I saw these walls in the city and thought that they were interesting...lots of texture...
Brick and Gum
Bazooka Joe
Handbills
 Keep Me Posted

This is going to be just a quick post today...

Just wanted to give everyone a perspective of what Mt Rainier is to Seattle.  I was coming home on the Kingston ferry today and noticed that Rainier was "out" (usually hidden by clouds).  I believe Mt Rainier is 100+ miles south of Seattle, so as you look at the skyline of the city (just to the right you can barely make out the Space Needle) and see Rainier behind it....well you get the idea...when it blows it's going to make St Helens look like a firecracker.  I'm sorry that the picture isn't the best quality, but I snapped it very quickly.

Seattle and Mt Rainier

These are some others that I took today...
Beach Textures
Another Barn

I started out by the Blackberry bush next to my driveway and went down by the water and saw the Boats that were there.  From there I headed inland and passed by Whitehorse Mountain ... passed by Mt Pilchuck ... stopped and took a picture of this Mountain Stream ...which is near the base of Forgotten Mountain ... I ultimately wound up here on the trail to Sauk Falls...  What a great day!!!  

I don't care what that MGB guy said the other day.......it rained all day long today!!!!   It always does today is the 346th straight day of rain.

As the saying goes, "We don't tan in Seattle...we rust!"

No matter how far one goes, the distant pavilions paced, the memories of ancient days of glory, the singing of friends and comrades, the dances danced, baseless fears and tears overcome, and laughter and joy and peace spill together into this puddle of life.......no matter how far one goes...there's a sunset at end of the road.

Whoa....sorry about that I was gone for a minute....but I'm back now...

Here are some things that have hard textures Steel 1
Steel 2
Concrete Wall
Pulley and Chain
Boiler
Thistle

....and perhaps the two hardest things of all....1 and 2

Here are some of the different textures that I've noticed in the last day during some of my travels...
Bolts in Wood
Glass
Chains
Concrete and Brick
Water and Rock
Lever and Gears

I haven't been able to post anything for awhile because my internet has been down...in the last 5 weeks I've been down for 24 days.  Anyway, the guy just came out an hour ago and fixed it....so I thought I would show you one of the places I visited during my downtime.  I decided to go to the Public Market in the city.  So I got there Early...got the required morning cup o joe.  The market's kind of cool...they give you the finger and tell you where to go.  Well speaking of going...by the the time I got there the coffee kicked in and I really had to go so I followed the clearly marked signs to the restroom...they really make you feel welcome.  I overheard someone talking about some guy in the market having a really bad case of  crabs...sure enough they were big fat crabs.  I spent the rest of the day walking around gawking at things like some hayseed in the city and finally got tired and took the ferry home....sure didn't want to be in the city after dark...it's strange enough during the daylight.

I came across an old tractor burial ground and took some of these pictures.  Just old junk now but once one of the mainstays of the farm all held together by baling wire and string...(they didn't have duct tape then).
Tractor 5
Tractor Guages
Tractor Wire
Tractor Spoke

I've been away for a week...major computer crash!!!  Anyway, I had some pictures from a number of places that all had ball shaped features....so here they are....
Lamp Balls
Tractor Balls
Molding Balls

I'm sorry to have to do this to you again, but I'm finding things that I've never even looked for before I got my camera.  Now I see "dead cars".  I know that you're probably groaning and saying, "not again"....but here goes...
One
  Two
   Three
     Four      
     Five

I'm open to suggestions...what can I do to make these better...or more interesting?  Do I doctor them?  Do I throw in props?

As you can see this place has not been kept up in a while...the barn door is falling off of it's hinges...but at least you can always tell how warm it is with the  frogometer.  So who lives here anyway?  Well this classy lady for one...and this old biddy.  This clucker stands out in the crowd.  And finally, the barn yard gossip has it that these two are an item.  

Tastes just like chicken...oh they are chickens!

I decided to get out and about today and thought that I would make a big loop around the area right here in my "back yard".  I started here at this Big Valley...I think something might have happened here at the cross.  From there I by one of my favorite places (but I have so many here)Lake McMurry...I went further still and the sights changed (along with the weather) and I started seeing things like this Tug boat.  Almost back home now...but I had to stop to take some pictures of another one of my favorite places...Deception Pass 1
Deception Pass 2
Other direction 1
Other direction 2

I wish I had the skill to capture the pictures that would do justice to the beauty here.  Anyway, this is my neighborhood.

I got up with the birds this morning and thought about goin south, but I thought I would save that for another day.  I went northwest instead and came across this driveway....I knew it was a driveway because of the house at the other end of it.  Almost directly across the road from it was this old Barn.  A mile or so down the same road was this other old barn with this rusty trailer sitting under one of the  back windows.  On the way home I crossed this old bridge (more pictures to come) and I took a picture of the guard posts that were lined up all in a row....finally later that evening on my way home I saw this old deserted shed with the sun hitting the door.  All in all a pretty fun day....just wanted to share it.

Since I've started posting here I've begun to notice things that I used to take for granted before.  For instance I was walking up the driveway to get the mail and I noticed that the first blackberry was just beginning to show itself and right beside it was the first  Salmon Berry.  Later in the day as I was driving down the road I spied this with it's nose sticking out of an old shed....this is the original picture....and the follow two were the same picture after I messed with it in Photo Paint....PP1    PP2

I'm partial to the original...

On my last several ventures out I've been going east...I can drive for a week or more going east but only 15 minutes when I go west.  However, when I do go west I see things like this....
Ball Float
Chain Link
Dunlap
Ball N Chain
Surfer Guy, here's my pier...Pier
Sailing
Shore