The rain has come. We pointed it out to Sara for our days have been so full of sun I’m sure she’s forgotten what it is. Wayne and I are working our way through the extended editions of all the LOTR movies. This seemed a good response to Wayne and Sara’s cold. We haven’t done much this weekend, just relaxed. After a summer full of travels, that seems appropriate. Wayne’s parents come this week and begin our end of summer hurrah.
Sara’s slowly been saying words. She said “Jo-jo” today, the name of her playground playmate. She’s added “baby” to the list of words she uses all the time, like momma and daddy. She’ll say ‘bear-bear’ for her teddy. This week I cut her curly locks in a commando assault. She put up a good fight, so the results are little ragged, but the hair stays out of her hair. She seems so advanced in so many other ways. Today I was snoozing and she came up to me. I wiffed the smell of dirty diapers. She had found her cleaned diaper changing matt from under her bed, grabbed a clean diaper, and set it all up in preparation. Despite having a snotty nose, her eyes are bright and she’s been full of energy this weekend.
Saturday, we walked to Cafe Besalu, our new favorite haunt. The peach galette rivaled the pain au chocolate I normally get. I’ve been trying to do longer walks these past two weeks. I’ve been discovering fun parts of Ballard. I walked to the library and our local pharmacy. We read Leo the Late Bloomer, a wonderful tale of talents coming in their own time. I also found Senor Don Gato, a cute song I sang in elementary school that’s been illustrated in this book.
Friday, we had a date. We trialed parent’s night out at our daycare. Sara did stellar. The staff was worried since she was the youngest. We decided to stick close to home and forgo plans to see March of the Penguins. We ate Pho at Pho Brothers and started the LOTR saga. It contrasted with the previous weekends date with J&C. We saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (ok, Johnny Deep is too much like M. Jackson for my taste, but some truly clever parts). We experienced Europe at a new Ballard eatery called Volterra. It’s Tuscan food that satisfied the Jenkins European tastes. It’s been well reviewed and was hard to get in (not till 9pm). Jan came and watched Sara.
The circle closes on a nice weekend and work looms.
August 28, 2005
Summer’s Deep
August 9, 2005
Mendenhall Glacier
I took this pano shot while in Alaska. I am still not sure why the color shift and merge points are visible in these images? Maybe my pano software is causing the color shifts? Almost certainly it is causing the seams. Oh well. Below is a fairly large panoramic shot of the Mendenhall Glacier. We had a very nice day hiking over to the waterfall in the far right corner of the image.
Seafair!
Every year here in Seattle the city goes crazy and they have “Hydro” races and air shows and lots of drunken boaters tied up to a giant log boom in Lake Washington.
This year amazingly enough we were in town and invited to a friend’s house on Mercer Island. He had a pretty good high view of the Blue Angels airshow and a couple of us trained our cameras on them. Since it was a clear day, they mostly flew high and far, so my pictures were little dots. However near the end they flew RIGHT over us and I managed to keep my wits about me (the noise is something that will rattle even the sturdiest of souls) to take a somewhat in focus well framed picture. The picture is a litttle noisy, since I was shooting a high ISO to get very high shutter speeds.
