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September 12, 2007 - Wednesday
Vacation photos
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Updated 9/14: Now with captions for Jeremy!
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left-right, left-right: · Sol Duc Falls in the Olympic National Park; for me, a natural highlight of the trip that was made even better by the classic Pacific Northwest overcast · View of Mount Baker from Hovander Homestead Park in Bellingham · Birds on posts in the harbor at Port Angeles; one seagull, and these goofy diving birds — Cormorants, somebody said · Fountain in a neighborhood park in Bellingham where a band was playing... three-fifths part Jerry Garcia, one-fifth part post-hippie AOR, one-fifth part Lisa Simpson | |
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left-right: · Clouds during the afternoon ferry back from Victoria; on the trip up there, the Canadians detained us and searched the car — a Prius! dope smugglers! (or maybe fruits and vegetables) · "Welcome to Concrete - Center of the known Universe"... This was painted on the side of the police station in the town of Concrete (downtown: three blocks, four bars, one liquor store), which apparently was where they shot the movie This Boy's Life, which I guess I'll have to watch now | |
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· Some flowers at a park in Bellingham that have a name I recognized but now can't remember; these photos have an eerie, sumptuous, almost painterly depth that I like | |
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left-right, left-right: · A heron at some park by a marina in Bellingham just standing there and keeping an eye on me · A chicken at the Hovander Homestead Park in Bellingham just standing there and keeping an eye on me · A goat at the Hovander Homestead Park just standing there and keeping an eye on me · Visiting hours at the kid jail | |
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left-right, middle, left-right: · Art in the house we stayed at on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle; everywhere you look in that place there's something to see · More of that · At a sculpture park in Bellingham · More of that · Another in the house we stayed at in Seattle | |
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left-right, left-right: · Sarah's cousin's kid Anna in Bellingham with an American Girl doll · Sarah's fun sort-of stepmom Marge, at whose art-full house in Seattle we stayed, on the ferry to Tillicum Village; she was for many years the director of the Pilchuck Glass School · Marge's delightful 11-year-old anklebiter, the best tiny dog I've ever met · From a totem pole at Tillicum Village, across the bay from Seattle | |
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left-right, left-right: · The Fremont Troll under a bridge in Seattle on a regular old two-lane street; there's a Volkswagen Beetle under his left hand — it's an actual full-sized Volkswagen with a coat of plaster over it · Archie McPhee! · At the fishladder in Seattle; they put in an artificial rapids, complete with viewing windows, at the Ballard Locks and dam so the salmon can get upstream · Fish hiding in the bushes out back of Marge's | |
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left-right-down: · Gull on a street light near the Pike Place Market in Seattle · Seattle from a ferry · Mount Rainier from Tillicum Village | |
