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Weekend Reflections: Sound Waves

Puget Sound, that is!

These are sailboat masts, reflected in the rippling waters of Puget Sound, but they also remind me of the visible sound wave display you see when you listen to music on the computer.

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Skywatch Friday: My Head's Up in the Clouds...

...along with the rest of me.

Death Above, Death Below

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me.
The Carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality
~Emily Dickinson

Whee!

Let's frolic through the fall leaves!

My Head's Off to You

Halloween is such a bizarre holiday.

No Parking

I wonder if he got a ticket?

Fall Colors

Memorial park shows off some rare fall color.

Weekend Reflections: Wine Tasting...

...at Silver Reef Casino

Skywatch Friday: What Sky?

State Street fades away

in the dense October fog.

Siegerrebe Grapes

These grapes at Mount Baker Vineyards will eventually become a lovely siegerrebe in some lucky person's glass.

Noel Hearts Hope

love announced with brick and chalk

time will erode it all

first chalk

then brick

then love

There Goes the Neighborhood

It's not often you see a 200,000-pound house going for a stroll down the street. The Van Zandt home was built in 1900. All 3100-square-feet of it was moved Saturday from its spot on Eldridge Avenue to its new lot on Utter Street. Rumor has it the person who owned the house wanted to build a new one on site instead, but didn't want to demolish the historic home. He offered it to his contractor for free, as long as he paid for the move. Pretty good deal, I'd say! My only question is-- who the heck wouldn't want this gorgeous home for themselves?

There are more pictures of the house relocation on the Bellingham Herald site here.

Thanks, sis, for getting the photo!

Fire and Ice

Leaves glow with the fire of dawn,

hovering over the frosted lawn.

The Pumpkins in the Patch

We met friends yesterday at Stoney Ridge Farm in Everson for a day of hay rides, fresh donuts, farm animals and picking apples. Plenty of other people had the same idea: the farm was packed and we ran into at least five other families we knew enjoying a beautiful fall day at the farm.

Weekend Reflections: Wheel I See You...

at the next show?

Classic VW's (and some newer ones) lined up for the 2011 Volksfest show in Moxee, WA.

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Skywatch Friday: Flying North for the Winter

They honk companionably,

flying with conviction.

Who's gonna tell them

it's the wrong direction?

Leaves Aglow...

...in the evening light.

The Human Body

You never know what you'll find along the row of antique stores on Holly Street. Here, for example, is a male mannequin... and a book on the human body to go with it, just in case you need help identifying some parts. He may be missing a few things, but with six-pack abs like those, who needs arms and a head?

Sea of wine glasses

I was lucky enough to be invited to attend a wine tasting put on by Sound Beverage Distributors for their clients and friends at Silver Reef Casino last night. Right after I snapped this picture, I grabbed one of those glasses and had a very nice evening.

Claret

sunlight warms claret

leaves, the burgundy scent

filling senses with sweetness

Golden Skykomish

It seems like summer just got started, but the trees won't be denied: fall is definitely here!

Weekend Reflections: Post in Water

It's a post. It's in the water. Any questions?

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Skywatch Friday: Lenticular Clouds

Pink-tinged lenticular clouds cap the mountain, and dusk caps a perfect fall day.

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Through the Web

I've been treating every warm, sunny day as if it could be our last... according to most reports, it's going to be a particularly cold and wet winter. We've been blessed with sunshine this week, and so we've had a picnic every day. The ducks appreciated the leftover crumbs, but the spider had his own lunch.

Lichen on Birch

If you lichen me like I lichen you,

and we lichen both the same...

(Judy Garland in "Meet Me in St. Louis")

(Yes, my life is pretty much just a punny musical.)

Dwight Clark

It may be national news at this point for all I know, but our happy little city has been turned upside down in the search for this sweet-faced 18-year-old kid who's been missing for a week and a half now. Every street corner in town is papered with posters, and I just keep thinking of his poor mother, and how this is every parent's worst nightmare. A little over two weeks ago, he went off to college, and now he's just... gone. My heart goes out to his friends and family.

Power Lines

One last streak of daylight highlights the trail of power lines on the far side of Lake Whatcom.

Grape Boxes

Yesterday some friends and I went to Mount Baker Vineyards and walked among the grapes before we went to the tasting room for some wine tasting. Mount Baker Vineyard is one of the few west-coast vineyards-- Washington state produces a lot of wine grapes, but almost all of them are east of the mountains. These boxes transport the grapes from the vineyards to the winery.

Weekend Reflections: Mirror, Mirror

Who's the fairest one of all?

It's Sweet G, standing oh so tall!

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October Theme Day: Graffiti

I never thought I'd wander around Bellingham wishing there was more graffiti. Luckily, I can always count on the freight trains.

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