before the party...

June

Its almost over....a very wet month fraught with changes. Tossing junk, getting new junk, a bus that I have been riding for 4.5 years stopped running, we're moving and trying to keep it all together.

The garage sale went well, we had a rare day of sunshine and we made $180 bucks, everything that we didn't sell made its way to the thrift store or the trash can.

the birds have been enjoying a worm feast with the rain and lack of grass outside our window, this guy has a mouthful

Weekdays I ride a Sound Transit bus to Bothell where I work, for the last four and a half years I was catching a Community Transit bus from the university there to my building. The route has been cut and I have been walking the distance, it takes about a half hour and there is a nice trail that follows North Creek to my destination. Birds,ducks,bunnies,berries,beavers,slugs, snakes ...

Slugs intrigue me and gross me out! They own the trail out here, my fear is that i'll either step and slip on one or that one will find it's way into the cuffs of my jeans.....caca

new growth on a pine tree?

WDOT has some clandestine project going on behind this wall in Bothell, I love how they tack these giant pictures of flowers on it.

I was almost to my bus stop the other day and about to stash the camera and I almost stepped on this snake.

University District Street Fair 5.15.10

The sun came out in Seattle last weekend for the U-District street fair, lots of musicians

 

didgeridoo, wind instruments of the organic....

and non-organic variety

always drawn back to the strings

saw these two lady's they seemed somehow staged here on the beautiful campus at UW

took some shots in the neighborhood today, there was a block party on 10th ave for the opening of Eliot Bay Books on the hill, as usual I find the buildings more interesting than the folks

this guy? so seattle?

took a quick trip out to spokane last weekend, nothing much has changed there, got this shot on the way out

more drawing

Wintergrass 2010

It's been a bit since I posted here, i've got a new dslr camera and i'm still in the baby stages of learning how to use it. I attended my fourth Wintergrass Festival last weekend Feb.26-27 and carried the new toy with, this festival is lively because along with the scheduled artists people gather everywhere and anywhere (allowed) to play, all ages, strings galore! I love it, here's some of my shots, oh yeah, festival is indoors at the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue,WA. , very comfortable, very bellevue...I tried to concentrate on the haps but occasionally got lost in the props



this is The Infamaous Stringdusters on friday night I saw them again on Saturday, the bass players leg was in a crazy splint but his voice and strings were damn fine

the hotel bar, this lady was some busy friday night.

Jamming in the lobby, to me is the best part of wintergrass, saw these dobro players on friday night

more music...

shadows on the curtain during Mountain Hearts set, they were cuttin up too much for me to manage a clear shot

back in the lobby...

Infamous Stringdusters on Saturday

the skywalk between wintergrass and food

not much into these spirits but i'm always drawn to the patterns their containers create

gina grabbed this shot from outside looking into the lobby

back inside

these chandeliers were in the grand ballroom,

we took off after this show with the rockin' hillbilly music of The Wilders