in Tibet.

Well this kid had a remedy:

And yeah...he was NOT afraid to use it.

It was really one of the coolest moments of the trip.

Boxed In

Beijing China Market,

April, 2007

So finally, she returns with some photos. My better half is updating his Tibet pages. And it encouraged me to go back through those photos...none of which I have really scrapped yet. That was SUCH an amazing trip. Reading his recaps takes me right back. And back to Shots Fired.

A non-slr shot. I love my little point and shoot with all my life.

Waffling

I know...these are supposed to be China shots.

But it is overwhelming.

And I'm waffling.

And people are hatin' on me for not posting.

So this is appropriate.

I want one.

But just a regular one...

Not a waffle CONE iron, but a regular waffle iron.

There is a difference right?

Happy summer!

Day 1: Seattle to Beijing via San Francisco

And so we begin.

Though I am posting this Friday night, I'll give you until Monday morning

before I post new pictures. So get your comments in--remember, you can vote once for your fave picture via the comments to be in the drawing for a print of one of these photos--whichever one wins photo of the day. You can leave a separate comment for each photo to be entered 3 separate times into the contest for the book at the end of all this.

That said, pick your fave and send your friends here to pick your fave as well so that if you win the daily drawing, you'll actually get a print of something you like! For this time, you have until Monday to post comments. The rest will truly be daily contests unless I post on a weekend.

Guarding Tiananmen Square

Mass Transportation: Getting Around Donghuamen Night Market

How it Will Work

Okay...quick and easy. I'll post 3-5 pictures early in the morning (usually...until the jet lag wears off). Leave a comment (or if you must, shoot me an email) with your choice for fave. Comments are necessary if you want to be eligible for the prizes because I have a sneaking suspicion they are about to lock me out of my email account. Go figure. At the start of the next day, I will post 3-5 MORE pictures and I will also note which picture from the day before was the picture of the day. If you leave a comment with your vote, I'll toss you into the daily drawing for a print of the photo of the day. I will try to mail prints weekly, but will update here if I need to just hold on shipping until the end of all time (that would be June). It doesn't matter if you voted for the photo that won, you'll get the one that most folks liked. Please vote for your fave once, but feel free to stack the votes by getting your friends to stop on by and vote for your fave as well. At the end of the month of May, I'll take all the comments left from the whole month and draw one name. That name will get the coffee table picture book I'm making from this trip for my mama. She'll understand. Really. Actually, self-publishing rocks and I do too. So I'll have a copy of the book printed for you. I'm a nobody, but if you must, I'll even have the wonderful photographers autograph it for you. 15 or so winners in all between those that get prints of the day and the lucky one that gets the whole shebang book. The book may be a Christmas gift, but I promise to try my hardest to make it a Christmas in July at least. Ready? Pics are coming...this evening. To be eligible for the print of the day, you have to vote in the 24 hour window that the picture is originally posted. But to keep it fun for all, you can go back after the fact and post on any and all of the pictures (hint, a separate comment for each picture is totally acceptable--and gets you more entries into the overall photo book giveaway). Remember, all comments up through May 31 will be in the drawing for the book. SEA to SFO to Beijing to Lhasa to Kathmandu to Delhi to Newark to Seattle. Around the world in about 15 days (or so). Join me as I relive the ride!

They are coming...

Are you ready?

The Path Least Explored

Here's to the path least explored. That blue dot in the background...that would be him

Off the path of course. Tibet here we come! Back with lots of pictures!

Don't Approach the Squirrels

They are so cute...but evidently, they will attack.

Yes, I am speaking of both of them.

17 mile drive, Monterey, CA

Yes...

...yes indeed I do realize that blogs are better than websites because they are so easy to update and blah, blah, blah. But hey...really now. Tonight...promise. Another photo. But you should check out my other blogs you know www.coloredwhite.blogspot.com is all about the craziness that keeps me from coming and playing here. And www.b3designs.blogspot.com is all about my other existence. All $40 of it today. Right. Photos coming soon...promise.

Two as By Wind

And not a shot in sight.

Palm Springs Tramway

and a winded trail

laying on my back trying to catch my breath

caught this instead

Field Practice

But at home

Wounded beauty is no longer vibrant

Seattle Beach House, 2006

Plate Champion? Take a shot at it!

You too can be plate champion. Just gotta give it a shot!

Sushi heaven

Seattle

Thanksgiving-ish, 2006

Through the mist

Mist, fog, smoke, snow...

Through it all, take a shot

olympic national park

September, 2006

target practice

When they come to town,

this will be target #1

Seattle

Space Needle

In the Clouds Again

Seeding the Clouds

Shots fired at the clouds and then the rains do fall

Not this flooding season (2006)

SeaTac take off last year

In the blink of an eye

Vegas will pass you by.

On the strip, passing through Vegas.

October, 2006

not a joke ma'am

Do not mention shots. Or fired. Or you won't be arriving anytime soon.

Some travel. Somewhere.

April, 2006

and now my life

She's such a slacker.

So you only deserve many pictures I suppose.

Gotta love internet on the laptop!

This one was from last year...love this season!

Signs

Do you see what I see?

What he saw?

Signs...

Oregon Coast...pretty close to Canon Beach

This past summer

I know...

I have like a gazzillion challenges from ya'll and I really need to post photos. I promise. Once the camera situation and the computer situation get under control, photos you shall have. Continue with your stalker ways...until next time.

Taking up Too Much Space...

Me thinks it is:

Pacific City, Oregon

Or somewhere thereabouts

May 2006

...on the edge of course.

Shoot the Stack

Haystack Rock

Cannon Beach, Oregon

May 2006

It wouldn't be a trip to the Oregon Coast without a shot of the Stack of course...

While

At the Dunes.

Oregon Coast

May, 2006

Boy has it ever been. But I've been lots of places and though I am still not a camera owner, I do own some great shots on borrowed time. Here are three posts to help you get back in the grove.