Seattle, WA, September 2011

Posted on September 8, 2011 by admin

Mostly Seattle, anyway! This trip was tacked on to the end of the trip to Washington, DC, and was done so for the sole purpose of taking my 80 year old grandma skydiving*. Oh, and it didn’t hurt that Bumbershoot was happening around the same time and had some bands on the lineup that I really wanted to see. (You can see what I thought of that over at juneaurocks.com!)

The first few photos below were taken during the drive to Portland, OR, and ultimately, Molalla, OR, home of Skydive Oregon, and the rest were taken in downtown Seattle. As you can see, it was sunny. It is hard to beat the Pacific Northwest when the sunshine hits and it warms up – these kind of days make up for so many gray, rainy days.

Enjoy!

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Amber waves of grain?

Hit the road.

My heroes.

Brick Post Office

Silos

Space Needle and EMP

Funhouse?

MarchFourth Marching Band

Hugs and the Rotary Grocery

Holy mackerel!

Flying fish.

Pike Place

They put the edible in incredible!

Post Alley

There is no parking for past or present residents - sorry.

Westin Towers

Urban Waterfall

Palace Kitchen

Broken Social Scene

Rocking out

Neon

Last day...

Purple durple

Spicy scallop and shrimp ceviche. OH YEAH.

Western Ave

The fountain and the Space Needle. I can now say I have run through the fountain!

The Fremont Troll

Washington, DC, August 2011

Posted on September 1, 2011 by admin

If you ever have the urge to be humbled beyond words, just head to our nation’s capital and take in as many memorials and monuments as you can. The scope and sheer size of them, combined with the deep meaning and everything they symbolize, will really bring into perspective everything that’s been done in our country’s history.

This was my second trip to DC, but the first time I really got to see the sights and have any amount of time to really feel the emotions these monuments command. I need to go back. I have a feeling I could spend a week in DC and not cover everything I want to, which is a good thing because that’s a pretty good excuse to keep going back, as if one is really necessary!

(Also… you’ll notice a photo of a veal chop below. That was taken inside Filomena Ristorante, right in Georgetown. Amazing food, amazing atmosphere, amazing amazing amazing. Did I say amazing?)

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US Capitol

Clock inside Union Station.

Arches & Statues

Trains... Tickets

Atrium in Union Station.

Intricate ceiling.

Umbrella

DC sunset.

Navigating.

The... building.

Glassy skies.

Interesting fact!

Excellent veal parmigiana at Filomena.

Georgetown Park.

Iwo Jima memorial.

Capitol dome and Washington monument.

Jefferson Memorial

The steps to the Jefferson Memorial

Looks like the moon... or a UFO.

TJ was a tall guy.

Washington Monument via Jefferson Memorial.

At the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial.

World War II Memorial

Alaska represented at the WWII Memorial.

DC intersection.

The US Treasury building.

1600 Pennsylvania Ave

Bank of America

Um.. yeah.

Tumtum, WA, December 2009

Posted on January 4, 2010 by admin

I spent Christmas with my parents in Tumtum, Washington. It’s a town of about 200 people located 45 minutes northeast of Spokane, WA. Basically, it’s out in the boonies! There’s a lot of land to explore, but being that it was cold out and I wasn’t in a very adventurous mood, I stuck pretty close to the house. It’s amazing being so far away from city lights just how much more of the night sky you can see – this is evident in some of the night shots below.

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