Bike riding vs Walking

My ride from yesterday morning was so nice! The Black River Riparian Forest area in Renton, with it's Springbrook Trail, was one of my first walks when I started walking several years ago. It remains one of my favorites, and it's also the walk I chose for Inday when she started walking with me. The thing with Riding a bike is that you are sort of Flying along (I usually don't take photos when I ride my bike)...I got in what would have been two or three of my walks in one ride. Looking at the Elevation/Speed graph at the bottom of the graphic, I purposely chose a short uphill climb at the 25 minute mark just to see what it looked like here. Yeah!! :)

technology

I'M BACK!
Wow! The speed in today's world with all of this technology is making my head swim. I just sent a FB Msg to a contact about our condo, and I got up to refill my coffee cup. I barely made it back to the computer and our phone started ringing. Whew! I sometimes get nostalgic for when I was up on Lopez, and I went to the trouble of burying my land line phone with it's 30 foot cord in one of the cabinets under a bunch of designer pillows...

metamorphosis

I never think about "before" pictures until I get around to some "after" pictures. Oh well. The old before-picture of our house was taken sometime before my little sabbatical from this blog. The yard work is still a work in progress...

time out

With some recent family issues and routines, summer projects around the house, and a change in direction? with my photography, I find myself spending less time here. I hope to return in the not-too-distant future...

footprint shadow

drop

swamp

to the point

more pond reflections

floating

bamboo windshield

raindrops leaf

Reflecting

Easter

Andrea and Ray

kaleidoscope sunrise

misty sun

lines and shadows

pond

Huh!?

"a little good news"

A little disheartening...the Buddhist-Muslim violence in Myanmar. If anything religious, I think of myself as Buddhist, and when I read about a Buddhist monk running around with a machete, or the Muslim crazies, yadayada, well... It was "sparked by an argument between a Buddhist couple and the Muslim owners of a gold shop". Thinking back to the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, and on and on, history?...

Every once in awhile, when I'm driving, I put on an  Anne Murray's "A Little Good News"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqUUQElQ8kM

Just a few of the lyrics:
There's a local paper rolled up in a rubber band
One more sad story's one more than I can stand
Just once how I'd like to see the headline say
"Not much to print today, can't find nothin' bad to say", because

Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town
Nobody OD'ed, nobody burned a single buildin' down
Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain
We sure could use a little good news today

complete lyrics:
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/a/anne_murray/a_little_good_news.html

swamp reflections

hook

church

walking

It felt so good walking yesterday morning, even with the cold fingers and rainy glasses. My walks have not been happening so much recently. I parked near the Renton Library and walked up the Cedar River along the canal, and between the Renton Airport and Boeing's 767? buildings, all the way out to the Kayaking place where Andrea and I did a Groupon last Summer. A brisk walk going, and some photo shooting on the return walk. I'll be editing and uploading some of those photos later today or tomorrow.

creek shadow

go away!

why foreigners love cebu video...

http://youtu.be/KyigFAZHUDU

checking things out...

driftwood...